WASSCE

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it. Alani was the seventh child of his family. When he was growing up, there was scarcely enough to go round. His mother was a petty trader while his father worked as a clerk in one of the ministries. But…

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it. I sat down to relax after a hard day's work as a radio broadcaster, my attention was immediately arrested by what I saw on the television. There was my old classmate, Funke Jacobs, introduced as Mrs. Funke Ajayi. Evidently,…

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it. My mother never thought it necessary to inform any of her children that she would pay them a visit in Lagos at any time. After all, no child would refuse her entry into their home. She had always been…

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it. I had always thought that he was under a spell to be such a workaholic. Daily, after returning from school, he would promptly head for the bush. There, he would engage in fashioning out something that could fetch him…

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it. The crowd was massive. Men, women, boys, and girls from every nook and cranny of the village had gathered under the big iroko tree. Also in the crowd was an American couple, tourists, who were enjoying their holiday. At…

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it. When I was in primary four, thirty-five years ago, schools closed for the day at 1.30 p.m. My two friends and I would then proceed for 'full' recreation as we either played football in hidden neighbourhoods or went downstream…

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions on it. We believed that the teacher would not be home that weekend. My father had strictly warned us not to go out at night since recent happenings had shown that it was unsafe. However, the thought of those mouth-watering fruits in…