1. Answer one question only from this section. Your answer should be about 450 words long.
  2. You are a speaker in an inter-school debate on the motion: The high incidence of unemployment is responsible for the various crimes in today’s society.
    Write your speech for or against the motion.
  3. Two of your classmates have quarreled and fought in the classroom in the absence of your teacher.
    As class prefect; write an accurate report to your teacher stating why and how the incident occurred.
  4. You have observed some malpractices in your school that you think should be discouraged.
    Write a letter to the Headmaster or Headmistress, discussing at least three of these evil practices and suggesting how they can be checked.
  5. Write an article for publication in a national newspaper titled:
    The benefits and misuse of mobile phones in modern life.
  6. Your best friend is leaving the country to study abroad. Write a speech you would deliver at a farewell party organized in his or her honor.

SECTION B
COMPREHENSION
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it.

Traditionally, libraries were large collection of books. Many people in institutions, offices and even individuals still keep and maintain such libraries. Today’s libraries form a vital part of the world’s system of communication and education. Unlike traditional libraries, they have a wide variety of other materials that communicate, educate and entertain, made available through books,films,recordings,video tapes,photographs,computers,etc.This is a store of knowledge that has been gathered and kept through the ages.

People from all walks of life-students, lecturers, businessmen, lawyers, doctors, research workers-all use library resources in their work. Other people also turn to libraries to satisfy a desire for knowledge or to obtain reading material to occupy their leisure periods. One Professor Curtis said ‘Development is impossible unless formal education is accompanied by leisure-time reading.’
Libraries also play an important role in preserving a society’s cultural heritage. Some libraries have special collection of such items as rare books or works of local artists, music, portraits of important people and stool regalia.

Many libraries, too, mount exhibitions and offer programmes to help learn more about their community and its culture. The inclusion of such materials in the library’s collections reflects the efforts of libraries to keep pace with changing information system and to serve people in as many ways as possible.

With the cost of books,the library becomes a place where students can consult reference books and borrow some of the required textbooks,if they cannot buy their own.To the teachers,libraries could help them prepare reading lists to support their classroom and research work.
Yet many students still consider libraries solely in terms of storybooks.If you asked them, ‘Why do you read storybooks?’they would invariably answer ‘,Oh, just for pleasure’or ‘to improve our proficiency in the use of English.’Most students,unfortunately ,fail to appreciate that reading stoeybooks enables them to imbibe useful bits of information unconsciously and effortlessly.This special benefit in invaluable.

Perhaps one of the most valuable benefits of reading stories or novels is the appreciation of ‘a proper sense of acceptable values.’One may learn through reading that respect for time is essential to success in business and in life in general.Such appreciation might help us bury the idea and attitude of the so-called ‘African punctuality.’

Unlike most modern movies that tend to play tricks on viewers’ emotions and desires,good books are concerned with serios and important moral issues.