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Read each passage and answer the question that follow
The learning of a foreign language should be an integral part of every university student’s education. As a discipline, it affords the mind excellent training. It utilizes skills needed in other subjects; the concentration required for memorizing music (not to mention for developing the ear for tone and pitch), the logical thinking for solving mathematical problems, even the deductive reasoning capabilities needed to comprehend philosophical concepts. The mind is stretched through the simple act of learning the grammatical patterns, vocabulary and phonological system of a language. At the same time, the student of a foreign language is acquiring a useful tool. This tool has a double advantage, for while most people (especially teachers) expound on the reward for being able to communicate in a second, third, or fourth language. Perhaps the more promising of the two, is being able to understand and hopefully appreciate another cultural group through their literature, their music and custom – all of which are best assimilated through the medium of their language.
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According to the passage the main reward for foreign language learner is
  • A. the ability to speak another language
  • B. being able to speak the language
  • C. being able to learn mathematics or music in a foreign language
  • D. expanding the mind to acquire new knowledge and skills
  • E. none of the above
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Which of the following statement is not made in the passage
  • A. all students should study a language in the university
  • B. foreign language learning enables one appreciate other people's culture
  • C. teacher emphasize ability to communicate as a reward or foreign language learning
  • D. foreign language learning helps the study of other subjects
  • E. foreign language learners are usually better students than others
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'Discipline' as used in the above passage means
  • A. punishment
  • B. lecture
  • C. skill
  • D. training
  • E. subject
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They hung around together, the boys from the school up on the hill, School was over. They were expecting the result. One or two got teaching jobs at St. Alban’s College. It is one of the post-war secondary schools that sprang up in the city because serious people felt the educational need of the country, and possessed a sharp nose for smelling quick money. Boys from up country who were eager to learn, whose parents had a little money, but who could not get into the big school like Achimota and Mfantsipim in Cape Coast, rushed to the new schools, secured lodgings with distance relatives , and bought for a relatively cheap amount some sort of education. His friend Sammy was the history master from Form one to Five and was also put in charge of sports in the distant hope that the school would one day get its own playing field near the mental hospital. There were six hundred students who were all day boys; classes were held in Dr. Dodu’s house. The house was originally built by a man of wealth and a large family. The bedrooms, of which they were eight, were turned into classrooms; toilets were knocked into pantries to provide additional classrooms for the ever growing population of the school. Mr. Anokye, a retired pharmacist, owned the school. He laid great emphasis on science, being a science man himself. He wrote a small-rimmed pair of glasses which made him looks like one of those little black cats on Christmas cards. He had a small voice which squeaked with akpeteshie and a breath a breath like the smell of gun powder. He had spent many years at Kole Bu Hospital where he drank the methylated spirit meant to be supplied to laboratory assistants. He was dedicated to learning, in scholar in many ways. He knew Archimedes’ principle. Whenever he shouted, during terminal examinations, his battle cry of Eureka! Eureka! Then he had caught someone cheating, someone looking over his mate’s answer sheet. Mr. Anokye came from a long line of scholars. He claimed his grandfather went to England with Reverend T.A Barnes, D. D., who was the Anglican Bishop of Cape Coast Diocese from 1896 to 1909. He was dedicated to his work. He interviewed Sammy himself, questioned him about his parentage and religious background, listened to him carefully, and decided to appoint him on a salary or six pounds per month pending the outcome of his Cambridge School Certificate examination. He questioned him closely on history, especially the Glorious Revolution, and Oliver Cromwell.

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St Alban's college was founded because

  • A. the war was over
  • B. there were no other colleges in the country
  • C. founding a college required quick money
  • D. the need for education was seriously felt
  • E. boys from the interior were eager to learn
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Boys who went to St Alban's College where those who
  • A. could easily have gone into either Achimota or Mfantsipim if they wanted
  • B. for some reason were not admitted into schools like Achimota and Mfatsipim
  • C. rushed into the new school
  • D. did not want to live in the boarding houses at Achimota or Mfantsipim
  • E. wanted only cheap education
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