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FORM TP 2014007

01218010

JANUARY 2014

CARIBBEAN

EXAMINATIONS

COUNCIL

CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE® EXAMINATION ENGLISH A Paper 01 -General Proficiency 1 hour 30 minutes

( 02 JANUARY 2014

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READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. 1.

This test consists of 60 items. You will have 1 hour and 30 minutes to answer them.

2.

In addition to this test booklet, you should have an answer sheet.

3.

Do not be concerned that the answer sheet provides spaces for more answers than there are items in this test.

4.

Each item in this test has four suggested answers, lettered (A), (B), (C), (D). Read each item you are about to answer and decide which choice is best.

5.

On your answer sheet, find the number which corresponds to your item and shade the space having the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample item below. Sample Item Choose the word or set of words that BEST completes each sentence. Someone who is suffering from chicken pox needs to be isolated as the disease is _ _ _ _ __ Sample Answer (A) . (B)

(C) (D)

lasting serious contagious destructive

The best answer to this item is "contagious", so answer space (C) has been shaded.

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6.

If you want to change your answer, erase it completely before you fill in your new choice.

7.

When you are told to begin, turn the page and work as quickly and as carefully as you can. If you cannot answer an item, go on to the next one. You may returq to this item later. Your score will be the total number of correct answers.

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DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO. Copyright© 2012 Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved . 0121801 O/JANUARY/F2014

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Items 1-5 Instructions: Choose the word which is almost OPPOSITE in meani~g to the underlined word in each sentence.

1.

The manager decided to inform the staff about all complaints received from customers. (A) (B)

(C) (D)

2.

(A) (C) (D)

3.

rise drop decrease fluctuation

In these difficult economic times, many organizations retrench workers only when absolutely necessary. (A)

requests demands suggestions compliments

There was a decline in airplane travel after 11 September 2001.

(B)

4.

(B)

(C) (D)

5.

dismiss promote employ demote

Constructive criticism is appreciated and encouraged by some of our peers. (A) (B)

(C) (D)

Sound Negative Valuable Unsatisfactory

They lived in a large, sprawling, dilapidated house. (A) (B) (C) (D)

remote historic inferior well-kept

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-3Items 6-10

Instructions: Each sentence in this section has either one word or two 'rords missing. Choose from the four options, the word or pair of words which BEST completes the meaning of the sentence.

6.

After two years of probation he was .... . .......... in the job because his employer found him to be an ........ . ...... worker. (A) (B) (C) (D)

7.

(C) (D)

8.

encourage ...... harsh curb ...... humane eliminate ..... tough discourage ...... lenient

The youth was not originally a delinquent; he was at first a ...... . .... .. .... person longing for ............... .

(A)

resigned ...... efficient retrenched ...... adept confirmed ... ... industrious employed .... .. unskilled

In an attempt to ............... violence in the school, the principal introduced a number of ...... . ......... rules (A) (B)

9.

(B) (C) (D)

10.

quiet ...... affection wic!