Ordinary level 2026 South West regional mock English language 1

Here is the text extraction from the final image, which contains a Listening Comprehension section.

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SECTION A: LISTENING COMPREHENSION (5 MARKS)

Using only material read to you from the Listening Comprehension passage, answer each of the following questions as directed.

Choose the best answer from the alternatives (A, B, C, or D) for each of the questions below.

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SECTION A

1. “Awakened hours” as used in the passage refers to?

• A hours when it is almost dawn

• B period when one is not asleep

• C hours between intervals of sleep and wake

• D period when sleep dries off one’s eyes

2. According to the passage, it is advisable for people to __________ before they desire more.

• A fall in love with money

• B understand where to get money

• C know how to earn money

• D know the relevance of money

3. The primary importance of obtaining money is that __________

• A it enables us to acquire our basic needs

• B it makes people to be extremely popular

• C it helps people to live in extravagant ways

• D it is necessary to hoard it for rainy days

4. One is said to have an insatiable desire for gaining wealth when he __________.

• A always loves to buy very expensive items

• B spends more time thinking about how to pay his debts

• C quickly spends his money as he earns

• D thirsts for more money to acquire more items

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SECTION B

5. __________ is said to dig deeply into people’s lives.

• A Lust

• B Greed

• C Deception

• D Money

6. Young boys and girls are described to cultivate lifestyles that are contrary to their status. This means that their lifestyles are __________

• A compared with those of adults

• B great examples for their peers

• C beyond their actual means

• D shiny examples in society

EITHER:

7. You have heard the word “artificial” read to you in the passage. This word is stressed on the __________ syllable.

• A third

• B first

• C fourth

• D second

OR

7. In the expression “young girls wear stupidly expensive wigs,” the word “stupidly” as used here is __________.

• A an adverb

• B a noun

• C an adjective

• D a conjunction

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SECTION C

8. When the writer cautions people to share their wealth with the weak, he is using the weak here to refer to those who __________

• A have lost all strength

• B are in desperate need

• C are handicapped

• D suffer insufficiency

9. The title of the passage “What Money Cannot Do” highlights a number of things in life that money cannot actually achieve except __________

• A man wouldn’t be buried with all his wealth

• B money cannot solve all man’s problems

• C ill-gotten money can never bring contentment

• D money cannot guarantee a fulfilled life for a struggler

10. The passage is most suitable for __________.

• A parents

• B youths

• C grandparents

• D kindergartens