Question 10
Passage II

The entire world was starving. There was hardly a morsel of food left anywhere. Only the mosquito had a little calabash bowl of flour hidden away. Each day the mosquito mixed a bit of porridge and carefully hid the remainder under a stone in the corner of his hut.
The ear was starving and in desperation came to seek for food at the mosquito's house. He was so thin he could hardly walk. As he approached the mosquito's house he saw him hide something under a stone. When the mosquito had gone to bathe in the river, the ear stole the bowl of flour and made a big dish of porridge and shared it with hundreds of hungry children.
The mosquito returned from his bath and was hungry, so he looked under the stone to get some flour and found that it was gone. He quickly flew to his nearest neighbour, the ear and demanded for his food.
'If you do not give me back my flour, I shall never leave you. I will bother you when you hunt or fish or sleep', whined the mosquito. So, when a mosquito comes to bite a man, the chief of all living things, it first goes to the ear and whines, 'Give me my flour'.
If a man hears this and does not give it, the mosquito takes his food where he can find it.The passage can be titled the

  • A.Ear and flour
  • B.Ear and the mosquito
  • C.Stolen flour
  • D.Man and the Mosquito
  • E.Stolen flour
Objective

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Exam body
BECE
Subject
English Language
Year
2012 Paper 1
Question no.
#10
Type
Objective

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