ii) State why the cases had been unloaded on the opposite bank of the river and
why they had been unloaded before it was daylight.
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Explanation:
Question 3
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dors. It wa
promote to the
hen the usual evening storm came on, everything had to be hastily carried
so very tiring to treat the patients in the sun. 1. therefore, decided to
k of hospital the small windowless building which the doctor before
for many years as a chicken house. I soon found that the air became
room where I had little place to move after a cupboard and an old
been put in the work in the shade was a relief, and I always felt happy
daging my patients while the rain rattled on the roof.
(a) Your school is conducting an inter-house dance competition. Write
put up in your school informing the students about the event.
() Write an email to a famous dancer requesting him/her to be the judi
competition giving all the necessary details.
Question 4
the judge at the dance
me had used for
thick in the s
amp bed had be
as I went on
neaning of the following words as used in the passage: One word answers
Give the meaning of
mission at Lambarene
ring my first few days,
spaid to these orders
ork was difficult. The
(ii) stacked (line 21)
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(iii) relief (line 37)
(b) Answer the fol
landing stage as 10
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Before my arrival. strict orders had been widely published by the mission at Lam
or short phrases will be accepted.
that only the most serious cases were to be brought to me during my first few
(i) enormous (line 18)
so that I might have time to settle in Naturally little attention was paid to these
and sick people appeared at every hour of the day. Practical work was difficul
interpreter I had engaged by letter before leaving Europe had not turned up and
to rely on anyone I could find in the compound, however imperfect he might be. W.
still, although orders had been given for medical supplies, these had not arrived
ver the following questions briefly in your own words.
I had no drugs, instruments or bandages apart from those I had brought in my tr
Late one dark night my wife and I heard the whistle of the steamer, and the followin
How did the narrator deal with the patients before the medical supplies
morning we learned that our cases had been unloaded, not at our landing stage
arrived?
arranged but at the Catholic mission station, which lies on the opposite bank of the main
river. The captain had refused to risk entering our narrow twisting branch stream with
his ship, and could not wait for daylight as he was already behind schedule. We went
hurriedly across to make sure that all seventy cases had arrived. Amongst them was a
huge metal-lined case containing my organ. This weighed over a ton and none of the
available canoes could carry that weight. However, the next morning two missionaries
arrived from Ngomo with ten of their workers in an old canoe which they had borrowed
from a store there. It had been hollowed out from an enormous tree trunk and could
(ii) State why the cases had been unloaded on the opposite bank of the river and
carry up to three tons of cargo. The organ and several other boxes were brought over
on the first crossing, and by the end of the day, after six more trips, everything was 20
why they had been unloaded before it was daylight.
stacked on the river below the mission.
It took two more days of sweat and toil to carry the cases up the hill to the
mission. Then we began unpacking, and met our next problem. I had been promised a
corrugated-iron building as a hospital, but not even the framework was standing when
(iii) How did the narrator retrieve all the seventy cases?
I arrived. There were simply no spare labourers to be had; for months the timber trade
had been very good and the traders offered wages with which the mission could not
compete. There was consequently no proper space to store all our medical equipment
and supplies, and we had to make do with some shelves put up in my sitting room,
where the most important drugs were put.
I was worried at having no place in which to examine and treat the sick. Being unable 30
to do this in my own room for risk of infection, I treated and bandaged the sick in the