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TEST CODE 02114010
MAY/JUNE 20I7
FORM TP 201717
CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
CARIBBEAN ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION@
COMMUNICATION STUDIES
Paper 01

t hour 30 minutes

05 JUNE 2017 (a.m.)

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

t. This test consists of 45 items divided into two sections, A and B-

2. Section A, based on a communication extract, consists of 7 questions. The extract, which

is NOT included in the question booklet, will be read to you twice but you will be allowed
two minutes to look at the questions before the extract is read to you.

Section B consists of 38 questions. Answer each question based on the information given.

4. ln addition to the test booklet, you should have an answer sheet.

5. 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.

6. 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 ltem

Which of the following is an advantage of the

questionnaire as a data collection method? Sample Answer

(A) Ease of administration

o@o@
(B) Immediacy of feedback
(C) 0penness of discussion
(D) Opportunity for clarification
ThE bEst answer to this item is "Ease of administration", so (A) has bEEn shadEd.

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

8. 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 rsturn to that item latsr.

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU A@

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SECTION A
Iterns 1*7

Instructions: you will hearan extract.

It will be read twice. Listen carefully before
the questions based on the extract. answering

1. What is the main idea of the extract?

f,. The word that BEST describes the r_nood
of the passage is
(A) Spring is a rinre of tremendous
beauty. (A) idyllic
(B) Birds are a part of the beauty of (B) sonrbre
spring. (C) peacef Lrl
(C) Spring seerrs to lrave appeared (D) exlrilarating
overnight.
(D) The spring rains make everything
beautifirl- 6. The word closest in rneaning to ,.Lrnsealing,,
as used in tlre extract is

) The writer's main plrrpose is to (A) gaping

(B) opening
(A) show thar spr.ing contes right after (C) exposing
winter (D) prospering
(B) con-rntent on what the birds do at
springtirne
(C) convey the nremorable impact of 7. Which of the fbllowing devices is reflecred
spring's arrival in the final sentence?
(D) describe the bealrty of the natural
(A) Iron,v
world during springtime
(B) Contrast
(C) oxymoron
3. The expression -.Tlre flowers of late April
(D) Personification
took up a position unseen,' is an example
of

(A) metaphor
(B) hyperbole
(c) alliteration
(D) personification

4. What is the dominant imagery used by the

writer in the extract?

(A) Aurat
(B) Visuat
(C) Tactile
(D) Otfactory

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SECTION B

Items 8-ll
Instructions: Read the following scenario carefully and then answer Items 8-11.

The mEdia is filled with reports of teenagers being distracted by digital technology and that
preoccupation is affecting their school work- Haldane, a sociology student, decides to investigate
this phenomenon at his school which is located in the countryside. He intends to use interviews
to collect data.

8. Which of the fbllowing activities would 10. Haldane found an article entitled "Modern
Haldane need to undertake as part of his Technology Causing Canadian Students to
research? Fail". This article could be useful to his
research as it
I. Talking to parents and teachers
IL Finding out how many students (A) is reliable and accurate
own digital devices (B) can yield sufficient data
Ill. Choosing a santple that is (C) provides secondary data
representative of his school's (D) can provide primary data
population

(A) I and ll only ll. Why would it be UNACCEPTABLE

(B) I and lll only for Haldane to apply the findings of his
(C) Il and lll only research to all teenagers?
(D) I. ll and lll
(A) He plans to use only interviews.
(B) The school has more girls than
9. Which of the fbllowing would be an boys.
advantage if Haldane conducted interviews? (C) The respondents might not tell the
truth.
(A) Costliness of the procedure (D) The population is only students
(B) Wide geographic coverage of from his school.
informants
(C) High reliability of the information
to be collected
(D) ln-depth nature of tlie infbrmation
to be collected

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Items l2-15

Instruetions: Read the following extract carefully and then answer Items l2-1S.

Ms Trecia Davis is head of the English Department at Malcolm High School. She realizes
that
over a five year-period, fewer students are choosing Literatures in English as an
option in the
sixth form. She would like to research the reason for this and to put ; place a programme
to
reverse this situation.

12. Which of the fbllowing ourcornes would 14. Which of the following MUST the
NOT be achieved if Ms Davis uses school researclrer consider when se.lecting a
records tbr the past ten years as a data sanrple?
source?
l. Composition of the sclrool's
(A) Validity population
(B) Accuracy II. Size of the school's population
(C) Credibility Ill. Accuracy of the school's data
(D) Subjectivity
(A) I and II orrly
(B) I and Ill only
13. Which of the following factors can (C) II and III only
invalidate the generalization which the (D) I, II and III
researcher makes fiorn the findings?

(A) The sample size is roo large. 15. The r-node of writing that Ms Davis shoLrld
(B) The sarnple is not representative of employ in her repor-t is
the population.
(C) The research is carried out only in (A) narration
Ms Davis'school. (B) argumenr
(D) The research is conducted during (C) exposition
end of year examination of year (D) description
examination.

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Itenrs 16-19

Instructions: Read the following extract carefully and then answer Items 16-19.

The boy conre back honre fbr a t'ew days holiday. see some crabs Crosby have in a barrel. This
is the son: "Dad. what are those thangs there?" Talking like Englishman. Crosby ain't tell him
nothing. When he poke his finger in the barrel and the crab catch hold of lrim, he bawl: "Pa! The
crab! Tlre crabl" A well-educated boy, yes. Lawyer, econontist or sorrething'

Eurl Loveltrce E, The [line qf'Astonishment.

Heinernann Publishers 1986' P.11.

76. Which of the following expressions 18. What attitude towards the boy is sr"rggested
contains syntactical f-eatures cotl1l1'lol'l to by the narrator's statement, "Talking
Caribbean Errglish Creoles? like Englishman. Crosby ain't tell him
nothing"?
(A) "A well-educated boY"
(B) ''What are tlrose thangs?" (A) Jealousy
(C) "Pa! The crabl The crab!" (B) Frr:stration
(D) "Talking like Englishrnan." (C) Disapproval
(D) Amusetnent

17. What f-eatLrre of Caribbean English Creole

grammar is used in the expression, "Crosby 19. What does the extract suggest about the
ain't tell him nothing"? relationship between the boy's education
and his use of language?
(A) Absence of a coPLrla
(B) Reduction of a sYllable (A) His edLrcation has influenced his
(C) Use of double negatives language.
(D) Repetition of the same word (B) His education hindered his use of
Standard English-
(C) He speaks English Creole because
he is an educated lawYer.
(D) His education has nothing to do
with his use of Standard English.

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Items 20-22

Instructions: Read the following extract carefully and then answer ltems 20-22.

"Eh-elil Don't shout at me," was all he got fbr his pains. "Don't you deafen me.
What's that the young varmint says, Maud?"
Mrs Dovecot calt-le over, and got him to understand aftertwo of three atternpts.
"Tlrree pence, Maudie," lre cackled. "Three pencel Did yo' hear thet, MaLrd? Did yo' ever hear
the like? I'll betyou ain't neverdid. Tliree pence! The lad'll have rroney what I's gotto sweat
blood for. jLrst to gi thet Megahey what's got his bread so well buttered off 'pon both sides, not to
mentiott the rniddle. Three pence! Ha ha! ... oh Maudie ..." And lie broke down once in lrelpless
larrghter. Clement went oLlt and sat under the breadfruit tree tlrat grew befbre the door, resting
his back against the trLrnk.

Adopted.li"ont Uriel Nariensingh, Voyage. An Antholog,t oJ'Short Stories cmd Poems.

Royards Publishing,2006, p. llB

20. Which of the tbllowing expressions contains features of rron-standard English dialect?

I. "... you ain't never did."

ll. ". . . what I's got to sweat blood fbr . . ."
lll. "... sat under the breadfruittree ..."

(A) I and ll only

(B) I and lll only
(C) ll and III only
(D) l, Iland lll

21. Which of the follor,ving coulmunicative behaviours is NOT present in the extract?

(A) Vocalics
(B) Chronenrics
(C) Proxernics
(D) Facial Expression

22. Which of the foliowing registers is used in the dialogue?

(A) Casual
(B) Frozen
(C) Formal
(D) Consultative

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Iterls 23-28

Instructions: Read the follorving extract carefully and then answer ltems 23-28.

Rufirs had in him a passion. a kinda vexation that when he stand up before a crowd he would get
all tangle Lrp with his words and his feelings. But Rr-rfus don't have the education. They tell this
story, how one niglrt at a rneeting, Rr"rfus was talking about the cost of Iiving.

'People can't eat book in tlris country.'RLrfus say. 'People can't eat words. What the
people need is bread - BRED - bread.'

'Rufirs. you leave oltt the A,'somebody from the crowd call out to hinr.
And Rufus correct himselt'. 'B-R-E-D-A.'They tell of another tinre ... tlre reporter,tell Rufus that
Mr Richardson sLlggest tlrat they slioLrld put nlore buoys or-rt in tlre sea to nrark the area.

'Bovs?' Rufls sav. Big, big men does drown out there in the sea and he want to put
boys.'

No, we couldn't vote for Rufus. 'Who we want in the Council is a man that qualify. . . a man with
education just like the people in Britain'. . . Ivan could really talk. Rufus was all right. But after
you listen to Ivan Morton, you had to put Rufus aside.

Ecu"l Lovelctce , The Lf/ine oJ'Astonishment.

He inentunn Publishers, I 986, pp. 8-i-Bi.

23. What pLrrpose is larrguage serving when it Which of the following sers of
is used to judge one's Ievel of education as corlmunicative behaviours is Iikely to be
in the case with Rufirs? displayed by the people as they listened to
RLrfus speak?
(A) Social
(B) Ethical (A) Lack of eye contact, Ioud cheers
(C) Political (B) Loud cheers, thunderor-rs applause
(D) Psychological (C) Shaking lreads, lack of eye contacr
(D) Thunderous applause, shaking
heads
24. Which of the fbllowing BEST slrows why
the narrator relates the stories about Rufus?
26. Which of tlre fbllowing attitudes nray be
(A) To provide some conric relief inf-erred abor"rt the narrator based on his
(B) To show that RLrtirs is uneducated account o1' Rutirs' behav iours?
(C) To slrow sorne of the rnistakes
Rufus rnakes (A) He values education.
(D) To validate the view that Rufus is (B) He likes the British people.
competent (C) He does not like people with
passion.
(D) He was Lrnsympathetic towards
RLrf us.

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 27. Which of the following Creole features is 28. Which ofthe following words appropriately
evident in the structure'.tangle up with his capture(s) the crowd,s attitude towards
words and his feelings,,? Rufus?

(A) Repetition I. Affection

(B) Reduplication II. Dissatisfaction
(C) Unmarked present tense III. Conrernpt
(D) Unmarked past participle
(A) II only
(B) Ill only
(C) I and II only
(D) I, IIand III

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Items 29-30

lnstructions: Select the most appropriate answer for Items 29-30.

29. An Englislr Creole in the Caribbean may be defined as a language

(A) with lirrrited linguistic functions

(B) used by tlre poorest people in the society
(C) only understood by some persons in the society
(D) developed from contact between Europeans and Africans

30. ln which of tlre tbllowing expressions is the process of reduplication evident?

(A) Eye-water
(B) Step-sister
(C) A waa gwaan
(D) Chaka-chaka house

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Items 3l-33

Instructions: Read the following extract carefully and then answer Items 31-33.

Mrs Smith asked her class to prepare short presentations on the topic "Why I favour Caribbean
people more than any other set of persons". The students were to pretend that their audience
comprised nationals of various English-speaking countries. The following is an excerpt from
one student"s speech.

"A pleasant, good evening. How are'you friends and fambily? Let me see the hands of those who
are having a good time. Come on, let me see the hands of those who are having a go6d time.
Wave your hands and say 'bling, bling'.

Okay. Why I favour Caribbean persons is that my parents are of African descent. The Caribbean
is mostly Black Country; therefore, most of the people are black. I am one of them. My
father
black, my mother black and my brother black. We all black. Some people say I look like my father
others say my mother but I think that we all look alike.,,

All the students struggled to hide their amusement. They tried to cover their mouths
with their
hands to avoid laughing out loud at her misundersknding. of course,
the speaker did not see this
as her eyes were glued to the paper from which she wasieading.

31. Which of the following BEST explains why the presenter's introduction
would Nor be considered
effective?

(A) The audience was distracted.

(B) The focus was on entertainment.
(c) It was inappropriate for the context.
(D) It was delivered using the wrong register.

32. At which stage of the communication process did the students giggre?

(A) Feedback
(B) Encoding
(c) Decoding
(D) Conceptualization

33. Which of the following BEST explains why the student misunderstood
the question?
(A) She did not do enough research.
(B) She is weak and did not ask questions.
(c) She is incapable of using Standard English.
(D) She misunderstood a key word in the topic.

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Items 34-38

Instructions: Read the following cartoon carefully and then answer Items 3,t-38.

You don't believe in

those things, do you?

Auspac Mediq. The Feature People.

Retrieved 19 November 2013from
www. aus pac me dia, com. au.

34. The r.nan's body language in Box I indicates 37. A communicative artefact relevant to the
that he is conversation is the

(A) thrilled (A) sky

(B) irritated (B) bag
(c) indifferent (c) coin
(D) supportive (D) shrub

35. The stimulus that promptsd theconversation 38. What kind of communication context is
in Box I is the depicted in the conversation?
(A) well
(B) coir-t
(A) Small groLrp
(c) pLlrse
(B) lntercultural
(D) shrub
(C) Intrapersonal
(D) lnterpersonal

36. Which of the following words describes

the man's tone in Box 4?

(A) Angry
(B) Disdainful
(c) Despairing
(D) Conciliatory

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Item 39

Instructions: The following scene shows the effeets of inappropriate postings on social
media
by three persons. Read it carefully and then answer ftem Sg.

AdaptedJi'om Signs oJ'the Socictl lt/ent,orking Titnes.

Rett-ievecl I 9 November 20 I 3 .fi.olt
http,//t't t'ttv.geekculture.c'om/joyoftech/joycu.crtives/ r 01 r .htnr r.

39. Which of the following is the result of the inappropriate use of social media by the characrers.l

(A) Loss of family tirne

(B) Delayed response from employers
(C) Damage to the characters'reputations
(D) Access by future employers to the Internet

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Items 40-42

Instructions: Read the following advertisement carefully and then answer Items 4042.

Want to lose weight?

Don't wait!

@o Regrets!

RESULTS IN 90 DAYS
SLIMS A DAY KEEPS THE FAT AIryAY

40. Wltich of the fbllowing language techniques is NOT used in the advertisement?

(A) Pun
(B) Sarcasrn
(C) Repetition
(D) Rlretorical questior.)

41. The MAIN function of the first line of the advefiisement is to

(A) captLlre the reader's attention

(B) introduce tlie adverlisentent
(C) help the reader to lose rveight
(D) encourage the reader to respond

42. ''Slims a day keeps the f'at away" is an example of which of the following language techniques?

(A) Simile
(B) Rhynre
(C) Repetition
(D) Personification

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Item 43 refers to the following scenario.

You are asked to speak to a group of twenty kindergarten children on the topic of environmental
cleanliness.

43. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate way to share rhe infbrmatiorr with your
audience?

(A) Panel discussion

(B) Animation and speech
(C) A televised documentary
(D) A PowerPoint presentation

44. Which of the following is the correct sequence that a presenter should follow to successfLrlly
complete the communication process?

(A) Encoding the message, selecting the channel, selecting audience, dissenrinating tlre nressage
(B) Encoding the message, transmitting the message, selecting channel, disserninating the
message
(C) Conceiving the message, encoding the message, selecting the channel, disseminating the
message
(D) Conceiving the message, interpreting the feedback, selecting audience, disserninating the
message

45. Which of the follorving is NOT a feature of exposition?

(A) Use of emotive language

(B) Use of supporring details
(C) Use of information from experts
(D) Use of facts and relevant statistics

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