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English Grade 9 Unit 8: Communicable Diseases

national exam questions have come from this unit. It runs 20 pages; one careful study pass takes about 1.8 hours, and its difficulty is harder among English units. Each section below lists the questions set from it, with the year, and opens the page that teaches it.

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8.1 Listening Skills · read p. 161
  • 2016 E.C., Q66 – AIDS patients used to be alienated for having HIV in their blood. Today, however, things have changed and they are treated like any healthy person.
  • 2015 E.C., Q103 – As the company is new, we will need to produce some kind of ______________ to be distributed to the community around.
  • 2013 E.C., Q54 – Ethiopia could manage climate change and HIV/AIDS infection
  • 2013 E.C., Q62 – Ethiopia has been experiencing the effects of climate change recurrently for many years. This implies Ethiopia has problems related to
  • 2013 E.C., Q56 – According to the passage, resettlement
  • 2010 E.C., Q24 – An increase in the prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS incidence reveals that some people are still ________ to their sexual partners.
  • 2007 E.C., Q50 – By the year 2020, the cure for both HIV/AIDS and Ebola_________________.
8.2 Reading Skills · read p. 161
Not asked in a national paper yet.
8.3 Vocabulary Development · read p. 166
Not asked in a national paper yet.
8.4 Grammar · read p. 168
  • 2018 E.C., Q21 – They __________ in Addis Ababa since 2010.
  • 2017 E.C., Q31 – Next year this time, I ________the freshman program.
  • 2016 E.C., Q30 – I ______________ to that hotel so many times although I always get disappointed with their service.
  • 2016 E.C., Q37 – Your wife _____________ since 9.00 am but you don't even call and apologize for not being able to arrive until now. What excuse do you have for this?
  • 2011 E.C., Q39 – By the time you come for your next holiday, they ____________ the construction of the hotel. Surely, you will be staying there.
  • 2011 E.C., Q52 – I am giving up the idea of starting an MA programme at Jombola University. Admission with them is in August, but I ____________ from here by then. I will still have one more course to do.
  • 2010 E.C., Q44 – We have known each other________childhood.
  • 2009 E.C., Q50 – None of the furniture we bought last week ________________ yet.
  • 2009 E.C., Q48 – Next week this time, I________________ all my examinations.
  • 2009 E.C., Q62 – I'm not good at mathematics, but I __________________any problem with my English.
  • 2007 E.C., Q41 – They__________________ St.Gabriel church, Dire Dawa; for the last ten years. It seems they are going to do the same this year too.
  • 2007 E.C., Q38 – Melat has done this _______________ she was 20 . wouldn't it now be sensible to promote her to a management position?
  • 2007 E.C., Q57 – I have been trying to give up smoking for years now: I wish I _____________in the first place.
  • 2006 E.C., Q62 – I think my father____________in this college since 2000.
  • 2006 E.C., Q55 – We have lived in this area since childhood but we ________________ seen anything like that before.
  • 2006 E.C., Q56 – I hope we _______________ our tenth round by June. We have already done seven now.
  • 2006 E.C., Q57 – I _____________hard for this exam since September and, I think, I did the right thing.
  • 2006 E.C., Q63 – The telephone _______________. Can you answer it, please?
  • 2005 E.C., Q60 – In my life, I ______________ had money counted in four digits. Poor me!
8.5 Speaking Skills · read p. 176
Not asked in a national paper yet.
8.6 Writing Skills · read p. 179
Not asked in a national paper yet.