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Instruction
In questions 55 to 95, choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s).
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1992
Q2051. We are .... to receive your letter and to know that you are ....
A happy/in good health
B grateful/sound
C pleased/all well
D appreciative/swimming in good health
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1992
Q2052. People who live by .... what loneliness is like
A each other know
B one another know
C oneself knows
D themselves know
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1992
Q2053. It has been confirmed that the election .... held in July
A will be
B is being
C has been
D have being
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1992
Q2054. The choice to go to the university or not is ....
A yours'
B your
C yours
D your's
Instruction
In questions 96 to 100, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1992
Q2055. People may not pick flowers in this park
A people can pick flowers in this park
B people may not wish to pick flowers in this park
C people are prohibited from picking flowers from this park
D people cannot pick flowers from this park
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1992
Q2056. Tom ought not to have told me
A Tom did not tell me but he should
B Perhaps Tom was wrong to have told me
C Tom told me but it was wrong of him
D It was necessary for Tom not to tell me
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1992
Q2057. He can't be swimming all day
A it's possible he is not swimming now
B It's very likely he is swimming now
C He does not have the ability to swim all day
D He would not like to swim all day
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1992
Q2058. Bolade would make a mess of cooking the rice
A it was typical of Bolade to make a mess of things
B Bolade cannot cook
C Bolade will not cook the rice well
D Bolade does not like cooking rice
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1992
Q2059. If I were the captain, I would have led the team to victory
A I was not the captain but I led the team to victory
B I was the captain but I did not lead the team to victory
C I was not the captain and I did not lead the team to victory
D I was the captain and I led the team to victory
Instruction
Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 1 to 5. The diseases afflicting Western societies have undergone dramatic changes. In the course of a century, so many mass killers have vanished that two-third of all deaths are now associated with the disease of old age. Those who die young are more often than not, the victims of accidents, violence and suicide. These changes in public health are generally equated with progress and attributed to more or better medical care. In fact, there is no evidence of any direct relationship between changing disease pattern and the so-called progress of medicine. The impotence of medical services to change life expectancy and the insignificance of much contemporary clinical care in the curing of diseases are all obvious, well documented but well suppressed. Neither the proportion of doctors in a population nor the quality of the clinical tools at the disposal nor the number of hospital beds is a causal factor in the striking changes in disease patterns. The new techniques available to recognize and treat such conditions as pernicious anemia and hypertension, or correct congenital malformations by surgical interventions, increase our understanding of disease but do not reduce its incidence. The fact that there are more doctors where certain diseases have become rare has little to do with their ability to control or eliminate them. It simply means that doctors, more than other professionals, determine where they work. Consequently, they tend to gather where the climate is healthy, where the water is clean and where people work and can pay for their services.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2060. The statement, 'The diseases afflicting Western societies have undergone dramatic change', implies that
A Change have taken place in the mode of diseases affliction
B Medical services have been important in changing life expectancy
C A lot of significant progress has taken place in public health
D Death from diseases in western societies are minimal
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2061. The writer is of the view that the diseases which prevail in the contemporary Western societies
A Result from modern life styles
B Are concentrated among the elderly
C Kill many people at once
D Are resistant to drug
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2062. The author thinks that the presence of a large number of doctors in a community
A Does not have much effect on the control of diseases
B Disguise the true fact about the diseases
C Controls the spread of diseases
D Improves the overall quality of life in the community
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2063. Many doctors, according to the passage, choose to live where
A Research facilities are available
B They are most needed
C They can be near colleagues
D Conditions are more in their favour
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2064. The author's attitude to developments in medicine is
A Matter-of-fact
B Cautious
C Indifferent
D cynical
Instruction
Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 6 to 10. ADUKE: Listen my fellow women. The issue has little to do with being literate or not. It is true that most members of NAM (New Awareness Movement) are literate, but this does not make all of us enlightened. We must be able to draw a line between the two. You may be literate and yet possess a consciousness that is decadent and servile. On the other hand, you may not have received formal education and yet may be the greatest exponent of progressive ideas. HASANA: I agree with what our sister has said. Let us not allow ourselves to be divided by a greedy and an inflated notion of the certificates we possess. In this century, as we march towards the year 2000, our primary concern should be how best to improve the lot of womanhood in our society. Let us not forget that for each woman who is beaten up by her man for flimsy reasons, the status of all of us here is downgraded. For each woman who is insulted for no reason than that of her sex, every one of us here is spat on in the face. For each woman who is denied opportunities in the society simply because she is a woman, the whole lot of us are dehumanized. Each widow in this society is an everywoman, and the lot of each of us should be viewed as collective. Each rotten egg that is thrown at anyone of us is an eternal splash of dirt on our faces. Each decayed tomato that is cast at her is a collective curse on our fecundity: each pebble thrown at her, a missile against our womanhood. This is an age of awareness, and it is the duty of NAM to collectively rise in defense of the right of women. IME: We can no longer allow ourselves to be fried alive. We are going to squeeze ourselves into tight-fitting trousers, register into judo classes, and then file out into the street and punch the face of every man we behold.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2065. In distinguishing between literacy and enlightenment, Aduke implies that
A It is useless to be literate
B Enlightenment is inborn
C Progress can take place without literacy
D Both literacy and enlightenment are symbolic
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2066. Hasana believes that NAM should not be divided by
A The worthless certificates which women possess
B Inflation and greed
C A misunderstanding of the worth of their certificates
D A selfish and over-raced belief in their certificates
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2067. 'Each widow in this society is Every woman' means that
A Every woman in the society is potentially a widow
B Every widow in the society is a woman
C The suffering of every widow represents the burden of all women
D Widowhood implies the isolation of the woman in the society
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2068. The speech of Hasana implies that
A It is the practice to throw rotten eggs at women
B It is the practice to cast decayed tomatoes at women
C To throw rotten egg and decayed tomatoes at women is to reduce their fecundity
D To throw rotten eggs and decayed tomatoes at women is dehumanizing
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2069. From the speech by Ime, it is clear that the women
A Intend to do real battle with the menfolk on defense of their rights
B Will no longer perform their traditional duties
C Are henceforth prepared to adopt a policy of confrontation with men
D Can do anything that man can do and sometimes even better
Instruction
Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 11 to 15. When I set out for London, little did I suspect that I was not on a journey to God's own city where harmony reigned supreme. So, used to the frenzied life of Lagos was I that I had come to associate that city with everything that was chaotic, and there was no doubt in my mind that Lagos was one giant symbol of our backwardness. As the plane taxied its way out of the tarmac of our national airport, I heaved a sigh of relief, not so much because I was leaving my own country as that I was being relieved of the tension that had possessed me during those tense hours in the untidy lounge. I had felt so uneasy, my thoughts racing from one uncertainty to another. But at least I was air-borne, moving away from the whole uncertainty, from the whole load of fear towards a place which I supposed would be El Dorado. Everything that happened in the plane passed through my eyes like pictures on the screen. The white air hostess who instructed me on how to use the safety belt was an angel, what with her beauty, her pretty blue dress, and her ever-smiling face. The same lady of the air served me snacks and supper. Another angel, whose queenly voice through an invisible public address system, dished out occasional information on the progress of our journey. I had never felt so relaxed, and my jolted heartbeats each time the plane took what appeared like a sudden brief descent, did not matter. When eventually we were set for landing, the anxiety that came over me was almost thrilling. What was the wonderland going to be like? So overwhelmed was I that I almost lost consciousness of what happened thereafter. But I would never forget the shock that greeted me when we arrived in the tube station and boarded a train to behold the sea of white faces and furtive glances from apparently indifferent co-passengers. I believe that the nostalgic feeling for Lagos which later became part of my life all my days in London began at a point.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2070. Before the writer left Lagos, he believed London was
A Very neat place
B A very peaceful place
C Situated in paradise
D Noiseless
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2071. Before the plane left Lagos, the writer must have
A Had a second thought before leaving his country
B Been very hungry in the lounge
C Been frightened of all the people in the lounge
D Detested the filth surrounding the lounge
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2072. When the plane took off the writer felt happy because
A He was thrilled to be in a plane
B He believed that he was travelling to a problem-free country
C He no longer felt uneasy
D For the first time, he will be in El Dorado
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2073. The writer, attitude to the air hostesses can be described as
A Lustful
B Worshipful
C Timid
D Gregarious
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2074. The writer, on getting into the train, was shocked because
A There were no attendants
B Of large number of white faces
C The people appeared unfriendly
D The train was not neater than those in Nigeria
Instruction
Use the passage below to answer questions 16 to 25. The passage has gaps numbered 16 to 25. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the appropriate option for each gap. Did you ever pause to think that eating and mating may be .... (16) to the extent of becoming targets for a planned international political strategy? If by an accident of geography, you happen to live in a region of Africa, Asia or Latin America that is one of the .... (17) of foreign 'aid' then pay .... (18) to an insight provided by José de Castro, a Brazilian sociologist and a former president of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (F.A.O). The United States imposes birth control, not to help the poor countries - no one believes any more in its 'disinterested' aid programme – but because that is its strategic defence .... (19). We must .... (20) that the pill is North America's best guarantee of continuing the domination of the 'Third World'. If ever the Third World achieves normal development Washington's Roman Empire will .... (21). These views were .... (22) about a decade later, when R. T. Ravenholt of the United States Office of Population stated that the United States was seeking to provide the means by which one quarter of the world's fertile women can be .... (23). These two statements are indicative of the .... (24) of interests of multinational pharmaceutical corporations, defence strategists and food politicians. Whether or not population planning is a .... (25) of the ruling elite for finding a scapegoat for its ineptitude. It is debatable however, it is evident that there exists an inextricable link between food aid and population planning policies.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2075. Did you ever pause to think that eating and mating may be ....
A interlinked
B Intertwined
C interposed
D intermingled
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2076. a region of Africa, Asia or Latin America that is one of the .... of foreign 'aid'
A receivers
B receptors
C recipients
D obtainers
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2077. then pay .... to an insight provided by José de Castro
A hid
B heed
C attention
D cognizance
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2078. that is its strategic defence ....
A aim
B problem
C method
D policy
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2079. We must .... that the pill is North America's best guarantee
A realize
B recognize
C reckon
D discern
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2080. Washington's Roman Empire will ....
A be dissolved
B be dismembered
C disintegrate
D disappear
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2081. These views were .... about a decade later
A confirmed
B affirmed
C established
D reaffirmed
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2082. one quarter of the world's fertile women can be ....
A fertilized
B impregnated
C sterilized
D childless
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2083. indicative of the .... of interests of multinational pharmaceutical corporations
A conflict
B convergence
C Collision
D collusion
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2084. Whether or not population planning is a .... of the ruling elite
A ploy
B style
C desire
D scheme
Instruction
In questions 26 to 45, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2085. Between you and me, I would say the equipment has outlived its usefulness
A I believe that the equipment is no longer useful to any of us
B I believe that the equipment continues to be useful to either you or me
C My idea of the usefulness of the equipment should remain known only to the two of us
D My idea of the usefulness of the equipment is shared by both
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2086. Emeka wished he had started school early
A Emeka started school early as he wished
B Emeka regretted starting school early
C Emeka regretted not starting school early
D Emeka could have started school early if he had wished
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2087. He was between the devil and the deep blue sea
A He was in danger
B He was scared
C He stood between the devil and the sea
D He was in a dilemma
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2088. The boys who rioted, were suspended by the principal
A Only some of the boys rioted and they were suspended
B All the boys rioted and were suspended
C Many boys rioted and were suspended
D A few boys rioted and were suspended
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2089. Whoever would have thought that he would lose the presidential election?
A Everyone believed that he would lose the election,
B It was commonly believed that he would win the election
C He was supposed to lose the election
D No one believed that he would win the election
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2090. It's wonderful that Musa is already out of hospital
A The fact that Musa is out of hospital cause great wonder
B The fact that Musa is out of hospital is a miracle
C It is surprising that Musa is out of hospital
D It is very pleasing that Musa is out of hospital
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2091. You could have heard the sound if you weren't asleep
A You were not asleep so you heard the sound
B You were asleep so you did not hear the sound
C You heard the sound though you were asleep
D You did not hear the sound though you were not asleep
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2092. Had Aminu been a dull student, his failure wouldn't have surprised anybody
A Aminu failed and it surprised everybody since he was dull
B Aminu was not a dull student and so everybody was surprised that he failed
C Because Aminu was a dull, student, everybody was surprised that he failed
D Aminu had been a dull student, and so nobody was surprised that he failed
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2093. The president of club said that he would cross the bridge on getting there
A He was waiting for an opportunity to take a decision
B When he got to the river, he would build a bridge across it
C He would take a decision at the appropriate time
D When he got to the river, he would cross at the bridge
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2094. His refusal to help us, dealt a death-blow to our plans
A because he did not help, our plans did not materialize
B He helped and our plans materialized
C He blew our plans to pieces
D He supported our plans so it worked
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2095. It is entirely up to you to make a profession of your faith
A confess your belief
B turn your faith into a business
C deny your faith
D loudly proclaim your religion
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2096. He won the election because he was able to carry his people along with him
A alienate his people
B go out with the people
C have the support of the people
D fail to provide the people with transport
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2097. They often quarreled before leaving the house but made it up by the time they returned home
A added it up
B reconciled
C fell out
D compounded the problem
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2098. The effect of rising prices has snowballed considerably
A risen
B decreased
C frozen
D grown
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2099. The economic situation is responsible for the recent discord in many families
A division
B resourcefulness
C harmony
D suffering
JAMB (UTME) English Language 1993
Q2100. The college was worried about Tunji's garrulous tendency
A reticent
B loquacious
C quarrelsome
D outspoken