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Instruction
In questions 61 to 85, choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s).
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2003
Q3101. If you saw the photograph of the man .... you be able to identify him
A can
B will
C would
D could
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Q3102. It is bad to take .... property without permission.
A someone's else's
B someone's else
C someone's else
D someone else
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Q3103. As Obande does not know anyone in this city, he hopes that some kind .... will put him up for the night
A men
B individuals
C man
D inhabitants
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Q3104. Be careful not to .... this money.
A lose
B loose
C loss
D lost
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Q3105. How is the new editor .... on with his work?
A pushing
B going
C getting
D moving
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Q3106. Nowadays, many graduates are not well disposed to teaching ....?
A do they?
B they are?
C aren't they?
D are they?
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Q3107. The armed robbers went into the house and robbed the three ....
A women's occupants
B women occupants
C woman occupants
D woman's occupants
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Q3108. It is often .... that inflation .... from too much money chasing very few goods
A say/resulted
B said/result
C said/results
D say/result
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Q3109. If you would do me this favour, I .... be very grateful.
A will
B shall
C would
D should
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Q3110. I have the .... of meeting the President.
A privilege
B privilage
C privileg
D priviledge
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Q3111. My classmate .... I haven't seen for a year, wrote to me last week.
A that
B whose
C whom
D which
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Q3112. Four weeks .... enough for the police to conclude their investigation
A has been
B are
C were
D is
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Q3113. The woman is one of the .... of the society
A elitists
B elites
C elite
D elitist
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Q3114. The doctor asked the patient what ....
A is the problem
B the problem was
C the problem is
D is your problem
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Q3115. He put .... in a basket.
A a white dozen eggs
B dozen white eggs
C a dozen white eggs
D white dozen eggs
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Q3116. Idakwo ran .... miss the rain
A lest he almost
B Jest he will
C Jest he should
D lest he may
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Q3117. Course .... writers are to reflect local colour.
A material
B materials
C material's
D materials'
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Q3118. It was a free-for-all and the students were blamed for taking the law ....
A into their hands
B in their hands
C into their own hands
D in their own hands
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Q3119. Ali plays .... violin with remarkable skill.
A their
B some
C a
D the
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Q3120. The candidate's charisma should be a .... factor in winning the election
A determinable
B determining
C determinant
D determinate
Instruction
In questions 86 to 88, choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2003
Q3121. colonel
A goal
B colony
C golden
D girl
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Q3122. tend
A jeopardy
B turned
C earned
D caned
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Q3123. market
A get
B mortgage
C enter
D bachelor
Instruction
In questions 92 to 94, choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2003
Q3124. concrete
A attend
B anxious
C concern
D consider
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Q3125. chalet
A college
B chemical
C chairman
D champagne
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Q3126. teeth
A though
B taught
C thought
D tank
Instruction
In questions 97 and 98, choose the option that has the same stress pattern as the given word.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2003
Q3127. Cement
A empty (noun)
B interest
C perfect (adjective)
D include
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Q3128. typist
A rebel (noun)
B superb
C refuse (noun)
D propose
Instruction
In questions 99 and 100, the word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2003
Q3129. My MOTHER served rice and fresh fish stew for dinner.
A What kind of meal did your mother serve for dinner?
B Did your mother serve rice and fresh fish stew for lunch?
C What kind of stew did your mother serve for dinner?
D Who served rice and fresh fish stew for dinner?
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Q3130. The President SPOKE to the press.
A Who spoke to the press?
B Are these the pressmen that the President spoke to?
C Did the President speak to the press?
D Did the President write to the press?
Instruction
Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 1 to 5. We knew early in our life that the atmosphere in our home was different from that in many other homes, where husbands and wives quarrel and where was drunkenness, laziness or indifference – things we never saw in our family. We chafed and grumbled at the strictness of my father's regime. We went to hide whenever we broke the rules too visibly. We knew, nevertheless, that our parents wanted good things for us. Some of these, such as the insistence on our going to school and never missing a day, we accepted readily enough, although, like most other children, we occasionally yielded to the temptation to play truant. However, in other cases such as their effort to keep us out of contact with the difficult life - the drinking and fighting and beer-brewing and gambling - their failure was inevitable. They could not keep us insulated. By the time we move about, we were already seeing things with eyes and judging things by the standards we had absorbed from them. It was borne in on me and my brothers at a very early age that our father was an uncommon man. For one thing, in most African families, work around the home was women's work. So we were vastly impressed by the fact that whenever my mother was away, my father could and did do all her jobs - cooking, cleaning and looking after us. We lived in this way in a community in which housework was regarded as being beneath male dignity. Even in families which, like ours, produced boy after boy - our sister came fifth - it simply meant that the mother carried a greater and greater burden of work. In our family, nevertheless, the boys did girls' work and my father did it with us. One of the prime chores of life in the family was fetching water from the pump down the street, some two hundred metres from our door. Since the pump was not unlocked until six in the morning and there was always crowding, a system had developed whereby you got out before dawn, placed your twenty-litre tin in line, and then went home, returning later to take your place. Often, of course, tins would be moved back in line, and others moved ahead. This could be corrected if none of these in front were too big a challenge. When taps were substituted for the pumps, the first one installed was nearly a kilometre away from our house and we had to make the trek with the water tins balanced on our heads – an indignity because this was the way girls, not proud males, carried their water. We did our jobs doggedly, that notwithstanding, because our father and mother expected it of us. Out of choice, our father did everything we did, including fetching water on occasion, and commanded us by sheer force of his example.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3131. Which of the following describes the father's role in the family?
A being too hard on the children
B serving the children
C leading by example
D usurping his wife's role in the family
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Q3132. By describing his father as an uncommon man, the writer means that he is
A strict
B kind
C amenable
D remarkable
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3133. A suitable title for the passage is
A The Unusual Parent
B A Village Life
C An Experience in Early Life
D The Problem of Water
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Q3134. The word 'atmosphere' as used in the first paragraph of the passage means
A pattern
B preference
C unity
D disposition
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Q3135. Which of the following statements captures the family's approach to housework?
A the boys were not allowed to do girls' work
B their mother did the cooking and cleaning willingly
C no job was reserved for anyone on the basis of gender
D the water needed was provided by everyone
Instruction
Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 6 to 10. A wolf, seeing a lamb drinking from a river, wanted to find a pretext for devouring him. He stood higher up the stream and accused the lamb of muddying the water so that he could not drink. The lamb said that he drank only with the tip of his tongue, and that in any case he was standing lower down the river, and could not possibly disturb the water higher up. 'When this excuse failed him,' the wolf said: 'Well, last year you insulted my father. I wasn't even born then,' replied the lamb. 'You are good at finding answers,' said the wolf, 'but what do you mean by taking up so much of the path where I am walking? The lamb, frightened at the wolf's angry tone and terrible aspect, told him, with all due submission, that he could not conceive how his walking on such a wide path could occasion him any inconvenience. 'What!' Exclaimed the wolf, seemingly in great anger and indignation. 'You are as impudent as your father who seized me by the throat last year, and caused me to be kept in a cage for three months. If you will believe me,' said the lamb, 'my parents are poor simple creatures who live entirely by green stuff; we are none of us hunters of your species. Ah! I see it's no use talking to you,' said the wolf, drawing up close to him. 'It runs in the blood of your family to hate us wolves, and therefore, as we have come so conveniently together, I'll just pay off a few of your forefathers' scores before we part.' So saying, he leapt at the lamb from behind and garroted him.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3136. The expression 'when excuse failed him' suggests that the
A wolf only made up the charges levelled against the lamb
B lamb was more intelligent than the wolf
C lamb was prepared for the charges levelled against him
D wolf was uncertain of the charges levelled against the lamb
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Q3137. The expression 'angry tone and terrible aspect' refers to the wolf's
A sonorous voice and overbearing attitude
B towering size and thunderous voice
C harsh voice and menacing posture
D loud voice and fretting movement
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3138. Which of the following aptly describes the moral of the story?
A the sins of the forefathers are visited upon the children no matter how long it takes
B if you have made up your mind to hang your dog, any rope will do for the purpose
C the law is weak in defence of the poor against the rich and mighty
D no matter how highly placed he is in society, the unmindful lawbreaker will always meet his nemesis
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Q3139. From the way the story ended, it can be concluded that the
A lamb did not survive the encounter
B wolf and the lamb parted amicably
C wolf had encountered the lamb's parents
D lamb offended the wolf quite seriously
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Q3140. The charges levelled against the lamb are
A greed, wandering, insolence and disrespect
B exuberance, pollution, wickedness and stubbornness
C garrulity, loquacity, pride and arrogance
D pollution, insolence, obstruction and aggression
Instruction
Use the passage below to answer questions 11 to 20. The passage has gaps numbered 11 to 20. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap. Capitalism is an economic system which is founded on the principle of free enterprise and the private ownership of the means of production and distribution. The .... (11) of capitalism claim that its essential characteristic is economic .... (12). The producer is free to produce whatever goods he .... (13), but the .... (14) is equally free to buy what he wants. There is a market mechanism under this system, which brings the producer and consumer together and tends to equate the supplies of the one to the demands of the other, and .... (15) the whims and caprice of both. It is this same .... (16) mechanism which determines what prices the consumers pay to the producers, as what share of the total .... (17), in cash or kind, goes to each of the four recognized .... (18) of production – land, labour, capital and organization. It is further claimed for this system that every person is capable of watching his or her own interest, and that whatever injustice is done by the .... (19) of the market mechanism, this mechanism tends to bring about a state of .... (20) between the producers and the consumers.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3141. The .... of capitalism claim that its essential characteristic is economic
A protagonists
B antagonists
C determiners
D attorneys
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Q3142. its essential characteristic is economic ....
A exploitation
B manipulation
C maneuvering
D freedom
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Q3143. The producer is free to produce whatever goods he ....
A sells
B buys
C fancies
D manufactures
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Q3144. but the .... is equally free to buy what he wants
A customer
B consumer
C controller
D marketer
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Q3145. and .... the whims and caprice of both
A neutralize
B harmonize
C settle
D decide
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Q3146. It is this same .... mechanism
A market
B controlling
C operational
D production
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Q3147. what share of the total .... in cash or kind
A dividends
B interest
C output
D profit
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Q3148. goes to each of the four recognized .... of production
A managers
B agents
C methods
D factors
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Q3149. whatever injustice is done by the .... of the market mechanism
A pricing
B operations
C managers
D buyers and sellers
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Q3150. tends to bring about a state of .... between the producers and consumers
A conflict
B equidistance
C equilibrium
D opprobrium