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Instruction
In questions 65 to 85, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) in italics.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3201. The two boxers were neck and neck up till the sixth round but in the seventh and final round, the bigger one lost ground
A could no longer stand on his feet
B failed to maintain his position
C was beaten
D became dizzy
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3202. While the mother and father were arguing furiously their small-boy sat patiently taking in everything they said
A absorbing
B accommodating
C embracing
D accepting
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3203. For a priest to be successful, he should, from time to time review his actions
A inspect
B examine
C stare at
D visualize
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3204. In some parts of our society, people are ostracized purely on the basis of their parentage
A hated
B disrespected
C shut off from others
D locked up
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3205. Sitting majestically on his throne is the Oba of Benin flanked by some of his wives
A surrounded
B supported
C guarded
D protected
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3206. In civilized society, it is unseemly to emit a loud belch at the end of a meal
A noisy
B annoying
C stupid
D outrageous
Instruction
In questions 77 to 85, choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s).
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3207. As a result of the injury sustained on the football field, Segun was .... with a broken leg for months
A laid down
B laid out
C laid on
D laid up
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3208. The principal was able to establish a functional language laboratory for school because he acted .... the advice of experts on the subject
A through
B at
C from
D on
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3209. Dume .... in Abraka for three years when I met her
A lived
B had lived
C would have lived
D was living
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3210. If I were the Head of the English Department in my school, I .... make oral English a compulsory subject
A would
B could
C should
D might
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3211. If Remi performs poorly in her forthcoming examination, then either her mother or I .... to blame
A must
B has
C will be
D are
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3212. I was able to .... Olu my book because he promised to return it the following day
A borrow
B give
C lend
D lease
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Q3213. You cannot have a vague idea of the content of this comprehension text unless you first .... the whole passage for few minutes, said the teacher to his pupils
A digest
B decipher
C skim through
D chew through
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3214. The prefect came to the class five minutes after the lesson ....
A has started
B had started
C have started
D is started
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Q3215. Bimbo sings beautifully ....?
A isn't it
B doesn't she
C isn't she
D does she
Instruction
In questions 86 to 94, choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s).
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3216. We couldn't find the official who was to act as our guide .... he has left before we arrived
A Moreover
B Actually
C Nevertheless
D However
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Q3217. No sooner had the examination ended .... the students started vacating the halls of residence
A when
B that
C than
D before
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Q3218. Ogedengbe kept goal for his club team because there wasn't .... to do it
A nobody else
B any other body
C any other body
D no other body
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3219. Rose must be allergic .... smoke because any time she sits by someone who is smoking, she sneezes
A to
B from
C for
D with
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3220. Now that I realize the full extent of your .... I am afraid it will be impossible for me to ever trust you again
A dubiousness
B corruption
C deceptiveness
D duplicity
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3221. Legislators must be trained to .... the truth
A disguise
B discern
C digest
D disturb
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Q3222. He must be a good student because he is a .... reader
A voracious
B veracious
C vicious
D vivacious
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Q3223. It is very difficult to capture the subtle .... of words when translated from one language to another
A essence
B denotations
C connotations
D inflexions
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3224. As it holds true that, unless you train your body you cannot be an athlete, so also unless you train your .... you cannot be a ....
A kicking - footballer
B voice - choirmaster
C mind - scholar
D courage - hero
Instruction
In questions 95 to 100, choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s).
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2004
Q3225. The meeting starts .... two o'clock. Please be punctual
A about
B in
C on
D at
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Q3226. Every time you pay a bill you must insist .... being given a receipt
A in
B from
C on
D by
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Q3227. The elections .... the Senate were held in July
A into
B of
C from
D onto
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Q3228. There is a filling station .... the corner, to your right
A about
B on
C at
D by
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Q3229. It is difficult these days to get a seat .... the plane in spite of a confirmed booking
A inside
B in
C on
D upon
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Q3230. He travelled to Jos .... train when he came last
A by
B in
C on
D inside
Instruction
Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 1 to 5. One of the most potent elements in body language is eye behavior. You shift your eyes, meet another person's gaze or fail to meet it and produce an effect out of all proportion to the trifling muscular effort you have made. When two people look searchingly into each other's eyes, emotions are heightened and the relationship tipped toward greater intimacy. In normal conversation, each eye contact lasts only about a second before one or both individuals look away. Because the longer meeting of the eyes is rare, it is weighted with significance when it happens and can generate a special kind of human-to-human awareness. Most of the time, a lingering look is interpreted as a sign of attraction and this should be scrupulously avoided except in appropriate circumstances. A young woman once complained, 'That man makes me so uncomfortable. Half the time when I glance at him he's already looking at me - and he keeps right on looking.' Proper street behaviour requires a balance of attention and intention. You are supposed to look at a passer-by just enough to show that you are aware of his presence. If you look too little, you appear haughty or furtive; too much and you are inquisitive. Usually what happens is that people eye each other until they are about eight feet apart, at which point both cast down their eyes. Much of eye behaviour is so subtle that we react to it only on the intuitive level. This has been demonstrated in elaborate experiments. Subjects sit and talk in the psychologist's laboratory, innocent of the fact that their eye behaviour is being observed from behind a one-way vision screen. In one fairly typical experiment, subjects were induced to cheat while performing a task, then were interviewed and observed. It was found that those who had cheated met the interviewer's eyes less often than was normal, an indication that 'shifty eyes' can actually be a tip-off to an attempt to deceive. However, none of the facts of eye behaviour are cut and dried, for there are variations between individuals. People use their eyes differently and spend different amounts of time looking at others. Besides, no pattern of eye behaviour is precisely predictable in any normal conversation.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3231. The young woman in the passage was uncomfortable because
A the man appeared to be showing interest in her by his prolonged eye contact
B the man's short and sharp gazes would tip the relationship toward greater intimacy
C strangers who made the man's type of eye contact were likely to be dangerous
D She was allergic to eye contact
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3232. The reason given for the non-finality of research results on eye contact is
A lack of concord and foresight among psychologists who carry out research on eye movement
B lack of uniformity in eye behaviour and the variability of contact situation
C that some subjects cheat during experiments, thus invalidating research findings
D that research findings on eye contact have not been subjected to further empirical tests.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3233. From the expression 'proper street behaviour requires a balance of attention and intention', it can be concluded that
A even among strangers, attitudes and purposes can be deduced from eye behaviour
B before walking the streets one must balance one's shifty eyes
C when intimate groups meet in the streets, eye contact is usually longer
D there is a balance between those with longer eye contact and those with shorter eye contact.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3234. Which of the following can be concluded from the opening paragraph?
A The effects of eye contact are always overwhelming
B Eye behaviour is one of the non-verbal ways of communicating.
C Eye movement is the most potent means of expressing intimacy.
D People are always offended by searching eye contact.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3235. From the findings of the research described in the passage, one can reason that
A innocent people maintain longer eye contact than the guilty ones
B guilty people make less frequent gazes during interrogation
C 'shifty eyes' are equally induced by innocence and guilt
D a feeling of guilt is occasioned by 'shifty eyes'
Instruction
Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 6 to 10. It is not possible to admit that there is life of any sort on the moon. It is a world that is completely and utterly dead, a sterile mountainous waste on which, during the heat of the day, the sun blazes down with relentless fury, but where during the long night the cold is so intense that it far surpasses anything ever experienced on earth. These hard facts are conveniently ignored by those who believe that it would be possible to shoot a rocket containing human beings to the moon, from which the human explorers could land and explore some portion of the moon's surface. The explorers would need to be encased in airtight suits and provided with oxygen apparatus to enable them to breathe. Even supposing that they could protect themselves against the great heat by day and the extreme cold at night, a worse fate might be in store for them unless their suits were completely bullet-proof. For they would be in danger of being shot by a shooting star. The average shooting star or meteor, which gives so strongly the impression of a star falling from the sky, is a small fragment of matter, usually smaller than a pea and often no longer than a grain of sand. Space is not empty but contains great numbers of such fragments. The earth, in its motion round the sun, meets many of these fragments which enter the atmosphere at a speed many times greater than that of a rifle bullet. The meteor, rushing through the air, becomes intensely heated by friction and is usually completely vapourized before it penetrates within a distance of twenty miles from the surface of the earth. Many millions of these fragments enter our atmosphere in the course of a day, but the atmosphere protects us from them. On the moon, however, they fall to the surface and so great is their velocity that they present a considerable risk of being hit. The difficulties that would have to be encountered by anyone who attempted to explore the moon - assuming that it was possible to get there - would be incomparably greater than those that have to be faced in the endeavour to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In two respects only would the lunar explorers have the advantage. In the first place, movement would be less fatiguing because the gravitational pull of the moon is about one eightieth of that of the earth. The second advantage the lunar explorer would have over the climbers on Mount Everest would be the absence of strong winds to contend with. The moon having no atmosphere, there can be no wind, nor, of course, can there be any noise, for sound is carried by the air. The moon is a world that is completely still and where utter silence prevails.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3236. The argument put forward by the writer is that
A life exists on other worlds
B it is untenable to claim that life exists on the moon
C the mountains on the moon are incomparably greater than the summit of Mount Everest
D lunar exploration is as difficult as climbing Mount Everest.
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Q3237. From the passage, it can be inferred that
A lunar explorers are usually exposed to inexplicable difficulties
B the moon is an unproductive world
C lunar explorers can only use bullet-proof suits on the moon
D the stars shoot arrows indiscriminately on the moon.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3238. According to the writer, life on earth is made bearable because of the presence of the
A meteors
B gravity
C atmosphere
D mountain tops.
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Q3239. The two advantages lunar explorers are said to have over climbers of Mount Everest are less fatigue and the
A absence of severe gravitational pull
B absence of atmospheric canopy
C weightless nature of the moon
D absence of high winds.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3240. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A The moon is a hard surface like the earth.
B Like the earth, the moon is not a lifeless world.
C Meteors grow on the surface of the moon like the vegetation on earth.
D The moon and the earth are different worlds.
Instruction
Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 11 to 15. The Second World and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) was staged in Nigeria in 1977. At the colloquium organised during the festival, various issues affecting the development of the black world, including the inability of most independent African nations to make a clean break with the language of colonialism, were discussed by seasoned intellectuals. It was resolved then that each African country should assign important functions to its major indigenous language; in order to facilitate the selection of one of them to replace the colonial language at the national level. This, it was hoped, could bring about the much-needed unity and national integration. Besides, since the different European languages in use were considered to be unsuitable for the expression of African cultural values, African countries were urged to promote their cultures in their local languages. As they put it, no language could effectively express a people's culture except the language itself; therefore, a campaign should be mounted, as a matter of urgency, to give impetus to the promotion of African languages. The media in each country, it was suggested should spearhead the quest for an indigenous national language by educating, motivating and mobilizing their government and people towards the selection of an appropriate local language. This, in itself, was a recognition that the media - a term usually applied in reference to all the important agencies of mass information and entertainment, like the press, the radio and the television – wield tremendous and immeasurable power through their ability to mobilize the people and modify their behaviour, particularly towards important national issues. Regrettably, the media in Nigeria are yet to take up such major roles that would facilitate the emergence of an indigenous national language in the country.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3241. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A The sole purpose of FESTAC was to discuss the language problems of Africa and the black world.
B The media in Africa can enforce indigenous national languages.
C National unity and cohesion will be enhanced through an indigenous national language.
D Colonial languages are to blame for all the problems of Africa.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3242. 'This' as used in paragraph one refers to
A the indigenous language
B each African country
C the media in Africa
D the colonial language.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3243. According to the passage, the colonial language is
A inadequate for African cultural expression
B effective for national unity and cohesion
C restricted as a result of political independence
D superior to African languages
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3244. The writer's opinion of the media in Nigeria is that they
A favour the use of English instead of a Nigerian language
B have made little or no attempt to promote the local languages
C lack the power to mobilize the government and people of Nigeria
D cannot facilitate the emergence of a local national language.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3245. A suitable title for this passage is
A Africans and FESTAC Colloquium
B African Intellectuals and Colonialism
C The Media and the Language Problem of Africa
D The Media and Cultural Expression in Africa and the Black World
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 most appropriate option for each gap. The superiority of democracy over other forms of government has long been established. From its Greek origins the term 'democracy' has been defined as a political .... (16) based on fair representation and liberty for the individual. The .... (17) of liberty and equitable representation are rooted in the definition given by Aristotle of Greece about 2500 years ago. In the words of Aristotle, 'The basis of a democratic .... (18) is liberty'. Aristotle also emphasized the democratic .... (19) of freedom based on equality'. More than 2000 years after Aristotle, the tenets of liberty, justice and equitable representation continue to .... (20). From the time of the Greek city-states to the emergence of the modern nation-states, the fundamentals of democratic rule have remained universal .... (21). In the western hemisphere, revolutionary struggles were waged to enthrone democracy over .... (22) rule. Among these were the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Haitian Revolution of 1804, the first of such projects to be .... (23) by a black nation. The American President, Abraham Lincoln, in the famous Gettysburg Address, .... (24) the essential features of democratic .... (25) when he defined democracy as a 'government of the people, by the people, for the people'.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3246. From its Greek origins the term 'democracy' has been defined as a political ....
A patter
B system
C influence
D hegemony
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2005
Q3247. The .... of liberty and equitable representation
A principles
B examples
C purposes
D statements
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Q3248. The basis of a democratic .... is liberty
A instinct
B population
C law
D state
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Q3249. Aristotle also emphasized the democratic .... of freedom based on equality
A issue
B law
C ideal
D form
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Q3250. the tenets of liberty, justice and equitable representation continue to ....
A draw up
B hold sway
C move on
D swing up