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Instruction
In questions 66 to 85, choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s).
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2011
Q3901. The secretary has no right to .... my affairs
A spy from
B meddle in
C toy at
D complain into
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Q3902. Bola studiously avoided .... the questions
A parrying
B answering
C projecting
D destroying
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Q3903. The school authority dismissed him for .... but I won't tell you about it yet
A certain reason
B a reason
C more reason
D a certain reason
Instruction
In questions 86 to 91, choose the option that has the same vowel or consonant sound as the one represented by the underlined letter(s).
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2011
Q3904. Bubble
A guy
B bull
C bumper
D gurgle
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Q3905. Weight
A whale
B white
C whet
D writhe
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Q3906. leach
A gear
B cedar
C cheer
D death
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Q3907. Mention
A that
B machine
C church
D test
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Q3908. Prestige
A bag
B badge
C reggae
D leisure
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Q3909. Knot
A cot
B keep
C nom
D king
Instruction
In questions 92 to 94, choose the option that rhymes with the given word.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2011
Q3910. Fuel
A cruel
B fool
C rule
D field
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Q3911. Match
A harsh
B batch
C such
D watch
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Q3912. Sheer
A sheila
B care
C ear
D sherry
Instruction
In questions 95 to 97, choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2011
Q3913. Termination
A terminaTION
B TERmination
C termiNAtion
D terMInation
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Q3914. Meditative
A meDItative
B mediTAtive
C MEditative
D meditaTIVE
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Q3915. Suggestible
A suggeSTIble
B SUggestible
C suGGEstible
D suggestiBLE
Instruction
In questions 98 to 100, the word in capital letters has an emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2011
Q3916. Uche LOVES Toyota cars.
A Who loves Toyota cars?
B What brand of car does Uche love?
C Does Uche hate Toyota cars?
D Does Uche love bicycles?
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2011
Q3917. The POLICE arrested the suspect.
A Did the police placate the suspect?
B Who arrested the suspect?
C Who did the police arrest?
D Did the police arrest the suspect?
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Q3918. Maiduguri is the CAPITAL of Borno State.
A Is Maiduguri the capital of Plateau State?
B Which State is Maiduguri the capital of?
C Is Maiduguri a town in Borno State?
D What is the capital of Borno State?
Instruction
Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 1 to 5. Religion in its various forms is very strong in Nigeria. In other words, Nigerian people are very religious. Most of them believe that there is an unseen supernatural world, apart from the natural world we see around us. This other world is inhabited by beings who are the source of our knowledge of good and evil. They watch and judge us, and if we offend them they may have to be appeased with prayers and sacrifices. Certain individuals in the natural world-priests, prophets and diviners- are believed to be endowed with special powers to make contact with the other world. These individuals lay down ceremonies or rituals which must be observed if due honour is to be paid to the unseen beings. The religious belief and practices of Nigerians can be classified under three main headings: Traditional religion, Islam and Christianity. In this passage, our focus is on traditional religion. Traditional or indigenous religion continues to exert a strong influence on many people's mind partly because of its association with their birth places and families. Each ethnic group has its own religious tradition and these are often linked to some sacred spots in the ethnic homeland. Yet the various traditional religions have much in common: a remote but benevolent high god; under him, a number of lesser gods who interact with mankind; and below them various spirits who inhabit natural objects (trees, streams, rock, etc); below them again, and closest to living men and women, the spirits of the ancestors. In the Yoruba tradition, for example, there are more than 400 lesser deities presided over by the high god, Olorun. Because he is remote from mankind, shrines are not built to him and worship is not offered to him directly. The lesser gods, on the other hand, are the subject of special cults, each with its own priests and devotees. Eshu, the messenger of the gods; Ifa, the god of divination; Shango, the god of thunder, and so on. Traditional religion was also strong in other parts of Nigeria. In Igbo Traditional religion, there were fewer gods. Although there was a remote high god, the most important figure was Ala or Ani, the goddess of the earth. In Hausaland, traditional religion has largely gone underground owing to the influence of Islam, but belief in the existence of 'Bori' spirits and their power to possess people, especially women, is strong in some areas. Each spirit is associated with certain type of behaviour, which is manifested by the possessed individual. Divination - the discovery of what is unknown or is yet to happen by supernatural or magical means - is an important element of traditional religion. It is often one of the functions of medicine-men or herbalists. In Igboland, there also used to be several oracles which people consulted in order to seek solutions to their problems. With the coming of Christianity, their influence has however waned, but in areas like Arochukwu and Okija, the influence of such oracles is still strongly felt.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3919. Which question paper type of Use of English as indicated above is given to you?
A Type green
B Type purple
C Type red
D Type yellow
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Q3920. According to the first paragraph, Nigerians believe that the
A supernatural and natural work co-exist
B natural and supernatural worlds are antagonistic
C supernatural world controls natural world
D supernatural world exploits the natural world
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3921. Traditional religion has waned in Nigeria due to the
A influence of Islam over border
B influence of Christianity over location
C influence of non-traditional religions
D decline of interest in traditional religions
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3922. Which factor is common to all religions as mentioned in the passage?
A prayer only
B divination
C sacrifice
D ritual
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3923. Which factor is common to all traditional religions as mentioned in the passage?
A prayer only
B divination
C sacrifice
D ritual
Instruction
Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 6 to 10. Recent literary researches reveal that Nigerians hardly have time to read. In essence, the reading culture in Nigeria is now at a low ebb. It is disturbing, however, that few Nigerians that read concentrate more on foreign books than indigenous productions. Most Nigerian authors of novels, storybooks, fictions and non-fiction series have decried, on different occasions, their woes. They were bitter at the way most owners of bookshops and publishers treat them. It was gathered to stock foreign books. When contacted by DAILY INDEPENDENT, the general manager of a popular bookstore on Lagos Island declared that most of the bookshops preferred to stock foreign books because of higher demands for them. The question that bothers most Nigerian authors is, while their overseas counterparts are being rewarded with great international honours, why are Nigerians not according them such recognition in their own country? Recently, Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, won the 2007 Orange Prize Award, the literary world's top award for fiction in English written by women. The award carries a prize tag of $30,000 it was reported in Publishers Weekly, Half of a Yellow Sun, the book that earned her the award, was profoundly gripping. According to the reviewer, the book is a transcendent novel of many descriptive triumphs, most notably its diction of the impact of war brutalities on peasants and intellectuals alike. It is searing history in fictional form, intensely evocative and immensely absorbing. Chinua Achebe, 'Father of Modern African Literature, also won the second ever Man Booker International Prize of £60,000 with his first novel Things Fall Apart, published in 1958. When Professor Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, the fame confirmed the relevance of Nigerians in the world of classical excellence. Ben Okri won the 1991 Booker Prize with his work, The Famished Road, and the world celebrated Nigeria as the giant of Africa. It was also gathered that most of the publishers hurriedly produce books and in the process marred their good contents. Most of the books are not properly edited and eventually become substandard when compared with foreign products. The extent to which book publishing standard has fallen in Nigeria is alarming. Often Nigerian publishers have been blamed for this. It is instructive that none of the books mentioned had been published in Nigeria. It was discovered that most students in tertiary institutions depend on dictations from their lecturers and /or handouts. A science lecturer in one of the Nigerian universities, who had been a victim of handout sales scandal, told DAILY INDEPENDENT the reality of campus challenges in relation to books: I was forced to dictate notes slowly to students who hung on my every word in the absence of textbooks in a library that had, to all intent and purpose, stopped buying new books when the local currency was devalued. But what other alternative does one have?
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3924. It can be inferred from the passage that
A Nigerians have access to foreign books only
B Nigerian undergraduates do not read text books
C Nigerians read foreign and indigenous books alike
D Nigerians read mostly foreign books
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3925. The reason for lack of indigenous books in most renowned bookshops, according to the passage, is
A Nigerians prefer reading foreign books
B foreign books attract more buyers
C indigenous books are sometimes not available
D the low quality of indigenous books
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3926. The expression 'that earned her the award is profoundly gripping', as used in the passage, means that the book is
A highly interesting and captures attention
B is of high quality to the writer
C attracts many indigenous and foreign readers
D is widely acknowledged by many authors
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3927. The university science lecturer gives his reason for issuing handout as
A lack of teaching aids among students
B low purchasing power
C low quality of books
D lack of sufficient time
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3928. A suitable title for this passage is
A Nigerian Literary Writers
B Nigerian Publishers and International Awards
C Poor Reading Culture in Nigeria
D Why Nigerian Lecturers Sell Handouts
Instruction
Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 11 to 15. It is said that experience is the best teacher, but to learn consciously through wisdom may even be a better and more convenient way. To learn by experience is to learn from mistakes. It means you have burnt your fingers and now your eyes are open. This is a tough, costly and inconvenient way to learn. Rather than leaving our learning to experience, why do we not learn consciously going out of our way to acquire knowledge and wisdom rather than leave our learning to chance. Surely, we can learn from mistakes but why wait till when we make mistakes before we learn? We should give more premium to learning by wisdom than by experience. This will involve one making up one's mind to be decisive in learning. We must decide to learn consciously and not necessarily from negative experiences. The first step is to realize that life is simply the outcome and outplay of decisions. Our life now is the sum total of our decisions and our future will be determined by our decisions of today. If we decide to learn today we are not likely to make mistakes and when we do not make mistakes, experience need not be our best teacher. To avoid making experience our best teacher will take more than a decision. We must couple our decision with a complete and wholehearted devotion. We must be resolved, resolute and resilient in our bid to learn by wisdom and not necessarily by experience. This is crucial because situations and circumstances will want us to make a detour and leave our learning and life to chance. We must therefore be disciplined to remain with our resolve to make a clean break with experience as our best teacher. Disciplined in this regard means learning something new every day by wisdom rather than by experience. It means consciously getting better by the day in your chosen field. Discipline will demand taking advantage of every learning opportunity that comes our way. It will mean we must pay the price for learning by wisdom - invest in books, magazines, seminars and other means by which we may become wiser. It is much easier and cheaper to learn consciously by wisdom than to learn by experience. When we learn by experience, the deed is done and we are just picking up the pieces-learning in regret how to avoid such predicament next time. Consider the child who grapes a burning coal, he has learned the hard way through the painful experience, but his fingers will remain burnt. Thus the saying, that experience is the best teacher, may not be justifiable after all.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3929. The attitude of the writer of the passage can best be described as
A objective
B critical
C non-committal
D emotional
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3930. It can be deduced from the passage that
A all experiences are best teachers
B learning through pains is better
C experience is superior to wisdom
D wise thoughts are more desirable than experience
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3931. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A man must make mistakes in order to survive.
B the totality of our actions should be decided by our judgement.
C if we do not make mistakes, experience must be our teacher
D our future would be judged by our past mistakes
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3932. According to the passage, we must be disciplined to
A make experience our best teacher in reality
B learn from our experiences in future
C choose the learning opportunity that comes our way
D decide against making experience our teacher
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3933. The phrase 'a complete and wholehearted devotion', as used in the passage, means
A acting without doubts
B learning with tension
C learning without pains
D teaching with ease
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 medical definition of miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a pregnancy before twenty-four weeks. Miscarriage is very common, occurring in ten to twenty per cent of confirmed pregnancies. Most of those feature .... (16) twelve weeks of pregnancy. The most common .... (17) is vaginal bleeding, which can range from light spotting to heavier than a period. You may see blood clots, brown discharge or other tissues that are not .... (18) identifiable. Sometimes a sac-like structure is seen. Often, there is cramping with pelvic or back pain. You may find that the usual symptoms of pregnancy, such as breast tenderness, feeling sick and having to pass urine more .... (19) than usual stop unexpectedly. Sometimes there are no signs or symptoms of miscarriage and pregnancy symptoms continue, and the miscarriage only .... (20) in a routine scan. About half all early miscarriages happen because of a problem in the way the genetic material from the egg and sperm have combined during .... (21). It can be difficult to find out why this has .... (22), but it is more likely to be due to random chance than to any underlying problem with either parent. Imbalances in pregnancy hormones, problems in the immune .... (23), and some serious infections are also thought to make miscarriages more likely. The risk of miscarriage .... (24) with age because the quality of eggs deteriorates. If a woman drinks too much alcohol or smokes heavily, the risk of miscarriage is higher. It is also increased with .... (25) pregnancies such as twins.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3934. Most of those feature .... twelve weeks of pregnancy
A after
B before
C during
D within
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3935. The most common .... is vaginal bleeding
A sign
B diagnosis
C symptom
D indication
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Q3936. other tissues that are not .... identifiable
A readily
B quickly
C easily
D slowly
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Q3937. having to pass urine more .... than usual
A often
B frequently
C usually
D always
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Q3938. the miscarriage only .... in a routine scan
A shows up
B shows
C shows in
D shows out
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Q3939. combined during ....
A fertilization
B conception
C pregnancy
D fertilization and conception
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Q3940. It can be difficult to find out why this has ....
A happened
B occurring
C taken place
D come about
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Q3941. problems in the immune ....
A system
B process
C response
D reaction
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Q3942. The risk of miscarriage .... with age
A raises
B grows
C increases
D develops
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Q3943. It is also increased with .... pregnancies such as twins
A multiple
B complex
C complicated
D double
Instruction
In questions 26 to 35, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3944. Hardworking students must not have a finger in every pie at school.
A Hardworking students must have a role to play in most activities in the school
B Only hardworking students must participate in all activities in the school
C Hardworking students do not participate in all activities in the school
D Hardworking students must ask others to participate in school activities
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3945. The vice chancellor is riding the crest of the last quarter of his administration.
A The vice chancellor enjoys the acknowledgment of the success of his administration
B The vice chancellor does not enjoy the people's criticism of his administration
C The vice chancellor hopes to overcome soon the poor comments on the administration
D The vice chancellor does not talk of his success in office
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Q3946. She was absolved by the court from the charge.
A She was convicted for the charge
B She was blamed and charged to court
C Her case was resolved by the court
D She was declared free from the charge
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Q3947. The landlord is fond of throwing his weight about.
A The landlord likes healthy exercise
B The landlord is overweight
C The landlord gives orders to people
D The landlord is respected by his tenants
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Q3948. The company ought to have issued warrants for one billion shares.
A The company has issued one billion shares
B The management expected the company to issue more than one billion shares
C Members of the company bought less than one billion shares
D The company did not issue one billion shares
JAMB (UTME) English Language 2012
Q3949. He needed not to have played in the position of quarterback in volleyball.
A He participated in the game in his unusual position
B Nobody expected him to have participated in the game
C He wanted to play in a position other than the one he was offered
D Someone did not want him to play in the position that he played
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Q3950. I wouldn't have responded to his rude talk, if I were you.
A The advice was taken by the respondent so he did not respond to the talk
B The adviser put himself in the respondent's position, so he did not respond to the talk
C The respondent replied to the speaker's talk, although he ought not have done so
D What was advisable was that the respondent gave it back to the speaker