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Use of English CBT Test

use of English Language 2001
 

Use of English Language

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By 1910, the motor car was plainly conquering the highway. The private car was now part of every rich man’s establishment, although its price made it as yet an impossible luxury for most of the middle class. But for the adventuresome youth, there was the motor cycle, a fearsome invention producing accidents and ear-splitting noises. Already, the dignified carriages and smart pony-traps were beginning to disappear from the roads, and coachmen and grooms, unless mechanically minded, were finding it more difficult to make a living.
        The roads, which had gone to sleep since the coming of the railway, now awoke to feverish activity. Cars and motorcycles dashed along them at speeds which rivalled those of the express trains, and the lorry began to appear. Therefore, the road system was compelled to adapt itself to a volume and speed of traffic for which it had never been intended. Its complete adaptation was impossible; but the road surface was easily transformed and during the early years of the century, the dustiness and greasiness of the highways were lessened by tar-spraying. To widen and straighten the roads and get rid of blind corners and every steep gradient were tasks which had scarcely been tackled before 1914. The situation was worst of all in towns where not only was any large scheme of road widening usually out of the question, but also where crowding and danger were all too frequently increased by the short-sighted eagerness of town authorities in laying down tramlines.
        Yet it was not only the road system that was in need of readjustment; the nervous system of those who used and dwelt by the roads suffered. The noises caused by the conversion of the roads into speedways called for a corresponding tightening up of the nerves, and, especially in the towns, the pedestrian who wished to preserve life and limb was compelled to keep his attention continually on the stretch, to practice himself in estimates of the speed of approaching vehicles and to run or jump for his life if he ventured off the pavement.
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The writer seems to suggest that
       
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The writer uses the expression unless mechanically minded to refer to
       
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The passage below has gaps numbered 6 to 15. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

        Before any detailed analysis begins, the first thing to do with the raw data is to check through the field record books and questionnaires for any …6… [A. records B. events  C. odds   D. mistakes] inconsistencies and incompleteness. In some cases, it may be possible to correct any discovered shortcomings. When it is not possible to carry out these …7… [A. plans  B. possibilities    C. corrections D. expectations] a visit to the field may even be necessary. It should however be realized that it is not very often that a revisit is possible.
        In most scientific …8… [A. experiments   B. data   C. conclusion   D. questionnaires] such revisits are clearly impossible. This is true of many surveys too. A road traffic survey …9… [A. conducted   B. experimented  C. classified   D. precoded] to find out the amount and frequency of daily traffic between two towns cannot be expected to be …10… [A. reproducible  B. undertaken  C. observed   D. produced]. There is no way of going back to check whether the number of vehicles reported for any particular hour is correct or not. With open-ended questions, the …11… [A. methods   B responses   C. errors   D. conclusions] have to be classified into relatively small number of groups. The process of  classifying answers and of sometimes identifying them by number and letter is called …12… [A. recording   B. recoding   C. encoding        D. coding]. When close-ended questions are used, it is possible to code all the possible answers before they are actually received. This is called …13…     [A. precoding  B. coding   C. encoding  D. recoding]. What is done, a check through the answers for proper classification, numbering and letterings is still called for at this stage. This whole process of checking through questionnaires and notebooks is called …  14… [A. editing  B. posting C. listing   D. auditing]. Collected data will eventually have to be used in drawing …15…  [A. references  B. examples    C. conclusions   D. analogies] and writing a report about the population from which it came.
                Adapted from Rachel Carson:
                The Advent of the Motor Car.
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It is possible to have a  glimpse of life after death. Man has always believed in an afterlife, but only today do we have scientific reports of people who seem to have experienced the sensation of dying but lived to tell about it. On-going research is documenting hundreds of cases each year of the near-death experience (NDE), and scientists think they are finding a clearly identifiable pattern; usually  a man is dying and, as he reaches the point of greatest physical distress, he  hears himself pronounced dead by  his doctor. He begins to hear an uncomfortable noise, a loud ringing or buzzing, and at the same time feels himself moving very rapidly through a long dark tunnel. After this, he suddenly finds himself outside of his own physical body, but still in the immediate physical environment, and he sees his own body from a distance, as though he is a spectator. He watches the resuscitation attempt from this unusual vantage  point and is in a state of emotional upheaval.
        After a while, he collects himself and becomes more accustomed to his odd condition. He notices that he still has a ‘body’ but one of a very different nature and with very different powers from the physical  body he has left behind. Soon after, things begin to happen. Others come to meet and to help him. He glimpses the spirits of relatives and friends who have already died, and a loving, warm spirit of a kind he has never encountered before – a being of light – appears before him. This being asks him a question, nonverbally – to make him evaluate his life – and helps him along by showing him a panoramic instantaneous playback of the major events of his life. Then he finds that he must go back to the earth, that the time for his death has not yet come. At this point he resists, for by now he is taken up with his experiences in the afterlife and does not want to return. He is overwhelmed by intense feelings of joy, love and peace. Despite his attitude, though, he somehow reunites with his physical body and lives.
            Adapted from Moody, R. A. (1975):                              
                              Life after Life.
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        The emergence of a standard dialect produces the phenomenon known as ‘accent’ which is quite different from dialect. In the process of learning a foreign language, it is normal to transfer the patterns of an indigenous language to those of the foreign language. With time, however,  those of form, and most of those of orthography and phonology gradually get eliminated. This is because these can easily be identified and corrected. They are easy to correct because, they do not involve patterns of muscular movement. It is also necessary to correct them because otherwise they could seriously impair intelligibility.
        With phonetic patterns, on the other hand, there is a great deal of intelligibility tolerance because muscular patterns are involved, thus making corrections difficult when observed. Besides, phonetic patterns do not impair intelligibility much. Hence, the transference of phonetic habits from one language to another is both easier to tolerate and more difficult to avoid than transference at the lexico-grammatical level. It follows that a speaker who is learning a second dialect does so with an accent since the muscles of his speech organs would have crystallized in response to the phonetics of his native language which he learnt first. The speaker therefore speaks the second dialect with the phonetic features of his native dialect. The learning of a standard language is simply the learning of a second dialect – that which has been standardized.
        Members of a language community control at least two dialects and use both dialects  in different situations. In the rural areas, the native dialect is used in most situations since there is less movement. Therefore, rural dwellers tend to be parochial and maintain the homogeneity of their dialect. In the urban community, on the other hand, there is more demand on the standard dialect than on the rural one. This is because people from different regions converge here. In order to ensure mutual intelligibility resulting  from the pressure of communication, a great deal of demand is made on the standard dialect which now becomes the lingua franca amongst them.
21.  The word those, as used in the passage, refers to
      
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Members of a language community control at least two dialects because
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Lexis, Structure and Oral Forms In each of questions 26 to 40, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in Italics. 26. I cannot understand why Ali should serve in that moribund administration.
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The Conference Centre caters for transients only.
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The coalescence of the groups created additional problems.
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As the triumphant rebels were returning to their base, they met with a serious reverse.
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The village girl wore sumptuous clothes.              
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Any Chief Executive of an organization would find radical changes blocked at every turn.
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Ugo has often been described as belligerent.
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The men were tardy in offering help.
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Funmi is just being facetious about her marrying a soldier.
      
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The professor discussed a number of abstruse topics.
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Bose was angry because her friend called her a pilferer.
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While the hooligans exchanged blows, we looked complacently.
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Tade became timorous when she was asked to give the valedictory speech.
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The player kept on gamely to the end of the match.
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Art lies in cherishing the initiative and creative power of each person.
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In each of questions 41 to 45, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
41.  Oche’s chief idiosyncrasy is a passion for  pounded yam.
      
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You must not attend the end-of-year party
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The man reasoned that there ought to be a limit to sycophancy.
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Adawo is an imp.
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The solution lies in choosing between various negative alternatives.
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In each of questions 52 to 66, choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in italics.
 The lecture seemed interminable.
     
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Had I known about their plan much earlier, I would have nipped it in the bud.
    
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 What a harmless  thought he has!
      
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The town was all agog at his unexpected return.
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The teacher taught the rudiments of Chemistry to the first grade.
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In his naivety, he believed all the stories his friend told him.
     
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The journalist’s write-up contained a plethora of detail.
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Amina’s performance in the examination surpassed my expectations.
     
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As these boys never act in public, the police are now worried about their covert activities.
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It is inconceivable that the rat devoured the cat.
  
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In the latter part of his life, the famous soldier showed signs of youthfulness.
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There is much apathy towards reading among students nowadays.
      
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Some equatorial areas have a sultry climate.
     
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Ali wondered why the principal was ambivalent about the students’ future.
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Updating the Board’s brochure is an arduous task.
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YOUR sister should come with us tomorrow.
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My neighbour BRUISED his thigh while playing football.
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They FLEW to Abuja.
       
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........  you come early to the new house, clean up my flat.
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This imposing edifice …a fortune to build.
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They let him go in …to his age.
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Some scientists are trying to …human beings in their laboratories.
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The weather is probably appealing for ... people who live in Jos …for foreigners.
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The meeting was called to …divergent views on the subject of a national conference.
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The police came early enough to …the bomb planted by the rioters.
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............told of his impending arrival, I worked hard to make his short stay very comfortable.
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More …to your elbow as you campaign for press freedom!.
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When Ajike met her …husband at the party, she felt like reconciling with him.
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A wide range of options …made available to the political parties during the recently concluded elections.
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