Year : 
2016
Title : 
English Language
Exam : 
JAMB Exam

Paper 1 | Objectives

61 - 70 of 75 Questions

# Question Ans

The words in capital letters have the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

61.

My house is a BUNGALOW

A. Is my house a terrace ?

B. was my house a bungalow?

C. Is my house the bungalow?

D. Is his house a bungalow?

Detailed Solution

To answer question on emphatic stress, the sentence that doesn't have the emphatic word becomes the correct answer. From the question, the emphatic stress is the word ''BUNGALOW''. only one option does not have bungalow in it which is option A
There is an explanation video available below.

Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

Curiosity is as clear and definite as any of our urges. We wonder what is in a sealed telegram or in a letter which someone else is absorbed or what is being said in the telephone booth or in low conversation. This inquisitiveness is vastly stimulated by jealousy. Suspicion or any hint that we ourselves are directly or indirectly involved in. But there appears to be a fair amount of personal interest in other people's affairs even when they do not concern us except as a mystery to be unravelled or a tale to be told. The reports of a divorce suit will have news 'value' for many weeks, They constitute a story like a novel, a play or a moving picture. This is not an example of pure curiosity. However, since we readily identify ourselves with others' their joys and despair then become our own concern.

Adapted from Harris, W. and L.G Wilson (1963) The University Handbook,New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston

62.

Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. Suspicion often stimulates inquisitiveness

B. Every human conduct often gives rise to curiosity

C. Our environment always inhibits curiosity

D. Curiosity is effective where there is no room for it

Detailed Solution

According to the passage, curiosity comes alive as a result of our inquisitiveness and suspicion of events happening with people around us.
There is an explanation video available below.
63.

Absorbed as used in the passage, means

A. disturbed

B. engrossed

C. covered

D. entailed

Detailed Solution

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64.

From the passage, it can be deduced that curiosity thrives

A. through conducts that are inimical to our activities

B. if we are able to probe into what others are thinking

C. only if we become suspicious of people's motives

D. if the subject of discussion is of interest to us

Detailed Solution

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65.

The author seems to suggest that curiosity is

A. misleading

B. inborn

C. learned

D. acquired

Detailed Solution

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Boxing is sometimes called' the noble art of self defense'. According to some people, boxing appeals to the lowest instincts in the ....11....who have come to watch blood flow and their fellow human suffer Boxers who are medically fit appear in the ....12.... The referee sometimes allows the .....13... to go on for long so that one of the ...14... is reduced to a human punch bag.It may happen that the boxers are not well ...15... one being much stronger than the other, as a result of which he so much .....16... his opponent that he wins ....17.... Many boxers have suffered permanent brain.....18... in the ....19.... of punches that have been thrown at them during their....20....

66.

Labelled [....11.....] above

A. agitators

B. witnesses

C. congregations

D. spectators

Detailed Solution

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67.

Labelled [....12.....] above

A. stage

B. circle

C. track

D. ring

Detailed Solution

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68.

Labelled [....13.....] above

A. bout

B. match

C. performance

D. contest

Detailed Solution

There is an explanation video available below.
69.

Labelled [....14.....] above

A. assailants

B. disputants

C. contestants

D. brawlers

Detailed Solution

There is an explanation video available below.
70.

Labelled [....15.....] above

A. levelled

B. groomed

C. sparred

D. staged

Detailed Solution

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The words in capital letters have the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

61.

My house is a BUNGALOW

A. Is my house a terrace ?

B. was my house a bungalow?

C. Is my house the bungalow?

D. Is his house a bungalow?

Detailed Solution

To answer question on emphatic stress, the sentence that doesn't have the emphatic word becomes the correct answer. From the question, the emphatic stress is the word ''BUNGALOW''. only one option does not have bungalow in it which is option A
There is an explanation video available below.

Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

Curiosity is as clear and definite as any of our urges. We wonder what is in a sealed telegram or in a letter which someone else is absorbed or what is being said in the telephone booth or in low conversation. This inquisitiveness is vastly stimulated by jealousy. Suspicion or any hint that we ourselves are directly or indirectly involved in. But there appears to be a fair amount of personal interest in other people's affairs even when they do not concern us except as a mystery to be unravelled or a tale to be told. The reports of a divorce suit will have news 'value' for many weeks, They constitute a story like a novel, a play or a moving picture. This is not an example of pure curiosity. However, since we readily identify ourselves with others' their joys and despair then become our own concern.

Adapted from Harris, W. and L.G Wilson (1963) The University Handbook,New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston

62.

Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. Suspicion often stimulates inquisitiveness

B. Every human conduct often gives rise to curiosity

C. Our environment always inhibits curiosity

D. Curiosity is effective where there is no room for it

Detailed Solution

According to the passage, curiosity comes alive as a result of our inquisitiveness and suspicion of events happening with people around us.
There is an explanation video available below.
63.

Absorbed as used in the passage, means

A. disturbed

B. engrossed

C. covered

D. entailed

Detailed Solution

There is an explanation video available below.
64.

From the passage, it can be deduced that curiosity thrives

A. through conducts that are inimical to our activities

B. if we are able to probe into what others are thinking

C. only if we become suspicious of people's motives

D. if the subject of discussion is of interest to us

Detailed Solution

There is an explanation video available below.
65.

The author seems to suggest that curiosity is

A. misleading

B. inborn

C. learned

D. acquired

Detailed Solution

There is an explanation video available below.

Boxing is sometimes called' the noble art of self defense'. According to some people, boxing appeals to the lowest instincts in the ....11....who have come to watch blood flow and their fellow human suffer Boxers who are medically fit appear in the ....12.... The referee sometimes allows the .....13... to go on for long so that one of the ...14... is reduced to a human punch bag.It may happen that the boxers are not well ...15... one being much stronger than the other, as a result of which he so much .....16... his opponent that he wins ....17.... Many boxers have suffered permanent brain.....18... in the ....19.... of punches that have been thrown at them during their....20....

66.

Labelled [....11.....] above

A. agitators

B. witnesses

C. congregations

D. spectators

Detailed Solution

There is an explanation video available below.
67.

Labelled [....12.....] above

A. stage

B. circle

C. track

D. ring

Detailed Solution

There is an explanation video available below.
68.

Labelled [....13.....] above

A. bout

B. match

C. performance

D. contest

Detailed Solution

There is an explanation video available below.
69.

Labelled [....14.....] above

A. assailants

B. disputants

C. contestants

D. brawlers

Detailed Solution

There is an explanation video available below.
70.

Labelled [....15.....] above

A. levelled

B. groomed

C. sparred

D. staged

Detailed Solution

There is an explanation video available below.