Year : 
1992
Title : 
English Language
Exam : 
WASSCE/WAEC MAY/JUNE

Paper 1 | Objectives

91 - 100 of 100 Questions

# Question Ans

In the following passages the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.

Teaching is one of the oldest -69- known to man. Every community from time immemorial must have had -70- known and respected for their ability to guide and -71- younger members of their community towards the -72- of the desired goals of their group. The -73- ceremonies for young adults common to many cultures are part of the -74- education process of those cultures; but there are very many informal ways of educating the young. When a young girl helps her mother in preparing the family -75-, she is learning -76- skills in an informal set-up. One's -77- group also exerts a great -78- on individuals.
In the formal set-up of our schools today, education is highly -79-. There is the -80- of authority from the principal down to the class monitors. We have a fixed -81- plays an important role in shaping our attitudes and conditioning our -82- and responses to our society as a whole.
Mankind has been ravaged by many virus and -83- diseases such as measles, tuberculosis, diarrhoea and many others including -84- known also as the common cold. -85- outbreaks of many of these diseases have been brought under control in the last fifty years. Some -86- like measles and whooping cough still pose a great danger to younger children. The -87- of measles are more easily -88- than those of whooping cough. Unlike that of many others, the virus of measles are more easily remained -89- for hundreds of years. However, once you have had an -90- of this dreadful disease, you develop an -91- which is almost complete and long lasting.
Modern science has made available -92- to prevent many childhood diseases and this is the only guarantee of -93- from these scourges. More effective treatment of complications arising from these childhood diseases using penicillin and other -94- has also helped to reduce the -95- rate among children. It is universally accepted that good -96- is the right of every human being and children do not have to die from these diseases which wiped out whole -97- in the Middle Ages. We have today -98- drugs which give protection against most childhood diseases.

91.

In question numbered 89 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. unchanged

B. constant

C. errstic

D. secret

E. undiscovered

E

92.

In question numbered 90 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. epidemic

B. encounter

C. outing

D. indisposition

E. attack

E

93.

In question numbered 91 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. impurity

B. armour

C. immunity

D. ability

E. assurance

C

94.

In question numbered 92 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. injections

B. medicine

C. tablets

D. vaccines

E. drug

E

95.

In question numbered 93 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. freedom

B. discharge

C. cure

D. protection

E. victory

D

96.

In question numbered 94 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. relievers

B. treatments

C. antibiotics

D. balms

E. pills

C

97.

In question numbered 95 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. high

B. mortality

C. killing

D. dangerous

E. unbelievable

B

98.

In question numbered 96 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. health

B. body

C. sense

D. development

E. stature

A

99.

In question numbered 97 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. countries

B. areas

C. schools

D. states

E. communities

D

100.

In question numbered 98 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. bitter

B. lovely

C. marvellous

D. super

E. potent

E

In the following passages the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.

Teaching is one of the oldest -69- known to man. Every community from time immemorial must have had -70- known and respected for their ability to guide and -71- younger members of their community towards the -72- of the desired goals of their group. The -73- ceremonies for young adults common to many cultures are part of the -74- education process of those cultures; but there are very many informal ways of educating the young. When a young girl helps her mother in preparing the family -75-, she is learning -76- skills in an informal set-up. One's -77- group also exerts a great -78- on individuals.
In the formal set-up of our schools today, education is highly -79-. There is the -80- of authority from the principal down to the class monitors. We have a fixed -81- plays an important role in shaping our attitudes and conditioning our -82- and responses to our society as a whole.
Mankind has been ravaged by many virus and -83- diseases such as measles, tuberculosis, diarrhoea and many others including -84- known also as the common cold. -85- outbreaks of many of these diseases have been brought under control in the last fifty years. Some -86- like measles and whooping cough still pose a great danger to younger children. The -87- of measles are more easily -88- than those of whooping cough. Unlike that of many others, the virus of measles are more easily remained -89- for hundreds of years. However, once you have had an -90- of this dreadful disease, you develop an -91- which is almost complete and long lasting.
Modern science has made available -92- to prevent many childhood diseases and this is the only guarantee of -93- from these scourges. More effective treatment of complications arising from these childhood diseases using penicillin and other -94- has also helped to reduce the -95- rate among children. It is universally accepted that good -96- is the right of every human being and children do not have to die from these diseases which wiped out whole -97- in the Middle Ages. We have today -98- drugs which give protection against most childhood diseases.

91.

In question numbered 89 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. unchanged

B. constant

C. errstic

D. secret

E. undiscovered

E

92.

In question numbered 90 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. epidemic

B. encounter

C. outing

D. indisposition

E. attack

E

93.

In question numbered 91 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. impurity

B. armour

C. immunity

D. ability

E. assurance

C

94.

In question numbered 92 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. injections

B. medicine

C. tablets

D. vaccines

E. drug

E

95.

In question numbered 93 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. freedom

B. discharge

C. cure

D. protection

E. victory

D

96.

In question numbered 94 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. relievers

B. treatments

C. antibiotics

D. balms

E. pills

C

97.

In question numbered 95 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. high

B. mortality

C. killing

D. dangerous

E. unbelievable

B

98.

In question numbered 96 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. health

B. body

C. sense

D. development

E. stature

A

99.

In question numbered 97 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. countries

B. areas

C. schools

D. states

E. communities

D

100.

In question numbered 98 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. bitter

B. lovely

C. marvellous

D. super

E. potent

E