DELSU English Language 2013/2014 Past Questions

From 1 to 5 choose the option that best completes each of the following sentences

From 1 to 5 choose the option that best completes each of the following sentences

From 1 to 5 choose the option that best completes each of the following sentences

From 1 to 5 choose the option that best completes each of the following sentences

From 1 to 5 choose the option that best completes each of the following sentences

From 6 to 12 choose the option that best completes the gap

From 6 to 12 choose the option that best completes the gap

From 6 to 12 choose the option that best completes the gap

From 6 to 12 choose the option that best completes the gap

From 6 to 12 choose the option that best completes the gap

From 6 to 12 choose the option that best completes the gap

From 6 to 12 choose the option that best completes the gap

Read the passage carefully and answer questions 13-18:
Bida is the capital of Nupe land: An ancient and alluring walled city of round clay houses with pargeted walls, sometimes painted in bold red or black designs , and arranged in quarters according to their owners’ crafts. For Bida is a nest of craftsmen, still organized into hereditary guilds. The houses stand in clusters, their small farms round them; although the soil looks light and sandy, everything grows; groundnuts, guinea corn, rice, cotton, beans, tomatoes, maize. The guildsmen, however, do not cultivate; they are too busy. Every day except Friday-for Bida is a Muslim city they start at dawn and ply their craft with speed and skill until about four O'clock. No trade union here, no regulated hours, no shop stewards, no five-day weeks: and those who work wages draw about one thousand naira a day. And yet they manage,and do not seem in the least oppressed or exploited. On the contrary, these glass-workers, bead-makers, weavers, brass-and silver-smiths are honoured citizens of Bida, higher as it were, ranking only below the Fulani aristocracy.
The glass-workers are perhaps the most spectacular. In the hut’s centre is a sunken furnace, its clay wall built up about a foot above the ground. A boy feeds it continually with logs; it is a moloch of timbre. Another, or an apprentice, works a leather bellow by means of two sticks. He pumps these two sticks up and down with a rhythm fast and regular and seems to continue for hours without a break. This work must be very exhausting, but the boy or youth never falters, for roar and flow. Some of the raw material derived from melted-down bottles, of which the dark-blue and amber medicine bottles are the most popular.

Read the passage carefully and answer questions 13-18:
Bida is the capital of Nupe land: An ancient and alluring walled city of round clay houses with pargeted walls, sometimes painted in bold red or black designs , and arranged in quarters according to their owners’ crafts. For Bida is a nest of craftsmen, still organized into hereditary guilds. The houses stand in clusters, their small farms round them; although the soil looks light and sandy, everything grows; groundnuts, guinea corn, rice, cotton, beans, tomatoes, maize. The guildsmen, however, do not cultivate; they are too busy. Every day except Friday-for Bida is a Muslim city they start at dawn and ply their craft with speed and skill until about four O'clock. No trade union here, no regulated hours, no shop stewards, no five-day weeks: and those who work wages draw about one thousand naira a day. And yet they manage,and do not seem in the least oppressed or exploited. On the contrary, these glass-workers, bead-makers, weavers, brass-and silver-smiths are honoured citizens of Bida, higher as it were, ranking only below the Fulani aristocracy.
The glass-workers are perhaps the most spectacular. In the hut’s centre is a sunken furnace, its clay wall built up about a foot above the ground. A boy feeds it continually with logs; it is a moloch of timbre. Another, or an apprentice, works a leather bellow by means of two sticks. He pumps these two sticks up and down with a rhythm fast and regular and seems to continue for hours without a break. This work must be very exhausting, but the boy or youth never falters, for roar and flow. Some of the raw material derived from melted-down bottles, of which the dark-blue and amber medicine bottles are the most popular.

Read the passage carefully and answer questions 13-18:
Bida is the capital of Nupe land: An ancient and alluring walled city of round clay houses with pargeted walls, sometimes painted in bold red or black designs , and arranged in quarters according to their owners’ crafts. For Bida is a nest of craftsmen, still organized into hereditary guilds. The houses stand in clusters, their small farms round them; although the soil looks light and sandy, everything grows; groundnuts, guinea corn, rice, cotton, beans, tomatoes, maize. The guildsmen, however, do not cultivate; they are too busy. Every day except Friday-for Bida is a Muslim city they start at dawn and ply their craft with speed and skill until about four O'clock. No trade union here, no regulated hours, no shop stewards, no five-day weeks: and those who work wages draw about one thousand naira a day. And yet they manage,and do not seem in the least oppressed or exploited. On the contrary, these glass-workers, bead-makers, weavers, brass-and silver-smiths are honoured citizens of Bida, higher as it were, ranking only below the Fulani aristocracy.
The glass-workers are perhaps the most spectacular. In the hut’s centre is a sunken furnace, its clay wall built up about a foot above the ground. A boy feeds it continually with logs; it is a moloch of timbre. Another, or an apprentice, works a leather bellow by means of two sticks. He pumps these two sticks up and down with a rhythm fast and regular and seems to continue for hours without a break. This work must be very exhausting, but the boy or youth never falters, for roar and flow. Some of the raw material derived from melted-down bottles, of which the dark-blue and amber medicine bottles are the most popular.

Read the passage carefully and answer questions 13-18:
Bida is the capital of Nupe land: An ancient and alluring walled city of round clay houses with pargeted walls, sometimes painted in bold red or black designs , and arranged in quarters according to their owners’ crafts. For Bida is a nest of craftsmen, still organized into hereditary guilds. The houses stand in clusters, their small farms round them; although the soil looks light and sandy, everything grows; groundnuts, guinea corn, rice, cotton, beans, tomatoes, maize. The guildsmen, however, do not cultivate; they are too busy. Every day except Friday-for Bida is a Muslim city they start at dawn and ply their craft with speed and skill until about four O'clock. No trade union here, no regulated hours, no shop stewards, no five-day weeks: and those who work wages draw about one thousand naira a day. And yet they manage,and do not seem in the least oppressed or exploited. On the contrary, these glass-workers, bead-makers, weavers, brass-and silver-smiths are honoured citizens of Bida, higher as it were, ranking only below the Fulani aristocracy.
The glass-workers are perhaps the most spectacular. In the hut’s centre is a sunken furnace, its clay wall built up about a foot above the ground. A boy feeds it continually with logs; it is a moloch of timbre. Another, or an apprentice, works a leather bellow by means of two sticks. He pumps these two sticks up and down with a rhythm fast and regular and seems to continue for hours without a break. This work must be very exhausting, but the boy or youth never falters, for roar and flow. Some of the raw material derived from melted-down bottles, of which the dark-blue and amber medicine bottles are the most popular.

Read the passage carefully and answer questions 13-18:
Bida is the capital of Nupe land: An ancient and alluring walled city of round clay houses with pargeted walls, sometimes painted in bold red or black designs , and arranged in quarters according to their owners’ crafts. For Bida is a nest of craftsmen, still organized into hereditary guilds. The houses stand in clusters, their small farms round them; although the soil looks light and sandy, everything grows; groundnuts, guinea corn, rice, cotton, beans, tomatoes, maize. The guildsmen, however, do not cultivate; they are too busy. Every day except Friday-for Bida is a Muslim city they start at dawn and ply their craft with speed and skill until about four O'clock. No trade union here, no regulated hours, no shop stewards, no five-day weeks: and those who work wages draw about one thousand naira a day. And yet they manage,and do not seem in the least oppressed or exploited. On the contrary, these glass-workers, bead-makers, weavers, brass-and silver-smiths are honoured citizens of Bida, higher as it were, ranking only below the Fulani aristocracy.
The glass-workers are perhaps the most spectacular. In the hut’s centre is a sunken furnace, its clay wall built up about a foot above the ground. A boy feeds it continually with logs; it is a moloch of timbre. Another, or an apprentice, works a leather bellow by means of two sticks. He pumps these two sticks up and down with a rhythm fast and regular and seems to continue for hours without a break. This work must be very exhausting, but the boy or youth never falters, for roar and flow. Some of the raw material derived from melted-down bottles, of which the dark-blue and amber medicine bottles are the most popular.

From 18 to 23 choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined

From 18 to 23 choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined

From 18 to 23 choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined

From 18 to 23 choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined

From 18 to 23 choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined

From 18 to 23 choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined

From 24 to 25, choose the option that rhymes with the given word

From 24 to 25, choose the option that rhymes with the given word