NDA English Language 2014/2015 Past Questions

```Instruction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

The approach to the university is being restructured to ease the flow of traffic, give better security and provide an appropriate introduction to a seat of higher learning. The Works and Service Complex is also under construction and we intend to move into the completed (major) part of it within the next few weeks. All these projects are being executed with an eye to aesthetics, for we recognize the important influence of a beautiful and healthy environment on its inhabitant and felt that a cluster of buildings on a small space such as we have, should be so well designed as to have a beneficial psychological and sociological effect on all members of the community.

I have gone to these lengths to itemize these examples of current development for two main reasons. Firstly, to advise you that the road diversions and other physical inconveniences currently being experienced will be on the increase because of intense development activity. We, therefore, appeal to you to bear with us, in full knowledge and consolation that such inconveniences are temporary and will soon Yield final tangible results. Secondly, to demonstrate our capacity for executing approved projects with dispatch, and to assure Government that we are up to the task

Indeed, I can assure Government that its ability to task to disburse funds to us will be more than matched by our capacity to collect and expend them on executing various worthy projects in record time.

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From the passage, we can gather that

```Instruction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

The approach to the university is being restructured to ease the flow of traffic, give better security and provide an appropriate introduction to a seat of higher learning. The Works and Service Complex is also under construction and we intend to move into the completed (major) part of it within the next few weeks. All these projects are being executed with an eye to aesthetics, for we recognize the important influence of a beautiful and healthy environment on its inhabitant and felt that a cluster of buildings on a small space such as we have, should be so well designed as to have a beneficial psychological and sociological effect on all members of the community.

I have gone to these lengths to itemize these examples of current development for two main reasons. Firstly, to advise you that the road diversions and other physical inconveniences currently being experienced will be on the increase because of intense development activity. We, therefore, appeal to you to bear with us, in full knowledge and consolation that such inconveniences are temporary and will soon Yield final tangible results. Secondly, to demonstrate our capacity for executing approved projects with dispatch, and to assure Government that we are up to the task

Indeed, I can assure Government that its ability to task to disburse funds to us will be more than matched by our capacity to collect and expend them on executing various worthy projects in record time.

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Unless it can be shown that the money voted for projects can be spent on them in good time

```Instruction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

The approach to the university is being restructured to ease the flow of traffic, give better security and provide an appropriate introduction to a seat of higher learning. The Works and Service Complex is also under construction and we intend to move into the completed (major) part of it within the next few weeks. All these projects are being executed with an eye to aesthetics, for we recognize the important influence of a beautiful and healthy environment on its inhabitant and felt that a cluster of buildings on a small space such as we have, should be so well designed as to have a beneficial psychological and sociological effect on all members of the community.

I have gone to these lengths to itemize these examples of current development for two main reasons. Firstly, to advise you that the road diversions and other physical inconveniences currently being experienced will be on the increase because of intense development activity. We, therefore, appeal to you to bear with us, in full knowledge and consolation that such inconveniences are temporary and will soon Yield final tangible results. Secondly, to demonstrate our capacity for executing approved projects with dispatch, and to assure Government that we are up to the task

Indeed, I can assure Government that its ability to task to disburse funds to us will be more than matched by our capacity to collect and expend them on executing various worthy projects in record time.

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An eye to aesthetics in this passage means

```Instruction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

The approach to the university is being restructured to ease the flow of traffic, give better security and provide an appropriate introduction to a seat of higher learning. The Works and Service Complex is also under construction and we intend to move into the completed (major) part of it within the next few weeks. All these projects are being executed with an eye to aesthetics, for we recognize the important influence of a beautiful and healthy environment on its inhabitant and felt that a cluster of buildings on a small space such as we have, should be so well designed as to have a beneficial psychological and sociological effect on all members of the community.

I have gone to these lengths to itemize these examples of current development for two main reasons. Firstly, to advise you that the road diversions and other physical inconveniences currently being experienced will be on the increase because of intense development activity. We, therefore, appeal to you to bear with us, in full knowledge and consolation that such inconveniences are temporary and will soon Yield final tangible results. Secondly, to demonstrate our capacity for executing approved projects with dispatch, and to assure Government that we are up to the task

Indeed, I can assure Government that its ability to task to disburse funds to us will be more than matched by our capacity to collect and expend them on executing various worthy projects in record time.

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In this passage, the author tries to explain why

```Instruction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

The approach to the university is being restructured to ease the flow of traffic, give better security and provide an appropriate introduction to a seat of higher learning. The Works and Service Complex is also under construction and we intend to move into the completed (major) part of it within the next few weeks. All these projects are being executed with an eye to aesthetics, for we recognize the important influence of a beautiful and healthy environment on its inhabitant and felt that a cluster of buildings on a small space such as we have, should be so well designed as to have a beneficial psychological and sociological effect on all members of the community.

I have gone to these lengths to itemize these examples of current development for two main reasons. Firstly, to advise you that the road diversions and other physical inconveniences currently being experienced will be on the increase because of intense development activity. We, therefore, appeal to you to bear with us, in full knowledge and consolation that such inconveniences are temporary and will soon Yield final tangible results. Secondly, to demonstrate our capacity for executing approved projects with dispatch, and to assure Government that we are up to the task

Indeed, I can assure Government that its ability to task to disburse funds to us will be more than matched by our capacity to collect and expend them on executing various worthy projects in record time.

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Which of these is NOT among the reasons given by the author for numerating the examples of the current development?

```Instruction: In the following passage, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, four chances are offered in columns lettered A to D, For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
When Bolingo lost his father while he was only a three-year old boy, he had thought that he had the world before him because as a little child, he could not ...6... between life and death. His mother, on whose ...7... the burden of bringing up Bolingo, an only son, and three of his younger siblings fell, had borne the cross ...8... since the demise of her husband. So, it was a welcome relief to her when Bolingo secured a ...9... job after a long search having graduated from one of the best universities in Nigeria several years ago. "After all", his mother had happily ...10... . "he would assist me to see his younger ones through their educational needs". Besides the ...11... she had been subjected to by her ...12... over her son's inability to secure a job, however ...13..., since he graduated from the university would become a thing of the past.
Regrettably, her joy was short lived. On the day when Bolingo would have started work at his desk, he got to his office just a few minutes past nine o' clock while he ought to have been there at 7:30am. He saw that the secretary whom he had come in contact with for the first time, as a fellow ...14... on the day he had submitted his application for employment had already seated herself at her desk and was ...15... in her work.```

```Instruction: In the following passage, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, four chances are offered in columns lettered A to D, For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
When Bolingo lost his father while he was only a three-year old boy, he had thought that he had the world before him because as a little child, he could not ...6... between life and death. His mother, on whose ...7... the burden of bringing up Bolingo, an only son, and three of his younger siblings fell, had borne the cross ...8... since the demise of her husband. So, it was a welcome relief to her when Bolingo secured a ...9... job after a long search having graduated from one of the best universities in Nigeria several years ago. "After all", his mother had happily ...10... . "he would assist me to see his younger ones through their educational needs". Besides the ...11... she had been subjected to by her ...12... over her son's inability to secure a job, however ...13..., since he graduated from the university would become a thing of the past.
Regrettably, her joy was short lived. On the day when Bolingo would have started work at his desk, he got to his office just a few minutes past nine o' clock while he ought to have been there at 7:30am. He saw that the secretary whom he had come in contact with for the first time, as a fellow ...14... on the day he had submitted his application for employment had already seated herself at her desk and was ...15... in her work.```

```Instruction: In the following passage, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, four chances are offered in columns lettered A to D, For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
When Bolingo lost his father while he was only a three-year old boy, he had thought that he had the world before him because as a little child, he could not ...6... between life and death. His mother, on whose ...7... the burden of bringing up Bolingo, an only son, and three of his younger siblings fell, had borne the cross ...8... since the demise of her husband. So, it was a welcome relief to her when Bolingo secured a ...9... job after a long search having graduated from one of the best universities in Nigeria several years ago. "After all", his mother had happily ...10... . "he would assist me to see his younger ones through their educational needs". Besides the ...11... she had been subjected to by her ...12... over her son's inability to secure a job, however ...13..., since he graduated from the university would become a thing of the past.
Regrettably, her joy was short lived. On the day when Bolingo would have started work at his desk, he got to his office just a few minutes past nine o' clock while he ought to have been there at 7:30am. He saw that the secretary whom he had come in contact with for the first time, as a fellow ...14... on the day he had submitted his application for employment had already seated herself at her desk and was ...15... in her work.```

```Instruction: In the following passage, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, four chances are offered in columns lettered A to D, For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
When Bolingo lost his father while he was only a three-year old boy, he had thought that he had the world before him because as a little child, he could not ...6... between life and death. His mother, on whose ...7... the burden of bringing up Bolingo, an only son, and three of his younger siblings fell, had borne the cross ...8... since the demise of her husband. So, it was a welcome relief to her when Bolingo secured a ...9... job after a long search having graduated from one of the best universities in Nigeria several years ago. "After all", his mother had happily ...10... . "he would assist me to see his younger ones through their educational needs". Besides the ...11... she had been subjected to by her ...12... over her son's inability to secure a job, however ...13..., since he graduated from the university would become a thing of the past.
Regrettably, her joy was short lived. On the day when Bolingo would have started work at his desk, he got to his office just a few minutes past nine o' clock while he ought to have been there at 7:30am. He saw that the secretary whom he had come in contact with for the first time, as a fellow ...14... on the day he had submitted his application for employment had already seated herself at her desk and was ...15... in her work.```

```Instruction: In the following passage, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, four chances are offered in columns lettered A to D, For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
When Bolingo lost his father while he was only a three-year old boy, he had thought that he had the world before him because as a little child, he could not ...6... between life and death. His mother, on whose ...7... the burden of bringing up Bolingo, an only son, and three of his younger siblings fell, had borne the cross ...8... since the demise of her husband. So, it was a welcome relief to her when Bolingo secured a ...9... job after a long search having graduated from one of the best universities in Nigeria several years ago. "After all", his mother had happily ...10... . "he would assist me to see his younger ones through their educational needs". Besides the ...11... she had been subjected to by her ...12... over her son's inability to secure a job, however ...13..., since he graduated from the university would become a thing of the past.
Regrettably, her joy was short lived. On the day when Bolingo would have started work at his desk, he got to his office just a few minutes past nine o' clock while he ought to have been there at 7:30am. He saw that the secretary whom he had come in contact with for the first time, as a fellow ...14... on the day he had submitted his application for employment had already seated herself at her desk and was ...15... in her work.```

```Instruction: In the following passage, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, four chances are offered in columns lettered A to D, For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
When Bolingo lost his father while he was only a three-year old boy, he had thought that he had the world before him because as a little child, he could not ...6... between life and death. His mother, on whose ...7... the burden of bringing up Bolingo, an only son, and three of his younger siblings fell, had borne the cross ...8... since the demise of her husband. So, it was a welcome relief to her when Bolingo secured a ...9... job after a long search having graduated from one of the best universities in Nigeria several years ago. "After all", his mother had happily ...10... . "he would assist me to see his younger ones through their educational needs". Besides the ...11... she had been subjected to by her ...12... over her son's inability to secure a job, however ...13..., since he graduated from the university would become a thing of the past.
Regrettably, her joy was short lived. On the day when Bolingo would have started work at his desk, he got to his office just a few minutes past nine o' clock while he ought to have been there at 7:30am. He saw that the secretary whom he had come in contact with for the first time, as a fellow ...14... on the day he had submitted his application for employment had already seated herself at her desk and was ...15... in her work.```

```Instruction: In the following passage, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, four chances are offered in columns lettered A to D, For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
When Bolingo lost his father while he was only a three-year old boy, he had thought that he had the world before him because as a little child, he could not ...6... between life and death. His mother, on whose ...7... the burden of bringing up Bolingo, an only son, and three of his younger siblings fell, had borne the cross ...8... since the demise of her husband. So, it was a welcome relief to her when Bolingo secured a ...9... job after a long search having graduated from one of the best universities in Nigeria several years ago. "After all", his mother had happily ...10... . "he would assist me to see his younger ones through their educational needs". Besides the ...11... she had been subjected to by her ...12... over her son's inability to secure a job, however ...13..., since he graduated from the university would become a thing of the past.
Regrettably, her joy was short lived. On the day when Bolingo would have started work at his desk, he got to his office just a few minutes past nine o' clock while he ought to have been there at 7:30am. He saw that the secretary whom he had come in contact with for the first time, as a fellow ...14... on the day he had submitted his application for employment had already seated herself at her desk and was ...15... in her work.```

```Instruction: In the following passage, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, four chances are offered in columns lettered A to D, For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
When Bolingo lost his father while he was only a three-year old boy, he had thought that he had the world before him because as a little child, he could not ...6... between life and death. His mother, on whose ...7... the burden of bringing up Bolingo, an only son, and three of his younger siblings fell, had borne the cross ...8... since the demise of her husband. So, it was a welcome relief to her when Bolingo secured a ...9... job after a long search having graduated from one of the best universities in Nigeria several years ago. "After all", his mother had happily ...10... . "he would assist me to see his younger ones through their educational needs". Besides the ...11... she had been subjected to by her ...12... over her son's inability to secure a job, however ...13..., since he graduated from the university would become a thing of the past.
Regrettably, her joy was short lived. On the day when Bolingo would have started work at his desk, he got to his office just a few minutes past nine o' clock while he ought to have been there at 7:30am. He saw that the secretary whom he had come in contact with for the first time, as a fellow ...14... on the day he had submitted his application for employment had already seated herself at her desk and was ...15... in her work.```

```Instruction: In the following passage, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, four chances are offered in columns lettered A to D, For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
When Bolingo lost his father while he was only a three-year old boy, he had thought that he had the world before him because as a little child, he could not ...6... between life and death. His mother, on whose ...7... the burden of bringing up Bolingo, an only son, and three of his younger siblings fell, had borne the cross ...8... since the demise of her husband. So, it was a welcome relief to her when Bolingo secured a ...9... job after a long search having graduated from one of the best universities in Nigeria several years ago. "After all", his mother had happily ...10... . "he would assist me to see his younger ones through their educational needs". Besides the ...11... she had been subjected to by her ...12... over her son's inability to secure a job, however ...13..., since he graduated from the university would become a thing of the past.
Regrettably, her joy was short lived. On the day when Bolingo would have started work at his desk, he got to his office just a few minutes past nine o' clock while he ought to have been there at 7:30am. He saw that the secretary whom he had come in contact with for the first time, as a fellow ...14... on the day he had submitted his application for employment had already seated herself at her desk and was ...15... in her work.```

```Instruction: In the following passage, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, four chances are offered in columns lettered A to D, For each question, choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
When Bolingo lost his father while he was only a three-year old boy, he had thought that he had the world before him because as a little child, he could not ...6... between life and death. His mother, on whose ...7... the burden of bringing up Bolingo, an only son, and three of his younger siblings fell, had borne the cross ...8... since the demise of her husband. So, it was a welcome relief to her when Bolingo secured a ...9... job after a long search having graduated from one of the best universities in Nigeria several years ago. "After all", his mother had happily ...10... . "he would assist me to see his younger ones through their educational needs". Besides the ...11... she had been subjected to by her ...12... over her son's inability to secure a job, however ...13..., since he graduated from the university would become a thing of the past.
Regrettably, her joy was short lived. On the day when Bolingo would have started work at his desk, he got to his office just a few minutes past nine o' clock while he ought to have been there at 7:30am. He saw that the secretary whom he had come in contact with for the first time, as a fellow ...14... on the day he had submitted his application for employment had already seated herself at her desk and was ...15... in her work.```

```Instructions: In Questions 16 — 20, select the word nearest in meaning with the underlined word.```
She did not divulge the location of the train.

```Instructions: In Questions 16 — 20, select the word nearest in meaning with the underlined word.```
The pilots were amazed at his piloting agility.

```Instructions: In Questions 16 — 20, select the word nearest in meaning with the underlined word.```
Hyenas are cautious, cowardly creative — Jackals, on the other hand, are known for their temerity.

```Instructions: In Questions 16 — 20, select the word nearest in meaning with the underlined word.```
The wrecked ship had sunk to the bottom. Amid the remaining flotsam, rescue workers found only a life preserver.

```Instructions: In Questions 16 — 20, select the word nearest in meaning with the underlined word.```
Rock music is ubiquitous nowadays.

```Instructions: In each of the following questions, there is a word or group of words underlined. Choose from the items numbered A to D the word or group of words almost opposite in meaning to the underlined words.```
Mallam Khalil is covetous of his neighbour's horse.

```Instructions: In each of the following questions, there is a word or group of words underlined. Choose from the items numbered A to D the word or group of words almost opposite in meaning to the underlined words.```
Despite his father's discouragement, the young man opted for a military career.

```Instructions: In each of the following questions, there is a word or group of words underlined. Choose from the items numbered A to D the word or group of words almost opposite in meaning to the underlined words.```
The last Christmas was an austere period.

```Instructions: In each of the following questions, there is a word or group of words underlined. Choose from the items numbered A to D the word or group of words almost opposite in meaning to the underlined words.```
The Military Governor upheld the decision of his cabinet.

```Instructions: In each of the following questions, there is a word or group of words underlined. Choose from the items numbered A to D the word or group of words almost opposite in meaning to the underlined words.```
The aroma of fresh fish pepper soup stimulates my salivary glands.

```Instructions: In each of Questions 26 — 30, fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the options provided.```
I do not think any sane person would have acted in such a ____ manner.

```Instructions: In each of Questions 26 — 30, fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the options provided.```
Neither Agbo nor his parents ____ the meetings now.

```Instructions: In each of Questions 26 — 30, fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the options provided.```
Modern dancing has become rather scientific and so requires ____

```Instructions: In each of Questions 26 — 30, fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the options provided.```
Had he considered his public image carefully, he ____ for his opponent in the election.

```Instructions: In each of Questions 26 — 30, fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the options provided.```
The Government which ____ recruiting ____ workers suddenly stopped doing so.

```Instructions: In each of Questions 31 to 35, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.```
The class has fallen in with the teacher's plan.

```Instructions: In each of Questions 31 to 35, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.```
I owe you far less than you owe me.

```Instructions: In each of Questions 31 to 35, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.```
He had hardly spoken when the bell rang.

```Instructions: In each of Questions 31 to 35, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.```
Ogiri takes after his father; he fawns upon anyone with influence.

```Instructions: In each of Questions 31 to 35, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.```
After the war, the victors became increasingly vindictive

```Instructions: Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentences. Each question has only one correct answer.```
My mother let me _______ late when I was a child.

```Instructions: Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentences. Each question has only one correct answer.```
She _____ lunch by the we arrived.

```Instructions: Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentences. Each question has only one correct answer.```
Chocolate _____ in Accra, Ghana for many years now.

```Instructions: Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentences. Each question has only one correct answer.```
It is ______ an easy exam. Make sure to study hard.

```Instructions: Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentences. Each question has only one correct answer.```
The university lecturers have been demanding a big _______.