OAU English Language 2015/2016 Past Questions

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Question 1
Read the passage and use it to answer questions 1 — 4. As we both fed our eyes wistfully at the used underwear section, Vivian noticed a heap of women's underwear, a mixture of braziers of various sizes and designs, panties, g-strings and tongs, underskirts, lingerie of different colours, all heaped and scattered on a big bedspread like a pile of rubbish. Some were quite ancient and threadbare, while a few appeared not to have suffered much oppression in the hands and private parts of their previous owners. It was apparent that the international businessman who imported such inglorious assortment had agents with prongs, long enough to dig deep into the deepest and fathermost refuse bins and dumps of Europe to be able to meet the demand back home.
It was apparent that the international businessman who imported such inglorious assortment had agents with prongs, long enough to dig deep into the deepest and fathermost refuse bins and dumps of Europe to be able to meet the demand back home. From the quotation above, it is apparent that the writer is being
  • A.metaphorical
  • B.categorical
  • C.Sarcastic
  • D.specific
Objective
Question 2
Read the passage and use it to answer questions 1 — 4. As we both fed our eyes wistfully at the used underwear section, Vivian noticed a heap of women's underwear, a mixture of braziers of various sizes and designs, panties, g-strings and tongs, underskirts, lingerie of different colours, all heaped and scattered on a big bedspread like a pile of rubbish. Some were quite ancient and threadbare, while a few appeared not to have suffered much oppression in the hands and private parts of their previous owners. It was apparent that the international businessman who imported such inglorious assortment had agents with prongs, long enough to dig deep into the deepest and fathermost refuse bins and dumps of Europe to be able to meet the demand back home.
We can infer from the passage above that
  • A.the effort of international businessmen was commended by the writer for their contribution to Nigeria's economy
  • B.the writer for their contribution to Nigerian government has not been doing enough to encourage importers of goods to remain in business and recoup money they have invested in their business
  • C.the writer makes comic comments on the porous Nigeria borders through — which contraband goods are imported into the country
  • D.the writer subtly castigates and derides the patronage of substandard goods that dots the Nigerian markets in the name of imported goods.
Objective
Question 3
Read the passage and use it to answer questions 1 — 4. As we both fed our eyes wistfully at the used underwear section, Vivian noticed a heap of women's underwear, a mixture of braziers of various sizes and designs, panties, g-strings and tongs, underskirts, lingerie of different colours, all heaped and scattered on a big bedspread like a pile of rubbish. Some were quite ancient and threadbare, while a few appeared not to have suffered much oppression in the hands and private parts of their previous owners. It was apparent that the international businessman who imported such inglorious assortment had agents with prongs, long enough to dig deep into the deepest and fathermost refuse bins and dumps of Europe to be able to meet the demand back home.
'... all heaped and scattered on a big bedspread like a pile of rubbish' The figure of speech used in that quotation is
  • A.metaphor
  • B.Simile
  • C.hyperbole
  • D.pun
Objective
Question 4
Read the passage and use it to answer questions 1 — 4. As we both fed our eyes wistfully at the used underwear section, Vivian noticed a heap of women's underwear, a mixture of braziers of various sizes and designs, panties, g-strings and tongs, underskirts, lingerie of different colours, all heaped and scattered on a big bedspread like a pile of rubbish. Some were quite ancient and threadbare, while a few appeared not to have suffered much oppression in the hands and private parts of their previous owners. It was apparent that the international businessman who imported such inglorious assortment had agents with prongs, long enough to dig deep into the deepest and fathermost refuse bins and dumps of Europe to be able to meet the demand back home.
Another word that means the same as the word `threadbare'
  • A.worn-out
  • B.dirty
  • C.expensive
  • D.cheap
Objective
Question 5
Fill out the gaps in the passage below with the correct option from the list provided in brackets in front of the gaps.

.....5...... is specialized language that appears in a non-specialized context, this giving a .....6..... flavor to statements that would be better ......7..... in everyday words. When you are writing a .....8..... in, say, economics, anthropology, or psychology, you can and should use terms that are meaningful within the ....9..... cash flow, kinship structure, paranoid, and so forth. But those same terms become jargon when used out of ....10....
  • A.Jargon
  • B.Vernacular
  • C.Dialects
  • D.Wazobia
Objective
Question 6
Fill out the gaps in the passage below with the correct option from the list provided in brackets in front of the gaps.

.....5...... is specialized language that appears in a non-specialized context, this giving a .....6..... flavor to statements that would be better ......7..... in everyday words. When you are writing a .....8..... in, say, economics, anthropology, or psychology, you can and should use terms that are meaningful within the ....9..... cash flow, kinship structure, paranoid, and so forth. But those same terms become jargon when used out of ....10....
  • A.Generalized
  • B.Technical
  • C.Restricted
  • D.Straightforward
Objective
Question 7
Fill out the gaps in the passage below with the correct option from the list provided in brackets in front of the gaps.

.....5...... is specialized language that appears in a non-specialized context, this giving a .....6..... flavor to statements that would be better ......7..... in everyday words. When you are writing a .....8..... in, say, economics, anthropology, or psychology, you can and should use terms that are meaningful within the ....9..... cash flow, kinship structure, paranoid, and so forth. But those same terms become jargon when used out of ....10....
  • A.Addressed
  • B.Written
  • C.Expressed
  • D.Spoken
Objective
Question 8
Fill out the gaps in the passage below with the correct option from the list provided in brackets in front of the gaps.

.....5...... is specialized language that appears in a non-specialized context, this giving a .....6..... flavor to statements that would be better ......7..... in everyday words. When you are writing a .....8..... in, say, economics, anthropology, or psychology, you can and should use terms that are meaningful within the ....9..... cash flow, kinship structure, paranoid, and so forth. But those same terms become jargon when used out of ....10....
  • A.Paper
  • B.Document
  • C.treatise
  • D.Pamphlet
Objective
Question 9
Fill out the gaps in the passage below with the correct option from the list provided in brackets in front of the gaps.

.....5...... is specialized language that appears in a non-specialized context, this giving a .....6..... flavor to statements that would be better ......7..... in everyday words. When you are writing a .....8..... in, say, economics, anthropology, or psychology, you can and should use terms that are meaningful within the ....9..... cash flow, kinship structure, paranoid, and so forth. But those same terms become jargon when used out of ....10....
  • A.Pool
  • B.Conundrum
  • C.register
  • D.Field
Objective
Question 10
Fill out the gaps in the passage below with the correct option from the list provided in brackets in front of the gaps.

.....5...... is specialized language that appears in a non-specialized context, this giving a .....6..... flavor to statements that would be better ......7..... in everyday words. When you are writing a .....8..... in, say, economics, anthropology, or psychology, you can and should use terms that are meaningful within the ....9..... cash flow, kinship structure, paranoid, and so forth. But those same terms become jargon when used out of ....10....
  • A.place
  • B.Meaning
  • C.Contest
  • D.Context
Objective