OAU English Language 2021/2022 Past Questions

Read the following passage to answer questions 1 -5 Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he has committed a crime. Delinquency is one of several status offer offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by profession or a person's role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually they are offences only to the extent that they help to preserve some good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a word forge in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws goes to juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return. Delinquency would then certainly only too many of the adult actions now freely committed by them

Read the following passage to answer questions 1 -5 Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he has committed a crime. Delinquency is one of several status offer offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by profession or a person's role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually they are offences only to the extent that they help to preserve some good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a word forge in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws goes to juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return. Delinquency would then certainly only too many of the adult actions now freely committed by them

Read the following passage to answer questions 1 -5 Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he has committed a crime. Delinquency is one of several status offer offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by profession or a person's role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually they are offences only to the extent that they help to preserve some good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a word forge in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws goes to juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return. Delinquency would then certainly only too many of the adult actions now freely committed by them

Read the following passage to answer questions 1 -5 Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he has committed a crime. Delinquency is one of several status offer offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by profession or a person's role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually they are offences only to the extent that they help to preserve some good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a word forge in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws goes to juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return. Delinquency would then certainly only too many of the adult actions now freely committed by them

Read the following passage to answer questions 1 -5 Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he has committed a crime. Delinquency is one of several status offer offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by profession or a person's role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually they are offences only to the extent that they help to preserve some good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a word forge in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws goes to juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return. Delinquency would then certainly only too many of the adult actions now freely committed by them

Choose the option that most appropriately expresses the idea in the underlined expression.

Choose from the options A-D the word or phrase that is nearest in meaning to the word underlined

Choose the most appropriate option from a — d to complete the gaps in the following sentences.