UNIBEN English Language 2006/2007 Past Questions

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Question 1
Read the passage 1 below carefully and answer the questions that follow
Farming is the most important aspect of agriculture that has attracted attention within the last few years. agriculture has several other aspects like fishery, livestock, and poultry. all these are very important in that they have to do with the production of items which human consume for survival. in many parts of the world today, farming has been regarded as the mainstay of the economy. crops such as cocoa, rubber and cotton have been produced in such commercial quantity that they are sold to other countries. some other countries have better comparative advantage in producing certain crops that other countries. in these countries, there is the need to spend a lot of money on agriculture, particularly farming. most framers use outmoded tools. A lot of them have no place to store their crops, most of which are always destroyed by insects and pests before harvest time. all these have adverse effects on productivity. The government can do a lot to help farmers. Farmers' co-operative societies can be encouraged and loans can be made available to farmers through government institutions like banks and finance corporations. farmers can be taught how to build good storage structures for their products. all these can help to improve the conditions of farming in these countries.
The most important aspect of agriculture mentioned in these passage is
  • A.poultry
  • B.fishery
  • C.livestock
  • D.farming
Objective
Question 2
Read the passage 1 below carefully and answer the questions that follow
Farming is the most important aspect of agriculture that has attracted attention within the last few years. agriculture has several other aspects like fishery, livestock, and poultry. all these are very important in that they have to do with the production of items which human consume for survival. in many parts of the world today, farming has been regarded as the mainstay of the economy. crops such as cocoa, rubber and cotton have been produced in such commercial quantity that they are sold to other countries. some other countries have better comparative advantage in producing certain crops that other countries. in these countries, there is the need to spend a lot of money on agriculture, particularly farming. most framers use outmoded tools. A lot of them have no place to store their crops, most of which are always destroyed by insects and pests before harvest time. all these have adverse effects on productivity. The government can do a lot to help farmers. Farmers' co-operative societies can be encouraged and loans can be made available to farmers through government institutions like banks and finance corporations. farmers can be taught how to build good storage structures for their products. all these can help to improve the conditions of farming in these countries.
Farming in many countries today is
  • A.an alternative to poultry
  • B.of great assistance to the economy
  • C.for those who are out of job
  • D.for the illiterates
Objective
Question 3
Read the passage 1 below carefully and answer the questions that follow
Farming is the most important aspect of agriculture that has attracted attention within the last few years. agriculture has several other aspects like fishery, livestock, and poultry. all these are very important in that they have to do with the production of items which human consume for survival. in many parts of the world today, farming has been regarded as the mainstay of the economy. crops such as cocoa, rubber and cotton have been produced in such commercial quantity that they are sold to other countries. some other countries have better comparative advantage in producing certain crops that other countries. in these countries, there is the need to spend a lot of money on agriculture, particularly farming. most framers use outmoded tools. A lot of them have no place to store their crops, most of which are always destroyed by insects and pests before harvest time. all these have adverse effects on productivity. The government can do a lot to help farmers. Farmers' co-operative societies can be encouraged and loans can be made available to farmers through government institutions like banks and finance corporations. farmers can be taught how to build good storage structures for their products. all these can help to improve the conditions of farming in these countries.
Some countries produce far more better crops than others because the farmers in the former
  • A.are more educated
  • B.have greater manpower
  • C.have more modern equipment
  • D.have more fertile land
Objective
Question 4
Read the passage 1 below carefully and answer the questions that follow
Farming is the most important aspect of agriculture that has attracted attention within the last few years. agriculture has several other aspects like fishery, livestock, and poultry. all these are very important in that they have to do with the production of items which human consume for survival. in many parts of the world today, farming has been regarded as the mainstay of the economy. crops such as cocoa, rubber and cotton have been produced in such commercial quantity that they are sold to other countries. some other countries have better comparative advantage in producing certain crops that other countries. in these countries, there is the need to spend a lot of money on agriculture, particularly farming. most framers use outmoded tools. A lot of them have no place to store their crops, most of which are always destroyed by insects and pests before harvest time. all these have adverse effects on productivity. The government can do a lot to help farmers. Farmers' co-operative societies can be encouraged and loans can be made available to farmers through government institutions like banks and finance corporations. farmers can be taught how to build good storage structures for their products. all these can help to improve the conditions of farming in these countries.
In other to help the state of the farming, the government should
  • A.give all farmers enough money to work with
  • B.sell enough fertilizers to all farmers
  • C.find a way of financing and modernizing the farming system
  • D.help farmers with the storage of their crops
Objective
Question 5
Read the passage 1 below carefully and answer the questions that follow
Farming is the most important aspect of agriculture that has attracted attention within the last few years. agriculture has several other aspects like fishery, livestock, and poultry. all these are very important in that they have to do with the production of items which human consume for survival. in many parts of the world today, farming has been regarded as the mainstay of the economy. crops such as cocoa, rubber and cotton have been produced in such commercial quantity that they are sold to other countries. some other countries have better comparative advantage in producing certain crops that other countries. in these countries, there is the need to spend a lot of money on agriculture, particularly farming. most framers use outmoded tools. A lot of them have no place to store their crops, most of which are always destroyed by insects and pests before harvest time. all these have adverse effects on productivity. The government can do a lot to help farmers. Farmers' co-operative societies can be encouraged and loans can be made available to farmers through government institutions like banks and finance corporations. farmers can be taught how to build good storage structures for their products. all these can help to improve the conditions of farming in these countries.
A lot of crops harvested are wasted because farmers
  • A.allow insects and pests to destroy their crops
  • B.do not have enough money to investing harvesters
  • C.do not have storage facilities
  • D.have too much at a time
Objective
Question 6
Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries 2 marks
Development in electronic science ha transformed the art of record keeping in the modern age.
Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's minds. It depended very much on the retentive memory of the human memory.
This was extremely dangerous as people either forget events wholly or in part, or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Interminable arguments where thus the order of the day.
Even writing, which replaced mental reading was not entirely free from those shortcomings as untruths could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however these dangers have been largely overcome.
Recordings on audio or video cassettes now only show not only what happened, but who did or said what including how and when.
The author believes that electronic recording is
  • A.superior only to mental recording
  • B.inferior to both mental recording and writing
  • C.superior to both mental recording and writing
  • D.inferior only to writing
Objective
Question 7
Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries 2 marks
Development in electronic science ha transformed the art of record keeping in the modern age.
Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's minds. It depended very much on the retentive memory of the human memory.
This was extremely dangerous as people either forget events wholly or in part, or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Interminable arguments where thus the order of the day.
Even writing, which replaced mental reading was not entirely free from those shortcomings as untruths could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however these dangers have been largely overcome.
Recordings on audio or video cassettes now only show not only what happened, but who did or said what including how and when.
The write believes that the art of record keeping has
  • A.improved over the years
  • B.endangered the art of writing
  • C.changed human memory
  • D.overcome all the problems facing human
Objective
Question 8
Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries 2 marks
Development in electronic science ha transformed the art of record keeping in the modern age.
Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's minds. It depended very much on the retentive memory of the human memory.
This was extremely dangerous as people either forget events wholly or in part, or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Interminable arguments where thus the order of the day.
Even writing, which replaced mental reading was not entirely free from those shortcomings as untruths could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however these dangers have been largely overcome.
Recordings on audio or video cassettes now only show not only what happened, but who did or said what including how and when.
How many stages of development did the writer mention while discussing the art of record keeping?
  • A.two
  • B.three
  • C.four
  • D.five
Objective
Question 9
Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries 2 marks
Development in electronic science ha transformed the art of record keeping in the modern age.
Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's minds. It depended very much on the retentive memory of the human memory.
This was extremely dangerous as people either forget events wholly or in part, or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Interminable arguments where thus the order of the day.
Even writing, which replaced mental reading was not entirely free from those shortcomings as untruths could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however these dangers have been largely overcome.
Recordings on audio or video cassettes now only show not only what happened, but who did or said what including how and when.
According to the author the human mind is unreliable because people
  • A.die and we forget what they said
  • B.forget events or tell lies
  • C.do not always know when events happened
  • D.do not know who did what and when
Objective
Question 10
Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries 2 marks
Development in electronic science ha transformed the art of record keeping in the modern age.
Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's minds. It depended very much on the retentive memory of the human memory.
This was extremely dangerous as people either forget events wholly or in part, or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Interminable arguments where thus the order of the day.
Even writing, which replaced mental reading was not entirely free from those shortcomings as untruths could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however these dangers have been largely overcome.
Recordings on audio or video cassettes now only show not only what happened, but who did or said what including how and when.
From the passage we gather that writing is almost
  • A.as unreliable as human memory
  • B.as reliable as electronic memory
  • C.more reliable than electronic memory
  • D.not to be compared to any other recording system
Objective