UNIBEN English Language 2012/2013 Past Questions

Read the passage below
there can be no doubt that to educate a child is a language which is not that of either of his parents tends to alienate him from his parents; to educate him in a language which is not one of the indigenous languages of the country tends to alienate him from the culture of the country. if he grows up with one language for the school-room he may well develop a kind of dual personality, one side of which is being developed by the ideas which he encounters and the training he receives in school is sealed of in a kind polythene bag from the side which makes the everyday social, cultural and moral decisions. in such a situation very often the child whom would respond creatively to his own saturation does not do so well at school as the clever parrot. education through the medium of foreign languages may encourage a kind of opportunism which is not prepared to give back an unselfish service to the community. teachers in all the English medium universities and colleges which have been started or developed in the newly independent parts of the British commonwealth have had to contend with their problem, and from the main force of the argument for education in the vernacular derives. now answer the following questions.

Read the passage below
there can be no doubt that to educate a child is a language which is not that of either of his parents tends to alienate him from his parents; to educate him in a language which is not one of the indigenous languages of the country tends to alienate him from the culture of the country. if he grows up with one language for the school-room he may well develop a kind of dual personality, one side of which is being developed by the ideas which he encounters and the training he receives in school is sealed of in a kind polythene bag from the side which makes the everyday social, cultural and moral decisions. in such a situation very often the child whom would respond creatively to his own saturation does not do so well at school as the clever parrot. education through the medium of foreign languages may encourage a kind of opportunism which is not prepared to give back an unselfish service to the community. teachers in all the English medium universities and colleges which have been started or developed in the newly independent parts of the British commonwealth have had to contend with their problem, and from the main force of the argument for education in the vernacular derives. now answer the following questions.

Read the passage below
there can be no doubt that to educate a child is a language which is not that of either of his parents tends to alienate him from his parents; to educate him in a language which is not one of the indigenous languages of the country tends to alienate him from the culture of the country. if he grows up with one language for the school-room he may well develop a kind of dual personality, one side of which is being developed by the ideas which he encounters and the training he receives in school is sealed of in a kind polythene bag from the side which makes the everyday social, cultural and moral decisions. in such a situation very often the child whom would respond creatively to his own saturation does not do so well at school as the clever parrot. education through the medium of foreign languages may encourage a kind of opportunism which is not prepared to give back an unselfish service to the community. teachers in all the English medium universities and colleges which have been started or developed in the newly independent parts of the British commonwealth have had to contend with their problem, and from the main force of the argument for education in the vernacular derives. now answer the following questions.

Read the passage below
there can be no doubt that to educate a child is a language which is not that of either of his parents tends to alienate him from his parents; to educate him in a language which is not one of the indigenous languages of the country tends to alienate him from the culture of the country. if he grows up with one language for the school-room he may well develop a kind of dual personality, one side of which is being developed by the ideas which he encounters and the training he receives in school is sealed of in a kind polythene bag from the side which makes the everyday social, cultural and moral decisions. in such a situation very often the child whom would respond creatively to his own saturation does not do so well at school as the clever parrot. education through the medium of foreign languages may encourage a kind of opportunism which is not prepared to give back an unselfish service to the community. teachers in all the English medium universities and colleges which have been started or developed in the newly independent parts of the British commonwealth have had to contend with their problem, and from the main force of the argument for education in the vernacular derives. now answer the following questions.

Read the passage below
there can be no doubt that to educate a child is a language which is not that of either of his parents tends to alienate him from his parents; to educate him in a language which is not one of the indigenous languages of the country tends to alienate him from the culture of the country. if he grows up with one language for the school-room he may well develop a kind of dual personality, one side of which is being developed by the ideas which he encounters and the training he receives in school is sealed of in a kind polythene bag from the side which makes the everyday social, cultural and moral decisions. in such a situation very often the child whom would respond creatively to his own saturation does not do so well at school as the clever parrot. education through the medium of foreign languages may encourage a kind of opportunism which is not prepared to give back an unselfish service to the community. teachers in all the English medium universities and colleges which have been started or developed in the newly independent parts of the British commonwealth have had to contend with their problem, and from the main force of the argument for education in the vernacular derives. now answer the following questions.

In questions following, choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence

In questions following, choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence

In questions following, choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence

In questions following, choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence

In questions following, choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence

In questions following, choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence

From the words lettered A to D below choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentence.

From the words lettered A to D below choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentence.

From the words lettered A to D below choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentence.

From the words lettered A to D below choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentence.

From the words lettered A to D below choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentence.

From the words lettered A to D below choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentence.

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Select the best option (fromA-D) to complete each of the following sentences

Choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one underlined in the given word

Choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one underlined in the given word

Choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one underlined in the given word

Choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one underlined in the given word

Choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one underlined in the given word

Read this passage and answer the questions that follow
Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. his discovery that the firebrand, from which the torch may well developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving flame. lamps, too, probably developed by accident. early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. all he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. such lamps, which were made of hollowed stones or sea shells, have persisted in identical from up to quite recent times.

Read this passage and answer the questions that follow
Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. his discovery that the firebrand, from which the torch may well developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving flame. lamps, too, probably developed by accident. early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. all he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. such lamps, which were made of hollowed stones or sea shells, have persisted in identical from up to quite recent times.

Read this passage and answer the questions that follow
Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. his discovery that the firebrand, from which the torch may well developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving flame. lamps, too, probably developed by accident. early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. all he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. such lamps, which were made of hollowed stones or sea shells, have persisted in identical from up to quite recent times.

Read this passage and answer the questions that follow
Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. his discovery that the firebrand, from which the torch may well developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving flame. lamps, too, probably developed by accident. early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. all he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. such lamps, which were made of hollowed stones or sea shells, have persisted in identical from up to quite recent times.

Read this passage and answer the questions that follow
Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. his discovery that the firebrand, from which the torch may well developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving flame. lamps, too, probably developed by accident. early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. all he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. such lamps, which were made of hollowed stones or sea shells, have persisted in identical from up to quite recent times.