UNIBEN English Language 2020/2021 Past Questions

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The examiner said that the candidate's performance in the examination was not good enough.

After finishing the 800 metres race, he fell asleep from echaustion

Last night there was a very fierce rain storm

After warn, on our way to benin we passed through a dense forest

The footballers went back to their camp sullenly

When the soldiers saw that resistance was ........ they stopped fighting

You should read all the ..... carefully before you decide where to go on holiday.

The Emir and conqueror of the enemy territories

We ought to have visited the Governor.

He didn't sense Obi's presence in the room, did he?

The boss told the man to let sleeping dogs lie.

The fact that Ruth has inherited her late husband's house is cold comfort to her

The headmaster decided to make good his promise to the students.

The advertisement served as a smoke-screen for the activities of the company

My plans are still up in the air.

The judge always takes a hardline on such issues

The case was dismissed for want of evidence.

That team has become indomitable quite recently.

The flock suddenly became restive after midday.

Your reaction underscores the point I was making.

What he received from the visitor was invaluable

The potential resources of the university should be fully exploited.

The employer, not the salesman and his representative _______ responsible for the loss

In order to carry out necessary exaaminations, the dead body was _______

He went abroad with a view ______ a business partner

He had just entered the office _______ the telephone rang

My father cannot bear the _______ of the concoction that emanates from my mother's soup pot.

Many people see my father as a conservative person but at times he surprises them with this ......... stance on certain issues.

If a construct is not declared valid, it will be declared ..........

Balthasa is parochial while Bill is ........