UNIPORT English Language 2007/2008 Past Questions

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Question 1
```Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Although they have been largely rewritten. I have kept a good deal of their original lecture - form as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. for to dogmatism, those written on language seem. for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my own views strongly. I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion. In addition, I have included a good specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on style without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology without abundant illustrations. Many of these passages are in French. That may be Gallomania on my part; and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some ability to read French prose does seem to me most desirable for anyone who would write well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular ```
According to the author (in this preface) the book is
  • A.the original version of his Cambridge lectures
  • B.a revised version of his Cambridge lectures
  • C.an imitation of his Cambridge lectures
  • D.a negation of his Cambridge lectures
  • E.an authentic version of his Cambridge lectures
Objective
Question 2
```Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Although they have been largely rewritten. I have kept a good deal of their original lecture - form as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. for to dogmatism, those written on language seem. for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my own views strongly. I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion. In addition, I have included a good specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on style without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology without abundant illustrations. Many of these passages are in French. That may be Gallomania on my part; and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some ability to read French prose does seem to me most desirable for anyone who would write well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular ```
The author says that writers on language are
  • A.inclined to be dogmatic
  • B.opposed to dogmatism
  • C.unlikely to be dogmatic
  • D.resolved to be dogmatic
  • E.ready to be dogmatic
Objective
Question 3
```Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Although they have been largely rewritten. I have kept a good deal of their original lecture - form as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. for to dogmatism, those written on language seem. for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my own views strongly. I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion. In addition, I have included a good specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on style without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology without abundant illustrations. Many of these passages are in French. That may be Gallomania on my part; and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some ability to read French prose does seem to me most desirable for anyone who would write well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular ```
In the author's opinion a book on style
  • A.can do with few examples
  • B.need not have any examples
  • C.is a book on art
  • D.will be ineffectual with many examples
  • E.will be ineffectual with insufficient examples
Objective
Question 4
```Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Although they have been largely rewritten. I have kept a good deal of their original lecture - form as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. for to dogmatism, those written on language seem. for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my own views strongly. I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion. In addition, I have included a good specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on style without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology without abundant illustrations. Many of these passages are in French. That may be Gallomania on my part; and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some ability to read French prose does seem to me most desirable for anyone who would write well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular ```
To write English well the author says, it is helpful to
  • A.be able to write French fairly well
  • B.be able to read french fairly well
  • C.know French thoroughly
  • D.be able to read English well
  • E.do all of the above
Objective
Question 5
```Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Although they have been largely rewritten. I have kept a good deal of their original lecture - form as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. for to dogmatism, those written on language seem. for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my own views strongly. I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion. In addition, I have included a good specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on style without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology without abundant illustrations. Many of these passages are in French. That may be Gallomania on my part; and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some ability to read French prose does seem to me most desirable for anyone who would write well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular ```
Our understanding of the last sentences in the passage is that we
  • A.can now afford to be insular
  • B.can be insular in future
  • C.cannot afford to be insular
  • D.must never be insular
  • E.must now be more insular
Objective
Question 6
```The passage below has gaps numbered 6 - 16.```
Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks
Two third of children in (6)........societies no longer have family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. Third (7)........from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The (8)........ in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and (9)........among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has (10)........for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children of this age are (11)........This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mothers body a bond (12)........that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and from is (13)........of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's (14)........its mother's body. It reminds the child of the (15)........pressure of the uterus, and enables it to (16)........
  • A.industrialized
  • B.socialized
  • C.technological
  • D.modernized
Objective
Question 7
```The passage below has gaps numbered 6 - 16.```
Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks
Two third of children in (6)........societies no longer have family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. Third (7)........from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The (8)........ in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and (9)........among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has (10)........for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children of this age are (11)........This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mothers body a bond (12)........that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and from is (13)........of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's (14)........its mother's body. It reminds the child of the (15)........pressure of the uterus, and enables it to (16)........
  • A.disregard
  • B.indifference
  • C.alienation
  • D.inattention
Objective
Question 8
```The passage below has gaps numbered 6 - 16.```
Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks
Two third of children in (6)........societies no longer have family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. Third (7)........from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The (8)........ in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and (9)........among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has (10)........for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children of this age are (11)........This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mothers body a bond (12)........that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and from is (13)........of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's (14)........its mother's body. It reminds the child of the (15)........pressure of the uterus, and enables it to (16)........
  • A.development
  • B.increase
  • C.appreciation
  • D.inflation
Objective
Question 9
```The passage below has gaps numbered 6 - 16.```
Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks
Two third of children in (6)........societies no longer have family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. Third (7)........from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The (8)........ in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and (9)........among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has (10)........for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children of this age are (11)........This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mothers body a bond (12)........that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and from is (13)........of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's (14)........its mother's body. It reminds the child of the (15)........pressure of the uterus, and enables it to (16)........
  • A.delinquency
  • B.irresponsibility
  • C.Satanism
  • D.truancy
Objective
Question 10
```The passage below has gaps numbered 6 - 16.```
Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks
Two third of children in (6)........societies no longer have family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. Third (7)........from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The (8)........ in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and (9)........among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has (10)........for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children of this age are (11)........This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mothers body a bond (12)........that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and from is (13)........of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's (14)........its mother's body. It reminds the child of the (15)........pressure of the uterus, and enables it to (16)........
  • A.materialized
  • B.occurred
  • C.surfaced
  • D.elapsed
Objective
Question 11
```The passage below has gaps numbered 6 - 16.```
Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks
Two third of children in (6)........societies no longer have family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. Third (7)........from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The (8)........ in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and (9)........among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has (10)........for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children of this age are (11)........This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mothers body a bond (12)........that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and from is (13)........of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's (14)........its mother's body. It reminds the child of the (15)........pressure of the uterus, and enables it to (16)........
  • A.tantalized with
  • B.denied of
  • C.left with
  • D.spread of
Objective
Question 12
```The passage below has gaps numbered 6 - 16.```
Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks
Two third of children in (6)........societies no longer have family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. Third (7)........from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The (8)........ in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and (9)........among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has (10)........for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children of this age are (11)........This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mothers body a bond (12)........that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and from is (13)........of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's (14)........its mother's body. It reminds the child of the (15)........pressure of the uterus, and enables it to (16)........
  • A.close to
  • B.the same as
  • C.unrelated to
  • D.irrelevant to
Objective
Question 13
```The passage below has gaps numbered 6 - 16.```
Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks
Two third of children in (6)........societies no longer have family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. Third (7)........from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The (8)........ in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and (9)........among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has (10)........for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children of this age are (11)........This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mothers body a bond (12)........that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and from is (13)........of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's (14)........its mother's body. It reminds the child of the (15)........pressure of the uterus, and enables it to (16)........
  • A.elongation
  • B.a demonstration
  • C.a continuation
  • D.stretching
Objective
Question 14
```The passage below has gaps numbered 6 - 16.```
Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks
Two third of children in (6)........societies no longer have family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. Third (7)........from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The (8)........ in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and (9)........among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has (10)........for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children of this age are (11)........This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mothers body a bond (12)........that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and from is (13)........of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's (14)........its mother's body. It reminds the child of the (15)........pressure of the uterus, and enables it to (16)........
  • A.squeezing against
  • B.separation from
  • C.likeness for
  • D.pressure against
Objective
Question 15
```The passage below has gaps numbered 6 - 16.```
Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks
Two third of children in (6)........societies no longer have family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. Third (7)........from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The (8)........ in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and (9)........among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has (10)........for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children of this age are (11)........This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mothers body a bond (12)........that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and from is (13)........of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's (14)........its mother's body. It reminds the child of the (15)........pressure of the uterus, and enables it to (16)........
  • A.reassuring
  • B.uncomfortable
  • C.amusing
  • D.unpleasant
Objective
Question 16
```The passage below has gaps numbered 6 - 16.```
Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks
Two third of children in (6)........societies no longer have family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. Third (7)........from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The (8)........ in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and (9)........among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has (10)........for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children of this age are (11)........This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mothers body a bond (12)........that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and from is (13)........of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's (14)........its mother's body. It reminds the child of the (15)........pressure of the uterus, and enables it to (16)........
  • A.unearth
  • B.rediscover
  • C.learn
  • D.explore
Objective