UNIPORT English Language 2018/2019 Past Questions

```The approach to the University is being restructured to ease the flow of traffic, give better security and provide and appropriate introduction to a seat of higher learning. The works and services complex is also under construction, and we intend to move in to the completed (major) part of it within the next few weeks.
All these projects are being executed with an eye to aesthetics for us to recognize the important influence of a beautiful and healthy environment on its inhabitants and feel the cluster of building on a small space such as we have, should be so well designed as to have beneficial psychological and sociological effect on all members of the community. I have gone to these lengths to itemize these examples of current development for two main reasons. Firstly, to advise you that the road diversion and other physical inconveniences currently being experienced will be on the increase because of the intense development activity. We therefore appeal to you to bear with its in full knowledge and consolation that such inconveniences are temporary and will soon yield final tangible results. Secondly, demonstrate our capacity for executing approved projects with dispatch, and to assure Government that we are up to the task. Indeed, I can assure Government that its ability to disburse funds on us will be more than matched by our capacity to collect and expand them on executing various worthy projects in record time.```

From the passage, we can gather that

```The approach to the University is being restructured to ease the flow of traffic, give better security and provide and appropriate introduction to a seat of higher learning. The works and services complex is also under construction, and we intend to move in to the completed (major) part of it within the next few weeks.
All these projects are being executed with an eye to aesthetics for us to recognize the important influence of a beautiful and healthy environment on its inhabitants and feel the cluster of building on a small space such as we have, should be so well designed as to have beneficial psychological and sociological effect on all members of the community. I have gone to these lengths to itemize these examples of current development for two main reasons. Firstly, to advise you that the road diversion and other physical inconveniences currently being experienced will be on the increase because of the intense development activity. We therefore appeal to you to bear with its in full knowledge and consolation that such inconveniences are temporary and will soon yield final tangible results. Secondly, demonstrate our capacity for executing approved projects with dispatch, and to assure Government that we are up to the task. Indeed, I can assure Government that its ability to disburse funds on us will be more than matched by our capacity to collect and expand them on executing various worthy projects in record time.```

Unless it can be shown that the money voted for projects can be spent on them in good time.

```The approach to the University is being restructured to ease the flow of traffic, give better security and provide and appropriate introduction to a seat of higher learning. The works and services complex is also under construction, and we intend to move in to the completed (major) part of it within the next few weeks.
All these projects are being executed with an eye to aesthetics for us to recognize the important influence of a beautiful and healthy environment on its inhabitants and feel the cluster of building on a small space such as we have, should be so well designed as to have beneficial psychological and sociological effect on all members of the community. I have gone to these lengths to itemize these examples of current development for two main reasons. Firstly, to advise you that the road diversion and other physical inconveniences currently being experienced will be on the increase because of the intense development activity. We therefore appeal to you to bear with its in full knowledge and consolation that such inconveniences are temporary and will soon yield final tangible results. Secondly, demonstrate our capacity for executing approved projects with dispatch, and to assure Government that we are up to the task. Indeed, I can assure Government that its ability to disburse funds on us will be more than matched by our capacity to collect and expand them on executing various worthy projects in record time.```

An eye to aesthetics in the passage means.

```The approach to the University is being restructured to ease the flow of traffic, give better security and provide and appropriate introduction to a seat of higher learning. The works and services complex is also under construction, and we intend to move in to the completed (major) part of it within the next few weeks.
All these projects are being executed with an eye to aesthetics for us to recognize the important influence of a beautiful and healthy environment on its inhabitants and feel the cluster of building on a small space such as we have, should be so well designed as to have beneficial psychological and sociological effect on all members of the community. I have gone to these lengths to itemize these examples of current development for two main reasons. Firstly, to advise you that the road diversion and other physical inconveniences currently being experienced will be on the increase because of the intense development activity. We therefore appeal to you to bear with its in full knowledge and consolation that such inconveniences are temporary and will soon yield final tangible results. Secondly, demonstrate our capacity for executing approved projects with dispatch, and to assure Government that we are up to the task. Indeed, I can assure Government that its ability to disburse funds on us will be more than matched by our capacity to collect and expand them on executing various worthy projects in record time.```

In this passage, the author tries to explain why.

```The approach to the University is being restructured to ease the flow of traffic, give better security and provide and appropriate introduction to a seat of higher learning. The works and services complex is also under construction, and we intend to move in to the completed (major) part of it within the next few weeks.
All these projects are being executed with an eye to aesthetics for us to recognize the important influence of a beautiful and healthy environment on its inhabitants and feel the cluster of building on a small space such as we have, should be so well designed as to have beneficial psychological and sociological effect on all members of the community. I have gone to these lengths to itemize these examples of current development for two main reasons. Firstly, to advise you that the road diversion and other physical inconveniences currently being experienced will be on the increase because of the intense development activity. We therefore appeal to you to bear with its in full knowledge and consolation that such inconveniences are temporary and will soon yield final tangible results. Secondly, demonstrate our capacity for executing approved projects with dispatch, and to assure Government that we are up to the task. Indeed, I can assure Government that its ability to disburse funds on us will be more than matched by our capacity to collect and expand them on executing various worthy projects in record time.```

Which is NOT among the reasons given by the author for enumerating the examples of current development?

```From the list of words lettered A to D choose the one that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentence:```
While the first battalion halted its march at nightfall, the second.......to the barracks

```From the list of words lettered A to D choose the one that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentence:```
His father is an .......... driver but he is only a novice