UNN English Language 2015/2016 Past Questions

```In Questions 1 - 3 choose the option NEAREST IN MEANING to the word in italics.```
Ugo has often been describe as belligerent.

```In Questions 1 - 3 choose the option NEAREST IN MEANING to the word in italics.```
Mohammed does his work with so much ardour.

```In Questions 1 - 3 choose the option NEAREST IN MEANING to the word in italics.```
The policy has been espoused by the ruling party.

```In each of questions 4 to 5, fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.```
```In each of questions 4 to 5, fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.```
I am sure that my mother will not find out. She is so .... that she will accept anything I tell her.

```In each of questions 4 to 5, fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.```
My father told me to take the money from ..... it.

```Reference Text: Read the passage below carefully and answer the question that follows.

One day, Alan, a friend of mine, who likes country life, was fishing in a river, when he caught a trout. He tried to pull the fish in but it slipped off the hoo, flew over his head and landed in a field behind him.

Alan put down his rod, went through the gate and started searching for his trout. Some people, obviously fro the city, were having a picnic in the field. One of them shouted "What on earth are you doing?" Thinking it was a stupid question because they could see how he was dressed, Alan replied 'Fishing'.

'Don't be silly, the fish are down in the river', answered the man. 'Fish don't live in fields!' He turned to his friends, laughing, thinking that he had made a good joke.

"Oh, but they do", said Alan. 'They jump out of the river to look for flies and I catch tem with my hands. 'At that moment he found his trout in the grass and picked it up and showed it ot the picnickers. He put it in his basket and bent down, as if he was hunting for another one. The picnickers, no longer laughing, spent the rest of the day searching the field.```
The picnickers were

```In each of questions 7 to 8, select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence.```
The convict said he was tired of leading a dog's life. To lead a dog's life means to live

```In each of questions 7 to 8, select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence.```
The president stood his ground because the Committee members would not be persuaded to arrive at a compromise on the issue being debated.

```In questions 9 and 10, select the word OPPOSITE IN MEANING to that underlined.```
The plebs can be found in every society of the world.

```In questions 9 and 10, select the word OPPOSITE IN MEANING to that underlined.```
Oche entered the principal's office in a rather abrasive manner.

```Reference text: Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follows.

In 1973, a Japanese sericulturist arrived in Malawi with a bunch of 40,000 silkworm eggs. They were taken to the Bvumbwe Agricultural Research Station in Thyolo District. In this station, work is being done to determine favourable silkworm rearing conditions and areas where mulberry trees, whose leaves the worms feed on, could grow well. According to researchers, the silkworms which eventually develop into cocoons from which raw silk is produced do well in areas with warm climatic conditions.

Silk is one of the strongest of fibres. In fact, for thousand of years, silk fabrics have been regarded as the most beautiful and durable materials woven by man. Many people call silk the 'cloth of kings and queens'.

The weaving of silk originated in China. An old Chinese book, believed to be written by Confucius, tells us that the wife of Emperor Huang-ti was the first person to make fabrics of silk. Around 1640 B.C., Emperor Huang-ti asked his wife Hsi Ling-shih to study the worms that were destroying the mulberry trees in his garden. The Empress took some of the cocoons into the palace to see what they were made of. She dopped one of the cocoons into a bowl of boiling water and was amazed to see a cobweb-like tangle separate itself from the cocoon. She picked up the gauzy mass and found that one of the threads could be unwound almost without end from the cocoon. Hsi Ling-shih had discovered silk. She was delighted with the discovery and even wove a ceremonial robe for the Emperor out of cocoon threads. After that, the officials in the Emperor's court wore brightly dyed silk robes on important occassions.

People in other countries regarded the new fibres as something rare and beautiful. A few traders went to China to learn about making cloth from silk, but the Chinese kept their silk worm a closely guarded secret. ```
It is implied in the passage that silk was discovered

```Question 12 is based on Jerry Agada's The Successors.```
What did Terkura Asten do with the remaining money chief Ofege gave to him? He

```In question 13, choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.```
Vision

```In the following question, choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.```
information

```In question 15, the word in capital letters has an emphatic stress. Choose the option that best fits the expression in the sentence.```
The traditional chief NARRATED the story to the children