JAMB UTME - Use of English - 1978

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He spoke with his heart in his mouth

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He did not like .... leaving the class early

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He stared at her

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Before the operation, the dentist found that his patient's teeth....

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There is some obvious symmetry  in the whole presentation

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The leader in today's issue of our popular newspaper focuses on inflation

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In the match against the uplanders team, the sub mariners turned out to be the dark horse

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Our plane was scheduled to .... at 10.00 hrs but it was delayed because of the bad weather

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Only the small fry get punished for such social misdemeanors

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All over the world till lately, and in most of the world still today, mankind has been following the course of nature, that is to say, it has been breeding up to the maximum. To let nature take her extravagant course in the reproduction of the human race may have made sense in an age in which we were also letting her take her course in decimating mankind by the casualties of war, pestilence and famine. Being human, we have at last revolted against that senseless waste. We started to impose on nature’s heartless play a humane new order of our own. But, when once man has begun to interfere with nature, he cannot afford to stop half way. We cannot, with impunity, cut down the death-rate and at the same time allow the birth-rate to go on taking nature’s course. we must consciously try to establish an equilibrium or, sooner or later, famine will stalk abroad again

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When the beggar was tired he ..... down by the roadside

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All over the world till lately, and in most of the world still today, mankind has been following the course of nature, that is to say, it has been breeding up to the maximum. To let nature take her extravagant course in the reproduction of the human race may have made sense in an age in which we were also letting her take her course in decimating mankind by the casualties of war, pestilence and famine. Being human, we have at last revolted against that senseless waste. We started to impose on nature’s heartless play a humane new order of our own. But, when once man has begun to interfere with nature, he cannot afford to stop half way. We cannot, with impunity, cut down the death-rate and at the same time allow the birth-rate to go on taking nature’s course. we must consciously try to establish an equilibrium or, sooner or later, famine will stalk abroad again

'humane' as used in the passage means

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My father cannot bear the .... of the concoction that emanates from my mothers soup pot

If my father had not arrived, I would have starved. This sentence means

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All his plans fell through

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He was appointed specifically to put the recruits through

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Mrs. Dada has been deserted by her husband because he feels she has a heart of stone