[center]JAMB 1983 Use of English
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[center]COMPREHENSION[/center]

Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

The approach to the University is being restructured
to ease the flow of traffic, give better security and provide an
appropriate introduction to a seat of higher learning. The Works
and Services Complex is also under construction , and we intend
to move into the completed {major}part of it within the next few
weeks.

All these projects are being executed with an eye to
aesthetics, for we recognize the important influence of a beautiful
and healthy environment on its inhabitants and feel that a cluster
of buildings on a small space such as we have , should be so
well designed as to have a 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 reason. Firstly , to advise you
that the road diversions and other physical inconveniences
currently being experienced will be on the increase because of
intense development activity. We therefore appeal to you to
bear with us in full knowledge and consolation that such
inconveniences are temporary and will soon yield final tangible
results. Secondly, to 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 to us will be more than matched by
our capacity to collect and expend them on executing various
worthy projects in record time.

1. From the passage we can gather that

A. there is not much consideration for the health of
the inhabitants.
B. there is deliberate effort to inconvenience the
people
C. buildings are put up anyhow
D. projects are carried out without approval
E. the inconveniences suffered by the inhabitants
will be for a while.

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

A. the development activity will not be intense.
B. it will not be easy to convince the Government of
our executive ability
C. it will not be difficult to ask Government for funds
D. our final results will be unreliable.
E. the road diversions and other inconveniences
will continue.

3. An eye to aesthetics in this passage means

A. regard for space. B. beneficial psychological effects
C. regard for health D. consideration for beauty
E. a cluster of buildings.

4. In this passage the author tries to explain why

A. it is necessary to establish the Works and Services
Complex in the University.
B. beauty should not be taken into consideration when
building on such a small space as we have
C. the gateway to the university is being rebuilt
D. major part of the project should be completed in the
next few weeks.
E. visitors should be debarred from using the gates in
the meantime.

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

A. to show that we are capable of executing approved
projects.
B. to convince the Government that we can be trusted
with task.
C. the inconvenience currently being experienced will
go on indefinitely.
D. we are fully aware of the inconveniences being caused
but we do not want you to complain.
E. we have the capacity to complete worthy projects
within the scheduled time.


II
Is work for prisoners a privilege to save them from the
demoralizing effects and misery of endless unoccupied hours?
Is it something added to a prison sentence to make it harder and
more unpleasant, or something, which should have a positive
value as part of a system of rehabilitation?
Those magistrates who clung to sentences of hard labour
doubtless looked upon strenuous work as an additional
punishment. This point of view is widely accepted as right and
proper, but it ignores the fact that unwillingness to work is often
one of the immediate causes of criminality. To send prisoners
back to the outside world, more than ever convinced that labour
is an evil to be avoided, is to confirm them in their old way of
life.

It has been said that the purpose of prison work in a
programme of rehabilitation is twofold: training for work and
training by work. The prisoner, that is to say, needs to be trained
in habits of industry; but over and above this, he will gain
immeasurably if it is possible to rouse in him the consciousness
of self-mastery and of purpose that the completion of any
worthwhile piece of work can give to the doer. He may find a
pride of achievement in something more satisfying, and more
socially desirable, than crime. But these things can only come
when the work itself has a purpose and demands an effort.

6. According to the author, some magistrates sentence
prisoners to hard labour because.

A. some prisoners are unwilling to work.
B. work is a privilege
C. prisoners need to learn a trade
D. it is an additional punishment
E. it is a means of rehabilitation.

7. Which of these is NOT the purpose of work in a programme
of rehabilitation?

A. training the prisoners to have satisfaction in work.
B. developing in them a pride in a sense of achievement.
C. developing in them more satisfaction in work than in crime.
D. helping them to accelerate their reform and discharge.
E. training them for work and by work.

8. The author thinks that strenuous work in prison.

A. is a privilege for the prisoners
B. may do more harm than good
C. is part of their punishment
D. is a right and proper thing
E. should be an additional punishment.

9. What the author is trying to put across in this passage is that

A. crime does not pay
B. prisoners should be made to work hard
C. work is more desirable than crime
D. life in prison is one of misery.
E. work in prison without a purpose is bad.

10. Demoralizing in this passage means

A. deforming B. reforming C. agonizing
D. destructive E. corrupting.


III
The Save the Children Fund (SCF) was first started in
London on 19th May, 1919 by an English woman --- named Miss
Jebb. It is now a worldwide organization, dedicated to helping
needy children everywhere. The SCF of Malawi was formed in
1953, under the patronage of His Excellency the Life President
Ngawazi Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda.
‘Our job in Malawi is to give those unfortunate children
the rights that they are deprived of through no fault of theirs.
These are internationally recognized as the ten rights of children
and include protection, care, food and accommodation, and
relief’, a spokesman for the Fund explained.
One of those who benefited from the help of the Fund is
Samuel Mpetechula, a graduate of Chancellor. His sponsorship
started in 1967. The SCF of Malawi found him sponsors. They
were Mr. and Mrs. Sutton of Australia who paid his school fees
and continued to help him financially throughout his University
education.
Mr. Mpetechula said, ‘They even built a house for me at
home and looked after my family while I was a student. They
were really helpful to me, and the thought that there were these
sponsors caring for me from thousands of kilometers away from
here was an encouragement for me to work hard at college’.
Another important function of the work of the SCF is in
the field of nutrition. With the help of the Australian Government,
the SCF established two nutrition rehabilitation centers for
children; one at Mpemba and another in Mulanje. ‘The object of
the centre’, explained Mr. Petre Chimbe, the Executive Secretary
of the Fund, ‘is to combat malnutrition in children, by giving
them the proper food.’

11. In Malawi, the ‘Save the Children Fund’ was formed

A by an English woman named Miss Jebb in 1919
B. in 1919 under the patronage of His Excellency the
Life President Ngawazi Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda
C. under the patronage of His Excellency the Life President
Ngawazi Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda in 1953
D. in 1953 by a group of social workers headed by Dr.
Mbagunda
E. none of the above.

12. The ‘Save the Children Fund’ in Malawi helps needy
children by

A. finding families which are willing to adopt the
children
B. finding sponsors for the children’s education and
by opening nutrition centers
C. giving loans and scholarships to students who
cannot afford to continue their education
D. running institutions which give free food
E. clothing and lodging poor children without parents.

13. Samuel Mpetechula was able to graduate from Chancellor
because

A. of the financial assistance given to him by his sponsors
B. his uncle paid his education fees.
C. he was able to win a scholarship to the university
D. the SCF subsidized his educational expenses
E. of the assistance given to him by the Australian
Government.
In questions 14 and 15 choose the meaning which best fits the
underlined phrases taken from the passage.

14. Combat malnutrition means

A. struggle against the easing of the wrong type of food
B. fight ill health caused by over-feeding
C. wipe out ignorance
D. fight to wipe out ill health caused by lack of food
E. fight against hunger.

15. Deprived of means

A. spared B. prevented from getting C. robbed of
D. unable to take. E. snatched from.


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