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Question 11

jamb 1980

it is said that differences in ways of bringing up children and educating them

Aachieve the same results

Bare reflected in the personalities , attitudes and achievements of thye individual

Cmake people aggressive

Dhave nothing to do with educational attainments

Eare a matter of the cultural background of the people

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Question 12

jamb 1980

in the passage, there is an attempt to explain that to ensure a totally healthy child

Ait is necessary to concentrate on the child's physical well-being alone

Bit is essential to reduce the high child mortality and morbidity rate

Cit is necessary to take care of other things in addition to the child's physical well-being

Dit is imprtant to keep to the rules of hygiene

Eit is necessary to copy foreign ways of bringing up children

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Question 13

jamb 1980

When other prophetic book where discredited, Ezekiel's book was accepted because

Athe people loved him

Bthe other prohpetic writers were not a original

Cthe critics were biased in their judgement

Dhe was a great prophet

Ehis work was convincingly documented

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Question 14

jamb 1980

By and large critics of Ezekiel and his work were

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read each passage and answer the question that follow
The great herald of things to come was Ezekiel, not only in the sense that he predicted the future, but also became in the manner and content of his prophetic ministry, he foreshadowed many of the important religious developments, which were characteristics of the age after the Exile.

He, rather than Ezra, was the founder of Judaism. He not only pointed forward; but as well shall see, he represented some of the great elements in Israel’s religious past.
The book which bears his name is outwardly impressive in its orderliness and symmetry and in the careful chronologic al arrangement of its contents. It purports to present the record of prophecies uttered in the Babylonian Exile between 593 and 571 B.C and for long this was not seriously questioned. Even when other prophetic books have been dissected and assigned to sundry authors and editors, this book continued to be regarded by most scholars as having come into its entirety from Ezekiel. Then came a period in which many extreme theories were advanced , assigning much of it to other hands or presupposing complicated processes of editorial revision, or dating the book to a period much later than the Babylonian Exile, or maintaining that Ezekiel’s ministry was not exercised in Babylonia but in Palestine, or at least was begun there. Such theories have been subjected to damaging criticism and are now somewhat discredited. The account of Ezekiel’s ministry and teaching is based on the view that he lived and worked among the exile in Babylonia, at the period indicated, and the bulk of the material in the book comes from him, though, like other prophetic collections, it owes much in its complication, arrangement and transmission to prophetic disciple

Asuccessful

Bungodly

Cunsuccessful

Djealous

Eangered by his acceptance

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Question 15

jamb 1980

in his work, Ezekiel

Awas friendly with Ezra

Bfounded Judaism in conhjuction with Ezra

Chad a large religious following

Dforged a link between the past and the future

Edemostrated that he was a man of God

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Question 16

jamb 1980

Ezekiel was a great herald of thing to come because

Ahe was a prophet

Bhe preached about events which were to characterized the period after the exile

CGod showed him what was going to happen after the exile

Dhe ran a prophetic ministry

EGod was with him

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Question 17

jamb 1980

Choose the correct word to fill the space in the following sentences:
He travelled to Jos .... train when he came last

Aby

Bin

Con

Dinside

Ethrough

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Question 18

jamb 1980

Choose the correct word to fill the space in the following sentences:
It is difficult these days to get a seat .... the plane in spite of a confirmed booking

Ainside

Bin

Con

Dupon

Einto

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Question 19

jamb 1980

Choose the correct word to fill the space in the following sentences:
There is a filling station .... the corner, to your right.

Aabout

Bby

Cfrom

Daround

Eto

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Question 20

jamb 1980

Choose the correct word to fill the space in the following sentences:
The elections .... the Senate were held in July

Ainto

Bof

Cfrom

Donto

Eon

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Question 21

jamb 1980

Choose the correct word to fill the space in the following sentences:
Every time you pay a bill you must insist .... being given a receipt

Ain

Bfrom

Con

Dby

Eonto

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Question 22

jamb 1980

Choose the correct word to fill the space in the following sentences:
The meeting starts .... two o'clock. Please be punctual

Aabout

Bin

Con

Dat

Earound

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Question 23

jamb 1980

Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:
As it holds true that, unless you train your body you cannot be an athlete, so also unless you train your .... you cannot be a ....

Akicking - footballer

Bvoice - choirmaster

Cmind - scholar

Dcourage - hero

Earms - swimmer

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Question 24

jamb 1980

Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:
It is very difficult to capture the subtle ..... of words when translated from one language to another

Aessence

Bdenotations

Cconnotations

Dinflexions

Einsults

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Question 25

jamb 1980

Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:
He must be a good student because he is a .... reader

Aromanesque

Bveracious

Cvoracious

Dmendacious

Esarcastic

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Question 26

jamb 1980

Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:
Legislators must be trained to .... the truth

Adisguise

Bdiscern

Cdigest

Ddisturb

Edistort

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Question 27

jamb 1980

Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:
Now that i realize the full extent of your ... i am afraid it will be impossible for me to ever trust you again

Adubiousness

Bcorruption

Cdeceptiveness

Dduplicity

Einconsistency

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Question 28

jamb 1980

Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:
Grace must be allergic .... smoke because any time she sits by someone who is smoking, she sneezes

Ato

Bfrom

Cfor

Dwith

Eby

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Question 29

jamb 1980

Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:
Ogedengbe kept goal for his club team because there wasn't .... to do it

Anobody else

Bany other body

Cany other body

Dno other body

Eanybody else

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Question 30

jamb 1980

Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:
No sooner had the examination ended .... the students started vacating the halls of residence

Awhen

Bthat

Cthan

Dbefore

Eand

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