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Question 4381

jamb 1980

the solderers received

Aoccasonal money for their work

Btoo much for their work

Cjust enough for their work

Da fair wage

Enot so much as their work demanded

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Question 4382

jamb 1980

without the solderers in the smithy

Ano work can be done

Bthe boss will go into debt

Cthe products can not be completed

Dthe boss will be unhappy

Ethe other workers will not like their job

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Question 4383

jamb 1980

Boeta Dick spat in the bucket because

Ahe was sick

Bhe had a dirty habit

Che coughed

Dthe smithy smelled badly

Eit is good to spit regularly

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Question 4384

jamb 1980

the boss Boeta Dick, can be described as being

Askinny

Bhard working

Cambitious

DA Chinese

Eslender

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Question 4385

jamb 1980

the consequences of the rural-urban drift are shown in the above passages as being

Auseful to the cities and not to the rural areas

Ba national disaster

Ca natural occurrence and sign of progress

Dnegative

Ea healthy economic phenomenon

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Question 4386

jamb 1980

one suggested solution to the problem is to

Aprovode social amenities and create employment opportunities in rural areas

Bencourage mechanized agriculture in order to raise income

Cforce the young rural people to stay by warning them about the problems in the cities

Dmount road blocks

Elower the level of education in rural areas and increase qualification for employment in the cities

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Question 4387

jamb 1980

migration in large number is said to result in

Ajuvenile deliquency

Ba fall in the production of food, accomodation and health in the cities

Chighway robbery

Ddifficulty of life in rural areas

Emental stress by parents and relations

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Question 4388

jamb 1980

one of the reasons why people drift fro the rural areas to the urban ares is

Ahunger resulting from drought

Blaziness and ignorant

Cbetter rural eduaction and possession of qualifications which make better jobs available in urban ares

Dthe easy life and comfort in the city

Ethe freedom from traditional control and pagan practices

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Question 4389

jamb 1980

the author explains that researches conducted on various aspect of rural-urban drift have

Afailed to provide effective solutions

Brevealed the causes and effects of this drift

Cincrease the hue and cry against it

Dprovided effective solutions to the problem

Enot only provided solutions but also brought out the causes and effects of this drift

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Question 4390

jamb 1980

unless the training of our traditional birth attendants is based on healthy practices

Aour children will be under-developed

Bour children will be worse off thanthose brough up in the traditional way

Cour medical services will be unable to provide the right services

Dour ecenomic progress will be adversely affected

Ethe role of the mothe will be rendered useless

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Question 4391

jamb 1980

in spite of the fact that the Western country now recognize the importance of the early period of childhood in forming a relationship, Nigerian hospital and maternity home.

Acopy the wrong Western practise noe being criticized in Western countriesd

Bimprove on local practises and make the future of the child secure

Censure that the child is brought up in the right way

Densure that the child develops the right skills for establishing relationships

Edo not know which practise to choose

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Question 4392

jamb 1980

since the training for social adjustment begins from the moment of birth, our traditional practices

Aare too uncivilized to be helpful to the child

Bneed to be mordenized

Care very helpful to the proper growth of the child

Dmake the child a stranger to modern civilization

Eare the cause of underdevelopment

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Question 4393

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 4394

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 4395

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 4396

jamb 1980

By and large critics of Ezekiel and his work were

Read the passage below

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 4397

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 4398

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 4399

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 4400

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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