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Jamb USE OF ENGLISH Past questions and Answers for 2010
PASSAGE I
One of the interesting things to
me about spaceship is that it is a
mechanical vehicle, just as an
automobile.
If you own a car, you
realize that you must put oil and
gas into it, and you must put
water in the radiator and take
care of the care as a whole.
You begin to develop quite a little
thermodynamic sense.
You know
that you are either going to have
to keep the machine in a good
order or it is going to be in
trouble and fail to function.
We have not been seeing our
Spaceship Earth as an integrally
designed machine which to be
persistently successful, must be
comprehended and serviced in total.
Now there is one outstanding
important fact regarding
Spaceship Earth, and this is that
no instruction book came with it.
I think it is very significant that
there is no instruction book, for
successfully operating of our ship,
in view of the infinite attention to
all other details displayed by our
ship.
It must be taken as deliberate
and purposeful that an instruction
book was omitted. Lack of
instruction has forces us to find
out that there are two kinds of
mangoes – unripe mangoes that
will kill us and ripped mangoes
which will nourish us.
And we had to find out ways of
telling which-was-which mangoes
before we ate it or otherwise we
would die.
So we were forced,
because of this to devise scientific
experimental procedures and to
interpret effectively the
significance of the experimental
findings.
Thus, because the
instruction manual was missing,
we are learning how we can safely
survive on the planet.
Quite clearly, all living being are
utterly helpless at the moment of
birth. The human child stays
helpless longer that the young of
any species.
Apparently, it is part of ‘invention’
that man is meant to be utterly
helpless through certain
anthropological phases. When he
begins to be able to get on a little
better, he is meant to discover
some of the physical principles
inherent in the universe as well as
the many recourses around him
which will further multiply his
knowledge.
Designed into this Spaceship
Earth’s total wealth was a big
safety factor. This allowed man to
be very ignorant for a long time
until he had amassed enough
experiences from which to extract
progressively the system of
generalized principles governing
increase of energy.
The design
omission of the instruction book
forced man to discover
retrospectively just what his most
important capabilities are.
He learned to generalize
fundamental principles of
universe.
Adapted from Oluikpe, B.O. et
al (2005) Intensive English for
Senior Secondary School 2,
Onitsha: AFP
1. According to the writer, the
exciting thing about Spaceship
Earth is that
A. has no instruction manual
B. it is not difficult to maintain
C. is peculiar to other automobiles
D. is relatively easy to operate
2. The absence of instruction manual in Spaceship Earth has
A. made the operation of the
Spaceship Earth difficult
B. forced man to devise other
means of travelling in spacecraft
C. challenged man’s
inquisitiveness
D. made man helpless
3. From the passage, it can be deduced that man
A. learns by experiment and
education
B. learns by chance and
accidentally
C. is incapable of solving all his
problems
D. by his nature is in constant
search of knowledge
4. The writer’s mood in the passage is that of.
A. non-committal
B. pessimism
C. optimism
D. frustration
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