English Language (Use of English) Past Questions and Answers

In the question below select the option (A-D) that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence:
Tom ought not to have told me

A Tom did not tell me but he should
B Perhaps Tom was wrong to have told me
C Tom told me but it was wrong of him
D It was necessary for Tom not to tell me

Question 1717:

In the question below select the option (A-D) that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence:
He can't be swimming all day

A It's possible he is not swimming now
B It's very likely he is swimming now
C He does not have the ability to swim all day
D He would not like to swim all day

Question 1718:

In the question below select the option (A-D) that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence:
Bolade would make a mess of cooking the rice

A It was typical of Bolade to make a mess of things
B Bolade cannot cook
C Bolade will not cook rice the rice well
D Bolade does not like cooking rice

Question 1719:

In the question below select the option (A-D) that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence:
If i were the captain, i would have led the team to victory

A I was not the captain but i led the tam to victory
B I was the captain but i did not lead the team to victory
C I was not the captain and i did not lead the team to victory
D I was the captain and i led the team to victory

Question 1720:

The preparation which a study of the humanities can provide stems from three observations about education in our world of accelerating social and technological change. First, with the rate of change, we cannot hope to train our student for specific technologies. That kind of vocational education is obsolescent. By the time the specific training will have been completed, the world will have moved on.
If our education consists of narrow training, we will not be prepared to change. Second and paradoxically, what our student desire from their education is preparation for specific careers — business, engineering, medicine, computer programming and the like, but we will not be able to train them for a life-long career. Their confronting the depressed job market gives our students a certain anxiety, but the solution they seek in vocational training is not sufficient. Third, we sense in our students a narrow materialism, with the good life defined in terms of material comforts. Education then means learning to do a job which will make money. I see in this definition a limiting sense of what education and thus life offer, a definition which excludes joy and meaning. Our narrow approach to the study of the humanities responds to these three related problems. In our changing, yet narrow world, the teaching of the humanities finds one powerful justification — it teaches student how to think.

'We sense in our students a narrowing materialism' means that our students' concept of education is one that

A Prepares them for money, joy and meaning
B Makes them ready to confront the depressed job market
C Only prepares them to acquire material comforts
D Trains them for life-long career