Post Utme English Language Past Questions and Answers

Question 101:

Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he has committed a crime.Delinquency is one of several status offer offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by profession or a person's role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually, they are offences only to the extent that they help to preserve some good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a word forged in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult, and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws goes to juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return.Delinquency would be certainly only to many of the adult actions now freely committed by them.4. If the world changed overnight

A. There would be more delinquency law
B. Delinquency would be refer to all adult actions
C. Delinquency would not more be a crime
D. Delinquency would also change in meaning.

Question 102:

Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he has committed a crime.Delinquency is one of several status offer offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by profession or a person's role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually, they are offences only to the extent that they help to preserve some good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a word forged in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult, and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws goes to juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return.Delinquency would be certainly only to many of the adult actions now freely committed by them.5. When young people make and enforce laws

A. The responsibility will be too heavy on their shoulders
B. They would retaliate against the adults
C. Their laws will be very juvenile
D. The world will be turned upside down

Question 103:

From options A to D choose the opposite in meaning to the word underline in the sentence:
Our government is making determined efforts eradicate illiteracy

A. Compulsory
B. Ineffective
C. Innocent
D. Unreliable

Question 104:

From options A to D choose the opposite in meaning to the word underline in the sentence:
The University of Lagos has a large intake of students each year

A. Rejection
B. Product
C. Output
D. Turn-out

Question 105:

From options A to D choose the opposite in meaning to the word underline in the sentence:
Ngozi flogged the girl reluctantly

A. Eagerly
B. Calmly
C. Furiously
D. Laboriously