OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY P. M.

B 2002
AGO IWOYE, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA
GNS: 101 COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH

1. The description of language as a means of communication is the_______

(a) sociological (b) sociologist's (c) sociology (d) society

2. That there is no direct relationship between an object and the name by which it is called
establishes the fact that language is
(a) computational (b) habitual (c) articulatory (d) arbitrary

3. ______&______ are audio oral skills of language

(a) writing and speaking (b) reading and speaking (c) listening and writing (d) listening and
speaking

4. The _______ skill is basic to all other known skills of language

(a) reading (b) speaking (c) writing (d) listening

5. Which of these is a sound? (i) /B/ (ii) b (iii) /αe/ (iv) /i/
(a) i,ii and iii (b) i,iii and iv (c) iii and iv (d) ii and iii

6. In which of these words is eh realised as sound k?

(i) machination (ii) chaos (iii) chores (iv) archway (v) archbishop
(a) i,ii and iii (b) i,iii and iv (c) iii and iv (d) i and ii

7. A very important factor in summary writing is ______

(a) connectivity (b) acceptability (c) brevity (d) sensitivity

8. The use of abbreviation is acceptable during the _____ stage of _____

(a) Pre lecture, note making (b) lecture, note taking (c) post lecture, note making (d) Pre
lecture, note taken

9. The underlined sound in "bathroom" is the same as the one underlined in

(a) faith (b) fat (c) felt (d) fool

10. In speech we use ______ but in writing we use ______

(a) power, pen (b) strength, speed (c) air, energy (d) sound, alphabetical, symbols

11. The th in birthday sounds the same as all the th in

(a) breathe and breath (b) wheat and wealthy (c) breath and wealth (d) they and those

12. The person who can read and write is said to possess the skill of_____
(a) creativity (b) supremacy (c) accuracy (d) literacy
13. The kind of listening engaged in during classroom lectures is _____listening otherwise known as
______
(a) active, former (b) perceive, informer (c) active, action (d) formal, active

14. Speech sounds are also called ______

(a) phones (b) phonemes (c) phonetics (d) phonology

15. The air used in speech production known as the _____ is stored in the _____
(a) Plumonic air, lungs (b) pulmonic air, lungs (c) artillery air, anus (d) capillary air, mouth

16. Yesterday, I ______ my mat on the floor

(a) spread (b) spreaded (c) spreadened (d) spreads

17. Which of these is not an English word

(a) rue (b) robot (c) maggot (d) risible

18. It us high time we ______ the village for the town

(a) leave (b) leaved (c) live (d) leaves

19. Oh great god! Everybody _____ you are good

(a) testify (b) testifies (c) testifyd (d) testifying

20. Which of these ordering is correct

(a) summary, outlining, note making, note taking (b) outlining, summary, note making, note taking
(c) outlining, note taking, summary, note making (d) note taking, note making, outlining, summary

21. Beating about the bush is a good example of _____

(a)slang (b) jargon (c) cliche (d)circumlocution

22. Pick the odd ones out (i) write, rite, right (ii) hale, bail, ale (iii) alter, altar, butter (iv) cite, sight,
site (v) bale, bail, baale
(a) i, ii, iv and v (b) ii and iii (c) I and iv (d) iii and v

23. The allegation ______ against me is nauscating

(a) leavened (b) levilled (c) levied (d) levyed

24. Good _______ is an extension of the principles of active learning

(a) note taking (b) note making (c) learning process (d) summary

25. All of these are purposes of reading skills except

(a) evolve over a life time (b) intensive reading skills apply to reading in college (c) effective
reading reflects good problem solving skills (d) leads to dancing and wining
26. Sounds of English may be grouped under ______
(a) diphthongs, vowels and letters (b) letters, consonants and diphthongs (c) vowels, consonants
and letters

27. The baby was rather _____ than I could bear

(a) much more troublesome (b) much too troublesome (c) so much troublesome (d) very much
troublesome

28. The tourist bought ______

(a) a brown small Nigerian earthen pot (b) a small brown Nigerian earthen pot (c) an earthen
brown small Nigerian pot (d) a Nigeria small brown earthen pot

29. Linguistic is the science study of _______

(a) language (b) sounds (c) words (d) sentence

30. The adventurers ran into many _____ in the forest

(a) dear (b) dears (c) deers (d) deer

31. The hospitals were closed _____ because there were no beds to put patient _____
(a) of/upon (b) off/on (c) down/at (d) up/in

32. Language is a vehicle for expression of feeling is _____

(a) formal view (b) structural view (c) functional view (d) traditional view

33. Enema is now a _____ student but it took him years to ______
(a) matured/mature (b) mature/mature (c) mature/matured (d) matured/matured

34. Maria gave _____ for his birthday

(a) her little brother a football (b) to her little brother a football (c) a football her little brother
(d) a football for her little brother

35. Apostrophe is a figure of speech which refers to _____

(a) the idea of addressing an inanimate object (b) punctuation style (c) invested comma (d)
the idea of giving life to an inanimate

36. What a fine day it is!

(a) assertive sentence (b) imperative sentence (c) optative sentence (d) exclamatory
sentences

37. Would you like ______ cup of tea?

(a) other (b) an other (c) another (d) others

38. Mount Everest is the ______ mountain in the world

(a) higher (b) high (c) highest (d) least high
39. The 2014 edition of the text book communication in english language recommended for GNS 101
at olabisi onabanjo university ago iwoye was edited by _______
(a) Lekan dairo, Segundo omosule and Tunde onadeko (b) Kemi olayemi, Segun omosule and
oreofe Williams (c) lekan dairo, Segun omosule, Samson dare and Kemi olayemi (d) wale ajayi,
Segundo omosule, Samson dare and Kemi olayemi

40. The young boys have been caught with parts of the stolen machine but _____admitted stealing it
(a) neither of them has (b) neither of them have (c) none of them has (d) none of them have

41. Kindly _____ me your book because my friend has _____ mine
(a) borrow/borrowed (b) borrow/rent (c) lend/rent (d) lend/borrowed

42. Students will blame their teachers when examinations result are unfavorable
(a) won't they (b) wouldn't they (c) isn't it (d) can't they

43. Soyinka's masterful _____ of the atmosphere of his childhood helped to make his book, ake an
outright success
(a) evocation (b) invocation (c) convocation (d) revocation

44. Few of those who applied were _____ any job

(a) oferred (b) offered (c) offerred (d) ofered

45. The principal announces that a meeting of the _____ association would take place on Friday
(a) parent teachers (b) parents teachers (c) parents teacher (d) parent teacher

46. Which of the titles fits the text best is the example of _____
(a) skimming (b) scanning (c) intensive reading (d) extensive reading

47. My sister is now furious with me, if only I ______ that

(a) didn't say (b) told (c) hadn't said (d) could have told

48. I have not sent the letter. This is because of the busy schedule at work _____
(a) as in the workload is much (b) I mean the workload is much (c) because the workload is
much

49. The Principal did not sign my letter because ______

(a) he was not on seat (b) he was not in the office (c) he was not on seat in the office (d) he
was not on sit

50. There is a ______ at the Lagos/benin expressway

(a) hold up (b) go slow (c) traffic jam (d) go slowly

51. I hope to see you presently. Presently in the sentence means

(a) before long (b) I shall see you now (c) at the moment (d) immediately
52. Everyone should submit their assignments at once
(a) the sentence is correct (b) the sentence is incorrect because it negates the rule of concord
(c) the sentence is substandard (d) the sentence needs to gain currency in order to achieve
standardisation

53. The execution of the blueprint is in the offing. Offing in the sentence means
(a) in the cooler (b) in the pipeline (c) in the office of the director (d) it has been suspended

54. The students union leader is being interrogated. The sentence means
(a) the union leader has just been interrogated (b) the union leader was interrogated (c) the
union leader is undergoing interrogation (d) the union leader would be interrogated

55. To many Nigerians, english is a second language

(a) many Nigerians consider English to be a second Language (b) many Nigerians have many
languages and English is one of them (c) to many Nigerians, English is acquired (d) to many
Nigerians English is learned

56. Two effective means of listening are

(a) passive and passionate listening (b) passive and effective listening (c) recording and jotting
all the lecturer says in the lecture (d) effective listening and recording of all lecture notes

57. A salient aspect of language is the fact that it is

(a) a general language (b) it is arbitrary,creative and dynamic (c) it is easy to learn (d) it is
usually learned

58. The following is the correct list of the vowels of English

(a) a, b, c, d, o (b) a, e, i, u, o (c) a, e, i, o, u (d) o, a, i, e, u

59. One of the following is not a bad reading habit

(a) reading aloud (b) head movement (c) finger tracing (d) skimming and scanning

60. Some ______ killed the president of the union during a rally
(a) assassinators (b) assassins (c) murderers (d) students

61. The execution of the policy on free education is on course. This means
(a) there is a course dedicated to the execution of free education (b) the cause of free education
must be tied to the execution (c) the execution of the policy is in progress (d) there is a curse
associated with the execution of free education policy

62. A person who speaks three or more languages is called

(a) linguist (b) psycholinguist (c) bilingual (d) polyglot

63. ______ is the most international language in the world

(a) French (b) Spanish (c) English (d) German
64. A play is divided into _______
(a) chapters (b) verses (c) acts and scenes (d) utterances

65. A novel is divided into ______

(a) chapters (b) acts and scenes (c) verses (d) genres

66. A novelist in a novel is to a novel just as ______ is to a play

(a) playwright (b) playwrite (c) author (d) playwriter

67. A play is usually identified through

(a) conversation (b) rhetorical questions (c) absence of dialogue (d) monologue