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Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

It was summer, early afternoon. Jim ran into the station. The 4.30 train was about to leave. As he ran along the platform he saw a girl just ahead of him. She was young-about his age. He followed her into a carriage and set down opposite her. She took out a magazine and was reading it. He took out a book and pretended to do the same. After a minute he looked up and smiled at her. She didn’t smile back but gave him an encouraging look. Both returned to their reading but this time she was pretending too.
He found her attractive and wanted to see her again. But how to arrange it? .......... He had an idea. He took an old envelope out of his pocket and wrote the following wrote the following words: ‘Hello! My number is 123-4567 and my name is Jim. I would very much like to see you again. Ring me at nine.
The train arrived at the terminal. Without looking at the girl, he handed her the envelope or rather threw it at her and jumped off the train.
When he got home he made himself a cup of coffee and wondered …perhaps she was one those naturally friendly people who smile at everybody. He was listening to the radio when the telephone rang……..it was only Umaru. Nine o’clock arrived, then 9.30- and no telephone call from the girl. Feeling miserable he went to bed early.
It was a foggy morning. ‘Hello, is that Jim? This is Joan. You……it was two minutes past nine
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He hoped to arrange a date with her by
  • A. writing a letter to her
  • B. ringing her up
  • C. waiting at the station
  • D. handing in a short note in a hurry
  • E. sending a telegram
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1984
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That evening he had a telephone call from

  • A. his colleague, Umaru
  • B. the girl he met on the train
  • C. the railway authorities
  • D. nobody at all
  • E. Joan
View Answer & Discuss (2) JAMB 1984
The endeavor to maintain proper standard of fairness in journalism must be pursued. It is fatally easy for the journalist to deviate from the straight path. There is his natural desire to ‘make a story’ and insidious temptation to twist facts to square with his paper’s policy. Both are as indefensible as the framing of misleading headlines for the sake of effect. The conscientious journalist must check any tendency to bias, and guard against the dangers inherent in personal antipathies or friendships, and in traditional oppositions between rival schools of thought. When a political opponent, whose stupidity habitually provokes attack, makes an effective speech, honesty requires that he be given credit for it. Where personal relationships might make it easier and more congenial to keep silent than to criticize, the journalist must never forget his duty to the public and the supreme importance of recording the truth
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when may a journalist have to act against his own inclination?
  • A. when his friends act stupidly
  • B. when he becomes weak and decrepit
  • C. when his enemies make mistake
  • D. when his political opponents frame misleading head lines
  • E. after he has been given a bribe
View Answer & Discuss (2) JAMB 1987
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A journalist would be able to uphold the tenets of his profession if

  • A. he seeks publicity
  • B. he tries to achieve popularity
  • C. he resists temptation to bias
  • D. he canmanipulate his story to lease his employers
  • E. he trie to protect his friends
View Answer & Discuss (1) JAMB 1987
Manager: Mr.Mbu, I would not describe you as an inefficient worker; I therefore find it difficult to understand why the conference room is so untidy, in spite of the fact that I had reminded you of the meeting scheduled to take place there this afternoon.

Secretary: Sir, I did instruct the cleaner to tidy up the place before meeting

Manager: Are you trying to hold the cleaner responsible for the untidy condition of the room?

Secretary: Partly, sir, I gave him an instruction which he failed to carry out. It is certainly my intention to make a formal complaint against him for dereliction of duty.

Manager: And would you wash your hands off any blame after that? Do you think that just making a formal complaint against the cleaner absolves you of all blame? When do you consider an assignment as properly executed; when the execution is properly supervised or not? Was it sufficient for you to give instruction to the cleaner with out ensuring that he actually carried them out?

Secretary: Sir, I do not see what else I could have done, short of doing the job myself. The cleaner Is a six-footer and I could not have intimidated him physically.

Manager: I see, I await your complaints against the cleaner, but I shall not forget that you allowed a board meeting to take place in an untidy conference room.
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The relationship between the manager and his secretary, as revealed in the passage could be said to be
  • A. strained
  • B. charged
  • C. personal
  • D. cordial
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1987
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