UNIPORT GES 100.2 / GES 200 Workbook Answers – Communication Skills in English Sure A Guide Part VI
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Uniport GES 100.2 WORK BOOK ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
1. Drawings of an area of the earth are referred to as
(a) Maps
(b) Directives
(c) Atlas
(d) Handbooks
2. Books published yearly which carry information on various
events for the coming year are called _______
(a) Year book
(b) Annual book
(c) Almanacs
(d) Hand book
3. _________ holds the parts of the book together and makes
them easy to handle
(a) Preliminary pages
(b) Binding
(c) Tight book
(d) Surran tight
4. In which of the section of the library can we find the
dictionary?
(a) Research section
(b) Reference
(c) Acquisition
(d) None
5. The short description on the cover of a book is
referred to as _______
(a) Balb
(b) Babule
(c) Back print
(d) Blurb
6. Never allow ______ days to elapse without making up the
notes taken in class
(a) Four
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Five
7. Always consult other _______ when making up your notes
(a) Lecturers
(b) Books
(c) Students
(d) Notes
8. _______ is the modification or amplification of notes taken
during lectures
(a) Note books
(b) Note making
(c) Note taking
(d) Long memory
9. ________ is a technique of outlining in note taking and
note making
(a) Text book format
(b) Pattern
(c) Sentence outline
(d) Course outline
10. Division of an outline can be done by the use of _________
(a) Note books
(b) Text books
(c) Lecture notes
(d) Numbers
11. Flexibility in reading can be achieved through the
following reading strategies
(a) Listening and speaking
(b) Reading and writing
(c) Skimming and scanning
(d) None
12. We skim because we want to make utmost use of our
_________
(a) Text books
(b) Note books
(c) Lecture notes
(d) Notes
13. ________ is also known as preview reading
(a) Pre-reading
(b) Over-view
(c) Review
(d) Skim reading
14. Which is not required in speed reading
(a) Context clues
(b) Proper eye movement
(c) Active reading
(d) Knowledge of one’s speed
15. Which is of great relevance in summarizing a text
(a) Connotative sentences
(b) Semantic fields
(c) Meaningful clusters of words
(d) Topic sentence
16. Inferential comprehension requires
(a) Making personal corrections
(b) Collocation
(c) Sub-vocalization
(d) Evaluation information
17. Which is a context clue?
(a) Inferences
(b) Chronological order
(c) Writer’s purpose
(d) Definitional sentence
18. Connectives and determiners enable us to
(a) Identify background knowledge
(b) Identify the functions of details
(c) Determines the writer’s purpose
(d) None of the above
19. Which can shape a writer’s arguments
(a) Educational background
(b) Experiences
(c) Environment
(d) All of the above
20. A major comprehension skill is
(a) Armchair travelling
(b) Strategic comprehension
(c) Deductive comprehension
(d) Flexibility
21. A good paragraph must contain the following in which order
(a) Purpose, Unity, coherence, completeness and order
(b) Coherence, completeness, unity, purpose and order
(c) Order, unity, purpose, coherence and completeness
(d) Topic sentence, connectives, beginning, middle and ending
22. Lots of people have problems writing conclusions because
(a) They do not know what to say
(b) They do not know how much to say
(c) They forget that the conclusion is the conclusion
(d) They sum up all the steps of the argument they have
23. There are three stages in paragraph development
(a) The beginning, the middle and the conclusion
(b) Pre-writing, writing and post-writing
(c) Parallelism, antecedent and recapitulation
(d) What, how and why
24. There are three basic types of paragraph
(a) The narrative, descriptive and argumentative paragraph
(b) Introductory, transitory and the concluding paragraph
(c) The expository, persuasive and structural paragraph
(d) The response, research and assessment paragraph
25. A fast and effective reader makes
(a) Very few eye movement
(b) Rapid eye movement
(c) No eye movement
(d) Persistent eye movement
26. A fast and effective reader makes
(a) Rapid reading
(b) Study pace reading
(c) Retrogression
(d) Peripheral
27. ________ is not a figure of speech
(a) Apostrophe
(b) Ellipsis
(c) Irony
(d) Bathos
28. ________ uses a part of something to represent the whole
and vice-versa
(a) Methonymy
(b) Euphemism
(c) Synecdoche
(d) Oxymoron
29. The opposite of bathos is _________
(a) Litotes
(b) Climax
(c) Dathos
(d) Oxymoron
30. We are unaware of the devices of the enemy” is an example
of _______
(a) Climax
(b) Litotes
(c) Euphemism
(d) Unlitotes
31. “The pen is mightier than the sword” This statement is _______
(a) Paradoxical
(b) Ironical
(c) Sarcastic
(d) Metonymical
32. “He is an eloquent dumb man” us an example of ________
(a) Allusion
(b) Pun
(c) Euphemism
(d) Oxymoron
33. “To Nigeria will I steal and there I’ll steal” is an example of
(a) Allusion
(b) Pun
(c) Euphemism
(d) Oxymoron
34. Based on their mode of operation in the process of
communication, figures of speech are classified into _______ basic types
(a) Three
(b) Four
(c) Two
(d) Twelve
35. Figures of speech can _______ the reader for better
understanding
(a) Persuade
(b) Factorize
(c) Delude
(d) None of the above
36. _________ is regarded as the basic unit of language
(a) The alphabet
(b) The sentence
(c) The phrase
(d) The word
37. _______ is a board concept which refer to words and there
various connections and collocations
(a) Vocabulary
(b) Dictionary
(c) Encyclopedia
(d) Lexis
38. Words that have the same spelling, same pronunciation but
different meaning are called.
(a) Homophones
(b) Homographs
(c) Homonyms
(d) Homomorphs
39. The process of word formation that is most productive is
(a) Compounding
(b) Conversion
(c) Derivative
(d) Clipping
40. The plural form of “Corrigendum” is _______
(a) Corrigandums
(b) Corrigenda
(c) Corrgendae
(d) Corrigendi
41. One of these is not an irregular noun
(a) Sheep
(b) Syllable
(c) Girl
(d) Stadium
42. All of these are examples of neuter nouns except one
(a) Phenomenon
(b) Hippopotamus
(c) Criterion
(d) Stadium
43. The plural formation that requires the addition of “e” as in formulae is called
(a) Feminine
(b) Neuter
(c) Masculine
(d) Complex
44. A Process of word formation by combining parts of two or more already existing words in the same language is referred to as
(a) Clipping
(b) Back of formation
(c) Coinage
(d) Blending
45. “He is a goat” is an example of ________ meaning
(a) Connotative
(b) Denotative
(c) Contextual
(d) Reflexive
46. A _______ is a group of words without a finite verb
(a) Sentence
(b) Clause
(c) Phrase
(d) Paragraph
47. All these are structural types of phrases except one
(a) Adverbial phrase
(b) Gerundial phrase
(c) Participial phrase
(d) Infinitival phrase
48. ________ is not the part of the sentence that is modified
(a) Adverbial phrase
(b) Absolute phrase
(c) Participial phrase
(d) Infinitival phrase
49. All but one belongs to the open word class in English
(a) Eat
(b) Man
(c) And
(d) Fine
50. Please ______ on this point
(a) Expantiate
(b) Expertiate
(c) Expatiate
(d) Expartiate
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