Question 22
Cloze PassageJAMB 1992 Passage IV (cloze): Using the dictionary
In addition to further reading as a vital arm of referencing, the use of the dictionary in language learning should be emphasized. It cannot be denied that dictionaries do supply facts about a language which may be difficult to find anywhere else. ________ (16) about grammar, usage, status, derivation and so on necessary for comprehension are contained in the dictionary while context, word analysis and synonym search contribute immensely to the ________ (17) of meaning, an efficient use of the dictionary to enrich the experimental conceptual background to create a meaning context cannot be denied. The ________ (18) of both the specialist and general dictionaries should be encouraged as the case may be. Not that students should jeopardise reading fluency by ________ (19) every word that they do not understand, rather in their bid to read chunks or groups of words in a text, lexical items that ________ (20) obstruct meaning may be quickly checked up in the dictionary. Glossing over a word or lexical guessing through context may not be sufficient. ________ (21) to encourage the use of the dictionary as an aid to reading and a tool for checking words used in writing must be built ________ (22) the reading text. This skill can be easily trasferred to the student's content areas as well.
A barrage of criticism, like students' excessive reliance on the dictionary instead of contextual ________ (23), reduction in the speed of reading, time wastage and so on abound against students' use of the dictionary when reading. It may however be argued that ________ (24) students to guess the meaning of words, from context and then compare this with the dictionary entry for such words is a discovery ________ (25) for enlarging the conceptual environment and vision of students on the various interpretations that may be given to a word.
A barrage of criticism, like students' excessive reliance on the dictionary instead of contextual ________ (23), reduction in the speed of reading, time wastage and so on abound against students' use of the dictionary when reading. It may however be argued that ________ (24) students to guess the meaning of words, from context and then compare this with the dictionary entry for such words is a discovery ________ (25) for enlarging the conceptual environment and vision of students on the various interpretations that may be given to a word.
Passage IV, gap 22: ________ (21) to encourage the use of the dictionary as an aid to reading and a tool for checking words used in writing must be built ________ (22) the reading text.
- A.on to
- B.in
- C.into
- D.unto
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Answer: C (into)
Explanation
Practice must be made part of the reading text itself, that is, built into it. 'Built into' is the phrase used when something is included as part of something else.