Use Of English 2011 Jamb Examination

Believe it or not, change is to human existence what the blood is to the human body. We live in an era of amazing ____16____ change spawned by advancing technology and industrialization. However, man’s ____17____ promoting and defending change in a deliberate effort to establish ____18____ that stimulate advancement for man’s concern is proving unfavourable to the climate with threatening ____19____.

Human-induced climate change has awakened widespread concern across the globe. As a matter of fact, climate change is now ____20____ global issue. It is a major test of Africa’s ____21____! The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that human actions are changing the earth’s climate and creating major disturbances in human ____22____ and ecosystems. The IPCC reports that the world has warmed by an average of 0.76°C since pre-industrial times. The rising global ____23____ for energy and the adverse changes in the climate put the earth and its inhabitants in a catch-22 situation.

Again, if the effects of climate change on each were commensurate with the level of greenhouse ____24____ it spews out, perhaps Africa would have been spared and would probably be just an amused spectator. But this is not the case. Here again, we see well-meaning global citizens appealing for the rest of the world to take responsibility for the problems of Africa, a strategy that cannot, thus far, be termed ____25____.