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1. Our government is making determined A. Cried
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effort to eradicate illiteracy. B. smiled
A. compulsory C. wept
B. ineffective D. laughed
C. innocent
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D. unreliable 9. His antipathy for religious ideas makes him
unpopular.
2. Nnamdi Azikiwe University has a large A. Remedy
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intake of students each year. B. consciousness
A. Rejection C. hostility
B. Product D. receptiveness
C. Output
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D. turn-out 10. For millions of years, the world's
resources have remained boundless.
3. Rita flogged the girl reluctantly A. Unlimited
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A. eagerly B. scarce
B. Calmly C. indomitable
C. Furiously D. limited
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B. Complainant C. obvious
C. Accused D. obscure
D. prosecution
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14. Okezie takes his studies rather lightly 21. I know I_______ read more, but I am
A. Humorously tired.
B. tediously A. may
C. carefully B. ought to
D. seriously C. would
D. could
15. The hostess greeted her guests in a very
relaxed manner. 22. The council chairman _______ the
A. Energetic tension between the villagers and the tax
B. athletic collectors. A. Dispersed
C. stiff B. defused
D. perplexed C. diffused
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D. deffused
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choose the word (s) or phrase which 23. If I had been told of the matter earlier, I
best fit(s) the gap (s) _____there so late.
A. would not go
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the west coast constantly. C. will not have gone
A. impair D. would not have gone
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B. rub
C. knock 24. Each of the candidates that came late
D. erode _____ to complete.
A. have/this form
17. The college bus was travelling at a high B. are having/this form
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_____ when the accident occurred. C. have/these form
A. Velocity D. has/this form
B. acceleration
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witness. C. is
A. contrary D. have
B. inconsistence
C. different 27. She asked me whether I ______the letter
D. congruent for her.
A. minded to post
20. The African extended family system gives B. mind to post
security to ______ members. C. minded posting
A. His D. minded to posting
B. hers
C. its 28. How I wish I ________ my mother's
D. their advice.
A. at heeded
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him, he could easily have avoided the B. anxieties
tragedy. A. has known C. unhappiness
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B. have known D. apologies
C. knew
D. had known Complete the following sentences
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Choose the option nearest in meaning to
the word(s)/phrase underlined. 38. The army ran short of _______.
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A. Arm and munition
31. If your life is in turmoil always take B. arms and ammunition
courage. C. arm and ammunitions
A. devastation D. arms ammunitions
B. crisis
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C. trial 39. Do you prefer_______ my rickety car?
D. tragedy A. going foot to taking
B. to going fast to taking
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32. The client disregarded the advice of his C. wing on foot than taking
lawyer. D. to go on foot than to take
A. ignored
B. disobeyed 40. How can we believe this witness when no
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A. honest D. corroborate
B. bogus
C. extravagant 41. My brother got married to a woman with
D. humble ______ manners.
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A. gorgeous
34. The police ran the criminal to earth. B. exquisite
A. jailed him C. decent
B. knocked him down D. attractive
C. discovered him
D. tried him 42. Good schools do not just teach the
students they ______ them.
35.He is credulous. A. informed
A. credible B. instruct
B. creditable C. educate
C. gullible D. coach
D. fallible
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17. D 18. C 19. A 20. B 21. B 22. B 23. D
45. The president refused to shake ______
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A. hand
B. hands 31. B 32. A 33. D 34. C 35. C 36. D 37. D
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2. A hotel is supposed to be a home away _______.
from home, but the one we ______ was hell A. could he?
away from home. B. did he?
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A. moved into C. can he?
B. checked D. would he?
C. dropped by
D. checked into 10. I don't know what to do with these two
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children, they are always fighting______.
3. Initially, we were deceived by the beautiful A. themselves
surroundings and the manager's B. myself
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______which was worm and inviting. C. one another
A. reception D each other
B. intention
C. conviction 11. The fishermen threw a stone into the
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A. feeling D. storm
B. filling
C. fill in 12. The play was interesting that the clapped
D. feel in for quite a long time at the end.
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A. spectators
5. I ought _____ the letter by now. B. watchers
A. to be sent C. congregation
B. to have being sent D. audience
C. to have sent
D. to have to send 13. The building _______ because of weak
structure foundation.
6. Chinwe's fever was so acute that she an A. tumble
injection B. caved
A. had to have C. collapsed
B. had to had D. succumbed
C. must have
D. ought to have
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14. The magazine was ______by the Choose the word or group of words that
government for an offensive publication. is most nearly opposite in meaning to
A. prescribed the underlined word and correctly fill the
B. prescribes gap in the sentence
C. suspended
D. succumbed 21. Joseph purchase various articles at the
big supermarket and surprisingly enough, he
15. Many people reacted to the brutal murder them all before he reached home that day.
of the popular musician with strong ______. A. destroy
A. Indignation B. bought.
B. demonstration C. lent
C. accusation D. sold.
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D. condemnation
22. In this argument Martin was my
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slowed down the implementation of policy ______ in the matters.
decision. A. opponent
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B. opposition C. opposite
C. autocracy D. prosper
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D. bureaucracy
23. People who are normally _______often
17. The doctor _______the illness as typhoid turn to be dauntless heroes in the face of
fever and not malaria. real danger.
A. prescribed A. unsteady
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B. discovered B. colourless
C. announced C. cowardly
D. diagnosed. D. bashful
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18. Since the writer did not indicate name, 24. I encourage my younger brother to take
the editor decided not published such ______ law as a profession while I ___ my sister
articles. from doing so.
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B. an anonymous B. warned
C. a scandalous C. dissuaded
D. libellous D. persuaded
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19. Please let me have ______salt in my 25. It is quite customary to introduce the
soup. quest speaker but ____to insult him.
A. a little A. illegal
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B. small B. impolite
C. a few C. unusual
D. few D. useless
20. Don't believe all ______ he had old you. 26. John to kindle the fire which my father
A. what had to ____later.
B. which A. kill
C. that B. switch
D. there C. extinguish
D. ignite
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________ of the father. terminating another people's project but has
A. humour not been capable of _______ any of his own.
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B. secretive A. integrating
C. deafness B. finishing
D. taciturnity C. completing
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D. initiating
29. A guilty, which is natural phenomenon,
could not be mistaken for a tunnel which is 36. The manager who was expected to be
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_____ given respect was treated with _______.
A. supernatural A. dignity
B. modern B. scorn
C. artificial C. share
D. imitative D. disloyalty
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30. It is curious how chike could be so 37. Those who had invitation cards were
carefree in his ways when his brother is so admitted to the party while those who had
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D. lovable D. restricted
31. Personally, I give in rather than easily 38. Too many theories will not help us, we
when it comes to argument, but Emeka will need to be _____.
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D. give out
39. Nobody expects him to show ______ for
32. He intentionally threw the documents his children but he certainly bestowed too
away and somebody ______ burnt them. much affection on them.
A. carelessly A. love
B. willingly B. concern
C. accidentally C. devotion
D. foolish D. hatred
33. The crops the farmer planted were 40. The challenger at the boxing tournament
_____by some naught boys. was crude and inexperienced in contrast to
A. sowed the champion who was _______.
B. weeded A. great
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B. exposed B. unexpected
C. devotion C. acceptable
D. strong. D. irresponsible and unacceptable
Choose the word or group of word that is 48. Death is inevitable for man.
nearest in meaning to the underlined A. essential.
expression as it is used in the sentence. B. necessary
C. unavoidable
41. My choice of a partner would be based D. imminent
on character, not looks.
A. visibility 49. The sprinter was appalled by the attitude
B. feasibility of some of the employees towards their work.
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C. appearance A. annoyed
D. posture B. disappointed
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C. shocked
42. Mike is every winsome yet his neighbour D. depressed
finds it difficult to put up with him.
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B. live with exhaustive.
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D. rely on B. exaggerating
C. exhilaration
43. The Efic girl has just come out of the D. thorough
fettering room and her waist is adorned with
beads A. surrounded 51. The suspect was made to walk in front of
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B. decorated the anxious crowd.
C. besieged A. surprised
D. defaced B. astonished
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C. engrossed
44. There are some drugs that could D. curious
exacerbate a particular illness.
A. heal 52. The principal's orders are imperative.
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B. ameliorate A. lenient.
C. worsen B. authoritative
D. lengthen C. genuine
D. necessary
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B. sanctified B. hopeless
C. cremated C. untrue
D. buried D. ridiculous
46. What you cannot avoid you try to endure. 54. l am very proud to speak before this
A. cast off august assembly.
B. put off A. ignominious
C. dispense B. monthly
D. tolerate C. majestic
D. undignified
47. The decision taken by the panel is
irrevocable. 55. She tried to settle the quarrel but the
A. irreversible man remained obstinate to listen to her.
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A. offensive
B. angry 63. The governor asked for a concerted effort
C. stubborn in solving the problem of the slate.
D. impolite A. dramatic
B a direct
56. Okon attempted to entice me with the C. joint
promise of handsome sum money. D. an unfailing
A. deceive
B. enchant 64. My financial situation is so precarious that
C. trick very soon I may be insolvent.
D. tempt A. borrowing
B. stealing
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57. The monk lived an ascetic life in order to C. helpful
discipline himself. D. bankrupt
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B. a religious 65. The chairman of the board is of the
C. a self-indulgence opinion that accepting the proposal would be
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D. tempt inimical to the objectives of the company.
A. harmful
58. It takes a great deal of stamina to run the B. relevant
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discipline himself. C. helpful
A. courage D irrelevant
B. determination
C. energy 66. The famous politician was noted for his
D. intelligence pragmatic approach to issues of national
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interest.
59. But the principal actor play would have A. idealistic
been dull. B. compromising
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A. important C. inconsistent
B. head D. practical
C. famous
D. main 67. Fubra is a very pessimistic about our
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chance of success.
60. An open car has no protection against the A. sad
elements. B. despondent
A. whether C. unconvinced
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B. emergency D. worried
C. famous
D. atmosphere Choose the words or phrase which best
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C. and he
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one position. She moved, suddenly, and the
72. The small girl is _______ than her elder houses crumbled, the mountains heaved
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sister. horribly, and the work of a million years was
A. cleverer lost
B. very cleverer
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C. much clevere 79. The predominate figure of speech in
D. more clever above extract is _____.
A. oxymoron
73. I have to give the question a thought B. metaphor
before my answer came ________ C. simile
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A. momentarily D. personification
B. in an instant
C. on the spur of the moment 80. The subject matter of the above extract is
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A. screaming D. storm
B. screeching
C. scraping 81. The image depicted in the extract is one
D. disciplinary of _____.
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A. destruction
75. The students were suspended because B. merriment
they were _______. C. happiness
A. indiscipline D. admiration
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B. undisciplined
C. undiscipled 82. Pick odd items from the list below.
D. disciplinary A. night rain
B. things fall apart
76. Which of the following is common to all C. Stanley meets Mustesa.
forms of literature? D. nightfall in Soweto
A. language
B. chorus 83. A poem written or render in praise of a
C. action person or thine is called
D. narrator A. lyric
B. anode
77. The three major form of literature C. an elegy
are___. D. a panegyric
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B. eulogy
84. The choice of appropriate words to C. epigram
convey the thought of an author is called. D anecdote
A. idiomatic language
B. setting 92. The whole town was present at Ada's
C. figure of speech wedding ceremony"' is an example of ____
D. diction A. oxymoron
B. hyperbole
85. The state of mind of a poet can be C. repetition
described as ____. D. onomatopoeia
A. style
B. mood 93. In literature work, a clown normally.
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D. theme B. creates comic relief
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86. An African author who has written plats, D. creates the atmosphere
poems and prose is _____.
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B. Zaynab. literary work are___.
C. Chinua Achebe A. heroes
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D. Flora Nwapa B. clowns
C. actors
87. In a novel, the antagonistic. D. characters
A. a fully developed character
B. a flat character 95. A literary work in which animals are used
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C. the female character as a character is____.
D. the archival of the hero A. memoir
B. fable
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A. sentence
B. paragraph 97. A group of lines separated from other
C. expression groups in a poem is known as:
D. fiction A verse
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B. caesura
Read the extract below and answer C. stanza
questions D. meter
90. The figure of speech used in "a heart of 98. Pick the odd item.
stone" is A. comedy
A. hyperbole B. prose
B. metonymy C. dramas
C. paradox D. poetry
D. clip metaphor.
99. “Emmanuel led the class from the rear"
91. A short why statement is an illiterates use of_____.
A. creates the epistle A. batons
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______ early. A. assembly
A. shall return B. crowd
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B. am returning C. fans
C. would return D. audience
D. had returned
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9. The train rattled along____.
2. He went up quickly and returned____. A. in full speed
A. fastest B. at full speed
B. very fast C. with full speed
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C. fastly D. on full speed
D. as fast
10. His horrible high-pitched laugh ______ on
3. His suggestion is completely _____ the my nerves.
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point and cannot be accepted. A. jabs
A. to B. jams
B. about C. jars
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C. besides D. jeers
D. beside
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4. In order to carry out the post-mortem naira, I was careful not to ______ him any
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5. The green snake which lives in the green 12. Before the operation, the dentist found
grass is using a perfect____. that the patient's teeth _____.
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6. Tennyson and Browning lived about the 13. The employer, not the salesman and his
same time and are therefore _______poets. representative, _______ responsible for the
A. contemporary loss of revenue.
B. contrary A. are
C. similar B. have been
D. contemporaneous C. is
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B. ought to go
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Chancellor warned that the Senate should not D. went
cite it as a ______.
A. precedence 24. Do you know if the new teacher
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B. precedence ______yet?
C. president A. is arrived
D. precedent B. will be arriving
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C. has arrived
17. We got to the. viewing centre after the D. had arrived
football match _______.
A. has started 25. Oji is not far from here; it is only an
B. had started _______.
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C. was starting A. hour of driving
D. have started B. hour by driving
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D. perhaps A. at
B. by
20. What a relief that the strike ______when C. on
it did. D. in
A. would end
B. was ending 28. During the swearing in ceremony for a
C. ended second term, the Governor _____ the
D. has ended activities of his government for the past four
years.
21. He played the piano _______an hour or A. reiterated
two. B. reviewed
A. around C. restated
B. in about D. recited
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A. refuge
29. The giant hydro-electric project is among B. safeguard
the _____of colonial rule in northern Nigeria C. safety
A. inheritance D. privacy
B. evidence
C. legacies 37. The Governor ordered that the work done
D. remnants by any contractor should be properly ____so
as to know the correct amount to pay.
30. The Vice-Chancellor will he travelling to A. processed
China. In his absence, the Deputy Vice- B. accounted
Chancellor (Administration) will _______ the C. investigated
University. D. probed
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A. take over
B. overlook 38. The University awarded ______doctorate
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C. care for degrees to four distinguished members of the
D. look after community.
A. honourable
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31. The prides of cars have become _____. B. ceremonial
A. painful C. honorary
B. unbearable D. honourary
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C. harsh
D. exorbitant 39. The students threatened to embark on a
___of lectures if their demands were not met.
32. I had ______ trust in the boy before he A. suspension
woefully disappointed me. B. boy cot
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A. essential C. rejection
B. flagrant D. boycott
C. absolute
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B. economize D. obtuse
C. minimize
D. withhold Choose the word opposite in meaning to
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43. He denied that he never committed the 50. The long trek exhausted him so he
offence in his earlier statement. needed to rest to ____himself.
A. admitted A. reposition
B. argued B. replace
C. colluded C. recuperate
D. negated D. rejuvenate
44. The brevity of the Guest of honour's Choose the interpretation that you
address contrasts with ________ the of the consider most appropriate for each
Chairman's opening remarks. sentence.
A. intensity
B. propensity 51. When the striking workers were
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C. verbosity threatened with dismissal, they decided to
D. solidity make a virtue of necessity. This means that
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45. The motorists said the splashing of the A. all resigned
waters was ______ not deliberate. B. continued the strike action
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A. incidental C. had to call off the strike
B. intentional D. accused some of their colleagues of
C. accidental treachery
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D. unnecessary
52. The students stuck to their guns even
46. One of the aims of the Structural after the principal had appealed to them to go
Adjustment policy is to make us ______ back to their classes. This means that the
rather than consumers. students
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A. parasites A. went back willingly
B. developers B. refused to go back
C. found C. went back reluctantly
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47. The computerized services of the new 53. The sudden death of his friend made
Link contrast with the operations of the old Asuquo have his heart in his boots. This
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48. John says he always looks sober because 54. The last promotion exercise for Deputy
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light on the matter. This means that the 64. We came _____rail.
Chairman's explanation. A. on
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A. showed a bias against the matter B. with
B. provided fresh information on the matter C. by
C. used his veto to rule against the matter D. in
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D. convinced everybody to accept the matter
65. _____, He is learned, he is fraudulent.
58. Chioma decided to make a clean breast of A. since
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everything. This means that Chioma_____. B. Even
A. said that her breast was clean C. Although
B. remained firm in her earlier assertion D. when
C. denied any knowledge of the matter
D. told the whole truth 66. There is a serious conflict ______ the two
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of them.
59. By embarking on that journey, he intends A. between
to kill two birds with one stone. This means B. amidst
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A. Even
60. Dike earns a fat salary but cannot make B. That
both ends meet. This means that Dike___. C. If
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B. where
Choose the word or group of words that C. whole
best completes each of the following D. while
sentences.
69. _______rich has its own problem.
61. You will need to commit the formula A. On being
______memory. B. Being
A. by C. On been
B. to D. Because
C. on
D. in 70. _______stolen the goods, the thief ran
away.
62. His journey _____life has been rough. A. Having
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B. On C. a such
C. After D. that suit
D. Since
79. The ____of all the states in the federation
71. The boy _____his father in everything. are having a meeting at Abuja.
A. makes after A. Attorney-Generals
B. makes for B. Attorneys-Generals
C. takes after C. Attorney General
D. take for D. Attorneys-General
72. We have to____ for lost time. 80. The Local Government are authorized to
A. make pass _____ laws.
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B. make up A. bye-laws
C. take up B. by-laws
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D. take with C. byes-laws
D. byes-laws
73. Time is really ___so let's hurry up.
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A. moving through 81. Ikechukwu's ideas are ____wrong.
B. running out A. almost always
C. moving out B. almost often
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D. often almost
74. We haven't confirmed _____signature
this is. 82. The boys are ____for the match.
A. what A. all fully set
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B. whose B. fully all set
C. which C. set all fully
D. who's D. fully set all
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75. The issue on ____disagreed with him is 83. Ngozi is by far_____ of the girls.
very simple. A. brilliant
A. what B. the most brilliant
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B. doubtful
87. We have started operating the ____. C. convinced
A. national new education policy D. confused
B. new education policy national
C. new national education policy 95. It appears that this Government is not
D. new national policy education ready to tolerate any adverse criticism.
A. unfavourable
88. The lady ______here tomorrow. B. destructive
A. arrive C. unreasonable
B. arriving D. constructive
C. arrives
D. arriving 96. The lawyer remarked that the fact that
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89. It is high time you _______seeing her. boy was being lynched made him culpable.
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B. stops B. guilt
C. will stop C. liable
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D. stopped D. blameworthy
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A. to play yet to be fully tapped.
B. play A. assessed
C. playing B. discovered
D. to be playing C. exploited
D. invested
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91. Miss Onassis was a _______.
A. young rich lady 98. The boss is quite inflexible once she has
B. rich young lady made up her mind.
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A. to shop? OR: ______ can you buy African
B. about souvenirs?
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D. on B. Which place
E. under C. Where
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2. If I went to the cinema, I ______ early. E. Wherever
A. Shall return
B. am returning 8. Candidates who are not accustomed to
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D. had returned paper.
E. may return A. write
B. writing
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______lack of consideration for other road D. be writing
users by many crazy drivers. E. having written
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D. amendment of an existing constitution A. debentures
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B. independence constitution B. gunboat diplomacy
C. republican constitution C. signing of treaties
D. federal constitution D. peaceful negotiation
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