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• Question 91: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase Underlined:
  I would not like you to do the work piecemeal Options:
  A) at meal time
  B) bit by bit
  C) badly
  D) as a masterpiece
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 92:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  The carpenter built a commodious wardrobe?

  Options:
  A) wide
  B) gigantic
  C) small
  D) spacious
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 93:

  choose the option that best answers the question from the options lettered A-D

  The Parents Teachers Association promised to build a CAFETERIA.

  Options:
  A) Does the alumni association promised to build a cafeteria?
  B) Does the school authority promised to build a library?
  C) Did the parents teachers association promise to build a library?
  D) Does the parents teachers association promised to demolish a cafeteria?
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 94:

  Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.

  suggestible?

  Options:
  A) suggeSTIble
  B) SUggestible
  C) suGGEstible
  D) suggestiBLE
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 95:

  You all know how friendly we are with Okperi. Do you think that any Umuaro man who goes to prison there will come back alive? But that apart, do you forget that this is the moon of planting? Do you want to grow this year’s crops in the prison house in a land where your fathers owe a cow? I speak as your elder brother. I have travelled in Olu and I have travelled in Igbo and I can tell you that there is no escape from the white man. He has come when suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. The white man is like that. Before any of you here was old enough to tie a cloth between the legs I saw with my own eyes what the white man did to Abame. Then I knew there was no escape. As day light chases away darkness so will the white man drive away all our customs. I know that as I say it now it passes by your ears, but it will happen. The white man has power which comes from the true God and it burns like fire. This is the God about whom we preach every eighth day………..

  Unachukwu’s opponents were now shouting that this was a meeting of an age group that they had not assembled to join with him in chewing the seed of foolishness which they called their new religion.

  ‘We are talking about the white man’s road’ said a voice above the others.

  ‘Yes, we are talking about the white man’s road. But when the roof and walls of a house fall in, the ceiling is not left standing. The white man, the new religion, the soldiers, the new road-they are all part of the same thing. The white man has a gun, a machete, a bow and carries fire in his mouth. He does not fight with one weapon alone’.

  'Passes by your ears' in the passage means Options:
  A) piercing through your ears
  B) listening eagerly
  C) making no impression
  D) accepting the truth
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 96:

  In the question below choose the word or phrase which best fills the gap in each sentence:

  My colleagues _____ before i arrived

  Options:
  A) started writing
  B) wrote
  C) had started writing
  D) have written
  E) have been wrting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 97:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) in italics.

  The manager commended the players for the narrow victory.

  Options:
  A) Difficult
  B) Unexpected
  C) Easy
  D) Expected
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 98:

  In the question below choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) underlined:

  The principal warned us against burning candle at both ends

  Options:
  A) being careless with candle
  B) wearing ourselves out
  C) being too generous
  D) disloyal
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 99: Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).To almost everyone in the little village, Ada's behaviour was almost odious? Options:
  A) repulsive
  B) difficult
  C) attractive
  D) charming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 100: From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same consonant sounds as the one represented by the letters underlined.Gritty Options:
  A) asked
  B) sachet
  C) depot
  D) wrestle
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  The correct answer is A .