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• Question 1161:

  This question is based on "The Life Changer" novel.

  Who among Salma's roommate was reserved and withdrawn yet generous to a fault?

  Options:
  A) Ngozi
  B) Tomiwa
  C) Ada
  D) none of them
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1162:

  Answer the following question below , the word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

  The traditional chief NARRATED the story to the children

  Options:
  A) the children heard the story from the traditional chief
  B) who narrated the story to the children?
  C) the children could not listen to the story by the traditional chief
  D) did the chief hide the story from the children?
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1163:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  We ought to stay away _____ the robbers come back

  Options:
  A) provided
  B) should in case
  C) although
  D) in case
  E) since
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1164:

  Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:

  A lorry larger than an elephant was stuck on the bridge.

  Options:
  A) as large as an elephant
  B) carring an elephant
  C) that looked like an elephant
  D) with elephantiasis
  E) of enormous proportions
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1165:

  Boxing is sometimes called' the noble art of self defence'. According to some people, boxing appeals to the lowest instincts in the ...11... who have come to watch blood flow and their fellow human suffer Boxers who are medically fit appear in the ...12... The referee sometimes allows the...13... to go on for long so that one of the ...14... is reduced to a human punch bag.It may happen that the boxers are not well ...15... one being much stronger than the other, as a result of which he so much...16... his opponent that he wins ...17... Many boxers have suffered permanent brain...18... in the ...19... of punches that have been thrown at them during their ...20...

  Choose the most appropriate option for the gap labelled [...13...] above. Options:
  A) bout
  B) match
  C) performance
  D) contest
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1166:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s):

  Although i am watching television. I _____ what you are saying.

  Options:
  A) am hearing
  B) can hear
  C) have heard
  D) was hearing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1167:

  Choose the one opposite in meaning to the word(s) in underlined.

  I abhor a traitor

  Options:
  A) fallacious person
  B) reveler of secrets
  C) progressive element
  D) keeper of secrets
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1168:

  Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  People are not interested in who rules.

  Options:
  A) People are not ruled by the leaders they want
  B) People are not concerned about who rules them
  C) The rulers are not concerned about the people
  D) People who rule are not intersested in the ruled
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1169:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fills(s) the gap(s):

  The spokesman confirmed that government would not give _____ to the demands of trade union leaders

  Options:
  A) up
  B) into
  C) onto
  D) in
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1170:

  Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:

  Colossal means

  Options:
  A) a greek column
  B) gigantic
  C) something which has lost too much fluid
  D) a calamity
  E) the sale of colos
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  The correct answer is B .