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• Question 1271:

  My good people I come before you this evening as a man whose honesty and integrity have been questioned now, the usual political thing to do when charges are levelled against you is either to ignore them or to deny them without giving details, But before I answer any of your questions, let me state categorically that I have not touched a kobo of the #50,000 we contributed. Every kobo of it has been used in defraying political campaign expenses.

  The author is Options:
  A) exonerating himself from allegations of embezzlement
  B) ignoring the allegations of embezzlement
  C) taking part in a political campaign
  D) demonstrating that he is a Senator
  E) try to implicate Abu O. Abu, a fellow political
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1272:

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

  Only those who are gullible fall victim to his trickery?

  Options:
  A) astute
  B) courteous
  C) saucy
  D) devastated
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1273:

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

  If it had rained, we would have had to postpone the concert. It didn't rain, so _____

  Options:
  A) we won't have to
  B) we would have had to
  C) we wouldn't have to
  D) we didn't have to
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1274:

  Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  The exercise presented us with a lot of problems but later it was all _____ sailing?

  Options:
  A) plain
  B) smooth
  C) rough
  D) tough
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1275:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  The principal said that he was pleased _____ my effort.

  Options:
  A) on
  B) of
  C) with
  D) about
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1276:

  Read the passage carefully and answer this question.

  May your road be rough. I am not cursing you: I am wishing you what I wish myself every year, I therefore repeat, may you have a hard time this year. May there be troubles for you this year. If you are not sure of what to say back, why not just say "same to you" I ask for no more.

  Our successes are conditioned by the amount of risk we are about to take. Earlier today, I visited a local farmer about five kilometers from where I live. He could not have been 55, but he said he was already too old to farm vigorously. He still suffered, he said, from the energy he displayed as a farmer in his younger days. Around his hut were two pepperbushes. There were cocoyam growing around him. There were snail shells which had given him meat. There must have been more snails around the banana trees than I saw. He hardly ever went to town to buy things. He was self-sufficient. The car, the television or radio and the newspaper were things he could live without. He had no ambition whatsoever, he told me.

  I am not sure if you are already envious of him, but were we all to revert to such a life, we would be driven back like aimless sheep to cave dwelling. On the other hand, try to put yourself in the shoes of the Russian or American astronauts. Any moment you are shot into space, you have to be mentally alert, else, if you forget what to do, one of the things that might happen to you is that you could forever become a satellite going round until you die of starvation, and even then, your dead body would continue the gyration.

  Naturally, they may have some slight foreboding on the contingency of their non-return. However, it is their courage for going in spite of these apprehensions that makes the world hail them so loudly today.
  (Akinyemi, A., Olupe, F., & Adetutu, S. (2012): Rubrics of English Language for Schools and Colleges. Divine Glory Printers, Abeokuta.)

  The farmer in the passage ......

  Options:
  A) used to be self-sufficient
  B) had a dream to expand his farm
  C) is more envied than the astronauts
  D) lives a life too simple
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1277:

  In the question below, choose the expression or word which best completes each sentence:

  I do not want the light in my room _____ when asleep

  Options:
  A) turned off
  B) turn off
  C) to run out
  D) turned out
  E) turned in
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1278:

  Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options below:

  palatable

  Options:
  A) PAL—a—ta—ble
  B) pal—A—ta—ble
  C) pal—a—TA—ble
  D) pal—a—ta—BLE
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1279: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).Let us not indulge in recrimination? Options:
  A) indictment
  B) accusation
  C) counter-accusation
  D) unfounded allegation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1280:

  Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.

  Since mortality is the lot of man, argued the preacher, we must all accept death with equanimity?

  Options:
  A) concern
  B) uncertainty
  C) serenity
  D) anxiety
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  The correct answer is D .