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• Question 1321:

  Answer the following question below and select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  The player wasted a golden opportunity during the penalty shoot-out.

  Options:
  A) The player first hit the bar
  B) The player did not score the shot
  C) The player scored the shot that made them win the gold cup
  D) instead of a silver cup, they received the golden one
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1322: Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence?The events of last Friday show that there is no love lost between the principal and the Vic-Principal? Options:
  A) They like each other
  B) They work independently
  C) They cannot part company
  D) They dislike each other
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1323:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:

  Olu promised to look out for her next time he is in town.

  Options:
  A) watch for
  B) visit
  C) greet
  D) take care of
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1324:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase in underlined:

  The president has sent his regrets. He is unable to attend the meeting

  Options:
  A) explanations
  B) anxieties
  C) unhappiness
  D) apologies
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1325:

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

  The principal advised that we pursue this case cautiously, otherwise we are bound to be taken _____ by Ada's lies

  Options:
  A) away
  B) out
  C) in
  D) off
  E) on
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1326:

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

  I don't think he can _____?

  Options:
  A) can't he
  B) isn't it
  C) can he
  D) don,t I
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1327: Choose from the options opposite in meaning to the word underlined.Civil engineering is predominantly a male profession? Options:
  A) absolutely
  B) essentially
  C) generally
  D) seldom
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1328:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  The solution to the problem has so far _____ the scientist

  Options:
  A) defied
  B) allured
  C) eluded
  D) denied
  E) avoided
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1329:

  Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before the discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. He discovered that the firebrand, from which the torch may well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.

  Lamps too probably developed by accident. Early man may had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twing or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps which were made of hollow stones or sea-shells have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

  Primitive man carried a firebrand during his journeys mainly for Options:
  A) illumination
  B) cooking of food
  C) flame perservation
  D) warmth
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1330:

  The coach has asked the Bright Rangers to be paid their --6-- salaries and --7-- so as to --8-- them to victory against Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa in Saturday'sall-importantCAF Champions League Match. Bright Rangers are the third in group B with four points --9-- many matches and need to --10-- defeat at second-placed Al - Ahly to stay in the --11-- for a place in the semi-final of Africa's most prestigious club competition. The Coach told MTN Football.com that the team would be better motivated if they at leastreceive their August salaries before the Al-Ahly --12--. We have to make sure that they are paid their salaries --13-- so that they can play the game of their lives. The government has done very well, but it will be a big morale --14-- to get paid for them to go out there and play. The Coach informed MTN Football.com that the Bright Rangers plan to employ the counter --15-- to get a result in Cario.

  --10--

  Options:
  A) aford
  B) afford
  C) avoid
  D) annul
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  The correct answer is C .