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• Question 1361:

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

  A government spokesman announced that efforts _____ the release of hostages are continuing

  Options:
  A) to obtain
  B) in obtaining
  C) for obtaining
  D) of obtaining
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1362: We have to iron out our difference at once? Options:
  A) We must clear up without delay our misunderstanding
  B) We must ensure that our problems are eminated at all cost
  C) We have to settle our disagreement once and for all
  D) We have to solve some of our problems for now
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1363:

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

  Omogbai reported that the examinations _____ before he arrived in the hall

  Options:
  A) started
  B) have started
  C) had started
  D) are started
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1364:

  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’.

  The dominant subject of this passage is the Options:
  A) white man's road
  B) new religion
  C) white man's influence
  D) white man's weapons
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1365:

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

  The sales were lively, the upset price in each case was fair?

  Options:
  A) price that was the highest in the sales
  B) price that upset every other buyer
  C) highest amount for a bidder to offer
  D) lowest selling price of each item
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1366:

  Answer the following question below and choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase in.

  Akin is an inveterate gambler.

  Options:
  A) a selfish and self-centred
  B) an extremelyunlucky but popular
  C) an incurable but fearful
  D) a long time incorrigible
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1367:

  This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  Omar's achievement was by no means a small feat. This means that?

  Options:
  A) Omar's achievement was difficult
  B) His accomplishment was small
  C) Omar's achievement was not as difficult as it seems
  D) His accomplishment was not by a small feat
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1368:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap.

  I'll find time for my _________ when I get _________with this difficult assignment.

  Options:
  A) past-time/over
  B) pass-time/over
  C) passtime/through
  D) pastime/through
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1369:

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

  The elders rebuked Olu for taking issue with his principal?

  Options:
  A) Olu was scolded for acting in collusion principal
  B) Olu was reprimanded for arguing with his principal
  C) Olu was blamed for issuing a statement denying his principal
  D) Olu was cautioned for shouting at his principal
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1370:

  Developments in electronic science have transformed the art of record keeping to the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people’s minds. It depends very much on the retentive power of the human memory. This was extremely dangerous as people either forgot events wholly or in part or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Interminable arguments were thus order of the day. Even writing which replaced mental recording was not entirely free from these shortcomings as untruths could be written as true either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however these dangers have been largely overcome. Recording on audio and video cassettes now show not what happened, but also who did or said what including how and when

  From the passage, we gather that writings were almost Options:
  A) as unreliable as human memory
  B) as reliable as electronic memory
  C) more reliable than electronic recording
  D) not to be compared to any recording system
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  The correct answer is A .