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• Question 1431:

  From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  Twice, he was repulsed with heavy losses

  Options:
  A) repelled
  B) gratified
  C) irated
  D) shocked
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1432:

  When I set out for London, little did I suspect that I was not on a journey to God’s own city where harmony reigned supreme. So used to the frenzied life of Lagos was I that I had come to associate that city with everything that was chaotic, and there was no doubt in my mind that Lagos was one giant symbol of our backwardness. As the plane taxied its way out of the tarmac of our national airport, of our national airport, I heaved a sigh of relief, not so much because I was leaving my own country as that I was being relieved of the tension that had possessed me during those tense hours in the untidy lounge. I had felt so uneasy, my thoughts racing from one uncertainty to another. But at least I was air-borne, moving away from the whole uncertainty, from the whole load of fear towards a place which I supposed would be El Dorado.

  Everything that happened in the plane passed through my eyes like pictures on the screen. The white air hostess who instructed me on how to use the safety belt was an angel, what with her beauty, her pretty blue dress, and her ever-smiling face. The same lady of the air served me snacks and supper. Another angel, whose queenly voice through an invisible public address system, dished out occasional information on the progress of our journey. I had never felt so relaxed, and my jolted heartbeats each time the plane took what appeared like a sudden brief descent, did not matter. When eventually we were set for landing, the anxiety that came over me was almost thrilling. What was the wonderland going to be like? So overwhelmed was I that I almost lost consciousness of what happened thereafter.

  But I would never forget the shock that greeted me when we arrived in the tube station and boarded a train to behold the sea of white faces and furtive glances from apparently indifferent co-passengers. I believe that the nostalgic feeling for Lagos which later became part of my life all my days in London began at a point.

  Before the plane left Lagos, the writer must have Options:
  A) Had a second thought before leaving his country
  B) Been very hungry in the lounge
  C) Been frightened of all the people in the lounge
  D) Detested the fifth surrounding the lounge
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1433:

  From the alternative provided in the question below select the one which is most appropriately completes the sentence:

  If the armed robbers _____ caught, they would have been lynched.

  Options:
  A) would be
  B) have been
  C) are
  D) were
  E) had been
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1434:

  Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentences:

  If the company had any delay at the customs office, it was _____ their own making

  Options:
  A) at
  B) of
  C) from
  D) with
  E) through
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1435:

  Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

  What made you _____ that?

  Options:
  A) have said
  B) to say
  C) saying
  D) said
  E) say
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1436:

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

  The dancing troupe put up a flawless performance?

  Options:
  A) an interesting
  B) an imperfect
  C) a satisfactory
  D) a careless
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1437:

  In question below fill the gap with the appropriate option:

  Every programming language and software package _____ limitations

  Options:
  A) have its
  B) have their
  C) has its
  D) has their
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1438:

  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 preserved fire because Options:
  A) he used it for illumination during his travels
  B) his method of making fire was labourious
  C) he wanted to discover how to make a lamp
  D) he wanted to develop the torch
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1439: Suleiman's reason for becoming a Muslim in the novel is because Islam brings sense of _____. Options:
  A) radicalism and aggression
  B) boldness and awareness
  C) kindness and truthfulness
  D) purpose and discipline
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1440:

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

  Your performance will improve if you _____ hard.

  Options:
  A) are practising
  B) practical
  C) would practice
  D) practise
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  The correct answer is D .