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Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s):
She was_______the verge of tears.
Options:In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fills the gap(s).:
_____ to your request, we have decided to provide the necessary information
Options:There are one or two things this country can teach others, one of them is the art of writing obituaries. One suspects that the reason why some of our newspapers still manage to break even is because of the great amount of revenue they derive from obituaries. It is not unusual for about one quarter of the volume of an average daily to be constituted of obituaries and in in memorial alone. One possible explanation for this, it has been argued, is that Nigerians value their dead greatly. And there is a saying amongst us that you do not say evil things against the dead. This is obviously the philosophy behind the large dose of encomiums with which our dead are bestowed. From evidences of these obituaries and in memorial, every dead Nigerian must have been something of a saint while alive. This would explain why the death of most Nigerians is attributed to the evil Machinations of the wicked. Only very few people in our country die natural death, and even when they do, the obituaries, etc always give the impression that such deaths constitute the saddest loss to befall the deceased family. And that is why writers of these obituaries and their allied advertisements are experts on ‘mortuary stylistics’. This ‘mortuary stylistics’ the study in the art of eulogizing the dead and making their loss sound so heart breaking, is one of the commodities we can export to other countries.
One suspects that the reason why some of our newspaper still manage to break even _____suggests that some Nigerian newspapers Options:This question is from the novel 'The Last Days at Forcados High school'.
“Nene, this is my niece Efua Coker”. Who made this statement?
Options:Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word.
It was evident to whoever listened to his speech that he also had an axe to grind?
Options:Choose the word that has the same CONSONANT SOUND as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.
wash
For these questions, choose the option that rhyme with the given words.
crowd
Options:Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the opposite in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
Politicians and holders of political appointments are generally assumed to be cunning:
Options:A wolf, seeing a lamb drinking from a river, wanted to find a pretext for devouring him, He stood higher up the stream and accused the lamb of muddying the water so that he could not drink. The lamb said that he drank only the tip of his tongue and that in any case he was standing lower down the river, and could not possible disturb the water higher When this excuse failed him, the wolf said: 'Well, last year you insulted my father.' "I wasn't even born then replied the lamb. 'You are good at finding answer' said the wolf, 'but what do you mean by taking up so much of the path where I am walking?' The lamb, frightened at the wolf's angry tone and terrible aspect, told him, with all due submission, that he could not conceive how his walking on such a wide path could occasion him any inconvenience. 'What!' exclaimed the wolf, seemingly in great anger and indignation. 'You are as impudent as your father who seized me by the throat last year and caused me to be kept in a cage for three months'. 'If you will believe me,' said the lamb, 'my parents are poor simple creatures who live entirely by green stuff, we are none of us hunters of your species.' Ah! I see it's no use talking to you,' said the wolf, drawing up close to him. 'it runs in the blood of your family to hate us wolves, and therefore,as we have come so conveniently together, I'll just pay off a few of your forefathers scores before we part.' So saying, he leapt at the lamb from behind and garotted him. Adapted from Bennet. C.H(1978)
The expression 'when this excuse failed him' suggests that the
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