English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.
Fill in the gap(s) with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap(s).
This is to congratulate you on your success in the last examination and wish you _____?
Options:Choose the option nearest in meaning to the italicized words or expressions.
The French classes were always funny because we considered French a strange tongue.
Options:From the words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentence
If he declines the offer, it will be better for him.
Options:Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).
His father surmounted the myriad of obstacles on his way.
Options:Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).
Agbo could not travel as he had come _____ influenza?
Options:Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
His suggestion are completely _____ the point and cannot be accepted
Options:In each of the questions, the word in capital letters has the emphatic stress, Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.
The traditional chief NARRATED the story to the children
Options:Time was when boys used to point toy guns and say ‘Bang’. Now, they aim real guns and shoot one another. Nearly 4,200 teenagers were killed by firearms in 1990. Only motor vehicle accidents kill most teenagers than firearms and the firearms figures are rising. The chance that a black male between the ages of 15 and 19 will be killed by a gun has almost tripled since 1985 and almost double for white males, according to the National Centre for Health Statistics.
Who could disagree with Health and Human services secretary, Donna Shalala, when she pronounced these statistics ‘frightening and intolerable?’. In the shameful light of this ‘waste of young lives’ in Ms Shalala’s words, an often-asked question seems urgently due to be raised again. Would less violence on television, the surrounding environment for most children and young adults make violence in actual life less normal, less accepted, less horrifying?
It may be difficult to prove an exact correlation between the viewer of fantasized violence and the criminal who acts out violence after turning off the set. But if the premise of education is granted-that good models can influence the young-then it follows that bad models can have an equivalent harmful effects. This is the reasonable hypothesis held, by 80 per cent of the respondents to a recent Time Mirror [poll who think that violent entertainment is ‘harmful’ to the society. Witness enough mimed shootouts; see enough ‘corpses’ fall across the screen and the taking of a human life seems no big deal. Even if a simple causal relationship cannot be established between watching violence and acting it out, is not this numbed sensitivity reason enough for cutting back on the overkill in films and TV?
This question is from the novel The Last Days at Forcados High school.
What was the name of Jimi’s elder brother who stays abroad?
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