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• Question 1841:

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

  I am yet to write the penultimate paragraph of my essay

  Options:
  A) last but one
  B) third to the last
  C) second
  D) concluding
  E) introductory
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1842:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase Underlined:

  The sudden death of the king put paid to the ambition of the Minister

  Options:
  A) encourage
  B) rewarded
  C) benefitted
  D) terminated
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1843: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:Tom's aberrant behaviour attracted attention. Options:
  A) rascally
  B) selfish
  C) heady
  D) abnormal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1844:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to word underlined?

  For anything to do with academic work, he has a great aversion?

  Options:
  A) conversion
  B) attention
  C) contempt
  D) predilection
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1845:

  Choose the most appropriate option for each group for questionsAlice, a small fragile-looking Ugandan mother, is dying of AIDS. She lives with her son and daughter in a tin-roofed shack on the .....1... of Kampala. When her husband died of AIDS in 1987, Alice discovered she was HIV positive. Frequent ...2..... of sickness forced her to give up her embroidery job. She was so depressed that she just wanted to eat. ....3.... by a neighbour, the mobile care unit from Nsambya hospital went to her home. They convinced her to start taking proper ..4....... After three months of ....5.... treatment, she regained her will to live. The AIDS time bomb .....6... on relentlessly. The World Health Organization ....7.... that 1.8 million Ugandans are HIV positive, nearly one in eight of the total population. The Ugandan AIDS Commission set up by President Museveni ..8...... the spread of the disease. However, under-porting and the lack of post-mortem and ...9..... makes it impossible to establish exact figures. No one ....10.... that it is a disaster far worse than the years of civil war.

   

  However, under-porting and the lack of post-mortem and ...9..... makes it impossible to establish exact figures.

  Options:
  A) Facilitates
  B) Amenities
  C) Condition
  D) Provisions
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1846: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. They accused him of fomenting political unrest. Options:
  A) Guiding.
  B) Inciting.
  C) Discouraging.
  D) Preventing.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1847:

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

  Based on the facts before me, I have no alternative _____ to hold you responsible.

  Options:
  A) only
  B) as
  C) than
  D) but
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1848:

  The passage below has gaps numbered 11 to 20. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  Capitalism is an economic system which is founded on the principle of free enterprise and the private ownership of the means of production and distribution. The - 11 – [A. protagonists B. antagonists C. determiners D. attorneys] of capitalism claim that its essential characteristic is economic - 12- [A. exploitation B. manipulation C. manoeuvring D. freedom]. The producer is free to produce whatever goods he – 13 - [A. sells B. buys C. fancies D. manufactures]. but the - 14 – [ A. customer B. consumer C. controller D. marketer]. is equally free to buy what he wants. There is a market mechanism under this system, which brings the producer and consumer together and tends to equate the supplies of the one to the demands of the other, and -15 – [A. neutralize B. harmonize C. settle D. decide] the whims and caprice of both. It is this same - 16 – [A. market B. controlling C. operational D. production] mechanism which determines what prices the consumers pay to the producers, as what share of the total - 17- [ A. dividends B. interest C. output D. profit], in cash or kind, goes to each of the four recognized -18 – [ A. managers B. agents C. methods D. factors] of production – land, labour capital and organization. It is further claimed for this system that every person is capable of watching his or her own interest, and that whatever injustice is done by the - 19 – [A. pricing B. operations C. managers D. buyers and sellers] of the market mechanism, this mechanism tends to bring about a state of - 20 – [ A. conflict B. equidistance C. equilibrium D. opprobrium] between the producers and the consumers.

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  In the gap numbered 18 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap. Options:
  A) managers
  B) agents
  C) methods
  D) factors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1849:

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

  You could see that Akpan did not give his evidence _____

  Options:
  A) honestly completely
  B) complete honestly
  C) honest completely
  D) completely honestly
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1850:

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

  The musician's popularity is beginning to decline

  Options:
  A) change
  B) wane
  C) slide
  D) disappear
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  The correct answer is B .