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• Question 11:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  The team has benefited from the coach's _____ of experience?

  Options:
  A) minefield
  B) reservoir
  C) wealth
  D) world
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 12:

  In the question below choose the phrase or word which best completes the meaning of each sentence:

  He used to play tennis, but he doesn't _____

  Options:
  A) as of now
  B) any longer
  C) again
  D) presently
  E) since
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 13:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:

  Mary complained that she slept on the coarse floor

  Options:
  A) smooth
  B) rough
  C) bad
  D) harsh
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 14:

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

  How much did Habib give Tomiwa personally?

  Options:
  A) Ten thousand naira
  B) Five Thousand Naira
  C) Thirty thousand naira
  D) Twenty Thousand naira
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 15:

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

  If i had not finished my assignment, i would not _____ the opportunity to go with the group

  Options:
  A) have been given
  B) be given
  C) be giving
  D) have been giving
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 16:

  In 1968 Nigeria was the world biggest producer of groundnuts (averaging 712,600 tonnes a year), the second producer of cocoa (203, 600 tonnes) after Ghana, the fourth producer of tin (13,264 tonnes) and the biggest producer of columbite. Oil palm, growing wild and in plantation in the south, supplied half the world’s export of palm kernels (407, 200 tonnes) and seventy per cent of the world’s export of palm oil (152, 700tonnes). Nigeria forests covered some 310, 800 square kilometres and produced about 1.132 million cubic metres of timber a year, for export as logs, sawn timber or plywood sheets. Rubber was grown by peasant farmers and, increasingly in plantation; and was partially processed in local factories. The ancient livestock industry of the north still supplies the whole country. About a million cattle are slaughtered annually, and the trade is now being modernized and expanded. As a by-product of the type of skin inaccurately called ‘Moroccan leather’ comes from Nigeria.

  According to the passage Nigeria used to be the be the world's biggest producer of Options:
  A) groundnuts
  B) palm oil
  C) rubber
  D) groundnuts and columbites
  E) palm kernels, groundnuts and cocoa
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 17:

  Choose the option that best complete the gap (s):

  The police described the boy as being_______hand.

  Options:
  A) over at
  B) out of
  C) on by
  D) up to
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 18:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  There were so many children _____

  Options:
  A) that she couldn't feed them all
  B) than she could feed
  C) that she couldn't feed
  D) that she could feed them all
  E) more than she could feed them all
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 19:

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

  Note that only senior members of staff have the _____ of using the toilet upstairs

  Options:
  A) permission
  B) occasion
  C) privilege
  D) habit
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 20:

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

  The patient is suffering from _____

  Options:
  A) reumatism
  B) rheumantism
  C) rhuematism
  D) rheumatism
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  The correct answer is D .