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• Question 11: Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others. Options:
  A) distress
  B) control
  C) bottom
  D) report
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 12:

  From time to time I hear someone say, ‘But Yoga comes from India, therefore is something “foreign” and I don’t see how we can make use of it’. Of course this is foolishness. It is like saying, ‘I don’t want to listen to the music of Bach because he was a German’, or it is like someone in India declaring, ‘We don’t want to use electricity, because Thomas Edison was an American’ Yoga is universal, it is a priceless gift from the East and its benefits are available to all of us who would accept them.

  It is very tragic that many of us, not knowing the facts, have for many years confused Yogis (a person who practices ‘Yoga’ is a Yogi) with a certain class of people in India who are known a s Fakirs. Fakirs have gain extra ordinary control of their senses, but use this control to subject their bodies to abnormal conditions. For example, they sit on the famous ‘bed of nails’ stick pins and feats. They are generally persons of low mentality, and they perform these supernatural things for money, food, favours and so forth. These Fakirs should never be confused with Yogis nor do snake charmers or Indian rope trick practitioners have anything to do with Yoga. Yoga is a natural development for body and mind and a true Yogi will never permit anything harmful or unnatural to be done to his body or mind.

  Finally, there is the question of ‘religion’. I am often asked, ‘Is Yoga a religion?’ My answer is, ‘Definitely not! For us, Yoga is a dynamic system of physical exercise and a practical and valuable philosophy to apply to everyday life. In short, Yoga is way of life and everyone, regardless of his religion, can benefit greatly from any6 one or all aspect of Yoga.

  Which one of the following in the authors opinion best complete this statement. The Indians would Options:
  A) not use electricity because Thomas Edison was an American
  B) not use electricity because American electricity is inferior to some other kind of electricity
  C) not use electricity since they can substitute their own Yoga for it
  D) not use because Indians and Americans are friendly people
  E) use electricity irrespective of who discovered it
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 13: The word in capital letter has the emphatic stress. choose the option in which the given sentence relates. Musa is STAYING in Enugu. Options:
  A) Was Musa staying in Enugu?
  B) Is Musa going through Enugu?
  C) Is Musa staying on the outskirt of Enugu?
  D) Is Audu staying in Enugu?
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 14:

  For this question, choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italics:

  Jumoke is fond of carping her sister.

  Options:
  A) praising
  B) joking with
  C) complaining about
  D) faulting
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 15: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:The lawyer told the court some unsavoury details about the case Options:
  A) unworthy
  B) unitelligible
  C) unpleeasant
  D) uninteresting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 16:

  Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning of the underlined word.

  We watch in wonder as she rattled away in that esoteric language?

  Options:
  A) inscrutable
  B) familiar
  C) secret
  D) obscure
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 17:

  Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  His antipathy affected the growth of his business.

  Options:
  A) hatred
  B) receptiveness
  C) loyalty
  D) hostility
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 18:

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

  I could have agreed with your action if i _____ not _____ you promised to increase the worker's salaries

  Options:
  A) have/heard
  B) had/heard
  C) were/hearing
  D) was/hearing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 19:

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

  When we were coming back from the picnic last Friday, there …. on EKO bridge.

  Options:
  A) Were many traffics
  B) Was much traffic
  C) Were plenty traffic
  D) Were losts of traffic
  E) Was a few traffic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 20: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. One of the students bought a plagiarised copy of the book. Options:
  A) An annotated.
  B) A used.
  C) An original.
  D) A revised.
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  The correct answer is C .