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• Question 211: Choose the option that best complete the gap. The guard spent all the night pacing _____. Options:
  A) To and fro.
  B) From and to.
  C) Fro and to.
  D) To and from.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 212:

  Choose the correct interpretations of the statement given, for questions below

  I know my onions

  Options:
  A) I know my job very well
  B) I know my rights
  C) I am clever because of experience
  D) I am aware of my position
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 213:
  Read the passage and answer the question that follows

  It was a Sunday afternoon that I saw the lorry standing in front of the post office. I had seen it long before my brother saw it, but it was he who said to me “Don’t you think it odd that the post office should be open this afternoon? What do you think is happening? ‘Come round the corner, out of sight, and let’s watch’, I answered. My brother Michael was younger than me, so I kept him behind me, and peering round the corner told him what I saw. ‘There are four men coming out, carrying a very heavy box’ ‘Oh! I exclaimed. ‘It’s a safe, ‘I think they’re burglars, said my brother who was full of suspicion. ‘One of them has fallen over ‘I said; ‘the safe is too heavy for them’. You go and fetch the police said my brother, ‘and I’ll stay here and watch,’ ‘No you go and get them’, I replied, because I wanted to see what was going to happen. My brother ran off and then, suddenly, a man came running out of the post office, shouting, ‘Hurry! Hurry! Get it on the lorry!’ He joined the first four and they managed to get the safe up on to the back of the lorry. When they had done this, the man who had shouted got into the driver’s seat, but the lorry would not start. Just then my brother came back with three policemen. To cut a long story short, the men were all arrested and my brother and I had to go and give evidence before a magistrate. The men went to prison, of course, in the end, but you should have seen the face of the leader - it was contorted with rage – when he learned that the safe they had managed to steal was empty, and all the money was in the bank.

  The brothers decided to call the police because Options:
  A) they thought they were burglars
  B) policemen are required on such occasions
  C) calling the policemen was the only thing they could have done
  D) they were cowardly
  E) they would have wished to give evidence in court
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 214:

  Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket

  Okibe was rusticated for his [derogatory] remark about the principal

  Options:
  A) complimentary
  B) unwarranted
  C) lack luster
  D) unsavoury
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 215:

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

  Four persons accused of currency _____ are being held by the security agents

  Options:
  A) traficking
  B) traviking
  C) trafficking
  D) traffiking
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 216:

  choose the option nearly opposite in meaning to the word(s) underlined

  One hundred and forty kilometres per hour is a reasonable speed limit.

  Options:
  A) acceptable
  B) unbelievable
  C) outrageous
  D) detestable
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 217:

  For this question, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the question.

  By refusing the offer, he has just cut down his own throat.

  Options:
  A) He has made a big mistake
  B) He has made the right decision
  C) He has given up on his idea
  D) He has used the Knife on his throat
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 218: Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence?Though he is our elected representative he often takes a rather jaundiced view of our problems? Options:
  A) He takes a rather hazy view of our problems
  B) He takes an unfavourable position concerning our problems
  C) He takes a rather forceful view of our problems
  D) He takes a sickly view of our problems
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 219: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).The _____ event marked the beginning of a new life for the entire cabinet? Options:
  A) historical
  B) historicity of the
  C) historic
  D) history of the
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 220:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) Underlined:

  The house-wife was hard up before the end of each month

  Options:
  A) upset
  B) penniless
  C) borrowing
  D) in no need
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  The correct answer is D .