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• Question 2221: Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.The man declared his intention from the? Options:
  A) outset
  B) inset
  C) onset
  D) offset
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2222: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) underlined:He has been advised to keep his head, the confusion not withstanding Options:
  A) avoid being beaten or insulted
  B) keep calm
  C) save his head
  D) prevent being beheaded
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2223:

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

  It is inconceivable that the son shone in the night.

  Options:
  A) credible
  B) unthinkable
  C) impossible
  D) contestable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2224:

  In the question below fill the gap with the appropriate option :

  It has been confirmed that the election _____ held in July

  Options:
  A) will be
  B) is being
  C) has been
  D) have being
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2225:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap.

  Mrs. Okoro __________ in this school since 1975.

  Options:
  A) taught
  B) has been teaching
  C) was teaching
  D) is teaching
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2226:

  Choose the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  It was our collective idea but Ado was doing everything to steal the show.

  Options:
  A) Ado was not part of the plainning but he tried rub us of the benefit of it
  B) We planned the show together bt Ado was trying to abort it
  C) It was a joint project but Ado is trying to attract the most attention
  D) We collated the idea for the show but Ado was trying to steal the programme
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2227:

  You would think that common cold should be easy enough to study, but it is not as easy as it looks. Colds often seem to spread from one person to another, so it is often assumed that the cold must be infectious but there are some puzzling observations which do not fit with this theory. An investigator in Holland examined some eight thousand volunteers from different areas and came to the conclusion that in each group the colds all appeared at the same time-transfer of infection from case to case not account for that. Yet at the common cold research unit in Salisbury the infection theory has been tested out, two series of about two hundred people each were inoculated, one with salt water and the other with secretion from known cold victims. Only one of the sail-water group got a cold compared with seventy-three in the other group.

  In the British Medical Journal the other day, there was a report of a meeting. ‘The common cold-fact and fancy’, at which one of the speakers reported a study of colds made in Cirencester over the last five years. Three hundred and fifty volunteers had kept diary records of their colds and on an average each had seven every year with an annual morbidity of seventy days. So nearly one-fifth of our lives are spent in more or less misery, coughing and sneezing. Some widely held beliefs about the common cold have turned out to be true. It seems that old people are just as liable to cold as the young. Sailors in isolated weather ships have just as many colds while on board and not in contact with the outside world as when on shore. It is truism that common illnesses pose more problems than the rare. The rare disease is by comparison much easier to handle. There are not so many cases and all of them have been intensively studied. Someone has read up all the literature about the disease and published a digest of it. There will be more facts and fewer fancies.

  Which of the following statements can be implied from the passage? Options:
  A) people catch more colds in winter
  B) te origin of colds is inconculsive
  C) people catch more colds in warm weather
  D) people catch colds equally in warm and cold weather
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2228:

  Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

  He is so credulous _____ my story about the ghost?

  Options:
  A) to believe
  B) that he believes
  C) in order to believe
  D) since he believes
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2229:

  In the question below, fill the gap with the most appropriate option:

  The vermin on his body _____ hideous

  Options:
  A) makes the lunatic look
  B) make the lunatic look
  C) makes the lunatic to look
  D) make the lunatic to look
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2230:

  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) unsavoury
  C) unwarranted
  D) lack luster
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  The correct answer is B .