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• Question 2291: Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.Audu fought with his _____. brother? Options:
  A) senior
  B) older
  C) bigger
  D) elder
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2292:

  My good people I come before you this evening as a man whose honesty and integrity have been questioned now, the usual political thing to do when charges are levelled against you is either to ignore them or to deny them without giving details, But before I answer any of your questions, let me state categorically that I have not touched a kobo of the #50,000 we contributed. Every kobo of it has been used in defraying political campaign expenses.

  It appears that the #50,000 Options:
  A) has been spent
  B) has been paid into the government treasury
  C) will soon be paid to the government treasury
  D) has been saved by Abu O. Abu
  E) will be used for furture compaigns
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2293:

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

  _____ are good friends

  Options:
  A) He and i
  B) I and him
  C) I and he
  D) He and me
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2294:

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

  Only observers from the Ministry of Works _____ allowed into the conference room

  Options:
  A) is
  B) are
  C) have
  D) has been
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2295: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).I sit true that Okoro _____. when the gates were closed? Options:
  A) had return
  B) wolud return
  C) should return
  D) would return
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2296:

  In the question below fill in the right word/phrase:

  There is not _____ sense in what that politician has just said

  Options:
  A) many
  B) plenty
  C) lot of
  D) much
  E) big
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2297:

  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.

   

  Alice, 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.

   

  Options:
  A) Outskirts
  B) Suburbs
  C) Interior
  D) Outside
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2298:

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

  We have been living peacefully here but _____ hear rumours of war?

  Options:
  A) again
  B) slowly
  C) occasionally
  D) eventually
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2299: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).The views of the plateau are in a shark contrast to the workaday cottages below? Options:
  A) ordinary and uninteresting
  B) beautiful and interesting
  C) comfortable and facsinating
  D) ugly and unfascinating
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2300: Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.The politicians were _____ by the press? Options:
  A) marooned
  B) ridiculed
  C) eclipsed
  D) ostracized
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  The correct answer is C .