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• Question 2841: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The class was tired of the new boy jawing away all the times? Options:
  A) He bit off people's jaws
  B) He was always chewing in the class
  C) He was always making trouble for the class
  D) He talked continuously in the class
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2842:

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

  I want to _____this chance to acquaint you the latest development?

  Options:
  A) size
  B) seize
  C) sieze
  D) cease
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2843:

  The passage below has gaps. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  PASSAGE IV

  With the most profound respect to the members of the Senate, I do not think that it is within the competence of that ...1... body to pass a motion to ...2... the executive action of the President. The Senate is ...3... of the National Assembly. But it is not by itself alone the National Assembly. One can imagine the confusion, which would be created if the ...4... were to take a view diametrically opposed to that reflected in the Senate resolution. The strongest objection to the action of the Senate in passing the resolution is the fact that it constituted itself the ...5... as well as the judge of the constitutionality of the action of the President. The function of the Senate is to ...6... laws. But the Senate has no authority or ...7... to control the President in the exercise of his ...8... powers. It cannot by a mere resolution or motion give any directive to the President regarding the exercise of his powers nor can it undo what the President has done in the exercise of those powers. The only way in which the exercise of the powers of the President can be ...9... is by ...10... of the National Assembly.
  Adapted from The Guardian of July 8, 1999, p. 8.

  ...1...

  Options:
  A) executive
  B) legislative
  C) judicial
  D) administrative
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2844:

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

  I am told that the market is _____ in to the interests of people from all _______ of life.

  Options:
  A) tuned / walks
  B) constructed / places
  C) designed / places
  D) set / works
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2845: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase Underlined:At the age of 80, Musa wished he could put the clock back. Options:
  A) stop the clock
  B) put down the clock
  C) go back in time
  D) have more time
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2846:

  As the stranger approached, shola noticed that he was handsome and her excitement increased. It was of such a man she had dreamt. He had fine, arrogant carriage, like a soldier or someone in authority. When he reached the end of the pier, he addressed them in a rich, deep voice that disturbed her as the voluptuous rising of the tide had gone.

  ‘You’re Tunde Onu, I’m told’, he said to her father.

  ‘That’s right, said her father.

  ‘The bus conductor told me you take people to the islands’, the man continued. I’d like to go there if you can take me.

  Her father examined the man from head to foot, shrewdly measuring his capacity to pay. Then he said:

  ‘When were you thinking of going?’

  ‘Right away’.

  ‘That’s different story, for my boatman is gone to Badagry and he won’t be back before nightfall.

  ‘Oh!’ said the stranger. That’s too bad. You couldn’t get someone else instead of him?

  ‘I would have to think hard’, he said gloomily, for its not everyone would do for the job of going with me beyond the bay to the islands at this time of the year.

  Shola understood her father’s manoeuvre and felt ashamed.

  'Manoeuvre' in the passage means Options:
  A) shrewdness
  B) cleverness
  C) stupidity
  D) strategy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2847:

  Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options:

  He bade them _____ to his house

  Options:
  A) welcomed
  B) are welcome
  C) to be welcome
  D) to have been welcome
  E) welcome
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 2848:

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

  The policeman was sent to _____ the allegation made by the man

  Options:
  A) investigate
  B) examine
  C) probe
  D) enquire
  E) observe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2849:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined.

  Nwankwo was on the verge of signing a two-year contract with the club.

  Options:
  A) brink
  B) summit
  C) height
  D) shore
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2850:

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

  We should take care _____ the robbers come back

  Options:
  A) may be
  B) should in case
  C) perhaps
  D) probably
  E) in case
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  The correct answer is E .