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• Question 2891:

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

  The team adapted to the new tactic as clean as a whistle.

  Options:
  A) They adapted to the pattern perfectly
  B) They needed a whistle to be able to adapt to the pattern.
  C) They adapted to the tactic with little errors
  D) They found it difficult to adapt to the new tactic.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2892:

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

  Olu, Akpan and Ovbiagele's _____ make people to believe that they belong to same school of thought

  Options:
  A) philosophy
  B) philosophys
  C) philosophies
  D) philosophy's
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2893:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) Underlined:

  The preacher is under a cloud among the congregation

  Options:
  A) out of favour
  B) under observation
  C) under weather
  D) confused
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2894:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:

  Aduke: Ngozi, let's visit the market. Ngozi: if you insist, Ngozi

  Options:
  A) is very willing to accompany Aduke
  B) must accompany Aduke
  C) is not keen on going with Aduke
  D) is pretending not to be interested in going with Aduke
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2895:

  Choose the option that rhymes with the given word.

  Great

  Options:
  A) creek
  B) crate
  C) knit
  D) treat
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2896:

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

  Maimuna wrote to ask if I could put her …. for the night

  Options:
  A) Up
  B) In
  C) Out
  D) Off
  E) Away
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2897:

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

  You should not need _____ twice

  Options:
  A) to tell
  B) telling
  C) tell
  D) to have been told
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2898:

  It may be argued that museums as an institution and an agency for transmitting cultural heritage are an artificial creature, so far as objects are removed from their natural or proper environments and put into museums which are a different environment altogether. However, it seems that museums themselves have come to be accepted and recognized as the best equipped institutions devised by man for the assemblage of cultural objects and their presentation and preservation for the present and future generations.

  The artificial character of museums is however being gradually transformed into a cultural reality. Thus, just as one goes to the theatre for plays and other performing arts; the mosque, the church or the shrine for worship; the library for the printed word; today, it is to the museums one goes to see evidence of man’s material outfit. For, no other institution or place so readily comes to mind as museums do when evidence of material culture is sought. Herein lies the importance of museums as cultural institutions and an agency for transmitting culture.

  _____no other institution of place so readily comes to mind as museums' means that museums are Options:
  A) always ready to enter the mind
  B) a ready example
  C) recalled with great difficulty
  D) remembered with hesitancy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2899:

  From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:

  Evelyn: I've submitted eight copies. Joseph: You _____ eight. Three would have been enough

  Options:
  A) can't have submitted
  B) couldn't have submitted
  C) didn't need to submit
  D) needn't have submitted
  E) must have submitted
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2900:

  You all know how friendly we are with Okperi. Do you think that any Umuaro man who goes to prison there will come back alive? But that apart, do you forget that this is the moon of planting? Do you want to grow this year’s crops in the prison house in a land where your fathers owe a cow? I speak as your elder brother. I have travelled in Olu and I have travelled in Igbo and I can tell you that there is no escape from the white man. He has come when suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. The white man is like that. Before any of you here was old enough to tie a cloth between the legs I saw with my own eyes what the white man did to Abame. Then I knew there was no escape. As day light chases away darkness so will the white man drive away all our customs. I know that as I say it now it passes by your ears, but it will happen. The white man has power which comes from the true God and it burns like fire. This is the God about whom we preach every eighth day………..

  Unachukwu’s opponents were now shouting that this was a meeting of an age group that they had not assembled to join with him in chewing the seed of foolishness which they called their new religion.

  ‘We are talking about the white man’s road’ said a voice above the others.

  ‘Yes, we are talking about the white man’s road. But when the roof and walls of a house fall in, the ceiling is not left standing. The white man, the new religion, the soldiers, the new road-they are all part of the same thing. The white man has a gun, a machete, a bow and carries fire in his mouth. He does not fight with one weapon alone’.

  'Passes by your ears' in the passage means Options:
  A) piercing through your ears
  B) listening eagerly
  C) making no impression
  D) accepting the truth
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  The correct answer is C .