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• Question 3131:

  In each of the questions, the word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.The union congratulated the ELECTED president.

  Options:
  A) Did the union reject the elected president?
  B) Did the union congratulate the elected chairman?
  C) Did the management congratulate the elected president?
  D) Did the union congratulate the ousted president?
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3132:

  In the question below, choose the expression or word which best completes each sentence:

  I do not want the light in my room _____ when asleep

  Options:
  A) turned off
  B) turn off
  C) to run out
  D) turned out
  E) turned in
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3133:

  choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the letter(s) underlined from the options lettered A-E

  Teach

  Options:
  A) deviate
  B) through
  C) wrath
  D) both
  E) listen
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3134:

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

  The shipping company advertised for _____ accountants

  Options:
  A) two young, but highly competent , Nigerian
  B) young, but highly competent, two Nigerian
  C) two Nigerian, young, but highly competent
  D) highly competent, but young, two Nigerian
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3135:

  Complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:

  Shall we go to the union meeting? No thank you, i do not feel like _____ anywhere

  Options:
  A) go
  B) going
  C) to go
  D) to have gone
  E) went
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3136:

  Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the option. The syllables are written in capital letters.

  catholicism?

  Options:
  A) caTHOlicism
  B) catholiCIsm
  C) CAtholicism
  D) cathoLIcism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3137:

  Is work for prisoners a privilege to save them from the demoralizing effects and misery of endless unoccupied hour? Is it something added to a prison sentence to make it harder and more unpleasant, or something which should have a positive value as part of a system of rehabilitation?

  Those magistrates who clung to a sentence of hard labour doubtless looked upon strenuous work as an additional punishment. This point of view is widely accepted as right and proper, but it ignores the fact that unwillingness to work is often one of the immediate causes of criminality. To send prisoners back to the outside world, more than ever convinced that labour is an evil to be avoided, it to confirm them in their old way of life. It has been said that the purposed of prison work in a programme of rehabilitation is twofold: training for work and training by work. The prisoner, that is to say, needs to be trained in habits of industry; but over and above this, he will gain immeasurably if it is possible to rouse in him the consciousness of self-mastery and of purpose that the completion of any worthwhile piece of work can give to the doer. He may find the pride of achievement in something more satisfying, and more socially desirable, than crime. But these things can only come when the work itself has a purpose and demands an effort.

  The author thinks that strenuous work in prison Options:
  A) is a privilege for the prisoners
  B) may do more harm than good
  C) is part of their punishment
  D) is a right and proper thing
  E) should be an additional punishment
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3138:

  Choose the word that has the same rhyme scheme as the following word:

  battle

  Options:
  A) raffle
  B) latter
  C) bitter
  D) kettle
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3139:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  The lady was completely nonplussed when her suitor rejected her gifts?

  Options:
  A) unpuzzled
  B) surprise
  C) unconscious
  D) disappointed
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3140:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap.

  All God's prophets were given the great __________ to preach salvation to people.

  Options:
  A) Commision
  B) Commition
  C) Comission
  D) Commission
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  The correct answer is D .