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• Question 3141:

  Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

  Curiosity is as clear and definite as any of our urges. We wonder what is in a sealed telegram or in a letter which someone else is absorbed or what is being said in the telephone booth or in low conversation. This inquisitiveness is vastly stimulated by jealousy. Suspicion or any hint that we ourselves are directly or indirectly involved in. But there appears to be a fair amount of personal interest in other people's affairs even when they do not concern us except as a mystery to be unravelled or a tale to be told. The reports of a divorce suit will have news 'value' for many weeks, They constitute a story like a novel, a play or a moving picture. This is not an example of pure curiosity. However, since we readily identify ourselves with others' their joys and despair then become our own concern.

  Adapted from Harris, W. and L.G Wilson (1963) The University Handbook,New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston

  When bees are trained continually, they? Options:
  A) condition themselves to feed on bowls
  B) respond to sugary water in all colours
  C) land on blue and grey colours
  D) respond to different coloured papers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3142:

  The passage below has gaps numbered 11 to 20. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  Capitalism is an economic system which is founded on the principle of free enterprise and the private ownership of the means of production and distribution. The - 11 – [A. protagonists B. antagonists C. determiners D. attorneys] of capitalism claim that its essential characteristic is economic - 12- [A. exploitation B. manipulation C. manoeuvring D. freedom]. The producer is free to produce whatever goods he – 13 - [A. sells B. buys C. fancies D. manufactures]. but the - 14 – [ A. customer B. consumer C. controller D. marketer]. is equally free to buy what he wants. There is a market mechanism under this system, which brings the producer and consumer together and tends to equate the supplies of the one to the demands of the other, and -15 – [A. neutralize B. harmonize C. settle D. decide] the whims and caprice of both. It is this same - 16 – [A. market B. controlling C. operational D. production] mechanism which determines what prices the consumers pay to the producers, as what share of the total - 17- [ A. dividends B. interest C. output D. profit], in cash or kind, goes to each of the four recognized -18 – [ A. managers B. agents C. methods D. factors] of production – land, labour capital and organization. It is further claimed for this system that every person is capable of watching his or her own interest, and that whatever injustice is done by the - 19 – [A. pricing B. operations C. managers D. buyers and sellers] of the market mechanism, this mechanism tends to bring about a state of - 20 – [ A. conflict B. equidistance C. equilibrium D. opprobrium] between the producers and the consumers.

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  In the gap numbered 14 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap. Options:
  A) customer
  B) consumer
  C) controller
  D) marketer
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3143:

  Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  The keepers themselves are sometimes _______ by the bees?

  Options:
  A) stinged
  B) stang
  C) stung
  D) sting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3144:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined.

  For all he cared, the game was as good as lost.

  Options:
  A) He did not care if the game was lost.
  B) He could not care less if the game was lost.
  C) He was almost certain that the game would be lost.
  D) He was afraid the game would be lost.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3145:

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

  We saw Ifueko _____ an egg on the wall

  Options:
  A) smashed
  B) smash
  C) smashing
  D) smashes
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3146:

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

  A student's natural ability should be a _____ factor in his choosing a course of study at the university.

  Options:
  A) determined
  B) determining
  C) determinant
  D) determinate
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3147:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  We had difficulty eating the meat because it was leathery.

  Options:
  A) bitter
  B) stringy
  C) tough
  D) tender
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3148:

  Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

  Many would argue that the achievement is commensurate with the effort?

  Options:
  A) unexpected in the light of
  B) funny compared with
  C) proportional to
  D) the wrong excuse for
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3149:

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

  My nephew came in stealthily through the back gate

  Options:
  A) briskly
  B) boldly
  C) wearily
  D) quietly
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3150:

  Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.

  Nowadays, many graduate are not well disposed to teaching _______?

  Options:
  A) are they?
  B) aren't they?
  C) do they?
  D) they are?
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  The correct answer is A .