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• Question 3801:

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

  The pressman said that his interview with the Presidents was off the record.

  Options:
  A) not written on government record books
  B) not intended for publication
  C) not taped
  D) written elsewhere other than the government records
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3802: 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 3803:

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

  Those men helped Duped and _____ ?

  Options:
  A) myself
  B) I
  C) me
  D) we
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3804:

  At the time of trouble in Ireland, a priest said, ‘Man is half beast’, A diplomat replied, ‘Yes. And the beast is the half I like the best’. The priest meant that beasts behave as badly as man when man makes up his mind to behave badly. If you look at the folly and cruelty of today’s world, it is hard to disagree with the diplomat or the priest. But human nature can be changed. Anybody, if that is what they most want to do, can change the most difficult person they know. The art of changing people has been lost in the modern world. That is why the modern world has lost its way.

  There are two ways of looking at human nature. One is to make the best of it and it is assume that it is the raw material of life which cannot be altered. That is what most people in the free world to today. In these circumstances, if you expect the worst, you are seldom disappointed. Faith today has become irrelevant to the everyday needs, of so many people in positions of responsibility because they do not expect faith to change men.

  Another way of dealing with human nature is to exploit it. All materialistic s, whether of the right or the left, do this. All over the world vanity, fear, ambition, lust and greed are used to control the life of men; and if the control breaks down, man does not hesitate to use force, or to destroy life. The end, he says, justifies the means and men are only of value in so far as they are a means towards the achievement of his ambition. If they cannot be bribed or forced to play their part, then they must be liquidated.

  Faith today is by and large irrelevant because Options:
  A) nobody thinks it an alter human nature
  B) most people do not believe in God
  C) being in a position of responsibilty nullifies the importance of faith
  D) responsible people need not bother about faith
  E) the faithful are very few in the world anyway
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3805:

  Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"

  The writer tried to point out religious intolerance in his book, by

  Options:
  A) discussing how the society believes certain religion is better than others
  B) using one of Aliya's classmates to condemn her religion
  C) demonstrating how the religious institutions forcefully impose their beliefs on the people
  D) painting Islam as a more righteous religion that others
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3806:

  Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before the discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. He discovered that the firebrand, from which the torch may well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.

  Lamps too probably developed by accident. Early man may had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twing or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps which were made of hollow stones or sea-shells have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

  Primitive man was least concerned with fire as a Options:
  A) means of cooking
  B) source of warmth
  C) source of light
  D) means of travelling
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3807: 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 3808:

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

  My eldest brother is now faced with the vicissitudes of married life?

  Options:
  A) amazement
  B) sweetness
  C) amiability
  D) stability
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3809:

  In the question below, choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined:

  It is sheer fantasy to believe that there could never be a miscalculation by any nation that has atomic weapons. Fantasy means

  Options:
  A) dream
  B) hope
  C) nonsense
  D) joke
  E) stupidity
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3810:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined words :

  Most of his observations were wide of the mark

  Options:
  A) comprehensive
  B) irrelevant
  C) pertinent
  D) came rather late
  E) unacceptable
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  The correct answer is B .