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• Question 3841:

  This question is from the novel 'The Last Days at Forcados High school'.

  ‘Jims, we have a perfect meeting with Mr Mallum now’ who made this statement.

  Options:
  A) Seyi Lawal
  B) Mr Mallum
  C) Mrs. Solade
  D) Femi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3842:

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

  The captain says sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.

  Options:
  A) localized
  B) perverted
  C) elevated
  D) overvalued
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3843:

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

  We shall offer a good job to a _____ to register guests in the Central Hotel

  Options:
  A) waiter
  B) watchman
  C) cashier
  D) receptionist
  E) cleaner
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3844:

  Manager: Mr.Mbu, I would not describe you as an inefficient worker; I therefore find it difficult to understand why the conference room is so untidy, in spite of the fact that I had reminded you of the meeting scheduled to take place there this afternoon.

  Secretary: Sir, I did instruct the cleaner to tidy up the place before meeting

  Manager: Are you trying to hold the cleaner responsible for the untidy condition of the room?

  Secretary: Partly, sir, I gave him an instruction which he failed to carry out. It is certainly my intention to make a formal complaint against him for dereliction of duty.

  Manager: And would you wash your hands off any blame after that? Do you think that just making a formal complaint against the cleaner absolves you of all blame? When do you consider an assignment as properly executed; when the execution is properly supervised or not? Was it sufficient for you to give instruction to the cleaner with out ensuring that he actually carried them out?

  Secretary: Sir, I do not see what else I could have done, short of doing the job myself. The cleaner Is a six-footer and I could not have intimidated him physically.

  Manager: I see, I await your complaints against the cleaner, but I shall not forget that you allowed a board meeting to take place in an untidy conference room.

  It would appear that the manager feels that the secretary Options:
  A) should have, if possible, personally cleaned the conference room
  B) should have ensured that someone else cleaned the conference room
  C) should have ensured that the cleaner did his job
  D) is a coward
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3845:

  Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentences:

  This writer analyses the evil society _____

  Options:
  A) so masterly
  B) very masterly
  C) in such a masterly way
  D) in a masterly way
  E) in so masterly a way
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3846:

  Choose the option that has the same stress as the given word.

  apparent?

  Options:
  A) arrested
  B) telephone
  C) paragraph
  D) appetite
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3847:

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

  The company is to shed three thousand staff this year?

  Options:
  A) throw up
  B) placate
  C) lay off
  D) demote
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3848:

  Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letters underlined.

  boat?

  Options:
  A) board
  B) bought
  C) go
  D) glory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3849:

  Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:

  I was able to _____ Olu my book because he promised to return it the following day

  Options:
  A) borrow
  B) give
  C) lend
  D) lease
  E) secure
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3850:

  Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

  I am _____ admission to the university this year?

  Options:
  A) seeking on
  B) seeking for
  C) seeking at
  D) seeking
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  The correct answer is D .