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• Question 391:

  This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  It might be said that there is some kind of sibling rivalry between

  Options:
  A) Teemah and Bint
  B) Teemah and Omar
  C) Jamila and Omar
  D) Jamila and Teemah
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 392:

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

  Joe had found a flat, so …. he will not be sleeping here, even if he still comes for meals.

  Options:
  A) Lastly
  B) Least
  C) Last
  D) At last
  E) At least
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 393:

  When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the American Declaration of independence that ‘all men are created equal’, he was not seeking to describe men’s endowments, but their political and legal rights. He was not saying that men do not differ from one another in the powers and dimensions of their bodies, minds and characters. He was asserting that despite variations and differences, they all possessed the right to equal political and legal treatment. We must however, ask of what real values are political and legal equality to a man who has no bread to eat , no clothes to wear, no roof to shelter him, no chance to earn a livelihood? What we understand as a democratic society must provide for its citizen’s minimum status protection in his deprivation, losses and fears.

  In our time, the nations of the democratic world have installed elaborate system of social security and welfare, ranging from compensation for industrial accidents to subsidize housing, unemployment insurance, old age pension, psychiatric care and national health services. It is encouraging that the democratic nations are making a serious effort to provide against the characteristic losses and disasters of human life.

  The evolving status of the Negro in America is attracting the attention of the champions of equality. Much has been written on the wrongs, injustice and inequalities of the coloured citizen of the USA and much remains to be said because the history of this struggle for human rights is still unfolding.

  It could be deduced from the passage that Options:
  A) citizens have equal political and legal treatment in america
  B) the nations of the democratic world have no political and ligal hierarchy
  C) democratic nations are expanding the provision of social welfare
  D) equality obliterates differences and variations among races and nations
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 394:

  Answer the following question below , the word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

  The ACCOUNTANT paid the workers' July salary in September.

  Options:
  A) when were the workers paid?
  B) did the cashier pay the workers' salary in September
  C) workers received their july salary in September
  D) the September salary was paid in July?
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 395:

  From the list of words or group of wordslettered A to D, choose the one that is mostnearest opposite in meaning to the underlined word or group of words and that will, at the same time correctly fill in the gap in the sentence.

  My uncle is a prosperous businessman, my aunt, unfortunately, is quite ________

  Options:
  A) unskillful
  B) domestic
  C) unsuccessful
  D) unqualified
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 396:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  Before the operation, the dentist found that his patient's teeth _____

  Options:
  A) have long decayed
  B) have long been decayed
  C) have long being decayed
  D) had long decayed
  E) had been decayed
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 397:

  Choose the word that has a different stress pattern

  Options:
  A) embrace
  B) suspect(V)
  C) member
  D) project(V)
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 398: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).The fateful decision changed the company's outlook in many ways? Options:
  A) wonderful
  B) uncontrollable
  C) disastrous
  D) unsuccessful
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 399:

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

  "come here, you pretty child; I hear you will be going to the same school as my daughter." Who made this statement and to whom?

  Options:
  A) Aunt Moni said this to Efua
  B) Efua to Aunt Moni
  C) Mrs. Ekpo said this to Efua
  D) Aunt Moni to Mrs. Ekpo
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 400:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) Underlined:

  Coastal plains are often very densely populated.

  Options:
  A) weakly
  B) badly
  C) rarely
  D) sparsely
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  The correct answer is D .