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• Question 4051:

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

  Garba always puts his shoulder to the wheel

  Options:
  A) sits with his shoulder straight when driving
  B) works energetically at the task in hand
  C) performs tasks assigned him grudgingly
  D) holds the steering wheel firmly when he is driving
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4052:

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

  Salasi's tremendous effort has yield results.

  Options:
  A) absolute
  B) insignficant
  C) unimpressive
  D) a gregarious
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4053:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined words :

  The clerk refused to answer for the mistake made by the manager and his assistants

  Options:
  A) to reply to
  B) to give an answer
  C) to explain
  D) to accept responsibility
  E) to account for
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4054:

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

  Silk materials ought be be prohibited _____ being brought into the country

  Options:
  A) about
  B) in
  C) from
  D) by
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4055:

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

  All the accident victims are bleeding profusely?

  Options:
  A) slowly
  B) excessively
  C) diffusely
  D) clearly
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4056:

    Undergraduate students in psychology and education come to their first course in statistics with diverse expectation of and background in mathematics. Some have considerable formal training and quantitative aptitude and look forward to learning statistics. Others – perhaps the majority, including some of those who aspire to postgraduate studies – are less confident in their quantitative skills. They regard a course in statistics as a necessary evil for the understanding or carrying out of research in their chosen fields, but an evil nonetheless.

    The third edition, like the predecessors, is directed primarily at the latter audience it was written with the conviction that statistical concepts can be described simply without loss of accuracy and that understanding statistical techniques as research tools can be effectively promoted by discussing them within the context of their application to concrete data rather than as pure abstraction. Further, its contents are limited to those statistical techniques that are widely used in the literature of psychology and to the principle underlying them.

    The changes that have been made in this edition reflect both the results of our teaching experience and the increasing prominence being given by statisticians to certain topics. Thus our discussion of some procedures, particularly those in the realm of descriptive statistics, which students grasp easily, have being shortened or rearranged. The treatment of other topics has been expanded. Greater emphasis has been placed on sampling theory, hypothesis testing, and the notion at statistical power.

  It can be inferred from the passage that the book was written by Options:
  A) an educational psychologist
  B) more than one author
  C) a prominent statistcian
  D) a professor of statistics
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4057:

  For this question, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase in italics:

  Mr. Ojo has a fickle character.

  Options:
  A) a genuine
  B) a stable
  C) an imperfect
  D) an unpredictable
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4058:

  Choose the option which is nearest in meaning to the sentences in each of the following questions:

  For all he cared, his parent might have been dead for years

  Options:
  A) although concern about his parent,he had been unable to find out if they were alive
  B) He cared for no one except his parents, and it was possible that they had died long before
  C) he did not care whether his parents were alive or had died long before
  D) He was concerned about everyone not just his parents, who might have died long before
  E) He cared very much for his parents even though they were dead
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4059: Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).The Lion's of Cameroun is really an indomitable team? Options:
  A) a powerful
  B) a prominent
  C) a weak
  D) a cowardly
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4060:

  This question is based on Chukwuemeka Ike's The Potter's Wheel.

  Uke was conscripted into the military because

  Options:
  A) He was a social nuisance
  B) He loved the British soldiers
  C) His grandfather was a military man
  D) He wanted to travel to Burma
  E) He wanted to travel to
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  The correct answer is A .