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• Question 461:

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

  The principal expressed his _____when the students broke the rules _____ and he didn't know how to stop them?

  Options:
  A) anger / everyday
  B) frustration / time and again
  C) disapponitment / understandably
  D) powerlessness / occasionally
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 462: Identify the word that has a different stress pattern from the others? Options:
  A) interlocutor
  B) Opportunity
  C) Ambiguity
  D) Actualization
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 463:

  Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  Emeka hardly ever holds with my view on good governance?

  Options:
  A) Emeka sometimes opposes my idea of good governance
  B) My view on what good governance is conforms with that of Emeka
  C) Emeka never really supports my opinon of good governance
  D) Emeka may never hold a view which conflicts with mine on good governance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 464:

  Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  At the time I arrived, Olu was lying in third place.

  Options:
  A) Olu's third position coincided with my arrival
  B) When I arrived, Olu was sleeping in the space reserved for him
  C) It was a competition and Olu was in third position when I arrived
  D) On my arrived at the competition, Olu went to sleep
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 465: Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.The government which _____recruiting _____ workers suddenly stopped doing so? Options:
  A) are / its
  B) was / its
  C) is / their
  D) were / their
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 466:

  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 467:

  Choose the option that best complete the gap (s):

  Our teacher defined _______in his introductory lesson.

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) onomatopieoa
  C) onomatopiea
  D) Onomatopoia
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 468:

  Mathematics is the language in which the Book of Nature is written: Mathematics is the queen of the Sciences. It is universally agreed that Mathematics is the backbone of Science and Technology. For without Mathematics the engineer is but an artist or sculptor. He can build his bridge, attest to its from and beauty, but without Mathematics he cannot guarantee its reliability to serve the purpose for which it is built. Mathematics is indeed the science of sciences. It is also art of all arts. It is right, legitimate and defensible to consider Mathematics as an Art. The poet, the musician, the artist and the Mathematician have a lot in common. Fundamental to all their studies and works is their common interest in the logical study of related concepts and objects from patterns which will produce beauty, harmony and order. Thus the poet arranges words to produce a pattern called poetry: the musician arranges sounds to produce a pattern called music, the artist arranges colours to produce pattern called painting and the Mathematician arranges abstract ideas into a pattern, using symbols, to produce equations. Each of these patterns- the poem, the music, the painting and the equation must stand up to the test of some order, harmony and beauty. So if Mathematics is not an art what is art?

  The expression 'Mathematics is the queen of the Sciences' contains Options:
  A) a contradiction
  B) an analogy
  C) an irony
  D) a lie
  E) nonsense
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 469:

  Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:

  Most of the time my Boss tells cock and bull stories

  Options:
  A) costly
  B) unreasonable
  C) clever
  D) untrue
  E) funny
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 470: Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter underlined. Epitaph. Options:
  A) Pneumonia.
  B) Pseudo.
  C) Fan.
  D) Paper.
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  The correct answer is C .