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• Question 751:

  Young men have strong passions, and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of self-control. They are changeable and fickle in their desires, which are violent while they last but quickly over; their impulse are keen bot not deep-rooted and are like sick people’s attacks of hunger and thirst. They are hot-tempered and quick-tempered and apt to give way to their anger; bad temper often gets the better of them, for owing to their love of honour they cannot bear slighted and are indignant if they imagine themselves unfairly treated. While they love honour, they love victory still more, for youth is eager for superiority over other and victory is one form of this. They love both more than they love money which indeed they love very little not having yet learnt what it means to be without it. They look at the good side rather than the bad, not having yet witnessed many instances of wickedness. They trust others readily because they have not yet been cheated. They are sanguine; nature warms their blood as though with excess of wine and besides that, they have as yet met with few dis appointments. Their lives are mainly spent not in memory but in expectation for youth has a long future before it and a short past behind it: on the first day of one’s life, one has nothing at all to remember and can only look forward. They are easily cheated owing to the sanguine disposition just mentioned. Their hot tempers and hopeful dispositions make them more courageous than older men are; the hot temper prevents fear and the hopeful disposition creates confidence. We cannot feel fear so long as we are feeling angry and any expectation of good makes us confident.

  According to the passage, young men are Options:
  A) violet when they have sexual desires
  B) active and restive untill they satisfy their sexual desires
  C) indignant and fickle in satisfying their sexual desires
  D) hot-tempered when they are hungry or thirsty
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 752:

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

  How much did Salma give to Dr Kabir

  Options:
  A) one hundred thousand naira
  B) one hundred and fifty thousand Naira
  C) Two hundred thousand Naira
  D) Three hundred thousand Naira
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 753:

  Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he has committed a crime. Delinquency is one of several status offences- offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by age, profession or a person’s role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age usually they are offences only to the extent that they help to preserve some of the good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a weapon forged in adult pride and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility would than certainly refer only to many of the adult actions now freely committed by them.

  In the view of the writer, drinking under age is an offence because Options:
  A) adults want to have all the to themselves
  B) adults do not want juveniles to get drunk
  C) drunken juveniles can cause disorder in society
  D) adults have a duty to protect young persons
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 754:

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

  Ngozi and Ekaette were fast friends when we were in the secondary school

  Options:
  A) friends who run very quickly together
  B) friends who go without food for a long time together
  C) friends who are not easily separated from each other
  D) friends who spend too much time and energy on pleasure and excitement together
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 755:

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

  All the efforts made to settle the quarrel were futile

  Options:
  A) successful
  B) wicked
  C) reasonable
  D) remarkable
  E) fruitless
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 756: Choose the option that best completes the gap(s). He not only looked after the children when their parents died, _____ sponsored their education to university? Options:
  A) but also
  B) also he
  C) but he
  D) also
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 757:

  There are one or two things this country can teach others, one of them is the art of writing obituaries. One suspects that the reason why some of our newspapers still manage to break even is because of the great amount of revenue they derive from obituaries. It is not unusual for about one quarter of the volume of an average daily to be constituted of obituaries and in in memorial alone. One possible explanation for this, it has been argued, is that Nigerians value their dead greatly. And there is a saying amongst us that you do not say evil things against the dead. This is obviously the philosophy behind the large dose of encomiums with which our dead are bestowed. From evidences of these obituaries and in memorial, every dead Nigerian must have been something of a saint while alive. This would explain why the death of most Nigerians is attributed to the evil Machinations of the wicked. Only very few people in our country die natural death, and even when they do, the obituaries, etc always give the impression that such deaths constitute the saddest loss to befall the deceased family. And that is why writers of these obituaries and their allied advertisements are experts on ‘mortuary stylistics’. This ‘mortuary stylistics’ the study in the art of eulogizing the dead and making their loss sound so heart breaking, is one of the commodities we can export to other countries.

  One suspects that the reason why some of our newspaper still manage to break even _____suggests that some Nigerian newspapers Options:
  A) would be runnung at a loss but for obituaries
  B) are patronized only because they specialize in obituaries
  C) derive all their revenue from obituaries
  D) invest huge revenue in obituaries
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 758: Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).Adayi is a die-hard criminal? Options:
  A) hard to kill
  B) hard to arrest
  C) remorseless
  D) resentless
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 759:

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

  Emeka was always conspicuous by his absence when it came to attending lectures.

  Options:
  A) That Emeka always attended lectures at school
  B) Emeka absence from lectures was all too glaring
  C) It was obvious that Emeka was not present at lectures
  D) What made Emeka conspicuous was is occasional absence from school
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 760:

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

  The driver was discharged while the car owner was ___________ for fraud.

  Options:
  A) remanded
  B) detained
  C) acquitted
  D) sued
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  The correct answer is B .