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• Question 931:

  You all know how friendly we are with Okperi. Do you think that any Umuaro man who goes to prison there will come back alive? But that apart, do you forget that this is the moon of planting? Do you want to grow this year’s crops in the prison house in a land where your fathers owe a cow? I speak as your elder brother. I have travelled in Olu and I have travelled in Igbo and I can tell you that there is no escape from the white man. He has come when suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. The white man is like that. Before any of you here was old enough to tie a cloth between the legs I saw with my own eyes what the white man did to Abame. Then I knew there was no escape. As day light chases away darkness so will the white man drive away all our customs. I know that as I say it now it passes by your ears, but it will happen. The white man has power which comes from the true God and it burns like fire. This is the God about whom we preach every eighth day………..

  Unachukwu’s opponents were now shouting that this was a meeting of an age group that they had not assembled to join with him in chewing the seed of foolishness which they called their new religion.

  ‘We are talking about the white man’s road’ said a voice above the others.

  ‘Yes, we are talking about the white man’s road. But when the roof and walls of a house fall in, the ceiling is not left standing. The white man, the new religion, the soldiers, the new road-they are all part of the same thing. The white man has a gun, a machete, a bow and carries fire in his mouth. He does not fight with one weapon alone’.

  'Passes by your ears' in the passage means Options:
  A) piercing through your ears
  B) listening eagerly
  C) making no impression
  D) accepting the truth
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 932:

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

  Legislators must be trained to _____ the truth

  Options:
  A) disguise
  B) discern
  C) digest
  D) disturb
  E) distort
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 933: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).Emeka's painting was so realistic that it could almost have been a photograph? Options:
  A) pictureque
  B) concrete
  C) lively
  D) authentic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 934:

  Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s):

  This professor of_______medicine has_______ the mystery of bird flu.

  Options:
  A) vetinary/unraveled
  B) vertrinary/unravelled
  C) veterinaty/unravelved
  D) veterinary/unraveled
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 935:

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

  The guests _____ breakfast by the time the bus arrives.

  Options:
  A) Are finishing
  B) Have finished
  C) Shall have finished
  D) Had finished
  E) Will have finished
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 936:

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

  Jimoh is noted for his _____ attitude to his seniors at school

  Options:
  A) receptive
  B) respectful
  C) respective
  D) respectable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 937:

  Answer the following question below and choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase in.

  There are still virtuous women in our society today.

  Options:
  A) clever
  B) upright
  C) devilsh
  D) intelligent
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 938:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  The policemen became suspicious as the hoodlums _____ in their office?

  Options:
  A) ferreted
  B) ferretted
  C) ferreted about
  D) ferretted about
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 939:

  From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word.
  I have an aversion for war movies.

  Options:
  A) dislike
  B) addiction
  C) preference
  D) bitterness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 940: Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.The weather is probably _____ appealing for people who live in Jos _____ for foreigners? Options:
  A) as / much as
  B) more / as
  C) less / than
  D) at least as / but
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  The correct answer is A .