Question 1
Choose from the options lettered A-D, the one that most appropriately completes each sentences.
Yawning in public without covering one's mouth shows lack of ........
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Question 2
Choose from the options lettered A-D, the one that most appropriately completes each sentences.
Obtaining visa these days is a rare.......
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Question 3
Choose from the options lettered A-D, the one that most appropriately completes each sentences.
You have to be very good at language before you can ....... it
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Question 4
Choose from the options lettered A-D, the one that most appropriately completes each sentences.
A teacher who is worth his salt is never ashamed of
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Question 5
Choose from the options lettered A-D, the one that most appropriately completes each sentences.
Correct measurement is not a guarantee for perfect .......
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Question 6
No matter how ;long you may have concealed an evil deed, one day, such evil deed must be .......
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Question 7
We do not want an amateur actor but a ........ one to play that role
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Question 8
John's frugality contrast with his friend's ........
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Question 9
Our economy which was depressed is now .......
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Question 10
The match was not as interesting as the ......
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Question 11
The life of an artisan is his ........
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Question 12
He has been away from his family for a long time. He is seriously......
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Question 13
The teachers don't teach us .......?
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Question 14
The teacher as well as his students, ....... working hard
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Question 15
The lass and the ....... will get married nest week
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Question 16
Fill the blank spaces with the correct option.
The teacher stopped by the roadside........ to have the boys
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Question 17
Fill the blank spaces with the correct option.
The teacher told the girls ....... to do when they had finished their needlework
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Question 18
Fill the blank spaces with the correct option.
Peter asked for permission to go home ..... he didn't feel well
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Question 19
Fill the blank spaces with the correct option.
Mrs. Ogbeide's sympathy with the poor little boy ..... a meal
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Question 20
Fill the blank spaces with the correct option.
I'd like this homework ...... this evening, pleas
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Question 21
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.
Which of the following is not true of the passage?
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Question 22
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.
The evidence would seem to indicate that
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Question 23
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.
```Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.```
What was the author referring to when he said 'my anti-western revoli was gaining momentum in the passage?
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.```
What was the author referring to when he said 'my anti-western revoli was gaining momentum in the passage?
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Question 24
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.
It would appear that the marriage had turned him into
Objective
Question 25
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.
I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. there is already too little in this world that is scared; and what Ngozi and I were must remain so. I was deeply in debt by week must remain so.
I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but I was absolutely satisfied with my mother's choice. Ngozi was indeed, an African queen and she had teeth and smile of a goddess.
The maiden tutors had done their job well; she was a completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all i could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-western revoli was gaining momentum.
'Swelling' in the passage means
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Question 26
Passage II
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption; the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as the earlier peepshow devices, such as kinetoscope and mutoscope, which was similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards, instead of on strips of celluloid. It suddenly became public an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores and even hundreds of others. At the same time, the image that the spectator looked at expanded from the minuscule peepshow dimensions of one or two inches (in height) to the life-size proportion of six or nine feet.
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption; the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as the earlier peepshow devices, such as kinetoscope and mutoscope, which was similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards, instead of on strips of celluloid. It suddenly became public an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores and even hundreds of others. At the same time, the image that the spectator looked at expanded from the minuscule peepshow dimensions of one or two inches (in height) to the life-size proportion of six or nine feet.
Which of the following is mentioned in the passage as one of the ways the mutoscope differed from the kinetoscope?
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Question 27
Passage II
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption; the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as the earlier peepshow devices, such as kinetoscope and mutoscope, which was similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards, instead of on strips of celluloid. It suddenly became public an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores and even hundreds of others. At the same time, the image that the spectator looked at expanded from the minuscule peepshow dimensions of one or two inches (in height) to the life-size proportion of six or nine feet.
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption; the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as the earlier peepshow devices, such as kinetoscope and mutoscope, which was similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards, instead of on strips of celluloid. It suddenly became public an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores and even hundreds of others. At the same time, the image that the spectator looked at expanded from the minuscule peepshow dimensions of one or two inches (in height) to the life-size proportion of six or nine feet.
According to the passage, the images seen by viewers in the earlier peepshows, compared with the images projected on the screen, were relatively
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Question 28
Passage II
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption; the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as the earlier peepshow devices, such as kinetoscope and mutoscope, which was similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards, instead of on strips of celluloid. It suddenly became public an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores and even hundreds of others. At the same time, the image that the spectator looked at expanded from the minuscule peepshow dimensions of one or two inches (in height) to the life-size proportion of six or nine feet.
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption; the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as the earlier peepshow devices, such as kinetoscope and mutoscope, which was similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards, instead of on strips of celluloid. It suddenly became public an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores and even hundreds of others. At the same time, the image that the spectator looked at expanded from the minuscule peepshow dimensions of one or two inches (in height) to the life-size proportion of six or nine feet.
The word 'expanded' in the passage is closest in meaning to
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Question 29
Passage II
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption; the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as the earlier peepshow devices, such as kinetoscope and mutoscope, which was similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards, instead of on strips of celluloid. It suddenly became public an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores and even hundreds of others. At the same time, the image that the spectator looked at expanded from the minuscule peepshow dimensions of one or two inches (in height) to the life-size proportion of six or nine feet.
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption; the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as the earlier peepshow devices, such as kinetoscope and mutoscope, which was similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards, instead of on strips of celluloid. It suddenly became public an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores and even hundreds of others. At the same time, the image that the spectator looked at expanded from the minuscule peepshow dimensions of one or two inches (in height) to the life-size proportion of six or nine feet.
According to the passage motin picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption because
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Question 30
Passage II
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption; the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as the earlier peepshow devices, such as kinetoscope and mutoscope, which was similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards, instead of on strips of celluloid. It suddenly became public an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores and even hundreds of others. At the same time, the image that the spectator looked at expanded from the minuscule peepshow dimensions of one or two inches (in height) to the life-size proportion of six or nine feet.
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption; the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as the earlier peepshow devices, such as kinetoscope and mutoscope, which was similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards, instead of on strips of celluloid. It suddenly became public an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores and even hundreds of others. At the same time, the image that the spectator looked at expanded from the minuscule peepshow dimensions of one or two inches (in height) to the life-size proportion of six or nine feet.
the word 'it' in the passage refers to
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Question 31
In this section, a list of options is given below every sentence, and you are expected to choose, from among the options, the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined in the sentence.
The blow given by the boxer to his opponent threw him into moved her to give him hallucination
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Question 32
In this section, a list of options is given below every sentence, and you are expected to choose, from among the options, the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined in the sentence.
The counterfeit nature of the company's products will make it to fold up
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Question 33
In this section, a list of options is given below every sentence, and you are expected to choose, from among the options, the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined in the sentence.
The delinquent who violated the magistrate order was handed over to the police
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Question 34
In this section, a list of options is given below every sentence, and you are expected to choose, from among the options, the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined in the sentence.
I am happy to stand before this august assembly
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Question 35
In this section, a list of options is given below every sentence, and you are expected to choose, from among the options, the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined in the sentence.
That there is vicissitude if life makes have=-not to be optimistic for a better tomorrow
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Question 36
After each of the sentences below, a list of possible interpretations of the underlined part of the sentence is given. identify the option that best explains the underlined part
He didn't realize it but not many of even the more experienced employees could hold a candle to him
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Question 37
After each of the sentences below, a list of possible interpretations of the underlined part of the sentence is given. identify the option that best explains the underlined part
The cashier decided to alter the records in order to feather his own nest
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Question 38
After each of the sentences below, a list of possible interpretations of the underlined part of the sentence is given. identify the option that best explains the underlined part
The chief used to dress quite expensively, but he is very down at heel now
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Question 39
After each of the sentences below, a list of possible interpretations of the underlined part of the sentence is given. identify the option that best explains the underlined part
'You will soon get to know the ropes' the transport officer said to the new driver.
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Question 40
After each of the sentences below, a list of possible interpretations of the underlined part of the sentence is given. identify the option that best explains the underlined part
it would be a shot in the dark if the conservative party wins te election
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