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• Question 1911:

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

  Many young men of nowadays do not know how to properly _____ their cloths.

  Options:
  A) press
  B) iron
  C) smoothen
  D) stretch
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1912:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  The head of state in his new year broadcast to the nation emphasized the need for Nigerians to regard _____ as member of the same family

  Options:
  A) themselves
  B) one another
  C) each other
  D) yourselves
  E) theirselves
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1913:

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

  Western education is one of the _____ child trafficking.

  Options:
  A) legacies
  B) evidence
  C) remnants
  D) inheritance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1914:

  Boxing is sometimes called' the noble art of self defence'. According to some people, boxing appeals to the lowest instincts in the ...11... who have come to watch blood flow and their fellow human suffer Boxers who are medically fit appear in the ...12... The referee sometimes allows the...13... to go on for long so that one of the ...14... is reduced to a human punch bag.It may happen that the boxers are not well ...15... one being much stronger than the other, as a result of which he so much...16... his opponent that he wins ...17... Many boxers have suffered permanent brain...18... in the ...19... of punches that have been thrown at them during their ...20...

  Choose the most appropriate option for the gap labelled [...18...] above. Options:
  A) drain
  B) fatigue
  C) damage
  D) sprain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1915:

  Answer the following question, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:

  Nwankwo was on the verge of signing a two year contract with the club.

  Options:
  A) brink
  B) summit
  C) height
  D) shore
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1916:

  Whatever may be its wider implications, the explosion of hydrogen bomb is, for the meteorologist, simply another atmospheric disturbance. It should therefore be classed with certain rare natural...such as volcanic ...12... But there are certain features of a man-made disturbance that requires special examination. As with all events on this ...13...It is impossible to describe what happens in details. However we can be reasonably sure of the main effects, and most impressive of these arises from ...14...The immediate result of the ...15... is that the air surrounding the bomb is raised very rapidly to an enormously high...16... The hot gases expand violently as great....17...compressing the air around them into what is called...18... or blast wave that is responsible for much of terrible destructive power of the weapon.

  Another kind of wave arises because of the weight of the air. The force of the explosion lifts the ...19...waves. Waves of this type are normally felt by human beings and they have their effect on the weather.

  Adapted from Ayoola K.(2007) University for All Students, Lagos, Nigeria: Olive Free Venture

  Choose the most appropriate answer in the numbered 17 Options:
  A) fireballs
  B) fireworks
  C) firesmokes
  D) firearms
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1917:

  The importance of the code theory in education lies in the fact that the school system requires the use of an elaborated code but not all students have access to it. The importance of this theory to sociology lies in the fact that the differential access to the elaborated code does not occur randomly but rather is controlled by the class system. Lower working-class urban children tend to have a restricted code. Middle-class children possess both a restricted and an elaborated code. The two groups enter into different types of relationship and learn to express themselves in different ways through language. They do not use language for the same functions, some of which it seems are necessary for the school situation. When the lower working-class child is expected implicity to exploit language for functions, he normally does not express verbally a discontinuity is created between his home and his school environment. He has learned to verbalize certain range of meanings in his home and when he enters school, another range of meaning is required. There is then a very subtle but nonetheless very real, sense in which what is taught is personally irrelevant for this child. The school system does not talk to him. Middle class children possessing both codes experience no such discontinuity. They can use languages for these functions required by the school.

  The groups of children mentioned as examples in the passage are Options:
  A) rural and urban working-class and middle-class
  B) urban working-class and rural middle-class
  C) urban working-class and rural and urban middle-class
  D) urban middle-class and rural and urban working-class
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1918: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) Underlined:After careful investigation, the police found no iota of truth in Ibrahim's allegations Options:
  A) quota
  B) grain
  C) evidence
  D) statement
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1919:

  Choosing the word or phrase from A to E which has the same meaning as the underlined word or words in each sentence:

  When a man is immune to an illness, he is

  Options:
  A) opposed to it
  B) attached to it
  C) hated by it
  D) protected against it
  E) addicted to it
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1920: Choose the options which is nearest in meaning to the sentences in each of the following questions. We visited the home of one boy. That's the boy I mean. Options:
  A) that's the boy whom we visited his home
  B) that's the boy whose home we visited
  C) that's the boy to whose home we visited
  D) that's the boy the home of whom we visited
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  The correct answer is B .