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• Question 191:

  Choose the option nearest n meaning to the word or phrase underlined.

  The manager described Mfon as a man of vehement character

  Options:
  A) weak and interesting
  B) strong and insistent
  C) troublesome and noisy
  D) clever and helpful
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 192:

  In the question below, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence. 

  If the rain hadn't fallen, we wouldn't have missed the match.

  Options:
  A) The rain is falling, so we will miss the match.
  B) The rain fell, so we didn't watch the match.
  C) The rain fell, so we watched the match.
  D) The rain didn't fall, so we didn't watch the match.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 193:

  Days passed fast for Ntanya and Teresa. They could hardly notice the land getting brown all over kachawanga again, since neither of them noticed any more the sun come up and go down. Ntanya would work very hard in the field hauling in the last harvest and Teresa would stay at home washing, cooking and waiting, waiting for him to come home. She would cook his meal with extra care and when there was little meat she would only give bits to the children and not even touch it herself but use only the smell to get her food down and reserve the whole chunk for her husband. When Ntanya would come home with sweat on his brows she would put the wooden tray on a stool for him and sit down by him watching him eat with great satisfaction: every bolus that went down Ntanya’s throat would also go down her own throat. When Ntanya would insist on sharing the food with her she would always say she had eaten already no matter how hungry she might be. Ntanya would then eat and drink to his satisfaction and rest a while in the sun after saying ‘Thank you mother’

  Teresa would say she had eaten already no matter how hungry she might be so that Options:
  A) Ntanya would eat to his satisfaction
  B) Ntanya would say 'Thank you mother
  C) 'she could cook again
  D) she could watch him eat
  E) every boluswould go down her own throat
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 194:

  Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  Measles _____ no longer impossible to manage these days

  Options:
  A) is
  B) are
  C) were
  D) was
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 195:

  Rufus Okeke – Roof, for short – was a very popular man in his village. Although the villagers did not explain it in so many words, Roof’s popularity was a measure of their gratitude to an energetic young man who unlike most of his fellows nowadays, had not abandoned the village in order to seek work, any work, in the towns. Roof was not villages tout either. Everyone knew how he had spent two years as a bicycle repairer’s apprentice in Port-Harcourt and had given up of his own free will a bright future to return to his people and guide them in these political times. Not that Umuofia needed a lot of guidance. The village already belong en masse to the People’s Alliance Party, and its most illustrious son, Chief the Honorable Marcus Ibe, was Minister of Culture in the outgoing government (which was pretty certain to be the incoming one as well). Nobody doubted that the Honorable Minister would be elected in his constituency. Opposition to him was like the proverbial fly trying to move a dung-hill. It would have been ridiculous enough without coming, as it did now, from a complete nonentity.

  As was to be expected, Roof was in the service of the Honourable Minister for the coming elections. He had become a real expert in election campaigning at all levels – villages, local government or national. He could tell the mood and temper of the electorate at any given time. For instance, he had warned the Minister months ago about the radical change that had come into the thinking of Umuofia since the last national election

  The writer is saying indirectly that political parties in power could be Options:
  A) unpredictable
  B) honest
  C) corrupt
  D) servile
  E) autocratic
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 196:

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

  Had he known in advanced, he _____

  Options:
  A) should prepare for the interview
  B) was going to prepare for the interview
  C) would have prepared for the interview
  D) will have been preparing for the interview
  E) may be preparing for the interview
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 197:

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

  We had difficulty eating the meat because it was leathery.

  Options:
  A) bitter
  B) stringy
  C) tough
  D) tender
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 198:

  For these questions, choose the option that best complete the gap(s):

  The officer________that he was not supposed to talk to the press on the matter.

  Options:
  A) could have known
  B) shall know
  C) should have known
  D) will know
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 199:

  Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.

  The climate of Nigeria is an enervating one

  Options:
  A) a weakening
  B) an energy sapping
  C) an invigorating
  D) a sluggish
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 200:

  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 .