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• Question 191:

  Although our aim is to nurture healthy children, Nigerian children are still subjected to severe physical and mental stress as they develop.

  So far our interest and activities have been to ensure their physical well-being through the reduction of high mortality and morbidity rates, still inadequate as this may be. But we need to examine from time to time the other needs of the Nigerian child which will ensure a totally healthy development.

  We are split between two cultures – our traditional and the Western, a relic of our colonial past. This also affects our child-rearing practices. Therefore, these practices must have a very important bearing on how the child is prepared for our world of today so that he fits into our disturbed cultural milieu.

  Different styles of child-rearing and education can produce different personalities in terms of motivation, aggressiveness, achievement and integration of the individual into the community socially and culturally. It is important that, while we struggle with the visible organic disease, we fix our gaze on the other important measures to attain this end – a healthy child.

  The process of social adjustment begins from the moment of birth. Many of our traditional birth practices ensure that the mother either carries or suckles her child immediately after birth. The baby therefore comes into close contact with the mother at this critical time.

  Moreover she is forced to stay indoors with the baby for varying periods of time. By this means, the attachment of the baby to the mother, so essential for the child’s ability to relate to her in future is secured.

  This crucial moment in the baby’s life is now being recognized in the Western countries, whilst birth practices in some hospital and maternity homes separate mother and child immediately after birth to the extent that their ability to develop a close relationship may be jeopardized.

  Our Nigerian child of today may, therefore, be worse off than that of yesterday. As we move towards the training of our traditional birth attendants with a view to incorporating them into our health services, healthy practices such as the one described above must be maintained and encouraged

  Since the training for social adjustment begins from the moment of birth, our traditional practices Options:
  A) are too uncivilized to be helpful to the child
  B) need to be mordenized
  C) are very helpful to the proper growth of the child
  D) make the child a stranger to modern civilization
  E) are the cause of underdevelopment
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 192:

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences.

  Mr Cham will never tell you everything, he is very ________

  Options:
  A) secretive
  B) quiet
  C) reserved
  D) realistic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 193:

  In the question below choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word(s) underlined:

  The awareness of mortality has always imposed some restraint on man's excesses

  Options:
  A) celestial
  B) eternity
  C) continuity
  D) inexistence
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 194:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  If i went to the cinema i _____ early

  Options:
  A) shall return
  B) am returning
  C) would return
  D) had return
  E) may return
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 195:

  Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before the discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. He discovered that the firebrand, from which the torch may well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.

  Lamps too probably developed by accident. Early man may had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twing or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps which were made of hollow stones or sea-shells have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

  Primitive man preserved fire because Options:
  A) he used it for illumination during his travels
  B) his method of making fire was labourious
  C) he wanted to discover how to make a lamp
  D) he wanted to develop the torch
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 196: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.The highly appreciative audience clapped _____. hands and showered ______ on the lecturer? Options:
  A) their /encomiums
  B) its / encomiums
  C) their / invectives
  D) its / invectives
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 197:

  In the question below, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phase in italics.
  Many people used to live in poverty.

  Options:
  A) instability
  B) want
  C) difficulty
  D) the slums
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 198: Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).After so many trials, the experiment _____ ? Options:
  A) paid up
  B) paid for
  C) paid out
  D) paid off
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 199:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  The train rattled along _____ full speed

  Options:
  A) in
  B) at
  C) with
  D) by
  E) on
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 200: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the unerlined word(s).Th principal was filled with scorn when we gave our reason for coming late? Options:
  A) contempt
  B) sympathy
  C) anger
  D) pity
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  The correct answer is B .