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• Question 4091: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word underlined: The advertisement served as a smoke screen for the activities of the company Options:
  A) a camouflage
  B) a protection
  C) an enhancement
  D) an exchange
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4092:

  Choose the most appropriate option for each group for questionsAlice, a small fragile-looking Ugandan mother, is dying of AIDS. She lives with her son and daughter in a tin-roofed shack on the .....1... of Kampala. When her husband died of AIDS in 1987, Alice discovered she was HIV positive. Frequent ...2..... of sickness forced her to give up her embroidery job. She was so depressed that she just wanted to eat. ....3.... by a neighbour, the mobile care unit from Nsambya hospital went to her home. They convinced her to start taking proper ..4....... After three months of ....5.... treatment, she regained her will to live. The AIDS time bomb .....6... on relentlessly. The World Health Organization ....7.... that 1.8 million Ugandans are HIV positive, nearly one in eight of the total population. The Ugandan AIDS Commission set up by President Museveni ..8...... the spread of the disease. However, under-porting and the lack of post-mortem and ...9..... makes it impossible to establish exact figures. No one ....10.... that it is a disaster far worse than the years of civil war.

   

  However, under-porting and the lack of post-mortem and ...9..... makes it impossible to establish exact figures.

  Options:
  A) Facilitates
  B) Amenities
  C) Condition
  D) Provisions
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4093:

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

  Unoka _____ the whole house to finds his missing wristwatch.

  Options:
  A) scourged
  B) scoured
  C) scored
  D) scouted
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4094:

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

  The new Headmaster hoped that his men would pull together.

  Options:
  A) He expected that the men would cooperate with him.
  B) He thought that the men would compose themselves at work.
  C) He was certain that they would resign en masse.
  D) He was certain that their condition would improve under him.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4095:

  Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

  Garage?

  Options:
  A) gear
  B) sure
  C) preesure
  D) measure
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4096:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined world(S).

  Amina said she married a doting husband?

  Options:
  A) a loving
  B) a fun-loving
  C) an uncaring
  D) a nagging
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4097: The number of workers have increased steadily each year means _____. Options:
  A) have increased steadily
  B) steadily have increased
  C) have been increasing steadily
  D) has increased steadily
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4098:

  Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

  What made you _____ that?

  Options:
  A) have said
  B) to say
  C) saying
  D) said
  E) say
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 4099: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).The officer was given an invidious task? Options:
  A) vivid
  B) cruel
  C) pleasant
  D) difficult
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4100: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  What is Ummi's Occupation?

  Options:
  A) Nurse
  B) Teacher
  C) Businessperson
  D) Accountant
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  The correct answer is B .