Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
The prices …. are too high for us
- A. you lent me
- B. you quoted
- C. you attended
- D. you gave me
- E. you want to buy
Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:
Colossal means
- A. a greek column
- B. gigantic
- C. something which has lost too much fluid
- D. a calamity
- E. the sale of colos
Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:
Don’t eat just any innocuous looking mushroom you see around
- A. harmful
- B. harmless
- C. innocent
- D. immunized
- E. conspicuous
Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:
The bible’s prodigal son became quite wealth eventually
- A. prestigious
- B. phlegmatic
- C. errant
- D. pecuniary
- E. extravagant
Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:
His penury gave him a lifetime of hunger
- A. avariciousness
- B. affluence
- C. poverty
- D. penny pinching
- E. greed
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
The old car …. several times this year
- A. was repaired
- B. has been repaired
- C. had been repaired
- D. has repaired
- E. was being repaired
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
You should show some consideration …. the feelings of others
- A. with
- B. about
- C. by
- D. to
- E. for
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
If he had entered the room, i …. him
- A. saw
- B. had seen
- C. would have seen
- D. may see
- E. will see
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
The horse is a winner, ….
- A. you can take that from me
- B. you can say i say so
- C. you can take my word for it
- D. it is my word against theirs
- E. you may or may not believe it
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
If we went to any European country …. Britain, we should need a substantial amount of money to pay our way
- A. like
- B. let us say
- C. as an example
- D. like say
- E. if we say
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
…., it might not look such a rosy proposition.
- A. From his viewing proposal
- B. when he views the proposal
- C. Having viewed the proposal
- D. From his point of view
- E. From his seesing it
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
Olukayode …. as a mechanic when he was young, but now he is a driver
- A. had been working
- B. used to work
- C. would work
- D. would have worked
- E. had worked
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
The students …. so much noise while the lecturer had to walk out of the class
- A. made
- B. had been making
- C. were making
- D. had made
- E. would have been making
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five option:
In the past his father used to walk but nowadays he …. to work by bicycles
- A. was going
- B. is going
- C. seldomly goes
- D. goes
- E. has gone
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five option:
By the end of the next semester he …. his University education
- A. would have completed
- B. will be completing
- C. shall have completed
- D. was completing
- E. must complete
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five option:
The telephone …. in the nineteenth century and is now used in most countries in the world
- A. had been invented
- B. was invented
- C. would have been invented
- D. has been invented
- E. was being invented