Choose the option that best completes the gap in the sentence.
Mr Ezeh _______ with some solutions to the issue.
- A. come up
- B. came up
- C. flew up
- D. brought up
Choose the option that best completes the sentence.
Why do children _____ adults’ conversations?
- A. break up
- B. break down
- C. break into
- D. break off
Choose the option that best completes the sentence.
When they started the fighting, the man who tried to ____ was knocked down.
- A. intrude
- B. interpose
- C. intervene
- D. obstruct
Choose the option that best completes the sentence.
If her brother ____ here, he would call the police.
- A. have been
- B. will be
- C. am
- D. were
Choose the option that best completes the sentence.
My uncle is not sure ____ the strange guests were.
- A. which
- B. whom
- C. who
- D. what
Choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.
A vulture was hovering over the dead goat.
- A. feeding
- B. flying around
- C. jumping around
- D. standing on
Choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.
What a grotesque attire.
- A. beautiful
- B. splendid
- C. horrid
- D. fine
Choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.
Most celebrities usually have a tinge of dishonour in their life.
- A. tint
- B. tray
- C. tract
- D. mold
Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.
Everyone thinks Ojo’s decision to be a demagogue is ill-advised.
- A. pastor
- B. teacher
- C. manipulator
- D. demographer
Choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.
She is anxious about her son who has been ill.
- A. perturbed
- B. sure
- C. confident
- D. certain
Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.
Ayo does regular exercise to stretch his mind.
- A. enrich
- B. expand
- C. restrict
- D. conscript
Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.
My grandpa’s stories are usually phony in nature.
- A. factual
- B. misleading
- C. fake
- D. unreal
Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.
Jemila’s austere reaction kept everyone on their toes.
- A. harsh
- B. ambituous
- C. disgusting
- D. benign
Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.
Everyone thought the politician was invincible.
- A. invisible
- B. unconquerable
- C. vindictive
- D. surmountable
Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.
All men in public life should be altruistic.
- A. antagonistic
- B. selfish
- C. selfless
- D. unkind
Choose the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentences.
I decided to back up my friend’s argument at the meeting.
- A. I denied my friend
- B. I endorsed my friend
- C. I saw my friend
- D. I heard my friend
Choose the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentences.
Moses won the contest hands down.
- A. He won surprisingly
- B. He won very easily
- C. He won narrowly
- D. He won with difficulty
Choose the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentences.
Here he comes, speak of the devil.
- A. He is scared of seeing the devil
- B. He is the representation of the devil
- C. He is the devil himself
- D. He appears as he is being discussed
Choose the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentences.
Adeola lives a stone’s throw away from the church.
- A. He lives where stones are thrown to the church
- B. He lives a long distance from the church
- C. He lives not too close to the church
- D. He lives very close to the church
The passage below has gap(s), following each gap is four options. For each gap, choose the most appropriate option.
Teaching is a noble profession. Only those who have the calling to __6__ [A. impact B. impart C. infer D. confer] knowledge is called great teachers.
The teachers’ duty goes beyond the four walls of a classroom. They teach students various topics and __7__ [A. formula B. courses C. classes D. subjects]. The teacher listens to their students express their worries and fears, yet the teacher has to pacify and __8__ [A. care B. guide C. beat D. guard] them through the right paths.
As a __9__ [A. stakeholder B. shareholder C. officeholder D. cardholder] in the field of education, the teacher ensures that teaching-learning __10__ [A. habit B. function C. process D. policy] takes place in and out of the classroom. The teacher lights the candle for the others to see. He/ she is fast enough to move at the speed of the __11__ [A. guiness B. genius C. heinous D. spacious] and patient enough for the slow-learner to catch up.
In his care are the __12__ [A. book B. diary C. register D. attendance], the mark book and every other document which must be duly filled. While at home, the teacher still plans his lesson and prepares his teaching __13__ [A. books B. steps C. maps D. aids], all for the purpose of effective teaching-learning process.
Teachers should not be brushed aside in the society as teaching is the profession that __14__ [A. birthed B. delivered C. approached D. positioned] other professions. Teachers should be given a great __15__ [A. attention B. honour C. privilege D. care] in the society.
Fill the gap labelled 15
- A. attention
- B. honour
- C. privilege
- D. care
The passage below has gap(s), following each gap is four options. For each gap, choose the most appropriate option.
Teaching is a noble profession. Only those who have the calling to __6__ [A. impact B. impart C. infer D. confer] knowledge is called great teachers.
The teachers’ duty goes beyond the four walls of a classroom. They teach students various topics and __7__ [A. formula B. courses C. classes D. subjects]. The teacher listens to their students express their worries and fears, yet the teacher has to pacify and __8__ [A. care B. guide C. beat D. guard] them through the right paths.
As a __9__ [A. stakeholder B. shareholder C. officeholder D. cardholder] in the field of education, the teacher ensures that teaching-learning __10__ [A. habit B. function C. process D. policy] takes place in and out of the classroom. The teacher lights the candle for the others to see. He/ she is fast enough to move at the speed of the __11__ [A. guiness B. genius C. heinous D. spacious] and patient enough for the slow-learner to catch up.
In his care are the __12__ [A. book B. diary C. register D. attendance], the mark book and every other document which must be duly filled. While at home, the teacher still plans his lesson and prepares his teaching __13__ [A. books B. steps C. maps D. aids], all for the purpose of effective teaching-learning process.
Teachers should not be brushed aside in the society as teaching is the profession that __14__ [A. birthed B. delivered C. approached D. positioned] other professions. Teachers should be given a great __15__ [A. attention B. honour C. privilege D. care] in the society.
FIll the gap labelled 14
- A. birthed
- B. delivered
- C. approached
- D. positioned