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232

Choose from the options labeled A to E, the most appropriate question to the given sentence containing an emphatic stress word. The emphatic stress word is written in CAPITAL letters.

Farmers PLANT crops during the rainy season.

  • A. Do farmers harvest crops during the rainy season?
  • B. Do farmers level crops during the rainy season?
  • C. Do farmers plant crops before the rainy season?
  • D. Do farmers plant crops during the dry season?
  • E. Do labourers plant crops during the rainy season?
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233

Choose from the options labelled A to E, the one that contains the sound represented by the given symbol.

| b|

  • A. bag
  • B. comb
  • C. debt
  • D. lamb
  • E. limb
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234

Choose from the options A to E the one that is MOST NEARLY OPPOSITE IN MEANING to the underlined word.

Religious people are expected to be ascetic.

  • A. Extravagant
  • B. flamboyant
  • C. ostentatious
  • D. Pious
  • E. selfless
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235

Choose from the options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE

The Chairman with all his Councilors______ honoured last weekend

  • A. Are
  • B. have been
  • C. is
  • D. was
  • E. were
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236

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

If I_____ you, l would forgive the boy.

  • A. am
  • B. am being
  • C. have been
  • D. was
  • E. were
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237

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

The introduction of religious fanaticism in state affairs is an ill wind that blows no one any good. This means that if is a ……….development.

  • A. Dangerous
  • B. global
  • C. recent
  • D. strange
  • E. tempestuous
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238

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

Many people watched the kidnapper_________ by the angry mob.

  • A. about to lynch
  • B. been lynched
  • C. being lynched
  • D. lynch
  • E. was to be lynched
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239

Choose from the options A to E the one that is NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE UNDERLINED WORD.

Some people believe that it is ominous for the dog to bark at night.

  • A. dangerous
  • B. fearful
  • C. frightening
  • D. horrible
  • E. threatening
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240

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

If he_______ there, he would have met him at home

  • A. can go
  • B. goes
  • C. had gone
  • D. went
  • E. would go
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241

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

To keep our bodies healthy, we need a_________ diet.

  • A. Balanced
  • B. complete
  • C. mixed
  • D. nutritious
  • E. proteomics
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242

Choose from the options A to E the one that is NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE UNDERLINED WORD.

No sensible government will welcome subversive criticisms from the public.

  • A. destructive
  • B. retrogressive
  • C. substantive
  • D. uncontrolled
  • E. unfair
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243

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

In computing, data is processed to give ___________

  • A. an information
  • B. complete informations
  • C. information
  • D. informations
  • E. many informations
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244

Choose from the options A to E the one that is the MOST APPROPRIATE INTERPRETATION for each of the following statements.
 

The impertinent woman has just left here with her bag and baggage. This means she left with all her________.

  • A. bags and boxes
  • B. clothes and shoes
  • C. jewellery
  • D. luggage
  • E. possessions
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245

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

Wole Soyinka gave his _________country a great award.

  • A. Ethnic
  • B. foreign
  • C. home
  • D. indigenous
  • E. local
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246

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

He denied that he________ the man.

  • A. didnβ€˜t see
  • B. doesn’t see
  • C. had seen
  • D. hadn’t seen
  • E. hasn’t seen
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247

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

The new refinery will turn______ five million barrels of oil daily.

  • A. around
  • B. in
  • C. out
  • D. over
  • E. up
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248

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

The jilted woman eventually found herself at_______.

  • A. a crossroad
  • B. a crossroads
  • C. some crossroads
  • D. the crossroad
  • E. the crossroads
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249

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

It may be unwise to consider any________ man your enemy.

  • A. Moral
  • B. morbid
  • C. mortal
  • D. serious
  • E. total
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250

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

The man said that he________________

  • A. would sleep here a month ago
  • B. will sleep there a month ago
  • C. slept there next week
  • D. had slept there a month before
  • E. sleep here a month ago
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251

Choose from options A to E the one that MOST APPROPRIATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE.

I am not going to do______________.

  • A. any more work today
  • B. any work more today
  • C. today any more work
  • D. today any work more
  • E. work any more today
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252

Choose from the options A to E the one that is NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE UNDERLINED WORD.

The boy is patently a rogue.

  • A. Generally
  • B. habitually
  • C. obviously
  • D. possibly
  • E. probably
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