From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
It was reported that he stole the radio
- A. didn't he?
- B. wasn't it?
- C. doesn't he
- D. wasn't he?
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The road cannot be constructed without
- A. those huge earth-moving machines
- B. huge machines those earth moving
- C. those earth-moving huge machines
- D. machines those huge earth-moving
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
I am looking forward…….from you before long
- A. of hearing
- B. to hear
- C. for hearing
- D. to hearing
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The government has been urged to provide more facilities for training……….
- A. physically disableds and mentally retardeds
- B. the physically disableds and mentally retardeds
- C. the physically disabled and mentally retarded
- D. physically disabled and mentally retarded
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
What…….these last three years?
- A. are you doing with yourself
- B. have you been doing with yourself
- C. you have been doing with yourself
- D. had you being doing with yourself
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The principal, with all the teachers and students…….
- A. has arrived
- B. have arrived
- C. were arriving
- D. were to arrive
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
How I wish she …………the note in time.
- A. has seen
- B. sees
- C. had seen
- D. see
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
……….so dejected, he decided to stay at home,
- A. been
- B. having being
- C. being
- D. having been
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The beleaguered soldiers skilfully…….themselves out of trouble.
- A. dispatched
- B. catapulted
- C. manoeuvred
- D. proceeded
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
……….round the house I observed that there were more broken louvres than had been reported
- A. moved
- B. in moving
- C. to move
- D. moving
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Many people are now used to …..without lunch
- A. have gone
- B. be going
- C. going
- D. to
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Mary…..passed the examination without the extra lessons she had
- A. might not
- B. couldn't have
- C. would not
- D. will not have
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
My father said he once saw a snake……………a chicken.
- A. having swallowing
- B. swallowed
- C. being swallowed
- D. swallowing
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
He was accompanied……….his friend to the party
- A. with
- B. by
- C. over
- D. around
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
He got into trouble in an attempt to conceal the truth…………me
- A. to
- B. against
- C. for
- D. from
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Jide was absent from the meeting yesterday
- A. didn't he?
- B. isn't it?
- C. wasn't it?
- D. wasn't he?
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Ibrahim is gradually…….his problems
- A. pulling over
- B. pulling off
- C. pulling through
- D. pulling out
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The newly married couple are not………..with each other
- A. getting by
- B. getting along
- C. getting through
- D. getting fine
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
His account of the incident isn’t true, he just…….
- A. made it up
- B. made it out
- C. made it on
- D. made it off
From the words or group of words lettered A to E below each of the following sentences, choose the one that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word or group of words as it is used in the sentence.
A reasonable man will never refuse to review his action if it becomes necessary
- A. re-examine
- B. inspect
- C. reverse
- D. recapitulate
- E. visualize
From the words or group of words lettered A to E below each of the following sentences, choose the one that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word or group of words as it is used in the sentence.
A journalist would do well not to express prejudicial view
- A. unbiased
- B. coloured
- C. biased
- D. hostile
- E. spiteful