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If I left the country, I would arrange for my family to join me?
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(B)
In the event of his leaving the country, his family would join him
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A state of mutual hatred existed for years between the two villages of Umunna and Ogboma?
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(D)
Umunna and Ogboma hated each other
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The painting in the museum was beautifully faked?
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(A)
The painting was a good deceptive replica
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Ade: Do you mind if i sit down here?
Bola: Well, yes I do actually.
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(C)
Bola is certainly rejecting the request
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The president held forth for several minutes on the need for patriotism?
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(D)
The president gave a rather long speech on the importance of patriotism
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The slide in the price of gold in the world market has left the industry reeling?
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(A)
The gradual fall in gold price is making the industry unstable
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Fabricated statements published as truths amount to an abuse of press freedom?
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(B)
Publishing formulated untruths is misused press freedom
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The expected guests arrived at the eleventh hour?
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(A)
The guest arrived at the last minute
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After addressing the court for two hours, the defence counsel rested her case?
Answer
(C)
The defence counsel concluded her defence after speaking for two hours
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Benjamin exclaimed, 'If it is Napoleon who said it, it must be right'?
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(D)
Benjamin thinks that Napoleon always says the right thing
11
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The chairman's verdict redressed the injustice mete out by the secretary?
Answer
(C)
aggravated
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Uche could not travel last December because of the severity of the harmattan?
Answer
(B)
mildness
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Mrs. Kofi is very provocative in her style of dressing?
Answer
(A)
modest
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Travelling in the night can be an ordeal?
Answer
(D)
a great pleasure
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Akoso thought that her father was very callous?
Answer
(B)
compassionate
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The Lion's of Cameroun is really an indomitable team?
Answer
(C)
a weak
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To almost everyone in the little village, Ada's behaviour was almost odious.
Answer
(C)
attractive
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Adamu was so vociferous during the meeting of the congregation that he succeeded in incurring the wrath of the charming?
Answer
(B)
admiration
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It was an inopportune moment for you to make that suggestion?
Answer
(A)
an ideal
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He devoted too much time to the peripheral aspects?
Answer
(D)
main
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The girl's idiosyncrasy was a passion for bread and butter?
Answer
(B)
general tendency
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Once he has decided that something needs doing, my brother is very unswerving of purpose?
Answer
(A)
erratic
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Those were the days of the fallacy that some languages are primitive while others are not?
Answer
(D)
truth
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Events in South Africa indicate a kind of political renascence?
Answer
(B)
decline
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She is immune to the flattery of young men?
Answer
(B)
susceptible
26
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If we must live together as one people, we must learn to tolerate disparate dispositions?
Answer
(A)
converging
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The presidential aspirant warned of the political catastrophe that would follow if the elections were rigged.
Answer
(C)
success
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The material in the book is presented within an eclectic framework?
Answer
(B)
a broad
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Ohiokhen had a brainwave as to how she could deal with the problem?
Answer
(D)
an idea
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Surely, Ahmed is a ball of fire?
Answer
(D)
a very energetic person
31
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This time, she will be competing with a dark horse?
Answer
(B)
a person about whom little is known
32
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In answer to the question as to how life is treating him, the stranger said 'it never rains but it pours?
Answer
(C)
things are getting decidedly worse
33
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One significant characteristic of the jet is that it encourages people to cut corners?
Answer
(C)
to want to avoid necessary hardships
34
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The lady who won the beauty contest had a good gait?
Answer
(D)
carriage
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It would need a high flyer to make a first class degree in the university?
Answer
(C)
an outstanding scholar
36
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Any student found guilty of examination malpractice should be allowed to stew in his juice.
Answer
(B)
suffer the consequences of his action
37
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What you find in the book is a bird's eye view of the subject?
Answer
(D)
a general survey
38
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If experience is anything to go by, this action will prove a political minefield?
Answer
(D)
an invitiation to political problems
39
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Hers was a chequered career.
Answer
(D)
a career full of ups and down
40
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In my view, the play didn't come off?
Answer
(A)
succeed
41
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When the chips are down, we will know those who have the courage to stand?
Answer
(A)
When we get to a crisis point
42
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In my view, the play didn't come off?
Answer
(A)
succeed
43
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She said boxing is in fact her pet aversion?
Answer
(B)
something she dislikes very much
44
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The gateman does his work perfunctorily?
Answer
(A)
without commitment
45
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Members of the panel were working at cross purposes?
Answer
(B)
in disunity
46
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The young man who distributed political pamphlets on campus was promptly repudiated?
Answer
(A)
disowned
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Adayi is a die-hard criminal?
Answer
(C)
remorseless
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In moments of serious economic hardship, many people are ....... to turn to God?
Answer
(D)
propensed
49
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That centre-forward was....... consequently the goal was not disallowed?
Answer
(B)
very well positioned
50
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We cannot all wear expensive shoes in situation of......?
Answer
(C)
differing purchasing power
51
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AIDS is ..... disease that kills slowly but surely?
Answer
(C)
so deadly a
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We had a dull evening because ......?
Answer
(B)
hardly had the talk begun when the light went off
53
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Soyinka's masterful ....... of the atmosphere of his childhood helped to make his book, Ake, an ought success?
Answer
(A)
evocation
54
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Students will always blame their teachers when examination results are unfavorable .......?
Answer
(A)
won't they
55
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Okonkwo is a stubborn man, he will never ...... his words?
Answer
(C)
eat
56
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Kindly .... me your book because my friends has ..... mine?
Answer
(D)
lend / borrowed
57
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Three-quarters of the church....... painted by the members the previous day?
Answer
(B)
was
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Two young boys have been caught with parts of the stolen machine but....... admitted stealing it?
Answer
(A)
neither of them has
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Watching carefully, i could see the fish ...... along the bottom?
Answer
(D)
darting
60
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Emeka is now a ..... student but it took him years to .......?
Answer
(B)
mature / mature
61
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The rebels will soon fight back. We have been informed ...... their ....?
Answer
(C)
on / rearmament
62
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Ali was honest and quite as a schoolboy, but too much drinking has now changed his ..... and ..... his tongue?
Answer
(C)
temperament / loosened
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The hospital was closed ...... because there were no beds to put patients ..... ?
Answer
(B)
off / on
64
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The judge with his son ..... travelling to Lagos now?
Answer
(C)
is
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A university teacher is an ......?
Answer
(A)
academic
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The adventurers run into many ..... in the forest?
Answer
(D)
deer
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The class ....... more girls than boys this session?
Answer
(D)
comprises
68
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The tourist bought ...... ?
Answer
(B)
a small brown Nigerian earthen pot
69
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Most of us will attend the conference .... at Ibadan later this year.
Answer
(A)
holding
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I have already ..... the picture on the sitting-room wall?
