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 JAMB USE OF ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS (PT.1)

COMPREHENSION: Read the However, he met his match one

following passage and answer the day when a new student joined the
questions that follow. class and heard the litany we were
used to. The new boy calmly said,
Returning home after a decade and
half abroad, our Geography master "Sir, I happen to know a few white
remained incurably addicted to men who suffer from the sickle cell
foreign ways and ideas for years disease; some are Italians and
after landing here. He would some are Spanish. The mosquito is
forever stick to his theory of equally deadly in India, South-east
Africans suffering from a curse Asian Countries and South
inflicted on them by the Almighty America. The United States and
God for some heinous sins some other South American
committed centuries ago. He Countries have their deadly
would, in support of this theory, snakes. And, Sir, I know many
ask listeners: white men, some of them British,
who would prefer our brilliant
"Why would our mosquito inflict
sunshine to their horribly cold
deadly malaria on us whereas the
winter." And he sat down.
British mosquito does not bite?
Why aren't there poisonous snakes I had never, before that day, seen
in Britain whereas here most our master so consumed with
snakes are deadly? Why should the anger. He directed a burning look
deadly sickle cell disease be at the poor boy, who had no
peculiar to the black race?" answer to this new battle. Without
as much as saying a single word,
Of course, he hardly waits for
the master stalked out of the
answers to these and similar
classroom.
questions before jumping to the
same inevitable conclusion.
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Needless to say, our anger was A. In Africa, the mosquito causes
turned on the new boy, who had deadly malaria whereas in Britain,
decided to rock the boat without it doesn't bite or cause malaria.
taking the time to sound the water. B. There is malaria both in Britain
and in African Countries.
A delegation was sent to the
C. The snakes in Africa are deadly
master to apologise to him. He was
but those in Britain are harmless.
appeased. But we all noticed
D. The sickle cell disease is
something rather unusual
peculiar to the black race.
thereafter, never again did he
dwell on the issue of Africans being
3. "...rock the boat" What figure of
the cursed people.
speech is this expression?

1. What point of view is the

A. Simile
Geography master fond of
B. Metaphor
advancing?
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole
A. Africans are infested with all
kinds of problem
4. What extra argument did the
B. Only the white men are free
new boy offer after countering
from deadly diseases
each of his master's points?
C. The Almighty God is punishing
Africans for sins they committed
A. There are problems especially in
long ago.
Africa.
D. God did not curse the white
B. There are deadly snakes be the
people.
in America and Africa.
C. There are harmless snakes in
2. Which of the following
Britain.
arguments did he not use to
D. Many white men prefer the
support his views?
African climate to their own.
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5. Why do you think the master Mankind has been ravaged by
fought back with his look rather many viral and __7__ [A. germ B.
than with further argument? bacterial C. dirty D. mosquito]
diseases such as measles, but
A. He knew that the boy's points
tuberculosis, diarrhoea and many
were valid.
others including __8__ [A.
B. He had answers to the boy's
catarrh B. runny-nose C.
argument.
headache D. influenza] known
C. He went out to sort for the boy's
also as the common cold.
argument.
D. He already made up his mind on Outbreaks of many of these

his points. diseases have been brought under

control in the last fifty years. Some

6. "...who had no answer to this __9__ [A. pains B. fevers C.

new battle." What grammatical infection D. traces] like measles

name is given to the above and whooping cough still pose a

expression as it is used in the great danger to younger children.

passage?
The __10__ [A. symptoms B.
appearance C. feels D. signs] of
A. Relative clause
measles are more easily __11__
B. Adverbial clause
[A. diagnosed B. treated C.
C. Subordinate clause
dealt with D. handled] than
D. Main clause
those of whooping cough. Unlike
that of many others, the virus of
Immediately after each gap in
measles more easily remain
the passage below, four
__12__ [A. unchanged B.
options are provided. Choose
constant C. undiscovered D.
the most appropriate option for
erratic] for hundreds of years.
each gap.
However, once you have had an

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indisposition of this dreadful protection against most childhood
disease, you develop an immunity diseases.
which is almost complete and long
lasting. These next questions below
are based on K.A. Jalli: THE
Modern science has made
LIFE CHANGER.
available __13__ [A. injections
B. medicine C. tablets D.
17. How old was Omar?
vaccines] to prevent many
childhood diseases and this is the A. 4
only guarantee of __14__ [A. B. 5
freedom B. discharge C. cure D. C. 18
protection] from these scourges. D. 20
More effective treatment of
complication arising from these 18. Why did Talle run into the
childhood diseases using penicillin Hakimi’s house when he heard the
and other antibiotics has also police siren?
helped to reduce the __15__ [A.
high B. mortality C. killing D. A. He didn’t want to be seen
dangerous] rate among children. B. He thought the house was under
attack
It is universally accepted that good
C. He hated sirens
health is the right of every human
D. because everybody else ran
being and children. You do not
have to die from these diseases
19. The past questions for Moral
which wiped out many
Philosophy has been repeated for
communities in the Middle Ages.
___ years.
We have today __16__ [A. bitter
B. lovely C. potent D. A. 7
marvellous] drugs which give B. 5

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C. 3 A. a kind man
D. 2 B. a wicked woman
C. a kind woman
20. The Life Changer was written D. a wicked man
by ____
24. The novel is divided into how
A. Bolaji Abdullahi
many chapters?
B. A.H Mohammed
C. Khadija Abubakar Jalli A. 7
D. Ummi Ahmad B. 8
C. 9
21. Omar was offered admission to D. 10
study ____
25. Why did their mother
A. Accounting
eavesdrop on them?
B. Education
C. Theatre Arts A. Because they were crying
D. Law B. Because they were praying
C. Because they were murmuring
22. Talle earn the title of “The D. Because they were laughing
quiet one” because _____
26. What brought the Police to the
A. he was mean
District Head’s house?
B. he told everyone told everyone
to call him that A. They came for Hakimi
C. he had a silent character B. They came for Zaki
D. he was deaf and dumb C. They came for Ummi
D. They came for Talle
23. According to everyone, the
new HOD was ____

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Choose the interpretation that A. obey the authorities.
is most appropriate for each B. organise them properly.
sentence. C. leave matters as they are now.
D. be as watchful as sleeping dogs.
27. The amount he donated was
small. He said it was his widow's 30. The economic situation is so
mite. This means that ____ bad that many wage earners are
hardly able to make both ends
A. he was a widow.
meet. This means that ____
B. he was misery.
C. it was all he could honestly A. people's income exceed their
afford. expenditure
D. he could have given more. B. most people are extravagant
with their income
28. The friendship between Segun C. people's earnings are not
and Shehu has turned sour. This sufficient for their essential needs
means that Segun and Shehu are D. most people engage in activities
____ that bring them extra pay

A. no longer friends.
31. Since I found out his
B. still friends.
hypocritical nature, I have been
C. better friends now.
keeping him at arm's length. This
D. getting to understand each
means that I ____
other.

A. avoid being similar with him

29. The students were as advised B. ignore his advice
to face their studies and let the C. report him to the authority
sleeping dog lie. This means that D. stop visiting him
the students should ____

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32. I knew Okoronkwo's father A. is having an illusion
very well and I must say that his B. thinks other people are fools
son is a chip off the old block. Thy C. thinks that working is merely a
means that Okoronkwo ____ joke
D. is on the verge of insanity
A. has Chosen the game career as
its father
Choose the option that is
B. is very much like his father
opposite in meaning to the
C. is an extremely different sort of
word(s) in italic.
person from his lather
D. has taken up a different
35. I am happy to inform you that
profession from his father's
your boys are conscientious

33. The debating team was A. industrious

warned to make convincing points B. carefree
and not to play to the gallery. This C. careful
means that the team should not D. corrupt
____
36. My father is a very prosperous
A. be selfish
businessman.
B. underrate opponents
C. be over-confident A. ungrateful
D. attempt to win cheap popularity B. unscrupulous
C. unskilled
34. Anyone who thinks that he can D. unsuccessful
succeed in life without working
hard is living in a fool's paradise. 37. Ayo takes his studies rather
This means is that such a person lightly.
____
A. humorously

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B. tediously
C. carefully 41. For millions of years, the world
D. seriously resources have remained
boundless.
38. The doctor was very gentle
A. unlimited
with his patients in the examining
B. scarce
room.
C. indomitable
A. harsh D. limited
B. rude
C. rough 42. The difference between the
D. unkind experimental procedures was
imperceptible to me.
39. The President took exception
A. negligible
to the ignoble role the young man
B. significant
played in the matter
C. obvious
A. honourable D. obscure
B. embarrassing
C. dishonourable 43. His anti-apathy to religion
D. extraordinary ideas makes him unpopular

A. remedy
40. The man who had been
B. consciousness
seriously ill was convalescing at a
C. hostility
seaside resort
D. receptiveness
A. regaining health
B. deteriorating in health Choose the options that best
C. recuperating complete the gap(s).
D. relaxing

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44. He was ____ by the trickster. C. arrive
D. are arriving
A. assisted
B. duped
48. We ought to have visited the
C. enjoined
Governor, ____?
D. encouraged
A. isn't it
45. When the soldiers saw that B. oughtn't we
their resistance was ____, they C. shouldn't we
stopped fighting. D. haven't we

A. inadequate
49. He didn't sense Obi's presence
B. inefficient
in the room, did he? ___
C. futile
D. successful A. Yes, he did
B. No, he did
46. You should read all the ____ C. Yes, he didn't
carefully before you decide where D. No, he didn't
to go on holiday.
50. You can stay here ____ as you
A. brochures
are quiet.
B. prospectus
C. tickets A. as long
D. handouts B. so long
C. in as much
47. The Emir and Conqueror of the D. for as long
enemy territories ____ next week.
In each question, choose the
A. arrives
option nearest in meaning to
B. are to arrive
the word(s) in italics.

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51. The witness averred that she B. skilful
had seen Dosun at the scene of the C. tactless
crime. D. clumsy

A. argued
55. The principal took exception to
B. confirmed
the ignoble role the teacher played
C. denied
in the matter
D. affirmed
A. embarrassing
52. The high cost of living these B. honourable
days calls for a lot of frugality. C. extraordinary
D. dishonourable
A. extravagance
B. economy
Choose the option that has the
C. recklessness
same sound as the one
D. prudence
represented by the letter(s)
underlined.
53. Tunde's reaction underscores
the points I was making.
56. key

A. justifies
A. sit
B. summarizes
B. bet
C. emphasizes
C. seat
D. clarifies
D. tread

54. Everyone admired the

57. taught
manager's adroit handling of the
crisis in the company A. law
B. aunt
A. emphasised
C. count

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 JAMB USE OF ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS (PT.2)

COMPREHENSION: Read the With over two thousand five

passage below carefully and hundred species belonging to more
answer the questions that follow. than ten families, snakes are a
large and successful group. They
Like all reptiles, snakes are cold-
owe much of this success to their
blooded, or more correctly,
versatility - snakes occupy habitat
ectothermic – they cannot produce
ranging from underground
their own heat instead, they rely
burrows to the top of the trees, to
on the sun to heat their bodies.
ocean depths as great as one

Because they do not rely on energy hundred and fifty metres.

from food to generate body heat,

They are found on every continent
snakes can survive on an
except Antarctica, and although
extremely meagre diet. Some wait
they are most abundant in tropical
for months between successive
areas, many survive in regions
meals, and a few survive by eating
marked by extreme cold.
a large meal just once or twice a
year. The only places without snakes are
parts of the Polar Regions and
When they do eat, snakes swallow
isolated islands, such as the
their prey whole rather than biting
Republic of Ireland and New
of small pieces. Many snakes have
Zealand as opposed to places in
specialized jaws that enable them
Nigeria like Plateau and Gombe
to swallow animals that are far
States in the Northern part where
larger than their own heads.
there is a large population of
Although uncommon, some
snakes.
snakes, such as the African rock
python, have been observed
1. Which of the following is true
eating animals as large as an
according to the passage?
antelope or a small cow.
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A. Snakes are not in the polar A. heterogeneous creatures
regions B. voracious cow eaters
B. Snakes are endemic on every C. great insect eaters
continent D. homogeneous reptiles
C. There are countless number of
snakes in the Republic of Ireland 5. A suitable title for this passage
D. Snakes are seldom seen at the is ____
Antarctica
A. Feeding Habits of Snakes
B. Some Characteristics of Snakes
2. The most notable thing about
C. Snakes as Legless, Cold-
snakes, according to the passage,
blooded Reptiles
is that they ____
D. Species of Snakes in Nigeria and
A. abound in Gombe and Plateau Other Lands
States
B. are versatile in reproduction These next questions are
C. eat big but seldom based on K.A. Jalli’s: “THE LIFE
D. exist in families CHANGER”.

3. It can be deduced from the 6. How long has it been since they
passage that snakes have ____ last had light?

A. no external auditory organs A. 1 day

B. visible internal locomotive B. 2 days
organs C. 3 days
C. no visual sense of measurement D. 4 days
D. large appetite for antelopes
7. Tomiwa came from ____ State.
4. It can be inferred from the
A. Osun
passage that snakes are ____
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B. Ogun A. Dr SamJohn
C. Oyo B. Mr Salihu
D. Ondo C. Dr. Dabo
D. The HOD
8. What did the Committee want to
know about Kolawole? 12. What made Salma cry when
she faced the Committee?
A. If he was a student
B. If he collected money from her A. Because Dr Kabir was not there
C. If he was her brother B. Because she mentioned
D. If he had slept with her Kolawole’s name by mistake
C. Because the man who
9. Who insisted on calling Ummi introduced her to Dr Kabir was not
‘mum’? there
D. Because she saw Professor
A. Bint
Dabo
B. Jamila
C. Mallam Salihu
13. Who is the second child of the
D. Omar
family?

10. “Au Revoir” means ___ A. Bint

B. Jamila
A. Good bye
C. Teemah
B. Good morning
D. Omar
C. Welcome
D. That’s very good
14. What name does Teemah call
her mother?
11. Who was the 100Level
Coordinator? A. Mum
B. Ummi

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C. Mama collect stories and items of news,
D. Mummy and ___18___ [A.
correspondents B. distributors
15. Who were in the car that C. listeners D. newscasters],
offered Salma a ride? who specialize in one kind of topic.

A. Salihu and Habib Another important person who

B. Habib and Labaran works closely with the editor-in-

C. Labaran and Salihu chief is the ___19___ [A.

D. Salihu and Dabo announcer B. news editor C.

proofreader D. reporter], who

Immediately after each gap in has to choose the most important

the passage below, four stories while ___20___ [A.

options are provided. Choose subeditors B. writers C. agents

the most appropriate option for D. producers] go through stories

each gap. sent to make necessary

adjustments.
Setting up a newspaper involves a
The Editor-in-chief could
lot of preparations. The ___16___
determine for instance, whether a
[A. processor B. lithographer C.
particular journalist should write
proprietor D. sub-editor] has to
articles daily or weekly in a
employ a lot of people.
particular column. Such a
Other people working with him are journalist is known as ___21___
cartographers, editors, [A. a freelancer B. a composer
typesetters, readers, who work in C. a columnist D. an essayist].
various ways to produce the text of
The editorials of the newspaper will
the newspaper, ___17___ [A.
be coordinated by ___22___ [A. a
agents B. reporters C. analysts
guild of researchers B. an
D. vendors] who go out and

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editorial board C. all readers D. D. Did your neighbour play football
an agent]. yesterday?

The publisher could decide to

27. My MOTHER served rice and
establish ___23___ [A. an article
fresh fish stew.
B. a column C. a magazine D. a
gazetteer] which would be on A. Did your mother serve rice and
sale weekly, fortnightly or fresh fish?
monthly, ___24___ [A. a B. Who served rice and fresh fish
contrast from B. a contrast in stew for dinner?
C. a contrast to D. a contrast C. What kind of meal did your
for] the eye catching, screaming mother serve for dinner?
headlines and captions of D. What kind of stew did your
newspapers on sale every day mother serve for dinner?
from the ___25___ [A. readers
B. distributors C. pressmen D. 28. The President SPOKE to the
salesmen]. press.

In each of the questions, A. Did the president write to the

choose the option that best press?
completes the gap(s) B. Did the president speak to the
press?
26. My neighbour BRUISED his
C. Who spoke to the press?
thigh while playing football.
D. Are these the pressmen the

A. Did your neighbour break his leg president spoke to?

while playing tennis?

B. Did your neighbour fracture his Choose the appropriate stress

thigh while playing football? pattern from the options. The

C. Was your neighbour involved in syllables are written in capital

an accident? letters.
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29. suburbanite: B. mime
C. ridicule
A. SUburbanite
D. lease
B. suBURbanite
C. suburBAnite
33. The police ran the criminal to
D. suburbaNITE
earth.

30. departmentalize: A. jailed him

B. knocked him down
A. departMENtalize
C. discovered
B. dePARTmentalize
D. buried him
C. DEpartmentalize
D. departmenTAlize
34. He is credulous.

Choose the option nearest in A. credible

meaning to the word(s) or B. creditable
phrase(s) in italics. C. gullible
D. fallible
31. Adeniji is suffering from the
consequences of alienation. 35. Her problem was exacerbated
by the loss of her father.
A. confirmation
B. isolation A. exaggerated
C. enclosure B. solve
D. imprisonment C. aggravated
D. infuriated
32. Some children mimic their
teachers. 36. The old woman is suffering
from dementia.
A. imitate

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A. lucidity 40. Accountability is certainly a
B. senility desirable quality in a politician
C. insanity
A. Responsibility
D. sagacity
B. Respectability
C. Courage
37. Laraba saw a forlorn little
D. Diligence
figure sitting outside the class.

A. wise and intelligent Select the option that best

B. lonely and unhappy explains the information
C. smart and healthy conveyed in the sentence.
D. short and ugly
41. The men were not pawns in
38. The accident victim received a someone else's political game. This
superficial wound from the crash. means that _____

A. a serious A. the action they executed was

B. a painless their idea
C. an internal B. the men used someone else's
D. an external plan
C. they were used by someone's
39. The advertisement served as a political game
smoke-screen for the activities of D. they loved playing political
the company. game

A. a camouflage
42. The class was tired of the new
B. a protection
boy jawing away all the time. This
C. an enhancement
means that he _____
D. an exchange
A. bit off people's jaws

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B. was always chewing in the class 45. He gave a painstaking account
C. talked continuously in the class of his encounter with the ghost of
D. was always making trouble for his father.
the class
A. sordid
B. fearful
43. The governor parried all the
C. half-hearted
questions put to him by the
D. tender-hearted
journalist. This means that the
governor _____
46. If you are really keen on
A. answered all the questions immediate results, you just have
brilliantly to adopt this pragmatic approach.
B. failed all the questions
A. practical
C. evaded all the questions
B. unrealistic
D. queried all the questions
C. opportunistic
D. sensible
44. The conference is biennial.

A. The conference is held twice 47. The girl's idiosyncrasy was a

every year passion for bread and butter.
B. The conference is held every
A. stupid outburst
two years
B. general tendency
C. The conference is held every
C. singular characteristic
other year
D. occupational calling
D. The conference lasts for two
years
48. The chairman's redressed the

Choose most appropriate injustice meted out by the

option opposite in meaning to secretary.

the word(s) in italics.

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A. corrected In each of the questions, fill
B. restored the blank space with the most
C. aggravated appropriate of options A-D.
D. addressed
52. You can go on; I ____ what
49. The Lions' of Cameroun is you are saying.
really an indomitable team.
A. am understanding
A. a powerful B. may be understanding
B. a prominent C. understand
C. a weak D. was understanding
D. a cowardly
53. Tosin refused to be _____
50. The plan to merge the two though he has written the
local government areas has met examination three times.
with much apathy.
A. sad
A. hospitality B. placated
B. criticism C. frustrated
C. consideration D. different
D. enthusiasm
54. People who live by ____ what
51. Mutual love is what Kabi and loneliness is like.
Musa have in common and nothing
A. each other know
else.
B. one another know
A. insincere C. oneself knows
B. one-sided D. themselves know
C. unhappy
D. disrespectful

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55. The old politicians were A. into
discredited because they tried to B. with
____ the people's ignorance. C. of
D. out of
A. cash in on
B. catch in with
59. We should take care ____ the
C. cash in with
robbers come back.
D. cash in by
A. in case
56. The plane overshot the ____ B. should in case
in a minor accident. C. may be
D. probably
A. railway
B. hangar
60. The Managing Director did not
C. tarmac
pay his staff last month _____?
D. runway
A. didn't he
57. Journalist always collect and B. had he not
publish ____ C. has be
D. did he
A. informations
B. an information
C. some information
D. information

58. The thief ran _____ luck when

the policeman running after him
caught up with him and knocked
him down.

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 JAMB USE OF ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS (PT.3)

COMPREHENSION: Read the brewing and gambling, their failure

passage carefully and answer the was inevitable. They could not
questions that follow. keep us insulated.

We knew early in our life that the By the time we moved about, we

atmosphere in our home was were already seeing things with

different from that in many other their eyes and judging things by

homes, where husbands and wives the standards we had absorbed

quarrel and where there was from them.

drunkenness, laziness, or
It was borne into me and my
indifference - things we never saw
brothers at a very early age that
in our family.
our father was an uncommon man.

We chatted and grumbled at the For one thing, in most African

strictness of my father's regime. families, work around the home

We went to hide whenever we was women's work. So, we were

broke the rules too visibly. We vastly impressed by the fact that

knew, nevertheless, our parents whenever my mother was away,

wanted good things for us. Some my father could and did do all her

of these, such as the insistence on jobs - cooking, cleaning, and

going to school and never missing looking after us.

a day, we accepted readily

We lived in a community in which
enough, although, like most other
housework was regarded as being
children, we occasionally yielded to
beneath male dignity. Even in
the temptation to play truant.
families which, like ours produced

However, in other cases, such as boy after boy - our sister came fifth

their effort to keep us out of - it simply meant that the mother

contact with the difficult life - the carried a greater and greater

drinking and fighting and beer- burden of work. In our family,

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nevertheless, the boys did girls' knew we did women's work and I
work and my father did it with us. can still hear their derisive
laughter. We did our jobs
One of the prime chores of life in
doggedly, that notwithstanding,
the family was fetching water from
because our father and mother
the pump down the street, some
expected it of us.
two hundred metres from our
door. Since the pump was not Out of choice, our father did
unlocked until six in the morning everything we did, including
and there was always crowding, a fetching water on occasion, and
system had developed whereby commanded us by sheer force of
you got out before dawn, placed his example.
your twenty-litre tin in line and
then went home returning later to 1. The word "atmosphere," as
take your place. used in the first paragraph of the
passage means _____
Often, of course, tins would be
moved back in line and others A. pattern
moved ahead. This could be B. preference
corrected if none of those in front C. unity
were too big a challenge. D. disposition

When taps were substituted for the

2. Which of the following
pumps, the first one installed was
statements captures the family
nearly a kilometre away from our
approach to housework?
house, we had to make the trek
with the water tins balanced on our
A. the boys were not allowed to do
heads - an indignity because this
girls' work
was the way girls, not proud
B. the mother did the cooking and
males, carried their burdens. All
cleaning willing
the children in the neighbourhood
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C. no job was reserved for anyone Immediately after each gap in
on the basis of gender the passage below, four
D. the water needed was provided options are provided. Choose
by everyone the most appropriate option for
each gap.
3. Which of the following describes
Two thirds of children in ___6___
the father's role in the family?
[A. industrialized B. socialized
A. being too hard on the children C. technological D.
B. serving the children modernized] societies no longer
C. leading by example have family life. They are virtually
D. usurping his wife's role abandoned to child-minders from a
very tender age. The ___7___ [A.
4. By describing his father as "an disregard B. indifference C.
uncommon man", the writer alienation D. inattention] from
means that he is _____ their mothers brings suffering and
makes it impossible for them to
A. strict
achieve a healthy social life.
B. kind
C. amenable The ___8___ [A. development

D. remarkable B. increase C. appreciation D.

inflation] in the number of

5. A suitable title for the passage suicides, the rates of drug

is _____ addiction and ___9___ [A.

delinquency B. irresponsibility
A. The unusual parent C. satanism D. truancy] among
B. A village life young people may be to a large
C. An experience in early life extent, due to these premature
D. The problem of water separations which take place
before sufficient time has

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___10___ [A. materialized B. D. pressure against] its
occurred C. surfaced D. mother’s body, it reminds the child
elapsed] for attachment to of the reassuring pressure of the
develop. uterus, and enables it to ___15___
[A. unearth B. rediscover C.
‘This is one of the causes of
learn D. explore] the rhythms of
psychosis in children today’ says a
its mother’s breathing and
psychiatrist who believes that
heartbeat.
breast-feeding is one of the basic
cares which many children of this
These questions are based on
age are ___11___ [A. tantalized
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with B. denied of C. left with D.
spared of]. This psychiatrist 16. Who was fond of teasing
argues that breast-feeding Omar?
extends into the world outside the
womb, a liquid bond with the inside A. His mum
of the mother’s body; a bond B. Bint
___12___ [A. close to B. the C. Teemah
same as C. unrelated to D. D. Jamila
irrelevant to] that which the
baby had with the placenta inside 17. Why were no stranger given
the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to accommodation in Lafayette
and fro is ___13___ [A. an without the approval of the District
elongation B. a demonstration Head?
C. a continuation D. a
A. To make the District organized
stretching] of the movement that
B. To keep the District Head in
the child experienced before it was
power
born. As for the baby’s ___14___
C. To show respect to the District
[A. squeezing against B.
Head
separation from C. likeness for
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D. To make sure no criminal is 21. Zaki was ____
harboured by mistake
A. Hakimi’s courtier
B. Ummi’s husband
18. How did Tomiwa know that
C. A police officer
Habib was a politician?
D. Talle’s friend
A. She saw his ID card
B. She read about him on Google 22. According to Ummi, Teemah
C. Labaran called him Honourable was hardly moving because ___
D. Salma told her
A. She was paralysed
B. Ummi instructed her not to
19. Why did the “Please, don’t hurt
move
him” make Salim conclude that the
C. The story engrossed her
prostitute was part of the
D. She was sleeping
conspiracy?

A. Because she said “him” not 23. “DP” stands for ____
“me”
A. Divisional Police
B. Because she said “him” not “us”
B. Displayed Picture
C. Because she said “Please”
C. Digital Photo
D. Because she said “hurt” not
D. District Patrol
“shoot”

24. Omar insisted that his sisters

20. Who was narrating their
should begin to call him ___
encounter with their teacher?

A. Omar Esquire
A. Teemah
B. Big Bros
B. Omar
C. Lawyer Omar
C. Bint
D. My Learned Brother
D Jamila

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25. _____ was not one of the 28. After many trials, the
circumstances around Talle’s birth experiment _____

A. His mother died after his birth A. paid up

B. His parents had been childless B. paid for
C. He was a premature baby C. paid out
D. His parents consulted a native D. paid off
doctor to conceive him
29. Every programming language
In each of the questions below, and software package ____
choose the option that best limitations.
completes the gap(s).
A. have its
B. have their
26. I shall find the time for my
C. has its
____ when I get ____
D. has their
A. past-time/over
B. pass-time/over 30. When I was in the secondary
C. pass-time/through school, my parents were active
D. past-time/through members of the ____

A. Parents-Teachers Association
27. Actually, he forgot the one to
B. Parents’-Teachers’ Association
____ the job was given.
C. Parent-Teacher Association
A. whom D. Parent’s-Teacher’s Association
B. who
C. whomever 31. "Your brigade would be the
D. whoever better for it, if you desisted ____
rumour-mongering," said the Chief
of Staff.

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A. from 35. Do you prefer ____ my rickety
B. away car?
C. into
A. going on foot to taking
D. away from
B. to go on foot to take
C. going on foot than taking
32. The sea waves continue to
D. to go on foot than to take
____ the cliff on the west coast
constantly.
36. Oche should leave for New
A. impair York on Friday ____ being equal.
B. rub
A. all the things
C. knock
B. all other things
D. erode
C. other things
D. other things all
33. The politicians were ____ by
the press.
37. Two young boys have been
A. marooned caught with parts of the stolen
B. ridiculed machine but ____ admitted
C. eclipsed stealing it.
D. ostracized
A. neither of them has
B. neither of them have
34. Raffle draws like gambling
C. none of them has
often end in a ____ for me.
D. none of them have
A. lost
B. loss In the questions below, choose
C. loose the nearest in meaning to the
D. lose word(s) in italics.

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38. Funnily enough, the priest A. eloquence
prayed for the robber who shot B. advice
him. C. prudence
D. tradition
A. timidly
B. unexpectedly
42. Adamu is rather meddlesome
C. disappointingly
in dealing with his friends.
D. fearlessly
A. impertinent
39. In some parts of India, people B. intimidating
are ostracised simply because of C. quarrelsome
their ancestry. D. uncaring

A. abandoned
43. I am yet to write the
B. shut off from society
penultimate paragraph of my
C. refused education
essay.
D. rendered unhappy
A. last but one
40. The move to expel the B. third to the last
chairman was sanctioned by C. second
members of the party. D. concluding

A. unleashed
In the questions below, choose
B. opposed
the opposite in meaning to the
C. supported
word underlined.
D. initiated
44. The weather condition now
41. The chairman advised the prevailing in the town is
participants to follow convention in unbearable.
stating their points.

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A. widespread 48. The explosive growth of world
B. dominant population has not been caused by
C. uncommon a sudden increase in human
D. uncontrollable fertility.

A. fantastic
45. The plan to merge the two
B. gradual
local government areas has met
C. combustible
with much apathy.
D. dangerous
A. hospitality
B. criticism 49. Coastal plains are often very
C. consideration densely populated.
D. enthusiasm
A. weakly
B. badly
46. Chidi is naturally taciturn.
C. rarely
A. garrulous D. sparsely
B. friendly
C. lively 50. The man’s health has
D. cheerful deteriorated in the hospital.

A. collapsed
47. A book on style without
B. improved
abundant examples seems to me,
C. worsened
as ineffectual as a book on biology
D. revived
without abundant illustrations.

A. useless In each question below, select

B. difficult the option that best explains
C. interesting the information conveyed in
D. satisfactory the sentence.

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51. Emeka wished he had started B. Perhaps Tom was wrong to have
school early. told me
C. Tom told me but it was wrong of
A. Emeka starts school early as he
him
wished
D. It was necessary for Tom not to
B. Emeka regretted starting school
tell me
early
C. Emeka regretted not starting
54. Bolade would make a mess of
school early
cooking the rice.
D. Emeka could have started
school early if he had wished A. It was typical of Bolade to make
a mess of things
52. You could have heard the B. Bolade cannot cook
sound if you weren’t asleep. C. Bolade will not cook the rice
D. Bolade does not like cooking
A. You were not asleep so you
rice
heard the sound
B. You were asleep so you did not
55. The manager said that the new
hear the sound
loaf was the last word in bakery.
C. You heard the sound though you
were asleep A. The loaf was the best ever
D. You did not hear the sound baked
though you were not asleep B. The loaf was the last to be
baked
53. Tom ought not to have told C. The loaf was the worst to have
me. been baked
D. The loaf was the last in the
A. Tom did not tell me but he
baker’s directory
should

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Choose the option that has the 59. melodramatic
same vowel sound as the one
A. MElodramatic
represented by the letter(s)
B. meLOdramatic
underlined.
C. meloDRAmatic

56. beer D. melodraMAtic

A. bear 60. understandable

B. pear
C. fair A. unDERstandable

D. pier B. understandaBLE
C. UNderstandable

57. thatch D. underSTANDable

A. clothing
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C. then Would you like to get the correct

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58. judge join our special JAMB English

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D. grace

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COMPREHENSION: Read the (vertebrate animals) can be said to

passage below and answer the be in danger of extinction. A few of
question that follows. them have been reduced to this
precarious position by extensive
When man evolved a conscience,
killing but the majority are
his basic relationship with the
disappearing only as fast as the
other animals began to change.
particular kind of country they
Until then, they were broadly
need for existence is itself
divided into those which ate him
disappearing and all the hands of
when they got the chance, those
man, as often as not by mistake.
which he ate when he got the
chance, and a third group which There are three species of turtles

competed with him for food, or whose future survival is menaced

was otherwise a nuisance to him in by the demand for turtle soup,

the business of keeping alive. which would hardly justify the

extermination of a giant reptile
In the primitive situation, man
whose family has existed for 200
was, therefore, basically against
million years.
nature but, as the battle was
progressively won, conscience Leopards are in jeopardy because

crept in; the awareness of of the fashion for their skins. As

responsibility, and a failure to they get rarer, the prices rise, and

meet it, produced feelings of guilt. as leopard’s skin becomes more

expensive, the demand increases.
Those who live in cities and need
no longer do battle against nature No species can long survive the

are nowadays most actively for outrageous price which a half-

nature. At this time, something grown baby leopard now carries on

like a thousand kinds of animals – its skin.

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And crocodiles, the longest 2. Which of the following
surviving reptiles, are now statements is true according to the
dwindling alarmingly as a result of passage?
the fashion in crocodile skin for
A. man kills animal only when he
ladies' handbags and men's shoes.
can afford to do so.
The human population explosion B. man eats all categories of
spreads mankind across the land animals
surfaces of the earth at an C. man cannot spare those animals
alarming rate. There will be twice that eat his kind
as many of us before most of us D. man poses the greatest threat
are dead. Does this mean no room to nature
for wild animals?
Of course not. 3. The basic causes of the
elimination of certain animals from
1. The sentence “There will be the earth include ______
twice as many of us before most of
us are dead” means ______ A. a deliberate battle against
nature and the quest for leopard
A. some increase in human and skin
animal population growth rates B. man's decision to live in cities
B. mankind is fast spreading and the development of large farm
across the earth lands
C. the population growth rate will C. man's penchant for meat and
double before our death the sale of animals for meat and
D. many of us will die as a result of hides
population explosion D. extensive killing of animals and
the fast disappearances of their
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evolved a conscience” means when delivery is one in which the speech
_____ has been written out word for word
and is read to ___7___ [A. a
A. man's intellect improved
gathering B. a conference C. a
tremendously
congregation D. an audience].
B. man became a critical creature
C. man developed an awareness of This kind of delivery is usually

right and wrong reserved for very ___8___ [A.

D. man acquired new habits formal B. genuine C.

impromptu D. guaranteed]

5. From the passage, the attitude occasions when exact wording is

of the writer can be described as ___9___ [A. conclusive B.

_____ critical C. reportive D.

speculative], such as the State of
A. indifferent the Union address or speeches
B. partial before the United Nations General
C. optimistic ___10___ [A. Negotiation B.
D. pessimistic Organization C. Assembly D.
Audience].
Immediately after each gap in
The primary advantage is that the
the passage below, four
speech may be highly ___11___
options are provided. Choose
[A. polished B. advanced C.
the most appropriate option for
analogous D. discreet] in terms
each gap.
of word choice, turns of phrase,
and development of ideas.
A prepared speech is not easy to
deliver, especially if it is not The main disadvantage is that this
written by the presenter. A type of delivery is difficult to do
___6___ [A. document B. free well. Reading aloud with
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meaningful ___12___ [A. B. English
anticipatory B. profuse C. C. French
bifocal D. vocal] inflection D. Basic Science
requires the speaker to be very
familiar with the text. If not, the 17. What killed Talle’s father?
words will come out in a choppy,
A. a car accident
expressionless way. Such poor
B. a heart attack
delivery could destroy any
C. old age
___13___ [A. interactive B.
D. food poison
restrictive C. positive D.
decisive] effects created by the
18. What did students call “Cheat
carefully chosen ___14___ [A.
Notes”?
language B. slang C. dialect D.
rhetoric].
A. Notes of Salvation
Lack of familiarity with the B. Notes of Confession
___15___ [A. exchange B. text C. Notes of Concentration
C. note D. context] could also D. Notes of Deliverance
prevent the speaker from
maintaining eye contact with 19. In the novel, “good morning”
people being addressed. in French means ______

A. Banjour
These next questions are
B. Bonjur
based on K.A. Jalil’s: "THE LIFE
C. Bonjoo
CHANGER"
D. Bonjour
16. Which subject did the teacher
in Bint’s story teach? 20. Which arrangement is correct
from the eldest to the youngest?
A. Social Studies

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B. Teemah, Omar, Jamila, Bint.
C. Bint, Jamila, Teemah, Omar. 24. Bint was in ______ school.
D. Omar, Teemah, Jamila, Bint.
A. Nursery
B. Primary
21. Talle worked as a _______
C. Secondary
A. secretary D. Tertiary
B. driver
C. personal assistant 25. Around what age did Talle
D. barman become an orphan?

A. from birth
22. Why didn’t Salma know the
B. 10 years
answer to any of the questions?
C. 15 years
A. Because she did not read at all D. 20 years
B. Because she read only past
questions Select the option that best
C. Because she read only the explains the information
textbook conveyed in the sentence.
D. Because she trusted Kolawole
for answers 26. Ramatu expressed her feelings
in no uncertain terms. This means
23. “And how do you say, ‘that’s that she expressed it _______
very good in French’”, who asked
A. feebly and sickly
this question?
B. quietly and cautiously
A. The teacher C. secretly and courageously
B. The French Mistress D. clearly and strongly
C. Bint

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Olatinuke was advised to keep her D. They steal from each other
shirt on. This means that she was
advised to ______ 30. “I can't wait to become a
mother,” the new bride declared.
A. stay calm
B. commit herself A. she sees motherhood as a
C. join the drama burden
D. wear her shirt B. she will be patient as a mother
C. She is not keen on becoming a
28. The team's poor performance mother
at the tournament plumbed the D. She is excited about
depths of horror. motherhood.

A. the team's performance was

Choose the option opposite in
rewarded
meaning to the word(s) in
B. the team's performance took
italics
them to the next round
C. the team's performance was 31. The relationship between the
enjoyed by all couple has been frosty.
D. the team's performance was full
A. amenable
of disappointment
B. fraudulent
C. frugal
29. Tolu and Chinedu live in each
D. cordial
other's pockets.

A. They are long-term business 32. Chibuzor gave a curt nod and
partners walked away
B. They are very close to each
A. rude
other

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C. gentle B. private
D. shocking C. collective
D. general
33. The girl took a cursory glance
at the letter and hid it. Choose the option nearest in
meaning to the word(s) in
A. brief
italics.
B. sententious
C. lasting 37. The first round of the
D. concise tournament was a doddle

A. exasperating
34. Musa is a gifted but erratic
B. balanced
player.
C. dodgy
A. regular D. easy
B. strong
C. unstable 38. As a journalist, Bala has
D. unpredictable always had a nose for stories

A. a command
35. The testimony of the witness
B. cynical statement
was vague.
C. soft comment
A. real D. an instinct
B. factual
C. true 39. All the candidates looked
D. clear aghast at the first reading of the
questions.
36. As a student, Isa tried
A. fulfilled
communal living for a few years.

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C. satisfied was erected at the market square.
D. again
A. exhibition
B. monument
40. Joke gave Muhammad a
C. myth
jaunty smile.
D. picture
A. frightful
B. cheerful 44. They all gathered to exhume
C. discouraging the _____ musician's corpse for
D. Inviting examination.

A. posthumous
Choose the option that best
B. post-mortem
completes the gap(s).
C. post-natal
41. You live in the city now, ___? D. orthopaedic

A. are you
45. Oloyede always sleeps like a
B. don't you
baby, _____?
C. didn't you
D. haven't you A. does he
B. could he
42. Concrete is made of _____ C. doesn't he
D. did he
A. sand and cement
B. a sand and a cement
46. The man was given _____
C. sand and a cement
degree despite the fact that he did
D. a sand and cement
not attend a university.

A. an honorary

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C. a ceremonial agree if they altered some of the
D. a ceremonious conditions.

A. can
47. My father has just bought ___
B. may
A. a peugeot brand new car C. might
B. a car brand new peugeot D. ought
C. a new brand peugeot car
D. a brand new peugeot car Choose the option that rhymes
with the given word.
48. Mr Ojo instructed his son to
51. Cable
replace the faulty_____ tube

A. bible
A. flurescent
B. mabel
B. flourescent
C. able
C. fluorescent
D. marble
D. florescent

Choose the option that has the

49. The employer, not the
same sound as the one
salesmen _____ responsible for
represented by the letter(s)
the loss
underlined.
A. have been
52. Waiter
B. was
C. were
A. flavour
D. will be
B. cite
C. road
D. hair

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53. Flee C. intentionAL
D. intentioNAL
A. field
B. skate
The words in capital letters
C. faith
have the emphatic stress.
D. rid
Choose the option to which the
given sentence relates.
54. Phantom
57. I left my bag on the TABLE.
A. physics
B. pew A. Is the bag left under the table?
C. phew B. Did I leave the shoe on the
D. party table?
C. Who left the bag on the table?
55. Chest D. Where did I leave the bag?

A. fixture
58. Kanu can play FOOTBALL.
B. school
C. charisma A. Who can play football?
D. mass B. What can Kanu play?
C. What can Kanu do with football?
Choose the appropriate stress D. Why should Kanu play football?
pattern from the options, the
stress syllables are written in 59. Aisha plays TENNIS always.
capital letter(s).
A. Who plays tennis always?
B. Does Aisha watch tennis
56. Intentional
always?
A. inTENtional C. What does Aisha play always?
B. INtentional D. When does Aisha play tennis?

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stressed on the first syllable

60.
A. guitar
B. guilty
C. confuse
D. relief

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COMPREHENSION: Read the There is hardly any sphere of

passage below carefully and human endeavour in which women
answer each question that follows. have not gained a firm foothold:
there are women doctors,
Anthropologists tell us that for a
engineers, pilots, prime ministers,
society to remain stable, the roles
judges, bankers and so on.
of men and women must be
properly differentiated and well Today, the women's spheres of

defined. operation are no longer restricted

to the home; she is successfully
In primitive societies, the men
competing with her counterpart in
were assigned the roles of going
every area of human activity. But
out to hunt, fish and fight off the
has this development been an
hostile tribe next door while the
unqualified blessing to the society?
women did the housekeeping and
minded the children. The men To answer this question, let us

were believed to be superior to the examine some of the problems

women in physical strength and created in the process of achieving

capability. There was no women's emancipation.

controversy in these societies as to

First, a large number of women
what the roles of the sexes should
including the married ones and
be. Consequently, primitive
mothers now take up paid
societies enjoyed great stability.
employment. The conditions

However, with the advancement of attached to such employment

civilization, many of the special make it extremely difficult if not

privileges traditionally enjoyed by impossible for them to take

men began to be eroded one after adequate care of their children at

another. homes.

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the health and education of the roles
children suffer tremendously. B. the tasks of women and men
were outlined
1. Advantages usually enjoyed by C. women accepted inferior roles
men began to _____ interpreted the roles of women
were commonly interpreted
A. weaken through gender
D. the roles of women were
sensitivity
commonly interpreted
B. diminish through women
emancipation
4. From the passage, it can be
C. dwindle with the advancement
inferred that women emancipation
of civilization
results in _____
D. fade with wide self-realization
A. women becoming covertly
2. According to the passage, what ambitious
two masters are women struggling B. resentment of men by gain
to serve? women
C. crises at tome
A. The health and education of
D. men becoming nonchalant
their children
B. The husband and the children
5. The phrase, suffer
C. The office and the husband
tremendously, as used in the
D. The office and the home
passage, means _____

3. According to the passage, A. greatly disadvantaged

ancient societies were secured B. to become worse
because _____ C. badly unpleased
D. badly affected

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Each gap has four options sectorial C. selectional D.
provided. Choose the correct palliative] interests above the
option for each gap. development of infrastructure.

A nation inclined to this erroneous

In truth, realistic planning efforts
position may continue to
go with infrastructural ___6___
experience ___13___ [A.
[A. development B. projected
economic stagnation B.
C. arrangement D. tenet]. It
recession C. social decay D.
makes the planning ___7___ [A.
management]. This implies that
holistic B. a partial C. abnormal
infrastructural development
D. curative].
should be made to take ___14___
When ___8___ [A. planning B. [A. antecedent B. procedure C.
budgetary C. projected D. control D. advantage] over
national] provisions are made, other sectors.
infrastructural ___9___ [A.
This is because of the immense
estimates B. prompt C. prompt
importance of infrastructure to
D. processes] should be
national ___15___ [A.
embedded. Where these are
awareness B. orientation C.
glaringly ___10___ [A.
policy D. growth].
shortened B. cleared C. omitted
D. altered], then national
These next questions are
development and integration can
based on K.A Jalil’s: “THE LIFE
be greatly ___11___ [A.
CHANGER”.
impaired B. degraded C.
reduced D. denied].
16. Why was Salma overdressed

However, the case with most on the day of her final paper?

developing countries is to place

A. She wanted to seduce the
other ___12___ [A. sectional B.
invigilators
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the exam his birth
C. She wanted to look good in their
final year pictures 20. Who persuade Salma to sign
D. It was her birthday the EMAL form?

A. the security man

17. What was Tomiwa’s Village
B. the invigilator
food for kings?
C. the HOD
A. Rats D. Kolawole
B. Danwake
C. Snails 21. What was Tomiwa’s ambition?
D. Pounded yam
A. To become a dancer
B. To become a cleaner
18. Who was Omar’s favourite
C. To become a singer
sibling?
D. None of the above
A. Teemah
B. Jamila 22. Omar almost got angry when
C. Bint ____
D. None of them
A. Bint didn’t call him the name
he wanted
19. Why was he named “Talle”?
B. Jamila called him Esquire
A. because his father died after his C. Teemah teased him about his
birth result
B. because of the traditional D. Teemah refused to bring the
medicine man Zobo
C. because he was the quiet one

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why Talle doubled the amount of explains the information
foodstuffs he bought? conveyed in the sentences.

A. To show that he now has money

26. The government didn't mind
B. To feed the boy he abducted
my mentioning his name.
C. To stock his house for future
purpose A. He was not angry when I
D. To feed his dying father mentioned his name
B. He was angry when I mentioned
24. Students were required to be his name
at the hall ___ minutes before the C. He told me not to mention his
exam. name
D. He forgot to mention his name
A. 10
to me
B. 20
C. 30
27. The leader said he was not
D. 40
unaware of the plight of the
people.
25. In the novel it was stated that
_____ is the second to English in A. He knew of their plight
the ranking of international B. He was not informed of their
languages. plight
C. He could not understand their
A. Spanish
plight
B. French
D. He felt their plight
C. Arabic
D. None of the above
28. But for the expense, I'd buy
bigger car.

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because it is more expensive to do well
B. I will not buy bigger car because
it is too expensive Choose the option opposite in
C. I would buy a bigger car if I had meaning to the word in italics.
more money
31. The King's security men
D. I would like to buy a bigger car
relegated to the east.
if it was not so expensive

A. discharge from
29. No sooner had he got into the
B. known in
pool than the telephone rang.
C. accepted in
D. hated by
A. He didn't get into the pool
because the telephone rang
32. The minister averred his
B. The telephone rang just after he
commitment.
got into the pool
C. The telephone rang as he was
A. denied
getting into the pool
B. pledged
D. The telephone rang before he
C. undertook
got into the pool
D. accented

30. My father said I might just as

33. The company was on the brink
well stay at home for another year.
of a financial abyss.

A. I should stay at home because I

A. difficult
had no other choice
B. scandal
B. I might stay at home and do
C. services
well
D. stability
C. Staying at home was probably
the best thing for me
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man.
A. anxious
B. fragile A. a weak
C. healthy B. a crabbed
D. cautious C. a hilarious
D. a rude
35. A conscientious student should
not receive a reward. 39. She became neurotic as a
result of her performance.
A. An irresponsible
B. A persistent A. balanced
C. A busy B. disturbed
D. An active C. rational
D. excited
36. The poem appealed to my
sixth sense. 40. Malam Aliyu lived in lack.

A. brain A. surplus
B. mind B. penury
C. instinct C. plenitude
D. intelligence D. opulence

37. Sophie anticipated the Choose the option that best

celebration of her tenth birthday. completes the gap(s).

A. suggested 41. You have to _____ how to

B. hoped for make the whole week a
C. imagined memorable one.
D. waited for
A. thick up
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C. thick about conference, you have to _____ a
D. think at form on me.

A. fill up
42. Last week I _____ your friend
B. fill out
in the salon.
C. fill on
A. came into D. fill over
B. came by
C. came across 46. The flight _____ has been
D. came over postponed

A. schedule
43. We might wait a little longer,
B. timetable
but he would not it _____ soon.
C. menu
A. turn out D. manifest
B. turn up
C. turn in 47. My wife should not worry
D. turn over about this trial, I will always _____
her.
44. His _____ are tied, so he could
A. stand for
not do anything to help her.
B. stand by
A. shoulders C. stand on
B. arms D. stand over
C. hands
D. legs 48. I can tell from the way he talks
that he _____ his mentor.

A. takes after

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C. takes from
D. takes back 52. gearbox

A. bare
49. We have time to _____ before
B. feature
the gallery opens.
C. beer
A. make D. teacher
B. waste
C. conserve 53. confusion
D. keep
A. measure
B. mission
50. The time has now come _____
C. correction
policy change in Nigeria.
D. caution
A. to
B. for 54. tertiary
C. by
A. shame
D. at
B. question
C. catch
Choose the option that has the
D. chair
same sound as the one
represented by the letter(s)
55. poster
underlined.

A. jotter
51. tolerated
B. counter
C. heater
A. stale
D. motor
B. kneel
C. met

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A. low A. is her house the road?

B. flow B. Is my room across the road?
C. loud C. Is my house on the road?
D. cooed D. Is my house across the street?

Choose the appropriate stress 60. The shop closes AT 4pm.

pattern from the options, the
A. Does the shop close by 4pm?
stressed syllables are written
B. Does the shop opens at 4pm?
in capital letter(s).
C. Does the stall close at 4pm?
D. Does a shop close at 4pm?
57. distribution

A. distriBUtion GET YOUR ANSWERS

B. DIStribution
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The words in capital letter has

the emphatic stress. Choose
the option to which the given
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COMPREHENSION: Read the would arrange for my family to join

passage carefully and answer the me.
questions that follow.
Other financial problems at home

Whenever I have had to ask myself would be taken care of by my

the question why I have not left regular remittances. Would I then

this country for good, many never think of going back home in

answers rush to my mind, each future? Not until the situation in

striving to be recognized as being the country improves

the most cogent. considerably. I would answer.

I am reminded of the popular And who did I expect to carry on

slogan that this country belongs to with the task of national

us all, for which reason every rehabilitation when the likes of me

Nigerian must join hands in trying are all out of the country? Those

to salvage it. I try to dismiss the who messed up the country in the

argument by reasoning that it is first place. I would argue.

foolhardy attempting to lend a

And so on.
helping hand where one's services
are apparently not required. This dialogue of self has been
going on for the last ten years or
There, I am reminded that if I left
so. Meanwhile, I am yet to leave
the country in a hurry just because
the country.
of our political instability and
economic hardships, my When I wonder how many people

commitments to my family and share my kind of mental

extended family at home would experience, I realize that we must

suffer. I reply by saying that as be very few. For no many have the

soon as I got settled abroad, I - - slightest opportunity of

absconding from the country; they
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do not have the place to run to, nor D. now that things are not very
do they have the means of escape. good

Even among the elite who consider

3. The last paragraph of the
this possibility, the uncertainty of
passage reveals that _____
a future outside their fatherland
intimidates. And so we all end up A. the writer is a member of the
staying and mumbling. elite which alone indulges this kind
of thinking
1. The writer's argument that it is B. people in the country only end
foolhardy to offer one's services up arguing among themselves,
where such are apparently not while nobody does anything about
required implies that in Nigeria the situation
_____ C. the majority of citizens in the
country do not possess the ability
A. the authorities do not solicit for
to argue the way the writer does
the services of the citizens
D. deciding to leave the country is
B. mediocrity is the order of the
as bad as deciding to stay
day
C. the authorities are indifferent to
4. The expression 'each striving to
offers of help from the citizens
be recognized as being the most
D. to offer to serve the country is
cogent' means each _____
dangerous

A. trying to prove its superiority

2. 'To leave the country for good' B. determined to prove that it is
means leaving the country _____ the most acceptable
C. resolved not to be dislodged
A. unexpectedly
D. attempting to show that it is the
B. for better opportunities
brightest
C. permanently

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caused the problems in his country You may see blood clots, brown
can be described as _____ discharge or other tissues that are
not ___8___ [A. clearly B.
A. indifferent
naturally C. directly D.
B. unpatriotic
medically] identifiable.
C. self-righteous
D. logical Sometimes a sac-like structure is
seen. Often, there is cramping with

Immediately after the gaps in pelvic or back pain. You may find

the passage below, four that the usual symptoms of

options are provided. Choose pregnancy, such as breast

the most appropriate option for tenderness, feeling sick and

each gap. having to pass urine more

___9___ [A. painfully B.
The medical definition of frequently C. gradually D.
miscarriage is the spontaneous commonly] than usual stop
loss of a pregnancy before twenty- unexpectedly.
four weeks. Miscarriage is very
Sometimes there are no signs or
common, occurring in ten to
symptoms of miscarriage and
twenty per cent, of confirmed
pregnancy symptoms continue,
pregnancies. Most of these feature
and the miscarriage is only
___6___ [A. in the penultimate
___10___ [A. prevented B.
B. in the first C. around D. for]
managed C. discovered D.
twelve week of pregnancy.
stopped] in a routine scan.
The most common ___7___ [A.
About half of all early miscarriages
type B. cause C. period D.
happen because of a problem in
symptom] is vaginal bleeding,
the way the genetic material from
which can range from light
the egg and sperm have combined
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B. incubation C. mating D. based on K.A. Jalil’s: "THE LIFE
fertilization]. It can be difficult to CHANGER".
find out why this has ___12___
[A. occurred B. enlarged C. 16. Why did Ummi lie to the HOD

continued D. emerged], but it is that she was pressed?

more likely to be due to random

A. She wanted to use his toilet
chance than to any underlying
B. She wanted an excuse to leave
problem with either parent.
his office
Imbalances in pregnancy C. She wanted to spend some time
hormones, problems in the alone
immune ___13___ [A. syndrome D. She wanted to surprise him
B. process C. response D.
system], and some serious 17. Who among Salma’s
infections are also thought to roommates was the most brilliant?
make miscarriages more likely.
A. Ada
The risk of miscarriage ___14___
B. Salma herself
[A. increases B. starts C.
C. Ngozi
reduces D. appears] with age
D. Tomiwa
because the quality of eggs
deteriorates.
18. What made Omar conclude

If a woman drinks too much that there was no justice on earth?

alcohol or smokes heavily, the risk

A. Because Habib went unpunished
of miscarriage is higher. It is also
B. Because Labaran went
increased with ___15___ [A.
unpunished
complicated B. advance C.
C. Because Zaki went unpunished
multiple D. confirmed]
D. Because Talle went unpunished
pregnancies such as twins.
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HOD interviewed before he C. Because he was in love with
attended to Ummi? Salma
D. Because he wanted to cover his
A. 1
sadness
B. 2
C. 3
23. “In my school for just wearing
D. None
the wrong colour of sandals you
would be sent home.” Who made
20. Ummi described the way girls
this statement?
in the University dressed as ____
A. Bint
A. completely naked
B. Omar
B. well covered
C. Ummi
C. leaving a lot to the imagination
D. Teemah
D. leaving little to the imagination

24. Why didn’t Ummi tell the HOD

21. What did Dr Dabo do when
that she was married?
Salma left his office?
A. The HOD didn’t ask
A. He chased after her
B. She didn’t want the HOD to
B. He prayed for forgiveness
know
C. He rained curses on her
C. The HOD already knew
D. He defended his actions
D. She wanted to date the HOD

22. According to Ummi, why was

25. What was a delicacy of Salma’s
Kabir always happy?
people?

A. because he wanted everyone to

A. Rats
like him
B. Snails

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D. Eba backwoodsmen.

A. He is one of those that live in a

Select the options that best
distant and underdeveloped area
explain the information
B. He is one of the active member
conveyed in the sentence.
of the community
C. He is one of the honest men that
26. I haven't seen the movie and
lives in the community
my brother hasn't either.
D. He is one of those that live in
A. I have seen the movie but the most developed part of the city
neither of my brother have
B. My brother and I haven't seen 29. Kasim would have attended
the movie the party if he had been invited.
C. Only my brother has seen the
A. He would not have attended
movie
even if he eat
D. I was the only one that has seen
B. He attended the party before he
the move
was invited.
C. He was not invited and so, he
27. The lecture is Uye’s road to
did not attend
Damascus.
D. He attended the party without
A. The lecture is an opportunity to invitation.
travel to Damascus.
B. The lecture is an experience that Choose the option that is
changes the way she thinks opposite in meaning to the
C. The lecture talks exclusively word(s) in italics.
about Damascus.
D. The lecture is an experience 30. She said the experience was
that cannot be changed. harrowing.
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B. frightening behaviour.
C. pleasant
A. fitful
D. strange
B. bizarre
C. consistent
31. We travelled to an obscure
D. euphoric
little town.

A. rugged Choose the option that is

B. distinguished nearest in meaning to the
C. secluded word(s) in italics.
D. inglorious
35. She gave a caustic remark on
32. Lami normally scurries around the occasion
town.
A. tangible
A. scampers B. friendly
B. dashes C. insignificant
C. dawdles D. sarcastic
D. scuttles
36. Usman likes toys made with
33. Sule’s poem is always explicit bright and animated colours.
and compelling.
A. dull
A. exciting B. sparkling
B. clear C. black
C. ambiguous D. deep
D. long
37. The man has strong distaste
for alcohol.

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B. aversion
C. desire 41. The mechanic did not tell me
D. excitement the brakes _____ bad.

A. were
38. The schism in the' organization
B. are
is on the increase.
C. is
A. disagreement D. was
B. understanding
C. opportunity 42. Tayo could have supplied the
D. rot goods but it was _____ into two.

A. splitting
39. Sule admires people who have
B. split
unbending character.
C. splited
A. mobile D. splits
B. steady
C. wavering 43. The company deals _____
D. unstable computer software.

A. with
Choose the option that best
B. for
completes the gap(s).
C. in
D. to
40. _____ bomb had earlier been
defused.
44. _____ the house was an easy
A. A leaf task for the demolition squad.
B. An alive
A. Bringing forth
C. A life

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C. Bringing up B. type of programmes
D. Tearing with C. types of programmes
D. type of programme
45. The player sat on the bench
_____ the match lasted. 49. Lima doesn't like working in
the dark, _____?
A. since
B. when A. has she
C. that B. does she
D. while C. will she
D. did she
46. He ran out when he saw the
teacher, _____? 50. Audu overbalanced and _____
the water.
A. didn't he
B. isn't he
A. fell into
C. does he
B. fell from
D. is he
C. fell for
D. fell at
47. The prisoners had been _____
from all contacts.
Choose the option that has the
same sound as the one
A. kept upon
represented by the letter(s)
B. kept apart
underlined.
C. kept for
D. kept on
51. Head

48. “We detest these _____”, A. said

declared the woman. B. heard

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D. shirt C. part
D. pack
52. Loath
Choose the appropriate stress
A. breathe
pattern from the options. The
B. that
stressed syllables are written
C. thaw
in capital letter(s).
D. tank

56. Programmatic
53. Van
A. proGRAMmatic
A. of
B. PROgrammatic
B. fan
C. programMATIC
C. off
D. programmatIC
D. physics

57. Certification
Choose the option that rhymes
with the given word. A. certiFIcation
B. CERtification
54. Suite C. certifiCAtion
D. cerTIfication
A. sooth
B. suit
In the questions below, the
C. sweat
words in capital letter have the
D. sweet
emphatic stress. Choose the
option to which the given
55. Cart
sentence relates.

A. lash

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59. She puts spoon on the CHAIR.

A. Did she put the fork on the

chair?
B. Did she put the spoon on the
table?
C. Who put the spoon on the chair?
D. Who took the spoon on the
chair?

60. ASA is a lawyer.

A. Is Asa a robber?
B. Who is a lawyer?
C.Is Asa the lawyer?
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COMPREHENSION: Read the military approach relate to the use

passage below carefully and of physical coercion. The use of
answer the questions that follow. physical force could be by a party
to a conflict or third party, to
There are many different
promote one side's interest,
approaches to conflict
impose a settlement, or create a
management, each of which may
situation in which diplomatic
have utility in particular
negotiations can occur.
circumstances. A great deal of
scholarship has been devoted to Secondly, conflict management

analysing how and in what approaches can also be classified

situations different approaches can according to the status of the

be applied most effectively. participants in the bargaining

Conflict management approaches process. For example, a conflict

can be classified into two broad could be managed through

categories. 'negotiation', that is, direct

bargaining by the parties involved
Firstly, on the basis of the level of
in the conflict; or through
escalation which the particular
'mediation', that is with the help of
conflict is being managed. In this
a third party.
sense, one can distinguish
between the peaceful and the
1. The expression “third party”, as
'military' approaches. The
used in the passage, means _____
trademarks of the peaceful
approach are negotiation, verbal A. Politician
persuasion, use of inducements, B. Intruder
denial of privileges, and subtle C. Conformist
manipulation short of the use of D. Mediator
physical forces, while those of the

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deduced that _____. different approaches to conflict
management are _____.
A. All nations adopt the peaceful
approach A. Pernicious
B. All nations prefer the military B. Uniform
option C. Misleading
C. Prevailing circumstances push a D. Fundamental
warring nation to sue for peace
D. Conflicts are noted for 5. From the writer's point of view,
facilitating opportunities one can conclude that _____.

A. the only authority a society has

3. Which of the following
is its language
statements can be inferred from
B. language and culture are
the passage?
interwoven
A. The approach to employ in C. people of the same culture in
conflict management depends on the same society
the state of affairs D. developing people of the world
B. Only one conflict management have not developed their language
approach can be applied in all
situations In the passage below, each gap
C. All conflict management has four options provided.
approaches can be all situations Choose the most appropriate
D. There is a general disagreement to fill each gap.
among scholars on conflict
Before now, students bumped unto
management
career by chance or through the
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prestigious C. inferior D. and private schools waned with
debased] professions and gave government take-over of schools.
little consideration to their
Government involvement in career
children's interest, aptitude,
development is beset with many
knowledge and skills.
problems. One such problem is the
Students' career decisions were ___11___ [A. mild B. acute C.
also ___7___ [A. influenced B. slow D. average] shortage of
hampered C. subdued D. professional career development
rejected] by the type of officers. These few officers are
secondary schools they attended. ___12___ [A. seldom B. usually
Before government take-over of C. often D. frequently] given the
schools in 1971, over 80% of opportunity to practice.
elementary and secondary schools
If the government of Nigeria has
were privately owned and
___13___ [A. lauded B. muffled
competition was ___8___ [A.
C. muffled D. enunciated] a
high B. minimal C. low D.
guidance and counselling policy, it
moderate] among these schools.
must be pointed out that emphasis
Each strived to carve an ___9___ is still at the secondary level of
[A. attitude B. image C. effort education. This situation
D. avenue] for herself by ___14___ [A. rejects B.
excelling in sports or academics approves C. contradicts D.
and students often ended up in verifies] the current view that
engineering, medicine, the science career development should start at
and law. Junior students tried to the pre-primary level and continue
___10___ [A. appreciate B. till adulthood.
emulate C. reject D. denounce]
the career choices of their seniors.

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based on K.A. Jalli's "THE LIFE B. Murder
CHANGER". C. Kidnapping
D. Extortion
15. The invigilator suspected
Salma because ___
19. ___ was Kolawole’s full name.

A. she saw Salma collecting the

A. Kolawole Hakeem
expo
B. Kolawole Dayo
B. Salma was not writing before
C. Kolawole Ahmad
C. Kolawole was monitoring her
D. Kolawole Abdul
D. Salma was monitoring her

20. Bint immediate elder sister is

16. “Cest tres bien” in English
_____
means ____

A. Jamila
A. Good bye
B. Omar
B. That’s very good
C. Ummi
C. Welcome
D. Teemah
D. Good morning

21. Under which tree did they all

17. “Ummi” translates ____
go out to sit when the room got

A. mama hot?

B. mummy
A. An orange tree
C. my mother
B. A cashew
D. mum
C. A coconut tree
D. A mango tree
18. ____ was not one of the
charges filed against Talle.
22. Where did Talle work?

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B. at the Local Government hold on the capital.
C. at the District Head office
A. They tightened a rope round
D. in a hotel
their capital
B. They controlled the capital more
23. Why do most students caught
strictly
for EMAL simply leave the school
C. The held unto other workers in
instead of facing the Committee?
the capital
A. Because most Universities D. They stretched their hold on the
tolerate malpractices capital and beyond.
B. Because the students already
know their fate 26. I haven't seen the movie and
C. Because the students have been my brother hasn't either.
offered admission into another
A. I have seen the movie but
school
neither of my brother have
D. Because their parents asked
B. My brother and I haven't seen
them to come home
the movie
C. Only my brother has seen the
24. Who was the first child in Bint
movie
family?
D. I was the only one that has seen
A Jamila the move
B. Omar
C. Ummi 27. Sule would have been given
D. Salihu the car if his father had not
complained.
Select the options that best
A. He wasn't given the car because
explain the information
his father complained
conveyed in the sentence.
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his father complained tent with the club.
C. His father complained about the
A. He would support the club.
car and he was given.
B. He would build a pitch in the
D. He was given the car even
club
though his father didn't complain.
C. He would build a tent on the
pitch.
28. The lecture is Uye’s road to
D. He would distance himself from
Damascus.
the club.
A. The lecture is an opportunity to
travel to Damascus. Choose the option opposite in
B. The lecture is an experience that meaning to the word in italics.
changes the way she thinks
C. The lecture talks exclusively 31. Adewale's arrival always
about Damascus. triggers a media frenzy.
D. The lecture is an experience
A. Violence.
that cannot be changed.
B. Agitation
C. Calm
29. Ado is one of the
D. Excitement
backwoodsmen.

A. He is one of those that live in a 32. She said, the experience was
distant and underdeveloped area harrowing.
B. He is one of the active member
A. Educating
of the community
B. Frightening
C. He is one of the honest men that
C. Pleasant
lives in the community
D. Strange
D. He is one of those that live in
the most developed part of the city
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town. the occasion

A. Scampers A. tangible
B. Dashes B. Friendly
C. Dawdles C. insignificant
D. Scuttles D. Sarcastic.

34. Sule’s poem is always explicit 37. It was a good try but it didn't
and compelling. quite work out.

A. Exciting A. come to
B. Clear B. come off
C. Ambiguous C. come from
D. Long D. come for

35. The priest knows Ochai as an 38. Garuba’s performances in the

abstainer. competition was horrid.

A. Someone who never drinks A. terrible

alcohol B. encouraging
B. Someone who holds onto his C. Commendable
ideas D. rigid.
C. Someone who reads a lot
D. Someone who never cares 39. Usman likes toys made with
about others bright and animated colours.

A. dull
Choose the option nearest in
B. sparkling
meaning to the word in italics.
C. black

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goods but it was _____ into two.
40. The schism in the' organization
A. splitting
is on the increase.
B. split
A. disagreement C. splitted
B. understanding D. splits
C. opportunity
D. rot 44. There is no logic _____ any of
their claims.
Choose the option that best
A. with
completes the gap(s).
B. in
41. _____ bomb had earlier been C. from
defused. D. up

A. A leaf
45. _____ the house was an easy
B. An alive
task for the demolition squad.
C. A life
D. A live A. Bringing forth
B. Tearing down
42. The mechanic did not tell me C. Bringing up
the brakes _____ bad D. Tearing with

A. were
46. The player sat on the bench
B. are
_____ the match lasted.
C. is
D. was A. since
B. when
C. that

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C. stand across for
47. He was present at the party, D. stand beside for
_____?
Choose the option that has the
A. wasn't he
same sound as the one
B. did he
represented by the letter(s)
C. was he
underlined.
D. didn't he

51. Head
48. The prisoners had been _____
from all contacts. A. said
B. heard
A. kept upon
C. herd
B. kept apart
D. shirt
C. kept for
D. kept on
52. Loath

49. We detest these _____, A. breathe

declared the woman. B. that
C. thaw
A. types of programme
D. tank
B. type of programmes
C. types of programmes
53. Van
D. type of programme
A. of
50. Okoro will always _____ his B. often
friends. C. off
D. physics
A. stand up for

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with the given word. B. CERtification
C. certifiCAtion
54. Suite D. cerTIfication

A. suit
58. Motivation
B. sit
C. sweat A. moTIvation
D. sweet B. motivaTION
C. motiVAtion
55. Cart D. MOtivation

A. lash
The words in capital letter has
B. cat
the emphatic stress. Choose
C. part
the option to which the given
D. pack
sentence relates.

Choose the appropriate stress

59. Bukola’s UNCLE is a strict
pattern from the options. The
teacher.
stressed syllables are written
in capital letter(s). A. Is Bukola’s uncles a strict cook?
B. Is Tunde’s uncle a strict
56. Programmatic teacher?
C. Is Bukola’s aunt a strict
A. proGRAMmatic
teacher?
B. PROgrammatic
D. Is Bukola’s uncle an easy going
C. programMATIC
teacher?
D. programmatIC

60. She puts spoon on the CHAIR.

57. certification

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A. Did she put the fork on the
chair?
B. Did she put the spoon on the
table?
C. Who put the spoon on the chair?
D. Who took the spoon on the
chair?

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