UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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The killing of a whale at sea isn't pleasant to witness or even to contemplate. Hunted down through solar and other highly specialized equipment, the whale has no more chance of escape like a steer in a slaughterhouse. The manner of his death, however, is very different. A grenade-tipped harpoon explodes deep within his body, often causing prolonged suffering before the gentle-giant, whose intelligence may be second only to our own, is reduced to a carcass ready for processing into crayons, lipstick, shoe polish, fertilizer, margarine and pet food.

The inhumane manner of death, however, is the least part of the scandal known as the whaling industry. Much more important is the fact that the killing is quite unnecessary. Adeguate substitutes exist for every single use to which the whale carcasses are currently put, and although some 32,000 whales are killed every year, the sum of commodities are provide is insignificant in the world's economy.

''.....gentle giant'' conveys the picture of being

• A. ferocious
• B. tame
• C. timid
• D. brave

The discovery of pomegranate and figs at Eschol gave the Spies sent by Moses

• A. strength
• B. hope
• C. disappointment
• D. fear

A novel that recounts the adventures of a likeable rogue is

• A. panegyric
• B. gothic
• C. picaresque
• D. grotesque

The benefits to be derived by ECOWAS member countries include all the following except

• A. a free movement of people across member countries
• B. territorial expansion
• C. free flow of capital
• D. the creation of large market

In Mendel's experiments, it was discovered that the skin of an African can be attributed to

• A. a blending of black and white genes
• B. recombination of genes
• C. loss of the epidermis
• D. mutation in the skin cells

Selective exploitation means felling trees of

• A. different ages and girths
• B. specific ages and girths
• C. different girths and same species
• D. different girths and different species

Which of the following statements about solids is correct?

• A. Solid particles are less orderly than those of a liquid
• B. Solid have lower densities than liquids
• C. Solid particles have greater kinetic energies than those of liquids
• D. Solid particles cannot be easily compressed

The following are features of the tropical rain forest except

• A. abundant water supply
• B. loose and moist soil
• C. short trees growing benealth tall trees
• D. scanty trees with small leaves

The Murtala/Obasanjo regime in Nigeria increased the number of states from....

• A. 30 to 36
• B. 19 to 20
• C. 12 to 19
• D. 4 to 12

The falling off of leaves of deciduous trees is helpful to the plant because it

• A. reduces the rate of transpiration
• B. enables the plant to conveniently eliminate its excretory products
• C. enables the plant to bear more fruits
• D. ensures that the limited mineral salts get to only growing regions