Past Questions And Answers
From the words lettered A to D below each of the following sentences, choose the word that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word.
The children were warned not to be undulyinquisitive
- A. naughty
- B. playful
- C. troublesome
- D. curious
If the radius of the earth is 6.4 x 106m, the escape velocity of a satellite from the earth is? [g = 10 ms-2]
- A) 1.13 x 104 ms-1
- B) 9.00 x 103 ms-1
- C) 8.00 x 103 ms-1
- D) 1.27 x 104 ms-1
'''....The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge...''
God told Prophet Ezekiel that the proverb above would no longer be used in Israel, but that
- A. the sins of Israel will be forgiven
- B. all sins shall be punished immediately
- C. the soul that sins shall die
- D. all sins are equal before God
From the words lettered A. to D below each of the following sentences, choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentences.
He was jailed for failing to obey the courtinjunction
- A. law
- B. order
- C. fine
- D. proceedings
Which of the following is not a process of wind erosion?
- A. abrasion
- B. attrition
- C. hydraulic action
- D. deflation
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good pasture?
- A. high palatability
- B. high nutritive value
- C. high digestibility
- D. low leaf to stem ration
Assuming that a period of stable population size is followed by a period when natality increases by ten (1O) per cent and immigration increases by twenty (20) percent of population size. The population size will
- A. be at equilibrium
- B. increase by forty (40) per cent
- C. begin to increase
- D. begin to decrease
I buy _____ newspaper every Tuesday and ______ every Friday
- (A) The Guardian'/The Punch
- (B) 'Guardian/Punch'
- (C) 'Guardian/The Punch
- (D) 'The Guardian'/Punch
Money can be simply be referred to as a
- A. measure of value
- B. standard of value
- C. means of settlement
- D. durable asset for doing business
The ....... produces comic relief in drama
- A. chorus
- B. protagonist
- C. antagonist
- D. clown