The passage below has gaps. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

PASSAGE IV

With the most profound respect to the members of the Senate, I do not think that it is within the competence of that ...1... body to pass a motion to ...2... the executive action of the President. The Senate is ...3... of the National Assembly. But it is not by itself alone the National Assembly. One can imagine the confusion, which would be created if the ...4... were to take a view diametrically opposed to that reflected in the Senate resolution. The strongest objection to the action of the Senate in passing the resolution is the fact that it constituted itself the ...5... as well as the judge of the constitutionality of the action of the President. The function of the Senate is to ...6... laws. But the Senate has no authority or ...7... to control the President in the exercise of his ...8... powers. It cannot by a mere resolution or motion give any directive to the President regarding the exercise of his powers nor can it undo what the President has done in the exercise of those powers. The only way in which the exercise of the powers of the President can be ...9... is by ...10... of the National Assembly.

Adapted from The Guardian of July 8, 1999, p. 8.

• A. compose
• B. enact
• C. annul
• D. create

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.

These days........wealth appears to be easy

• A. acquiring
• B. to be acquiring
• C. having acquired
• D. to have acquired

The feature marked J is a

• A. Valley
• B. Pass
• C. Col
• D. Shoulder

Vitamin E is concerned with

• A. bone formation
• B. reproduction
• C. normal growth
• D. formation of red blood cells.

Paul wrote to the Romans’……… there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been by God’. By this statement Paul meant that all the following except that

• A. God controls the whole universe, no authority can be exception
• B. When an authority is obviously anti-Christ, it has no claim to legitimacy
• C. All authorities, aimed at good governance and order, this is in accordance with God
• D. All authorities, like God, reward goodness and punish wrong-doings

In the presidential system of government , the leader is basically the head of state and

• A. government
• B. the police
• C. the military
• D. the judiciary

A court can declare any action of a local government that is outside its area of jurisdiction as

• A. ultra vires
• B. billof rights
• C. certiorari
• D. habeas corpus

The principle of separation of powers is fundamental to the

• A. parliamentary system
• B. presidential system
• C. totalitarian system
• D. federal system

The Lord has set the sun in the heavens, but he said that he will dwell in thick darkness .... This statement was made in the context of the the?

• A. law giving at Mount Sinai
• B. dedication of solomon's temple
• C. crossing of the Red Sea
• D. ten plagues of Egypt

In a soil profile, the C-horizon can be described as the?

• A. topmost layer that may include organic litter
• B. zone relatively unaffected by soil-forming processes
• C. portion of the soil affected by leaching
• D. zone of accumulation rich in bases and organic matter