Read the passage below and answer the question

Stella had to do her midweek shopping. There were four people before her in the queue. She watched the blond at the counter striking feverishly away at the numbers on the cold, light-flickering machine. There seemed to be a raging war between two mechanical contraptions, one, robot-like and the other stationary, but able to respond to the extent of punching, by sharp flickers of red light. It was an all consuming battle,as a swift hand positioned the price label of the ceaseless flow of item on the coneyor belt and the right delivered the punches. The intending owners were more unnoticed onlookers. Anyway, there is a belated recognition of them in ''thank you, call again balance sheet. '' It's all so mechanical, she thought. I mean, any creature-baboon, extraterrestial being or anything - could as well receive the same treatment as long as the conditions are met- ''bring to the counter, labelled items from the shelves.''Where is the human touch? She wondered.

The dominant literary device used in the passage is

• A. litotes
• B. personification
• C. synecdoche
• D. onomatopoeia

which of the following item is under the capital account of a balance of payment?

• A. repayment of foreign loans
• B. visible imports
• C. invisble exports
• D. cocoa exports

Battering involves.................... one’s wife.

• (a) Kissing
• (b) Beating
• (c) Caring
• (d) Carrying

Following the reform of the Native Authority system in Northern Nigeria ,traditional rulers became

• A. Council
• B. Chief-and-Council
• C. Prefects
• D. Chief-in-Council

___________ is the combination of already processed _____________

• A. information /data
• B. data /information
• C. information /instructions
• D. instructions /Data

The use of the folio in the ledger is for

• A. referencing purposes
• B. particulars of the transaction
• C. the account titles
• D. only credit items

(a) Highlight any three effects of either rotation or revolution of the earth

(b) Give reasons why:

(i) all areas north of the Arctic Circle have twenty four hours of daylight on June 21

(ii) areas within the tropics have more sunshine than areas outside the tropics

If three angles of a quadrilateral are (3y - x - z)^o, 3x^o, (2z - 2y - x)^o find the fourth angle in terms of x, y and z

• A. (360 - x- y - z)°
• B. (360 + x + y - z)°
• C. (180 - x + y + z)°
• D. (180 - x + y + z)°

The merging together of a number of urban settlements will produce a?

• A. conurbation
• B. nucleated settlement
• C. linear settlement
• D. suburb

(a) State two applications of electrolysis.

(b) Explain what is meant by the electrochemical equivalent of copper is 3.3 x 10\(^{-7}\) kgC\(^{-1}\)