Past Questions And Answers
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences:
The government has imposed an..................on the importation of used vehicles.
- A. order
- B. edict
- C. embargo
- D. act
Placentation in fruits is referred to as the
- A. arrangement of ovules in the ovary of a flower
- B. part of the ovary where the ovules originate and remain till maturity
- C. ovules borne on a central column of tissues in an ovary
- D. formation of a single carpel joined at the two edges of an ovule
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space; the frightening explosion in the factory .... whole wing
- A. washed out
- B. wiped out
- C. rooted out
- D. flushed out
Which of these methods will best help to check wind erosion?
- A. re-afforestation and planting of tress on wind break
- B. inter-cropping and contour ploughing
- C. strip cripping and crop rotation
- D. contour ploughing and manuring
Net 3 months on an invoice means the buyer will
- A. pay interest after 3 months
- B. gets discount if he pays within 3 months
- C. pay full invoice amount after 3 months
- D. have discount if he pays after 3 months
What volume of 0.750moldm-3 Na2CO3 solution could be diluted to 250cm3 to reduce the concentration of 0.025moldm3?
- A) 16.8 cm3
- B) 14.2 cm3
- C) 10.4 cm3
- D) 8.3 cm3
Africans were first elected to the legislative council in British West Africa in
- A) Sierra Leone
- B) The Gambia
- C) Ghana
- D) Nigeria
Which of the following is a similarity between a typical animal cell and a typical plant cell? Presence of
- A) cellulose
- B) chlorophyll
- C) centrally placed nucleus
- D) cell membrane
Which of the following is not an environmental hazard?
- A. Sedimentation
- B. Flooding
- C. Earthquake
- D. Deforestation
In a discharge tube, most of the gas is pumped out so that electricity is conducted at
- A) low voltage
- B) steady voltage
- C) high pressure
- D) low pressure

