Past Questions And Answers
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The president...........his wife and children is leaving for Paris
- A. or
- B. and
- C. with
- D. despite
Which of the following statements about a spring balance and/or a chemical balance is not correct?
- A. the chemical balance operates on the principle of moments
- B. the sprin balance operates on Hooke's law
- C. either may be used to measure the weight of a substance
- D. the reading of a spring balance changes over the surface of the earth, while that of the chemical balance remaind constant
Choose the optionnearest in meaning to the underlined world(s).
The government is not opening up to the unions in the negotiations; it musthave something up its sleeve?
- A. be nursing a hidden a last agenda
- B. be hoping to trap them
- C. be hiding a last minute package
- D. be intending to dissolve the unions
Write in words the sum of 31,004 and 117, 009.
- A. Four hundred and twenty seven thousand and thirteen.
- B. One hundred and forty eight thousand.
- C. Fourteen thousand and three
- D. One hundred and forty eight thousand and thirteen
Which of the following materials cannot be used for liming?
- A. gypsum
- B. basic slag
- C. chalk
- D. urea
Which of the following are forms of sales promotion?
- A. advertising, personal selling and publicity
- B. advertising, market skimming and publicity
- C. personal selling, packaging and publicity
- D. advertising, packaging and publicity
In economics, a commodity is said to have an opportunity cost because
- A) the price of the commodity is high
- B) the commodity is scare
- C) another good may have been purchased instead of it
- D) the commodity provides many benefits
The living part of phloem tissue is
- A) sieve plate
- B) companion cell
- C) sieve element
- D) cytoplasm
A question which does not require an answer is
- A. discourse
- B. rhetorical
- C. ironic `
- D. flashback
The central banks control credit in the economy through the use of
- A. legal tender
- B. travellers cheque
- C. foreign exchange instruments
- D. open market operation

