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 or phrase as it is used in the sentence.

Corruption isinimical to the progress of any nation.

• A. harmful
• B. predominant
• C. unavoidable
• D. inevitable

The most common weed of pasture in West Africa is

• A. ageratum conyzoides
• B. tridax procumbens
• C. imperata cylindrica
• D. boerhavia diffusa

This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's

• A. the whiteman's treatment of Meka
• B. Meka's treatment of the medal in the whitewashed circle
• C. people's unwillingness to talk about how whitemen treat them
• D. people's freedom of expression

Which of the following statements is not true of the light stage of photosynthesis?

• A. Chlorophyll is energized by sunlight
• B. Water molecules split into hydrogen and hydroxyl ions
• C. Carbon (IV) oxide is reduced by hydrogen atoms in NADPH₂
• D. Water is formed

A particle that contains 8 protons, 9 neutrons and 7 electrons could be written as

• A)
  \(^{16}_8O\)
• B)
  \(^{17}_8O^+\)
• C)
  \(^{17}_9O^+\)
• D)
  \(^{17}_8O\)

A public limited company can raise long-term loans through

• A) the capital market
• B) the money market
• C) bank overdrafts
• D) discount houses

The average number of individuals of a species per unit area of the habitat is the?

• A. population density
• B. population frequency
• C. population size
• D. population distribution

If eight and a half tonnes of sugar is sold in bags of 5kg. How many bags are there to sell ?

• A. 1.7 bags
• B. 17 bags
• C. 170bags
• D. 1700 bags

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. Our chief is very intelligent but he could beparochial in his judgements.

• A. deep
• B. broad
• C. narrow-minded
• D. kind-hearted

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I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a

commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet

an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble!

swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own

shadow! a thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no

name to be known by, let us call thee devil!

(Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)

The speaker is

• A. cassio
• B. Iago
• C. Duke
• D. Roderigo