Environmental pollutants which can work through the media of water, soil and air include

• A. carbon monoxide
• B. noise
• C. sulphur(IV)oxide
• D. smoke

From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences. The committee has submitted its report...........the students' riot

• A. in
• B. for
• C. about
• D. on

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

In John Donne's Death, be not Proud, the poet believes that death is

• A. immortal
• B. mighty
• C. pleasurable
• D. dreadful

Read the passage carefully and answer this question.

May your road be rough. I am not cursing you: I am wishing you what I wish myself every year, I therefore repeat, may you have a hard time this year. May there be troubles for you this year. If you are not sure of what to say back, why not just say "same to you" – I ask for no more.

Our successes are conditioned by the amount of risk we are about to take. Earlier today, I visited a local farmer about five kilometers from where I live. He could not have been 55, but he said he was already too old to farm vigorously. He still suffered, he said, from the energy he displayed as a farmer in his younger days. Around his hut were two pepperbushes. There were cocoyam growing around him. There were snail shells which had given him meat. There must have been more snails around the banana trees than I saw. He hardly ever went to town to buy things. He was self-sufficient. The car, the television or radio and the newspaper were things he could live without. He had no ambition whatsoever, he told me.

I am not sure if you are already envious of him, but were we all to revert to such a life, we would be driven back like aimless sheep to cave dwelling. On the other hand, try to put yourself in the shoes of the Russian or American astronauts. Any moment you are shot into space, you have to be mentally alert, else, if you forget what to do, one of the things that might happen to you is that you could forever become a satellite going round until you die of starvation, and even then, your dead body would continue the gyration.

Naturally, they may have some slight foreboding on the contingency of their non-return. However, it is their courage for going in spite of these apprehensions that makes the world hail them so loudly today.

(Akinyemi, A., Olupe, F., & Adetutu, S. (2012): Rubrics of English Language for Schools and Colleges. Divine Glory Printers, Abeokuta.)

• A. challenges
• B. brawn
• C. risks
• D. brain

Which of the following is NOT a sense organ?

• a) Hair
• b) Ear
• c) Eye
• d) Skin

In the short run horizon of production,

• A) all inputs can be varied
• B) one input is varied
• C) all inputs are fixed
• D) one input, at least, is varied

One of the strong proofs of the authenticity of the Quran is that

• A. the like of it has not been produced by an individual or a group of people
• B. the Arabic language in which it was revealed is still spoken
• C. it was compiled soon after its revelation
• D. it has been translated into many languages

(a) In a market survey, 100 traders sell fruits, 40 sell apples, 46 oranges, 50 mangoes, 14 apples and oranges, 15 apples and mangoes and 10 sell the three types of fruits. Each of the 100 traders sells at least one of the three fruits.

(i) Represent the information in a Venn diagram ; (ii) Find the number that sell oranges and mangoes only.

(b) Find the value of x for which \(312_{four} + 52_{x} = 96_{ten}\)

This question is based on General Literary Principles

Zeugma is a figurative device in which a

• A. noun refers to two parts of an expression
• B. conjunction governs two parts of an expression
• C. verb refers to two parts of an expression
• D. pronoun governs two parts of an expression

The prophet who prophesied that Paul would he arrested in Jerusalem is

• A) Isaiah
• B) Agabus
• C) Phillip
• D) Stephen