Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space; Tennyson and Browning lived about the same time and therefore .... poets

• A. contrary
• B. contractual
• C. contemporaneous
• D. contemporary

This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s

• A. contempt and admiration
• B. hatred and pity
• C. contempt and disregard
• D. disregard and pity

Inselberg may best be described as

• A. an iceberg left over by moving ice sheet
• B. a barge left on water by melting ice
• C. a residual hill with steep sides and usually exposed by denudation
• D. mountains of deposition

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

The workers suddenly becamerestive?

• A. fidgety
• B. disorderly
• C. submissive
• D. calm

Factorize 6pq-3rs-3ps+6qr

• A. 3(r - p)(2q + s)
• B. 3(p + r)( 2q - 2q - s)
• C. 3(2q - s)(p + r)
• D. 3(r - p)(s - 2q)

Which of the following is not a method by which rivers transport their eroded materials?

• A. suspension
• B. traction
• C. attrition
• D. solution

The technique that would produce the most accurate contoured map of a small area is

• A. Prismatic compass survey
• B. Land-use survey
• C. Plane-table survey
• D. Chain survey

An animal body that can be cut along its axis in any plane to give two identical parts is said to be

• A. radially symmetrical
• B. bilaterally symmetrical
• C. asymmetrical
• D. symmetrical

Cultural practices can be classified into the following except

• A. pre-planting operations
• B. planting operations
• C. post-planting operations
• D. in-planting operations

(a) A shop owner marked a shirt at a price to enable him to make a gain of 20%. During a special sales period, the shirt was sold at 10% reduction to a customer at N864.00. What was the original cost to the shop owner?

(b) A rectangular lawn of length (x + 5) metres is (x - 2) metres wide. If the diagonal is (x + 6) metres, find ;

(i) the value of x ; (ii) the area of lawn.