Improved labour efficiency can be measured by?

• A. an increase in output-input ratio
• B. an decrease in output-input ratio
• C. the constancy of input-output ratio
• D. an increase in input-output ratio

After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of the sentence is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.

Considering his huge salary, the Director ought to have built a house by now. This means that the Director

• A. is not satisfied with his salary
• B. has not built a house yet
• C. earns a lot his house is still not ready
• D. does not have enough money to build a house

Bayo: Wao! Shola, how did you manage to purchase a new tricycle?

Shola: I did not buy it. It was the Councillor from my town that distributed tricycles to unemployed youths. I am lucky to be one of them.

Bayo: Congratulations! That's a good gesture. I wish the Councillor from my town would do same

• A. patriotic
• B. hard working
• C. contented
• D. self-reliant

The presentation of Sermon is an obligation on the Imam when leading

• A. All the prayers
• B. Funeral prayers
• C. Friday prayers
• D. Every prayer on friday

Instruction. Choose the word opposite in meaning to the underlined word in the sentence.

Rather than showremorse for his offense, he remained......

• A. calculated
• B. unpleasant
• C. apathetic
• D. unrepentant

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the poem below and answer the question

Now, Joy is born of parents poor,

And Pleasure of our richer kind;

Though Pleasure's free, she cannot sing

As sweet a song as Joy confined.

Pleasure's a moth, that sleeps by day

And dances by false glare at night;

But joy's a Butterfly, that loves

To spread its wings in Nature's light.

''False glare'' refers to

• A. man-made light
• B. nature's light
• C. the moon's light
• D. the sun's light

Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others

• A. beach
• B. ski
• C. be
• D. been

Farm-gate price is usually obtained through

• A) The producer
• B) Middlemen
• C) Commodity Boards
• D) Cooperatives

Centralized buying and decentralized selling are features of

• A. cooperative wholesalers
• B. department stores
• C. mail order business
• D. multiple stores

A group of companies formed to carry out an activity that is beyond the ability of any individual company is

• A. a subsidiary
• B. a merger
• C. a consortium
• D. an acquisition