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. are always successful
• B. always do what are expected of them
• C. know they may not return from their journey into space
• D. have courage and mental stability

The depreciation to be charged to department T is ?

• A. N30000
• B. N400
• C. 500
• D. N600

Contraband goods seized by the Customs and Excise Authority are kept in the

• A. ordinary warehouse
• B. bonded warehouse
• C. public auctioneer's store
• D. state warehouse

On evaporation to dryness, 350cm³ of saturated solution of salt Z gave 55.5g of salt. What is the solubility of the salt? [Z = 101]

• A. 1.57 moldm^-3
• B. 3.14 moldm^-3
• C. 6.28 moldm^-3
• D. 12.56 moldm^-3

The secon temptation according to the gospel of Luke was

• A. worship Satan to receive great power.
• B. to turn stones into bread to satisfy his physical hunger.
• C. to leap from the temple pinnacle to show his divine nature.
• D. to invoke God's presence

The king of Tyre who supported King Solomon with timber for the building of the temple was

• A. Hiram
• B. Neco
• C. Dairus
• D. Cyrus

During the giving of the law at mount Sinai, the Israelites wanted Moses to speak to them instead of God because_____________

• A. they thought they will die
• B. they did not consecrate themselves
• C. the people were afraid and trembled
• D. Moses was their spokesman

King Josiah was regarded as a defender of Jewish religion because

• A. he killed all the priets of Baal
• B. he sanctified the priests of Baal to serve at the alter in Jerusalem
• C. houses which were dedicated to the sun god were rededicated to the Lord
• D. he reformed the corrupt religious practises of his predecessors

What volume of hydrogen will be produced if 100cm³ of ammonia is completely decomposed at constant temperature and pressure? The equation for reaction is 2NH₃(g) → N₂(g) + 3H₂(g)

• A. 50cm³
• B. 150cm³
• C. 200cm³
• D. 300³

The Hebrew midwives did not kill the Hebrew sons as directed by the king of Egypt because

• A. the women were delivered before the midwives came
• B. the woman bribed them with irresistible gifts
• C. of their fear of God
• D. they loved the Hebrews