From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.

It is you and John who.........wanted

• A. is
• B. are
• C. was
• D. will

Fill in the gap(s) with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap(s).

Either Ekaette or you .... to go.

• A. was
• B. are
• C. has
• D. is

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence. Ogiri takes after his father, he fawns upon anyone with influence.

• A. Like his father, Ogiri likes to flatter people with influence in society
• B. Like his father, Ogiri hates influential people
• C. Ogiri, who always follows his father, tries to act an influential man
• D. Ogiri, who looks like his father, follows rich and influential people about

The passage below has gaps. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

PASSAGE IV

With the most profound respect to the members of the Senate, I do not think that it is within the competence of that ...1... body to pass a motion to ...2... the executive action of the President. The Senate is ...3... of the National Assembly. But it is not by itself alone the National Assembly. One can imagine the confusion, which would be created if the ...4... were to take a view diametrically opposed to that reflected in the Senate resolution. The strongest objection to the action of the Senate in passing the resolution is the fact that it constituted itself the ...5... as well as the judge of the constitutionality of the action of the President. The function of the Senate is to ...6... laws. But the Senate has no authority or ...7... to control the President in the exercise of his ...8... powers. It cannot by a mere resolution or motion give any directive to the President regarding the exercise of his powers nor can it undo what the President has done in the exercise of those powers. The only way in which the exercise of the powers of the President can be ...9... is by ...10... of the National Assembly.

Adapted from The Guardian of July 8, 1999, p. 8.

• A. modify
• B. nullify
• C. order
• D. enforce

Choose the option to which the given sentence relates My Boss has an amiable DISPOSITION

• A. Does your boss have an amiable disposition
• B. Does my boss have an unfriendly disposition
• C. Does my colleague have an amiable disposition?
• D. Does my boss have an amiable complexion?

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

Drought, for the first time, brought the poor farmers face-to-face with famine. This means that the farmers had never

• A. expected to meet hungry people
• B. thought the season would be dry
• C. prepared for famine
• D. experienced hunger in their lives

Reorganise the following sentences into the order in which they were originally written P: The other was left standing by alone until they were ready for him. Q: I saw a man strike one of them with a wooden axe. R: As I looked, I saw two fellows pulled from the boat: they were being brought to be killed.

• A. QRP
• B. RQP
• C. QPR
• D. PQR

Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.

The man declared his intention from the -----

• A. outset
• B. inset
• C. onset
• D. offset

If the word HAVE is written under the word FARM, the word COST is written above the word FARM and the word GATE is written under the word HAVE, what word cannot be read diagonally?

• A. HAS
• B. ORE
• C. RAG
• D. CAVE

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.

It is really hard to come to terms with going blind. This means that if one goes blind one

• A. finds it easy to accept
• B. has no choice but to adjust
• C. finds if difficult to accept
• D. gradually gets used to it