Your father has just built a new house for the family. Write a letter to your elder brother who lives abroad, describing the new house and the prestige it has accorded your family.

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence. Mrs. Adamu does all her work with more haste, less speed.

• A. She accept whatever she does with more haste and speed
• B. She approaches whatever she does hurriedly
• C. She addresses everything she does very quickly to avoid mistakes
• D. She does everything carefully to avoid mistakes

The wind blew, and the leaves fell

• (A) Simple sentence
• (B) compound sentence
• (C) complex sentence
• (D) compound complex sentence

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. Hassan should have had that promotion. This means that Hassan

• A. has had the promotion
• B. will not have had the promotion
• C. will have the promotion
• D. did not have the promotion

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence. The new Headmaster hoped that his men would pull together?

• A. He expected that the men would coorperate with him
• B. He thought that the men would compose themselves at work
• C. He was certain that they would resign en masses
• D. He was certain that their condition would improve under him

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s). We were allenthusiastic as we awaited the result of the election?

• A. bemused
• B. agitated
• C. elated
• D. nervous

From the words lettered A to D below each of the following sentences, choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentence.

That was atimely intervention.

• A. suitable
• B. accurate
• C. prompt
• D. major

Blueberries cost more than strawberries. Blueberries cost less than raspberries. Raspberries cost more than both strawberries and blueberries. If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

• A. true
• B. false
• C. uncertain
• D. None of the above

choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the word(s) underlined. He maintained that Nigerians need a leader with aniron fist

• A. fist made of iron
• B. severe in treatment
• C. difiicult to please
• D. strong as iron

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.

Unless you don't want to become a teacher, there's no reason for not accepting the sponsorship. This means that you should

• A. not refuse the sponsorship if you want to become a teacher
• B. refuse the sponsorship if you want to because a teacher
• C. not refuse the sponsorship if you don't want to become a teacher
• D. refuse the sponsorship whether you want to be a teacher or not