English Past Questions And Answers
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences:
The secretary was............from her job for absenteeism.
- A. evicted
- B. dismissed
- C. rejected
- D. eliminated
Oxygen is necessary to life. Nothing can live without it. It was .......... a century ago
- A. invented
- B. Found
- C. discovered
- D. learnt
From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word.
My father isparsimonious
- A. thrifty
- B. ungenerous
- C. frugal
- D. generous
The coach has asked the Bright Rangers to be paid their --6-- salaries and --7-- so as to --8-- them to victory against Mamelody Sundowns of South Africa in saturday's all importanat CAF Champions leaque Match. Bright Rangers are the third in group B with four points --9-- many matches and need to --10-- defaet at second - placed Al - Ahly to stay in the --11-- for a place in the semi - final of Africa's most prestigious club competition. The Coach told MTN Football.com that the team would be better motivated if they atleast receive their August salaries before the Al - Ahly --12--. We have to make sure that they are paid their salaries --13-- so that they could play the game of their lives. The government has done very well, but it will be a big morale --14-- to get paid for them to go out there and play. The Coach informed MTN Football.com that the Bright Rangers plan to employ the counter --15-- to get a result in Cario. --12--
- A. Showdown
- B. Blow out
- C. Show up
- D. Show
Kachi _____ two pairs of shoes but received only a pair
- (A) ordered for
- (B) ordered
- (C) ordered on
- (D) othered
Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?
Ndem was suspended from work because he showed no ...... in dealing with the customers?
- A. love
- B. iterest
- C. character
- D. finesse
A man was travelling from Lagos to Ibadan in a bus and on the opposite side of the road a woman was travelling to Lagos from Ibadan in another bus. Suddenly a car passed the bus the man was travelling in. How does the man feel as he watches the woman’s vehicle speed by in the opposite direction?
- (a) his bus is accelerating
- (b) it feels like the distance of separation between the two vehicles is rapidly increasing
- (c) it feels as if the woman’s bus is much faster than his bus
- (d) it seems that the car was overtaking the bus caused it
Choose the word that contains the sound represented by the given phonetic symbol
/dz/
- A. gear
- B. siege
- C. seizure
- D. suggest
In the question below choose the optionnearest in meaning to the word or phrase in underlined: We all have both good and bad characteristics. Either is, however, easilymanifested in times of crisis
- A. demanded
- B. highlighted
- C. submerged
- D. determined
Write a letter to the Editor of a national newspaper discussing the positive impact of the computer on education.
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