English Past Questions And Answers
God should take control of the heart of the organizers of this Post-UME screening exercise, they should not make the test …………….. than UME
- (a) more tough
- (b) more tougher
- (c) much tougher
- (d) much more tougher
choose the option nearest in meaning to the italicized words or expressions. The French classes were always funny because we considered French a strange tongue.
- A. Awkward
- B. Foreign
- C. Funny
- D. Uninteresting
Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence; Hestared at her
- A. glanced
- B. peeped
- C. looked
- D. gazed
Synonym: FAVOURITISM
- A. Nepotism
- B. Hooliganism
- C. Capitalism
- D. Socialism
He laughs best that laughs last means ____
- A. he who laughs loud is the best
- B. he who laughs win
- C. he who wins laughs
- D. he who laugh best wins
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 members of the Association were just rounding......their discussion when the police arrived
- A. up
- B. off
- C. of
- D. in
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.
The officer urged the soldiers to gird up their loins for the task ahead. This means that soldiers should
- A. wake up early the next morning
- B. guard their hungry loins
- C. wear new battle uniform
- D. be on full alert
Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).
He is well known for hisinordinate ambition?
- A. passionate
- B. sound
- C. excessive
- D. moderate
Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the other.
- A. secondment
- B. orients
- C. orthopaedic
- D. photographic
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letter(s).
fate
- A. weight
- B. flat
- C. share
- D. said

