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.

A meeting was called ..............the instance of the chairman.

• A. by
• B. for
• C. on
• D. at

My uncle _____ ladies shoes

• A. deals on
• B. deals with
• C. deals by
• D. deals in

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

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes the sentence below.

Kofi is too ....... ; he wants to know about everybody's business

• A. inquisitive
• B. friendly
• C. concerned
• D. busy

___ of a saw

• (A) beat
• (B) crackling
• (C) crinkling
• (D) buzz

From the words or group of words lettered A to D below the sentence.

Choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word or group of words as used in the sentence.

But for theprincipal actor the play would have been dull.

• A. important
• B. head
• C. master
• D. main

In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase whichbest fillsthe gap: A number of suspects were paraded .... the victim of the robbery

• A. in front
• B. before
• B. before C. for
• D. to

Choose the most appropriate optionnearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

It would need ahigh flyer to make a first class degree in the university?

• A. a smart performer
• B. an outright genius
• C. an outstanding scholar
• D. an unmitigated swot

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

I should be as .............as Kofi if I were so rejected by a close friend

• A. conscious
• B. timid
• C. aggrieved
• D. courteous

choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentence.

Here's a man who comes from abackground of entertainment,

• A. an experience
• B. a place
• C. a culture
• D. a mood