Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word. Always strive to get what islegitimate?

• A. illicit
• B. legal
• C. good
• D. impure

In the question below choose theoption opposite in meaning to the word underlined: The deafening noise of the two jet planes which flew across our compound yesterday made people fear that an assault on the country might beimminent

• A. impending
• B. ahead
• C. remote
• D. eminent

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word. Scientists haveinvented ways of preserving fruits much longer?

• A. coined
• B. devised
• C. arranged
• D. organized

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

My father remains inflexible once he has taken a decision

• A. certain
• B. relaxed
• C. permanent
• D. unyielding

The old car.............. several times this year

• A. was repaired
• B. has been repaired
• C. had been repaired
• D. has repaired

A ____ of rascals

• (a)group
• (b)gourd
• (c)team
• (d)pack

SECTION A: ESSAY

As a formed senior prefect, write a letter to the Principal of your school on the anniversary celebration, congratulating him and offering three suggestions for the improvement of the school.

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. challenges
• B. brawn
• C. risks
• D. brain

From the list of words lettered A to D, choose the one that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that wil, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentence.

All divers were enjoined to obtaingenuine and ______ licences.

• A. artificial
• B. fraudulent
• C. fake
• D. substandard

Instruction: Choose the word opposite in meaning to the underlined words.

The taxi driver pleaded that the splashing of water wasaccidental but the lady insisted that it was……

• A. thoughtful
• B. deliberate
• C. directed
• D. mischievous