For these questions, choose the option that best complete the gap(s) He decided to wait for the bus because he had..........

• A. many luggages
• B. plenty luggages
• C. a lot of luggage
• D. too many luggage

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined. For all he cared: the game was as good as lost

• A. He did not care if the game as lost
• B. He could not care less if the game was lost
• C. He was almost certain that the game would be lost
• D. He was afraid the game would be lost

___ is used to represent a whole for a part and a part for a whole

• (a)synecdoche
• (b)synecdochy
• (c)euphemism
• (d)litote

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

I have never read.............book in all my life.

• A. the more frightening
• B. the frightening
• C. a most frightening
• D. a more frightening

In the question below, choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined: The salesman tried to pull the wool over by the eye. This implies that the salesman tried to

• A. force me to buy his goods
• B. offer me cotton wool
• C. make me by his wool
• D. dupe me

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

Immediately I entered the house, I could ........the smell of gas from the kitchen?

• A. feel
• B. hear
• C. detect
• D. smell

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. Mary Onyali won the race by a hair's breadth. This means that Mary won

• A. convincingly
• B. narrowly
• C. comfortably
• D. luckily

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. used to be self-sufficient
• B. had a dream to expand his farm
• C. is envied than the astronauts
• D. lives a life too simple

Write a story ending with the words: I wish I had listened to my father.

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

The electricity supply in this community iserratic.

• A. unpredictable
• B. disorderly
• C. low
• D. temporary