2008/2009 UNIZIK Post-UTME

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The government is making concreted efforts at providing essential facilities in the rural areas.

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The Western allies frowned at their enemies indiscriminate bombing of their territory

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The girl is very intelligent, but her jokes are rather outrageous.

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We cannot but talk about his invaluable contributions to the affairs of the society.

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This average fertility figure of course conceals wide individuals variations among the people.

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Men living in an extended family know that they have to be responsible for the for the welfare of some other person’s children

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The appearance of the pall-bearers was extremely fascinating.

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Many miners protested against the order to march into the coal pits

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The nasty action will bring nothing but discredit to them

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The man’s health has deteriorated in the hospital

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The boss made a clean sweep of all the old hands in the office

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Her anxiety was apparent to everyone present at the ceremony.

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Our experience on board the aircraft is nothing to write home about.

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The rampage was organized and directed by the militant ones among the students.

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The governor advised his people to get off the beaten tracks in their approach to community matters.

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It was their custom to keep an open house on Sundays.

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The president made a passionate appeal for calm.

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Dauda stole the clay takings from the bakery.

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You do not need to stutter in order to show your excitement.

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What embarrasses me is the stealthy way in which the new servant goes about his duties in this house.

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The way he handled the whole issue was rather despicable.

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The authenticity of the reporter’s claims should be established before taking further actions on the matter.

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After careful investigation, the police found no iota of truth in Ibrahim’s allegation

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The case was thrown out because the court lacked jurisdiction.

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The chief will launch the fund-raising appeal

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Okeke has been employed but he is unhappy because it is a run of mill

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I would like to believe that this brilliant performance of yours is not just a flash in the pan.

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As the wedding day approached the bride began to develop cold feet.

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I told my brother to get the matter of his chest as soon as possible

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He has a big heart but he is inept at following a witty conversation.

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The clerk refused to answer for the mistakes made by the manager and his assistants.

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Most of his observations were wide of the mark.

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I didn’t think she could be so easily taken in by his pretenses

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Do you have the same aversion as I do for war films?

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His summary of the meeting was brief and to the point.

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The Minister hit on a plan to retain his post after many months of lobbying.

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My friends will hate his uncle forever because he left him in the lurch in his hour of need.

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Our school prefect is too officious and we all hate him because of his behaviour.

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He regarded the betrayal of his friend as a stab ____  the back.

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Our manager has instructed that _____ customers must be barred from our bank.

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He was not a very ________  student when I first met him but the year his character _______

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Because of the ___________ he did to my car, I am going to sue him for ________________

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Although I am watching television, I ____________ what you are saying.

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One of the rioters who __________ arrested yesterday _______ released

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The teacher invited Ifeanyi and ______

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Joseph and his wife are always fighting. The ______ be drawn from this is that they are not happy together

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The government has provided new ______  for the local government polls.

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The manager was angry with Okoye for ________ seeds of discord among the workers

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I looked for you all over the campus but I could not _____  you.

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_______  is always superior to any other in town.

Two radioactive elements A and B have half-lives of 100 and 50 years respectively. Samples of A & B initially contain equal number of atoms. What is the ratio of the number of the remaining atoms of A to that of B after 200 years.

A boy standing some distance from the foot of a tall cliff claps his hands and hear an echo 0.5s later. If the speed of sound is 340ms, how far is he from the cliff?

Which of the following is not correct about isotopes of an element? They have

Which of the following is not electromagnetic radiation?

Cloud formation is the direct result of

Water boils at a temperature when heated at the top of a mountain than at sea-level because at the top of the mountain the

The main reason why rice cooks faster in a pressure, cook than in a cooking pot is that

In which of the following media would sound waves travel faster?

Which of the following phenomena is the practical evidence for the existence of the continual motion of molecules?

Each of the following physical quantities is classified as a vector of scalar quantity. Which of the classifications is connect?

The friction which exists between two layers of liquid in relative motion is called

Which of the following simple machines is a second class lever?

Which of the following types of motion does a body undergo when acted upon by a couple?

The frequency of a swinging pendulum is the

Which of the following methods quantities has the same units as energy?

Which of the following methods can be used to separate a mixture of two miscible liquids with different boiling points?

Pig-iron is brittle because it contains

Which of these metals will not liberate hydrogen from dilute Hel?

Radon is used as a tracer in medical research because it

In linear molecules, the bond angle is

A sodium atom and a sodium iron have the same

An increase in the pressure of a gas results in a decrease in it’s

An acid is a substance which in the presence of water produced

Which of the following is a general method of preparing acid?

Which of the following irons will migrate to the cathode during electrolysis

What quantity of electrons (in mole) is lost when one mole of iron (II) irons oxidized to iron (III) irons?

The common feature of reactions at the anode is that

Ethene undergoes mainly addition reactions because it is

The position of equilibrium in a reversible reaction is affected

The reactions between alkanoic acids and alkanols in the presence of a mineral acid is known as

A fundamental similarity between nervous and hormonal system is that both

The irreversible life process by which new protoplasm is added to increase the size and weight of an organism can be termed

If an organism obtain its food by means of haustoria, it is to be

The main waste products formed in plants are

In the mammalian respiratory system, exchange of gases occurs in the

If the phloem of a healthy plant is killed by heat treatment, the

If an animal has diastema, it would not possess

The major function of the swim bladder in fishes is

Insects and millipedes have many features in common except

What is the function of tichocyst in paramecium

The sum of the angle of a regular polygon is 2520⁰. How many sides does the polygon have?

If the exterior angles of a quadrilateral are, (2y+5)⁰, (y+15)⁰, and (3y-10)⁰, find y

Calculate the surface area of a sphere of radius 7cm (take =22/7).

If 3loga+5loga-6loga=log64, what is a?

A sales girl gave a change of ₦15 to a customer instead of ₦1.25. calculate her percentage error

The ages of three men are in the ratio 3:4:5. If the difference between the ages of the oldest and youngest is 18 years, find the sum of the ages of the three men.

Which of the following numbers is a perfect cube?

A car moves at an average speed of 30km. how long does it take to cover 200meters?

If N varies directly as M and N=8 when M=20, find M when N=7

Express 0.0462 in standard form.