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Question 1 of 80
1. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Our planet is at risk. Our environment is under threat. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the seas we fish in, the soils we farm, the forest animals and plants which surround us are in danger. More and more gases and rubbish escape from our factories. Rubbish, oil spillage and detergents damage our rivers and seas. The loss of forests results in soil erosion and also endangers wildlife.
The richer countries of the world are mainly responsible for industrial pollution. This is where most of the commercial energy is consumed. In developing countries, poverty causes people to overgraze grasslands and to cut down trees for timber building, furniture and fuel. They are also destroyed to provide land on which to graze animals and build new villages and towns.
But frees are needed to protect the land from heavy down pour of rain arid their roots help hold the soil together. In our forests, there may be plants and animals which could help in the discovery of new medicines or crops.
To rescue and conserve our beautiful world, we must act cooperatively. Individuals, communities, nations and international associations, all have a responsibility. By learning to protect the natural environment, we can manage the earth’s resources for generations to come.
The risk referred to in the passage is
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Question 2 of 80
2. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Our planet is at risk. Our environment is under threat. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the seas we fish in, the soils we farm, the forest animals and plants which surround us are in danger. More and more gases and rubbish escape from our factories. Rubbish, oil spillage and detergents damage our rivers and seas. The loss of forests results in soil erosion and also endangers wildlife.
The richer countries of the world are mainly responsible for industrial pollution. This is where most of the commercial energy is consumed. In developing countries, poverty causes people to overgraze grasslands and to cut down trees for timber building, furniture and fuel. They are also destroyed to provide land on which to graze animals and build new villages and towns.
But frees are needed to protect the land from heavy down pour of rain arid their roots help hold the soil together. In our forests, there may be plants and animals which could help in the discovery of new medicines or crops.
To rescue and conserve our beautiful world, we must act cooperatively. Individuals, communities, nations and international associations, all have a responsibility. By learning to protect the natural environment, we can manage the earth’s resources for generations to come.
According to the passage, the size of the forest depleted annually is
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Question 3 of 80
3. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Our planet is at risk. Our environment is under threat. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the seas we fish in, the soils we farm, the forest animals and plants which surround us are in danger. More and more gases and rubbish escape from our factories. Rubbish, oil spillage and detergents damage our rivers and seas. The loss of forests results in soil erosion and also endangers wildlife.
The richer countries of the world are mainly responsible for industrial pollution. This is where most of the commercial energy is consumed. In developing countries, poverty causes people to overgraze grasslands and to cut down trees for timber building, furniture and fuel. They are also destroyed to provide land on which to graze animals and build new villages and towns.
But frees are needed to protect the land from heavy down pour of rain arid their roots help hold the soil together. In our forests, there may be plants and animals which could help in the discovery of new medicines or crops.
To rescue and conserve our beautiful world, we must act cooperatively. Individuals, communities, nations and international associations, all have a responsibility. By learning to protect the natural environment, we can manage the earth’s resources for generations to come.
The writer holds the advanced nations responsible for industrial pollution because of their
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Question 4 of 80
4. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Our planet is at risk. Our environment is under threat. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the seas we fish in, the soils we farm, the forest animals and plants which surround us are in danger. More and more gases and rubbish escape from our factories. Rubbish, oil spillage and detergents damage our rivers and seas. The loss of forests results in soil erosion and also endangers wildlife.
The richer countries of the world are mainly responsible for industrial pollution. This is where most of the commercial energy is consumed. In developing countries, poverty causes people to overgraze grasslands and to cut down trees for timber building, furniture and fuel. They are also destroyed to provide land on which to graze animals and build new villages and towns.
But frees are needed to protect the land from heavy down pour of rain arid their roots help hold the soil together. In our forests, there may be plants and animals which could help in the discovery of new medicines or crops.
To rescue and conserve our beautiful world, we must act cooperatively. Individuals, communities, nations and international associations, all have a responsibility. By learning to protect the natural environment, we can manage the earth’s resources for generations to come.The writer’s message is that
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Question 5 of 80
5. Question
Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
The presence of the principal makes the students ill at ease
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Question 6 of 80
6. Question
Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
In spite of the harsh realities at home, Tutu treats her studies with considerable levity
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Question 7 of 80
7. Question
Choose the most appropriate option Opposite in meaning to the italicized word/phrase
I find open-ended questions more challenging in tests
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Question 8 of 80
8. Question
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the italicized word/phrase
Ojo’s knowing smile infuriated his sister
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Question 9 of 80
9. Question
Which of the following highlighted consonants is pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 10 of 80
10. Question
Which of these words has a vowel pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 11 of 80
11. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he or she has committed a crime.
Delinquency is one of several status offences – offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by age, profession or a person’s role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually they are offences only to the extent that they help preserve some of the good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a weapon forged in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult pride and intolerance. If the wor1d changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws fell on juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return. Delinquency would then certainly refer only to many of the adult actions now freely committed by them.
The writer of the passage believes that delinquency laws are
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Question 12 of 80
12. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he or she has committed a crime.
Delinquency is one of several status offences – offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by age, profession or a person’s role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually they are offences only to the extent that they help preserve some of the good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a weapon forged in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult pride and intolerance. If the wor1d changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws fell on juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return. Delinquency would then certainly refer only to many of the adult actions now freely committed by them.
In the view of the writer drinking under age is an offence because
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Question 13 of 80
13. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he or she has committed a crime.
Delinquency is one of several status offences – offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by age, profession or a person’s role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually they are offences only to the extent that they help preserve some of the good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a weapon forged in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult pride and intolerance. If the wor1d changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws fell on juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return. Delinquency would then certainly refer only to many of the adult actions now freely committed by them.
Status offences are
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Question 14 of 80
14. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he or she has committed a crime.
Delinquency is one of several status offences – offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by age, profession or a person’s role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually they are offences only to the extent that they help preserve some of the good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a weapon forged in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult pride and intolerance. If the wor1d changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws fell on juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return. Delinquency would then certainly refer only to many of the adult actions now freely committed by them.
If the world changed overnight
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Question 15 of 80
15. Question
Choose the most appropriate options nearest in meaning to the italicized or bold’ word/phrase
People could not understand why a man o means should live a Spartan life
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Question 16 of 80
16. Question
Choose the most appropriate option, nearest in meaning to thee italicized word/phrase
My boss is an exacting taskmaster
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Question 17 of 80
17. Question
Choose the most ‘appropriate option opposite in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
The explosive growth in world population is partly due to improved healthcare
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Question 18 of 80
18. Question
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
I would have enjoyed the novel but for its convoluted theme
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Question 19 of 80
19. Question
Which of the following highlighted consonants is pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 20 of 80
20. Question
Which of these words has a vowel pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 21 of 80
21. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Standard English refers to the authoritative r correct use of the language, the medium expression for government and educations I opposite is a dialectal variant of the language, that is accepted and recognized words, expressions structures peculiar to a smaller group ‘of Language users who are generally set apart from standard usage by cultural group or geographical region. F example, Nigerian, American, Irish and British English differ from one another in many respects and each is identifiable, yet in every case the standard (format) variety: approaches a single and hypothetical classification known as International English. As one moves towards informality and away from the observance of strict rules, emphasis’ falls on the difference between dialects. In addition to American English being distinguishable from British English. it is also true that British English is not uniform v, .thin the United Kingdom. The level of fornl2lity is determined by education and aspiration while dialects vary from region to region.
One characteristic of a dialect as mentioned in the passage is it’s
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Question 22 of 80
22. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Standard English refers to the authoritative r correct use of the language, the medium expression for government and educations I opposite is a dialectal variant of the language, that is accepted and recognized words, expressions structures peculiar to a smaller group ‘of Language users who are generally set apart from standard usage by cultural group or geographical region. F example, Nigerian, American, Irish and British English differ from one another in many respects and each is identifiable, yet in every case the standard (format) variety: approaches a single and hypothetical classification known as International English. As one moves towards informality and away from the observance of strict rules, emphasis’ falls on the difference between dialects. In addition to American English being distinguishable from British English. it is also true that British English is not uniform v, .thin the United Kingdom. The level of fornl2lity is determined by education and aspiration while dialects vary from region to region.
According to the author, Nigerian and American English are
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Question 23 of 80
23. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Standard English refers to the authoritative r correct use of the language, the medium expression for government and educations I opposite is a dialectal variant of the language, that is accepted and recognized words, expressions structures peculiar to a smaller group ‘of Language users who are generally set apart from standard usage by cultural group or geographical region. F example, Nigerian, American, Irish and British English differ from one another in many respects and each is identifiable, yet in every case the standard (format) variety: approaches a single and hypothetical classification known as International English. As one moves towards informality and away from the observance of strict rules, emphasis’ falls on the difference between dialects. In addition to American English being distinguishable from British English. it is also true that British English is not uniform v, .thin the United Kingdom. The level of fornl2lity is determined by education and aspiration while dialects vary from region to region.
The author considers International English
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Question 24 of 80
24. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Standard English refers to the authoritative r correct use of the language, the medium expression for government and educations I opposite is a dialectal variant of the language, that is accepted and recognized words, expressions structures peculiar to a smaller group ‘of Language users who are generally set apart from standard usage by cultural group or geographical region. F example, Nigerian, American, Irish and British English differ from one another in many respects and each is identifiable, yet in every case the standard (format) variety: approaches a single and hypothetical classification known as International English. As one moves towards informality and away from the observance of strict rules, emphasis’ falls on the difference between dialects. In addition to American English being distinguishable from British English. it is also true that British English is not uniform v, .thin the United Kingdom. The level of fornl2lity is determined by education and aspiration while dialects vary from region to region.
The observance of strict rules is a feature of
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Question 25 of 80
25. Question
Choose the most appropriate option Nearest in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
He was under pressure to retract his statement before the panel
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Question 26 of 80
26. Question
Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the italicized bold word/phrase
His family wishes he would stop his nefarious
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Question 27 of 80
27. Question
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
The nouveau riche tends to be niggardly in their ways
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Question 28 of 80
28. Question
Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the italicized word/phrase
Mrs. Ojodu may be well-heeled but her dressing is often tasteless
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Question 29 of 80
29. Question
Which of the following highlighted consonants is pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 30 of 80
30. Question
Which of these words has a vowel sound pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 31 of 80
31. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Erosion in nature is a beneficent process without which the world would have died long ago. The same process, accelerated by human mismanagement, has become one of the most vicious and destructive forces that have ever been released by man. ‘Geological erosion’ or ‘denudation’ is an early and important process in soil formation, whereby the original rock material is continuously broken down and sorted by, wind and water until it becomes suitable for colonization by plants. Plants, by t h e binding effect of their roots; by the p r o t e c t i a n they afford against rain and wind and by the fertility they impart to the soil, bring denudation almost to a standstill. Nevertheless, some slight denudations always occurring. As each superficial film of plant-covered soil becomes exhausted it is removed by rain or wind, to be deposited mainly in the rivers and sea, and a corresponding thin layer of soil forms by slow weathering of the underlying rock. The depth is sometimes only a few inches, occasionally several feet deep, but within it lies the whole capacity of the earth to produce life. Below that thin layer comprising the delicate organism known as soil is a planet as lifeless as the moon.
Geological erosion means the same as
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Question 32 of 80
32. Question
Read tire passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Erosion in nature is a beneficent process without which the world would have died long ago. The same process, accelerated by human mismanagement, has become one of the most vicious and destructive forces that have ever been released by man. ‘Geological erosion’ or ‘denudation’ is an early and important process in soil formation, whereby the original rock material is continuously broken down and sorted by, wind and water until it becomes suitable for colonization by plants. Plants, by t h e binding effect of their roots; by the p r o t e c t i a n they afford against rain and wind and by the fertility they impart to the soil, bring denudation almost to a standstill. Nevertheless, some slight denudations always occurring. As each superficial film of plant-covered soil becomes exhausted it is removed by rain or wind, to be deposited mainly in the rivers and sea, and a corresponding thin layer of soil forms by slow weathering of the underlying rock. The depth is sometimes only a few inches, occasionally several feet deep, but within it lies the whole capacity of the earth to produce life. Below that thin layer comprising the delicate organism known as soil is a planet as lifeless as the moon.
Denudation
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Question 33 of 80
33. Question
Read tire passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Erosion in nature is a beneficent process without which the world would have died long ago. The same process, accelerated by human mismanagement, has become one of the most vicious and destructive forces that have ever been released by man. ‘Geological erosion’ or ‘denudation’ is an early and important process in soil formation, whereby the original rock material is continuously broken down and sorted by, wind and water until it becomes suitable for colonization by plants. Plants, by t h e binding effect of their roots; by the p r o t e c t i a n they afford against rain and wind and by the fertility they impart to the soil, bring denudation almost to a standstill. Nevertheless, some slight denudations always occurring. As each superficial film of plant-covered soil becomes exhausted it is removed by rain or wind, to be deposited mainly in the rivers and sea, and a corresponding thin layer of soil forms by slow weathering of the underlying rock. The depth is sometimes only a few inches, occasionally several feet deep, but within it lies the whole capacity of the earth to produce life. Below that thin layer comprising the delicate organism known as soil is a planet as lifeless as the moon.
One important function of plants is to:
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Question 34 of 80
34. Question
Read tire passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Erosion in nature is a beneficent process without which the world would have died long ago. The same process, accelerated by human mismanagement, has become one of the most vicious and destructive forces that have ever been released by man. ‘Geological erosion’ or ‘denudation’ is an early and important process in soil formation, whereby the original rock material is continuously broken down and sorted by, wind and water until it becomes suitable for colonization by plants. Plants, by t h e binding effect of their roots; by the p r o t e c t i a n they afford against rain and wind and by the fertility they impart to the soil, bring denudation almost to a standstill. Nevertheless, some slight denudations always occurring. As each superficial film of plant-covered soil becomes exhausted it is removed by rain or wind, to be deposited mainly in the rivers and sea, and a corresponding thin layer of soil forms by slow weathering of the underlying rock. The depth is sometimes only a few inches, occasionally several feet deep, but within it lies the whole capacity of the earth to produce life. Below that thin layer comprising the delicate organism known as soil is a planet as lifeless as the moon.
Geological erosion means the same as
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Question 35 of 80
35. Question
Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the italicized or bold word/ phrase
Practising law is not as lucrative as people think
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Question 36 of 80
36. Question
Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
The family puts up a brave face but their financial situation is precarious
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Question 37 of 80
37. Question
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
As is usually the case when Tanus got involved, the discussion became animated
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Question 38 of 80
38. Question
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
Gender-sensitivity is part of the new political correctness
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Question 39 of 80
39. Question
Which of the following highlighted consonants is pronounced differently From the others?
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Question 40 of 80
40. Question
Which of these words has a vowel pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 41 of 80
41. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands that have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humanity requires that they declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all human beings are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We affirm also that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a newly government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organising its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to secure their safety and happiness. Adapted from The Declaration Independence.
Why does the writer find it necessary to state the reasons that the colonies have f breaking away from their colonial masters?
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Question 42 of 80
42. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands that have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humanity requires that they declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all human beings are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We affirm also that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a newly government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organising its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to secure their safety and happiness. Adapted from The Declaration Independence.
When, according to the author, can people , excusably put an end to any form of government?
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Question 43 of 80
43. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands that have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humanity requires that they declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all human beings are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We affirm also that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a newly government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organising its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to secure their safety and happiness. Adapted from The Declaration Independence.
By saying that some truths are ‘self- evident’, the writer means that those assertions
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Question 44 of 80
44. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands that have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humanity requires that they declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all human beings are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We affirm also that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a newly government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organising its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to secure their safety and happiness. Adapted from The Declaration Independence.
The right of a nation to self- governance derives ultimately from
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Question 45 of 80
45. Question
Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
The little village became more enchanting at dusk
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Question 46 of 80
46. Question
Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
More students are relying on virtual resources for study and entertainment
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Question 47 of 80
47. Question
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
I wonder why her brother is indifferent to her financial situation
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Question 48 of 80
48. Question
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the italicized or bold word/phrase
I would have enjoyed the novel but for its convoluted theme
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Question 49 of 80
49. Question
Which of the following highlighted consonants is pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 50 of 80
50. Question
Which of’ these words has a vowel pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 51 of 80
51. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions
We knew early in life that the atmosphere in our home was different from that in many other homes where husbands and wives quarrel and where there was drunkenness, laziness or indifference – things we never saw in our family. We also knew that our father was an uncommon man. Whenever my mother was away, my father could and did do a] I the household jobs, We lived in this way in a community in which how work was regarded as being beneath male dignity, In our family, however, boys did girls’ work and my father did it with us.
We had to get water at the public tap nearly a kilometre away from our house and make the trek back with water tins balanced on our beads. All the children in the neighbourhood knew we did women’s work and I can still hear their derisive laughter. We did our jobs doggedly because our parents expected’ it of us. Out of choice, our father did everything we did, including fetching water on occasion, and commanded us by sheer force of this example..
By describing his father as an uncommon man, the writer means that he is
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Question 52 of 80
52. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follows:
We knew early in life that the atmosphere in our home was different from that in many other homes where husbands and wives quarrel and where there was drunkenness, laziness or indifference – things we never saw in our family. We also knew that our father was an uncommon man. Whenever my mother was away, my father could and did do a] I the household jobs, We lived in this way in a community in which how work was regarded as being beneath male dignity, In our family, however, boys did girls’ work and my father did it with us.
We had to get water at the public tap nearly a kilometre away from our house and make the trek back with water tins balanced on our beads. All the children in the neighbourhood knew we did women’s work and I can still hear their derisive laughter. We did our jobs doggedly because our parents expected’ it of us. Out of choice, our father did everything we did, including fetching water on occasion, and commanded us by sheer force of this example..
Which of the following was likely to be true of the writer’s family when he was young?
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Question 53 of 80
53. Question
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follows:
We knew early in life that the atmosphere in our home was different from that in many other homes where husbands and wives quarrel and where there was drunkenness, laziness or indifference – things we never saw in our family. We also knew that our father was an uncommon man. Whenever my mother was away, my father could and did do a] I the household jobs, We lived in this way in a community in which how work was regarded as being beneath male dignity, In our family, however, boys did girls’ work and my father did it with us.
We had to get water at the public tap nearly a kilometre away from our house and make the trek back with water tins balanced on our beads. All the children in the neighbourhood knew we did women’s work and I can still hear their derisive laughter. We did our jobs doggedly because our parents expected’ it of us. Out of choice, our father did everything we did, including fetching water on occasion, and commanded us by sheer force of this example..
Which of the following describes the father’s role in the family?
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Question 54 of 80
54. Question
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We knew early in life that the atmosphere in our home was different from that in many other homes where husbands and wives quarrel and where there was drunkenness, laziness or indifference – things we never saw in our family. We also knew that our father was an uncommon man. Whenever my mother was away, my father could and did do a] I the household jobs, We lived in this way in a community in which how work was regarded as being beneath male dignity, In our family, however, boys did girls’ work and my father did it with us.
We had to get water at the public tap nearly a kilometre away from our house and make the trek back with water tins balanced on our beads. All the children in the neighbourhood knew we did women’s work and I can still hear their derisive laughter. We did our jobs doggedly because our parents expected’ it of us. Out of choice, our father did everything we did, including fetching water on occasion, and commanded us by sheer force of this example..
Now that the writer is grown up; he
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Question 55 of 80
55. Question
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He was under pressure to retract his statement before the panel
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Question 56 of 80
56. Question
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He was told to forget the niceties and go straight to his main point
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Question 57 of 80
57. Question
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Our visit to the village was nothing to write home about
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Question 58 of 80
58. Question
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Ojo’s knowing smile infuriated his sister
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Question 59 of 80
59. Question
Which of the following highlight consonants is pronounced differently from others?
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Question 60 of 80
60. Question
Which of these words has a vowel sound pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 61 of 80
61. Question
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Creoles, according to the most general account, arise when a pidgin language, becomes the ‘native language of a new generation of children. One way this can come about is .when a man and woman, who speak different languages marry, both know a pidgin, and neither learns the other’s language. The pidgin then becomes the shared home language and becomes the mother tongue of the children. A setting in which this has happened occurred during the bleakest days of slavery in the Western hemisphere, when efforts were made to separate African slaves with the same native language in order to forestall insurrections. Only pidgin languages were available as common languages and they became the basis for the mother tongue of new generations.
Once a pidgin language becomes a mother tongue, it must support all the interactive needs of its speakers, since they have no other language to fall back on. A creole becomes simpler (in the sense of more regular) and expands its grammatical machinery, as well as stabilizing and expanding its lexicon. If a creole is iii touch with its lexifier language, it may dccrcolize and develop varieties increasingly like the lexifier language. If the less decreolized varieties fall out of use, the decreolized remnants of the old. creole may be seen simply as substandard dialects of the lexifier language. As we will see, this has) been proposed as the origin for the US Vernacular lack English.
Creoles may be defined as:
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Question 62 of 80
62. Question
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Creoles, according to the most general account, arise when a pidgin language, becomes the ‘native language of a new generation of children. One way this can come about is .when a man and woman, who speak different languages marry, both know a pidgin, and neither learns the other’s language. The pidgin then becomes the shared home language and becomes the mother tongue of the children. A setting in which this has happened occurred during the bleakest days of slavery in the Western hemisphere, when efforts were made to separate African slaves with the same native language in order to forestall insurrections. Only pidgin languages were available as common languages and they became the basis for the mother tongue of new generations.
Once a pidgin language becomes a mother tongue, it must support all the interactive needs of its speakers, since they have no other language to fall back on. A creole becomes simpler (in the sense of more regular) and expands its grammatical machinery, as well as stabilizing and expanding its lexicon. If a creole is iii touch with its lexifier language, it may dccrcolize and develop varieties increasingly like the lexifier language. If the less decreolized varieties fall out of use, the decreolized remnants of the old. creole may be seen simply as substandard dialects of the lexifier language. As we will see, this has) been proposed as the origin for the US Vernacular lack English.
African slaves who spoke the same language were separated
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Question 63 of 80
63. Question
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Creoles, according to the most general account, arise when a pidgin language, becomes the ‘native language of a new generation of children. One way this can come about is .when a man and woman, who speak different languages marry, both know a pidgin, and neither learns the other’s language. The pidgin then becomes the shared home language and becomes the mother tongue of the children. A setting in which this has happened occurred during the bleakest days of slavery in the Western hemisphere, when efforts were made to separate African slaves with the same native language in order to forestall insurrections. Only pidgin languages were available as common languages and they became the basis for the mother tongue of new generations.
Once a pidgin language becomes a mother tongue, it must support all the interactive needs of its speakers, since they have no other language to fall back on. A creole becomes simpler (in the sense of more regular) and expands its grammatical machinery, as well as stabilizing and expanding its lexicon. If a creole is iii touch with its lexifier language, it may dccrcolize and develop varieties increasingly like the lexifier language. If the less decreolized varieties fall out of use, the decreolized remnants of the old. creole may be seen simply as substandard dialects of the lexifier language. As we will see, this has) been proposed as the origin for the US Vernacular lack English.
The following arc characteristics of a creole language except
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Question 64 of 80
64. Question
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Creoles, according to the most general account, arise when a pidgin language, becomes the ‘native language of a new generation of children. One way this can come about is .when a man and woman, who speak different languages marry, both know a pidgin, and neither learns the other’s language. The pidgin then becomes the shared home language and becomes the mother tongue of the children. A setting in which this has happened occurred during the bleakest days of slavery in the Western hemisphere, when efforts were made to separate African slaves with the same native language in order to forestall insurrections. Only pidgin languages were available as common languages and they became the basis for the mother tongue of new generations.
Once a pidgin language becomes a mother tongue, it must support all the interactive needs of its speakers, since they have no other language to fall back on. A creole becomes simpler (in the sense of more regular) and expands its grammatical machinery, as well as stabilizing and expanding its lexicon. If a creole is iii touch with its lexifier language, it may dccrcolize and develop varieties increasingly like the lexifier language. If the less decreolized varieties fall out of use, the decreolized remnants of the old. creole may be seen simply as substandard dialects of the lexifier language. As we will see, this has) been proposed as the origin for the US Vernacular lack English.
Vernacular Black English is
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Question 65 of 80
65. Question
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He is a prolific writer as well as a human rights activist
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Question 66 of 80
66. Question
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Her meddlesome husband ruined her business relationships
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Question 67 of 80
67. Question
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The government is making concerted efforts at improving the standard of living in the rural areas
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Question 68 of 80
68. Question
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The politician’s passionate appeal doused the tension
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Question 69 of 80
69. Question
Which of the following highlighted consonants is pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 70 of 80
70. Question
Which of these words has a vowel pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 71 of 80
71. Question
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Underlying any relationship between Haiti and Africa is the fact that the population of that country originated from Africa to a far greater extent than on other Caribbean Islands; 90% of the Haitians are full-blooded Negroes, the rest mulattoes. The total eradication of the white element was the consequence of a particular political and economic situation of t island Saint-Dominique, which was the name of Haiti under French colonization. Other than on the other Caribbean islands where the early arrival of European settlers resulted in a development of a white indigenous population, Saint-Dominique remained untouched until 1697, when the peace treaty of Ryswick ended the dispute between Francê and Spain over the ownership of this island. At that time it had already been proved that the production of sugar was the most profitable industry in the area particularly if the estates were large enough and labour costs could be kept low by extensive use of slave labour, which was brought over from Africa. So the new settlers of Saint Dominque belonged to two groups greatly contrasted in social condition and number. On the one side, there was a small group of French noblemen, owners of immense sugar estates maintaining in Saint-Dominque the privileges which they had lost in Prance under Louis XIV, on the other side there were he African slaves living in miserable conditions but conscious that they outnumbered their masters by hundreds of thousands. These contradiction within the society led to the outbreak of the slave revolt in 1792, which differed from other revolts in that is area in that it was successful, arid in 1804 after many ups and downs the victorious slaves of Saint-Dominique proclaimed a view state, named Haiti. Mot of the white landlords had fled the island during the hostilities and the few remaining ones were killed after independence.
The population of Haiti
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Question 72 of 80
72. Question
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Underlying any relationship between Haiti and Africa is the fact that the population of that country originated from Africa to a far greater extent than on other Caribbean Islands; 90% of the Haitians are full-blooded Negroes, the rest mulattoes. The total eradication of the white element was the consequence of a particular political and economic situation of t island Saint-Dominique, which was the name of Haiti under French colonization. Other than on the other Caribbean islands where the early arrival of European settlers resulted in a development of a white indigenous population, Saint-Dominique remained untouched until 1697, when the peace treaty of Ryswick ended the dispute between Francê and Spain over the ownership of this island. At that time it had already been proved that the production of sugar was the most profitable industry in the area particularly if the estates were large enough and labour costs could be kept low by extensive use of slave labour, which was brought over from Africa. So the new settlers of Saint Dominque belonged to two groups greatly contrasted in social condition and number. On the one side, there was a small group of French noblemen, owners of immense sugar estates maintaining in Saint-Dominque the privileges which they had lost in Prance under Louis XIV, on the other side there were he African slaves living in miserable conditions but conscious that they outnumbered their masters by hundreds of thousands. These contradiction within the society led to the outbreak of the slave revolt in 1792, which differed from other revolts in that is area in that it was successful, arid in 1804 after many ups and downs the victorious slaves of Saint-Dominique proclaimed a view state, named Haiti. Mot of the white landlords had fled the island during the hostilities and the few remaining ones were killed after independence.
 Haiti did not develop a white indigenous population as early as other Caribbean islands because
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Question 73 of 80
73. Question
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Underlying any relationship between Haiti and Africa is the fact that the population of that country originated from Africa to a far greater extent than on other Caribbean Islands; 90% of the Haitians are full-blooded Negroes, the rest mulattoes. The total eradication of the white element was the consequence of a particular political and economic situation of t island Saint-Dominique, which was the name of Haiti under French colonization. Other than on the other Caribbean islands where the early arrival of European settlers resulted in a development of a white indigenous population, Saint-Dominique remained untouched until 1697, when the peace treaty of Ryswick ended the dispute between Francê and Spain over the ownership of this island. At that time it had already been proved that the production of sugar was the most profitable industry in the area particularly if the estates were large enough and labour costs could be kept low by extensive use of slave labour, which was brought over from Africa. So the new settlers of Saint Dominque belonged to two groups greatly contrasted in social condition and number. On the one side, there was a small group of French noblemen, owners of immense sugar estates maintaining in Saint-Dominque the privileges which they had lost in Prance under Louis XIV, on the other side there were he African slaves living in miserable conditions but conscious that they outnumbered their masters by hundreds of thousands. These contradiction within the society led to the outbreak of the slave revolt in 1792, which differed from other revolts in that is area in that it was successful, arid in 1804 after many ups and downs the victorious slaves of Saint-Dominique proclaimed a view state, named Haiti. Mot of the white landlords had fled the island during the hostilities and the few remaining ones were killed after independence.
The French settlers preferred to live in Saint Dominique because
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Question 74 of 80
74. Question
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Underlying any relationship between Haiti and Africa is the fact that the population of that country originated from Africa to a far greater extent than on other Caribbean Islands; 90% of the Haitians are full-blooded Negroes, the rest mulattoes. The total eradication of the white element was the consequence of a particular political and economic situation of t island Saint-Dominique, which was the name of Haiti under French colonization. Other than on the other Caribbean islands where the early arrival of European settlers resulted in a development of a white indigenous population, Saint-Dominique remained untouched until 1697, when the peace treaty of Ryswick ended the dispute between Francê and Spain over the ownership of this island. At that time it had already been proved that the production of sugar was the most profitable industry in the area particularly if the estates were large enough and labour costs could be kept low by extensive use of slave labour, which was brought over from Africa. So the new settlers of Saint Dominque belonged to two groups greatly contrasted in social condition and number. On the one side, there was a small group of French noblemen, owners of immense sugar estates maintaining in Saint-Dominque the privileges which they had lost in Prance under Louis XIV, on the other side there were he African slaves living in miserable conditions but conscious that they outnumbered their masters by hundreds of thousands. These contradiction within the society led to the outbreak of the slave revolt in 1792, which differed from other revolts in that is area in that it was successful, arid in 1804 after many ups and downs the victorious slaves of Saint-Dominique proclaimed a view state, named Haiti. Mot of the white landlords had fled the island during the hostilities and the few remaining ones were killed after independence.
The clause, ‘which differed from other revolts in that area that it was successful,’ suggests that
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Question 75 of 80
75. Question
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The young groom is quite as astute business man
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Question 76 of 80
76. Question
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The family puts up a brave taco but their financial situation is precarious
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Question 77 of 80
77. Question
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The volume contains the complete works of Shakespeare
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Question 78 of 80
78. Question
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I find open-ended questions more challenging in tests
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Question 79 of 80
79. Question
Which of the following highlighted consonants is pronounced differently from the others?
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Question 80 of 80
80. Question
Which of these words has a vowel pronounced differently from the others?
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