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Question 1761
jamb 2011

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

Lantana dwelt in a ruined cottage on the hillside?

Asat
Bworked
Cslept
Dlived
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Question 1762
jamb 2011

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

Mrs. Asio wanted her sister to stop being so detached?

Afriendly
Bcareless
Cindifferent
Dpassionate
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Question 1763
jamb 2011

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

Since its inception 1983, the newspaper has attracted thousands of readers?

Arenaissance
Bcoming
Ccommencement
Dpublication
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Question 1764
waec 2010

In question numbered 96 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

Read the passage below In the following passages the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the below each passage, four options are offered in columns lettered A to D. choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passages.
The prefect oral system is one of the most -76- ways of involving students directly in the -77- of the school. In the system, the students are -78- certain -79- connected with the day –t0-day life of the school: for instance, the organization and co-ordination of all sorts of -80- activities, such as games, societies, clubs or dealing with some minor cases of -81-, taking responsibility for students welfare’, -82- of learning after school hours, arranging advisory services for junior students and checking -83-. Properly -84-, the perfect oral system helps to -85- the work of the administrator and set a good -86- for the school. The operation of the system and the exact -87- performed by perfects differ from institution to institution; the important thing is to adapt the system in such a way as to make it a useful -88- of the day to-day administration of your -89-.
Mrs. Agu decided to -90- her friend, She picked up her -91- and -92- her friends -93-, there was no response. However, after a few trails she discovered from the -94- that she was not in -95- and so, the -96- could not go -97-, That was surprising because she had bought some -98- cards the previous day did not -99- any call. However, she could not remember -100- them into her phone.
Atone
Bphone
Csound
Dcall
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Question 1765
waec 2010

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

No sooner had war started..............the soldiers deserted the village

Athat
Bwhen
Cas
Dthan
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Question 1766
waec 2010

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

Until I heard him myself, I ................imagined that he said that

Adid not
Bcould not have
Cshould not have
Dwill not have
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Question 1767
waec 2010

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

Mrs. Kofi is angry..............her daughter's lack of interest in her business

Aat
Bwith
Cfor
Dby
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Question 1768
waec 2010

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

The student wondered why the sun constantly rises..........the east

Ain
Bby
Cfrom
Dwithin
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Question 1769
waec 2010

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

Though Yusuf is a much younger lawyer, you cannot compare his eloquence.............his master's

Aby
Bwith
Cfrom
Dfor
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Question 1770
waec 2010

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

All we need...............dedicated teachers

Aare
Bwas
Cis
Dwere
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Question 1771
waec 2010

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

My mother remarked that it was high time we..........preparing supper.

Awere starting
Bhad started
Cshould start
Dstarted
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Question 1772
waec 2010

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

The teacher, as well as his students...........working very hard.

Ais
Bhave been
Care
Dwere
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Question 1773
waec 2010

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

Madam Abike turned..........13 bags of maize at the first harvest

Aon
Bout
Cup
Din
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Question 1774
waec 2010

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

The teacher needs.......to write the note on the chalkboard

Achalks
Ba chalk
Csome chalk
Dmany chalks
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Question 1775
waec 2010

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

Each one of the ten chosen contestants............lunch with patron

Ahas had
Bhave had
Care having
Dhave
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Question 1776
waec 2010

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

The teacher made us.........five poems each.

Arecited
Brecites
Crecting
Drecite
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Question 1777
waec 2010

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

If they had known us, they..........

Awill not treat us like that
Bwould not treat us like that
Cwill not have treated us like that
Dwould not have treated us like that
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Question 1778
waec 2010

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

Three kilometres...............quite a long distance

Aare
Bhave been
Cis
Dwere
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Question 1779
waec 2010

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

Susan has been urging me to join the..............`

AGirl Guides
BGirls' Guide
CGirl Guide
DGirls Guides
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Question 1780
waec 2010

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

Mr. Ackon needed..............help to succeed in the business

Aa little
Ba few
Clittle
Dfew
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