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In question numbered 81 above, choose the best option from letters A - E 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, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Words in English Language, and any other language for that matter, have one -71- A word -72- has more than one meaning -73- on its usage in the -74- Also, a particular thing or situation may be -75- using many -76- words of groups of words. Yet two words -77- ever have exactly the same meaning. Thus, although a word may have many -78- these do no mean exactly the same thing -79-, it is important that the writer should be very -80- in his -81- of words. Students should be advised not to put -82- the first words that come to their minds. Any writer needs time to -83- the context and -84- suitable words from the very many -85- options that can be used to described any situation.
When Mrs Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby didn't have much -86- to the parasites which the laboratory -87- the identified in the blood -88-. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that -89- the disease. The disease was in its early -90- but the most evident symptom was the -91- of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could not be seen under a -92- because it is even smaller than bacterial -93-. Trachoma could cause blindness, so Mrs Dada had to protect her family from this -94- disease. She should keep up a high standard of -95- by -96- her personal towels and face cloths. The doctor also wrote out a -97- of antibiotic drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a -98-. She was assured that this treatment would -99- the baby and restore him to good -100- in two or three days.
Achoice
Barticulation
Cdescription
Dexpression
Eoption
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Question 12
waec1998
In question numbered 80 above, choose the best option from letters A - E 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, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Words in English Language, and any other language for that matter, have one -71- A word -72- has more than one meaning -73- on its usage in the -74- Also, a particular thing or situation may be -75- using many -76- words of groups of words. Yet two words -77- ever have exactly the same meaning. Thus, although a word may have many -78- these do no mean exactly the same thing -79-, it is important that the writer should be very -80- in his -81- of words. Students should be advised not to put -82- the first words that come to their minds. Any writer needs time to -83- the context and -84- suitable words from the very many -85- options that can be used to described any situation.
When Mrs Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby didn't have much -86- to the parasites which the laboratory -87- the identified in the blood -88-. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that -89- the disease. The disease was in its early -90- but the most evident symptom was the -91- of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could not be seen under a -92- because it is even smaller than bacterial -93-. Trachoma could cause blindness, so Mrs Dada had to protect her family from this -94- disease. She should keep up a high standard of -95- by -96- her personal towels and face cloths. The doctor also wrote out a -97- of antibiotic drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a -98-. She was assured that this treatment would -99- the baby and restore him to good -100- in two or three days.
Aeffective
Bworried
Cagitated
Drelexed
Ecareful
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Question 13
waec1998
In question numbered 79 above, choose the best option from letters A - E 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, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Words in English Language, and any other language for that matter, have one -71- A word -72- has more than one meaning -73- on its usage in the -74- Also, a particular thing or situation may be -75- using many -76- words of groups of words. Yet two words -77- ever have exactly the same meaning. Thus, although a word may have many -78- these do no mean exactly the same thing -79-, it is important that the writer should be very -80- in his -81- of words. Students should be advised not to put -82- the first words that come to their minds. Any writer needs time to -83- the context and -84- suitable words from the very many -85- options that can be used to described any situation.
When Mrs Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby didn't have much -86- to the parasites which the laboratory -87- the identified in the blood -88-. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that -89- the disease. The disease was in its early -90- but the most evident symptom was the -91- of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could not be seen under a -92- because it is even smaller than bacterial -93-. Trachoma could cause blindness, so Mrs Dada had to protect her family from this -94- disease. She should keep up a high standard of -95- by -96- her personal towels and face cloths. The doctor also wrote out a -97- of antibiotic drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a -98-. She was assured that this treatment would -99- the baby and restore him to good -100- in two or three days.
Afinally
Beventually
Cadditionally
Dconsequently
Esimilarly
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Question 14
waec1998
In question numbered 78 above, choose the best option from letters A - E 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, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Words in English Language, and any other language for that matter, have one -71- A word -72- has more than one meaning -73- on its usage in the -74- Also, a particular thing or situation may be -75- using many -76- words of groups of words. Yet two words -77- ever have exactly the same meaning. Thus, although a word may have many -78- these do no mean exactly the same thing -79-, it is important that the writer should be very -80- in his -81- of words. Students should be advised not to put -82- the first words that come to their minds. Any writer needs time to -83- the context and -84- suitable words from the very many -85- options that can be used to described any situation.
When Mrs Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby didn't have much -86- to the parasites which the laboratory -87- the identified in the blood -88-. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that -89- the disease. The disease was in its early -90- but the most evident symptom was the -91- of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could not be seen under a -92- because it is even smaller than bacterial -93-. Trachoma could cause blindness, so Mrs Dada had to protect her family from this -94- disease. She should keep up a high standard of -95- by -96- her personal towels and face cloths. The doctor also wrote out a -97- of antibiotic drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a -98-. She was assured that this treatment would -99- the baby and restore him to good -100- in two or three days.
Ametaphors
Bsynonyms
Cantonyms
Dalways
Eoccasionally
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Question 15
waec1998
In question numbered 77 above, choose the best option from letters A - E 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, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Words in English Language, and any other language for that matter, have one -71- A word -72- has more than one meaning -73- on its usage in the -74- Also, a particular thing or situation may be -75- using many -76- words of groups of words. Yet two words -77- ever have exactly the same meaning. Thus, although a word may have many -78- these do no mean exactly the same thing -79-, it is important that the writer should be very -80- in his -81- of words. Students should be advised not to put -82- the first words that come to their minds. Any writer needs time to -83- the context and -84- suitable words from the very many -85- options that can be used to described any situation.
When Mrs Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby didn't have much -86- to the parasites which the laboratory -87- the identified in the blood -88-. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that -89- the disease. The disease was in its early -90- but the most evident symptom was the -91- of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could not be seen under a -92- because it is even smaller than bacterial -93-. Trachoma could cause blindness, so Mrs Dada had to protect her family from this -94- disease. She should keep up a high standard of -95- by -96- her personal towels and face cloths. The doctor also wrote out a -97- of antibiotic drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a -98-. She was assured that this treatment would -99- the baby and restore him to good -100- in two or three days.
Asometimes
Boften
Chardly
Ddifferent
Edifficult
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Question 16
waec1998
In question numbered 76 above, choose the best option from letters A - E 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, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Words in English Language, and any other language for that matter, have one -71- A word -72- has more than one meaning -73- on its usage in the -74- Also, a particular thing or situation may be -75- using many -76- words of groups of words. Yet two words -77- ever have exactly the same meaning. Thus, although a word may have many -78- these do no mean exactly the same thing -79-, it is important that the writer should be very -80- in his -81- of words. Students should be advised not to put -82- the first words that come to their minds. Any writer needs time to -83- the context and -84- suitable words from the very many -85- options that can be used to described any situation.
When Mrs Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby didn't have much -86- to the parasites which the laboratory -87- the identified in the blood -88-. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that -89- the disease. The disease was in its early -90- but the most evident symptom was the -91- of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could not be seen under a -92- because it is even smaller than bacterial -93-. Trachoma could cause blindness, so Mrs Dada had to protect her family from this -94- disease. She should keep up a high standard of -95- by -96- her personal towels and face cloths. The doctor also wrote out a -97- of antibiotic drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a -98-. She was assured that this treatment would -99- the baby and restore him to good -100- in two or three days.
Adivergent
Bopposing
Cdirect
Dprocured
Edescribed
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Question 17
waec1998
In question numbered 75 above, choose the best option from letters A - E 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, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Words in English Language, and any other language for that matter, have one -71- A word -72- has more than one meaning -73- on its usage in the -74- Also, a particular thing or situation may be -75- using many -76- words of groups of words. Yet two words -77- ever have exactly the same meaning. Thus, although a word may have many -78- these do no mean exactly the same thing -79-, it is important that the writer should be very -80- in his -81- of words. Students should be advised not to put -82- the first words that come to their minds. Any writer needs time to -83- the context and -84- suitable words from the very many -85- options that can be used to described any situation.
When Mrs Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby didn't have much -86- to the parasites which the laboratory -87- the identified in the blood -88-. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that -89- the disease. The disease was in its early -90- but the most evident symptom was the -91- of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could not be seen under a -92- because it is even smaller than bacterial -93-. Trachoma could cause blindness, so Mrs Dada had to protect her family from this -94- disease. She should keep up a high standard of -95- by -96- her personal towels and face cloths. The doctor also wrote out a -97- of antibiotic drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a -98-. She was assured that this treatment would -99- the baby and restore him to good -100- in two or three days.
Aquoted
Bascribed
Cinvented
Dprocured
Econtest
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Question 18
waec1998
In question numbered 74 above, choose the best option from letters A - E 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, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Words in English Language, and any other language for that matter, have one -71- A word -72- has more than one meaning -73- on its usage in the -74- Also, a particular thing or situation may be -75- using many -76- words of groups of words. Yet two words -77- ever have exactly the same meaning. Thus, although a word may have many -78- these do no mean exactly the same thing -79-, it is important that the writer should be very -80- in his -81- of words. Students should be advised not to put -82- the first words that come to their minds. Any writer needs time to -83- the context and -84- suitable words from the very many -85- options that can be used to described any situation.
When Mrs Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby didn't have much -86- to the parasites which the laboratory -87- the identified in the blood -88-. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that -89- the disease. The disease was in its early -90- but the most evident symptom was the -91- of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could not be seen under a -92- because it is even smaller than bacterial -93-. Trachoma could cause blindness, so Mrs Dada had to protect her family from this -94- disease. She should keep up a high standard of -95- by -96- her personal towels and face cloths. The doctor also wrote out a -97- of antibiotic drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a -98-. She was assured that this treatment would -99- the baby and restore him to good -100- in two or three days.
Acontext
Bparagraph
Cphrase
Dcontent
Econtest
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Question 19
waec1998
In question numbered 73 above, choose the best option from letters A - E 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, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Words in English Language, and any other language for that matter, have one -71- A word -72- has more than one meaning -73- on its usage in the -74- Also, a particular thing or situation may be -75- using many -76- words of groups of words. Yet two words -77- ever have exactly the same meaning. Thus, although a word may have many -78- these do no mean exactly the same thing -79-, it is important that the writer should be very -80- in his -81- of words. Students should be advised not to put -82- the first words that come to their minds. Any writer needs time to -83- the context and -84- suitable words from the very many -85- options that can be used to described any situation.
When Mrs Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby didn't have much -86- to the parasites which the laboratory -87- the identified in the blood -88-. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that -89- the disease. The disease was in its early -90- but the most evident symptom was the -91- of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could not be seen under a -92- because it is even smaller than bacterial -93-. Trachoma could cause blindness, so Mrs Dada had to protect her family from this -94- disease. She should keep up a high standard of -95- by -96- her personal towels and face cloths. The doctor also wrote out a -97- of antibiotic drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a -98-. She was assured that this treatment would -99- the baby and restore him to good -100- in two or three days.
Arelying
Bdepending
Cparticularly
Dreflecting
Eespecially
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Question 20
waec1998
In question numbered 72 above, choose the best option from letters A - E 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, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Words in English Language, and any other language for that matter, have one -71- A word -72- has more than one meaning -73- on its usage in the -74- Also, a particular thing or situation may be -75- using many -76- words of groups of words. Yet two words -77- ever have exactly the same meaning. Thus, although a word may have many -78- these do no mean exactly the same thing -79-, it is important that the writer should be very -80- in his -81- of words. Students should be advised not to put -82- the first words that come to their minds. Any writer needs time to -83- the context and -84- suitable words from the very many -85- options that can be used to described any situation.
When Mrs Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby didn't have much -86- to the parasites which the laboratory -87- the identified in the blood -88-. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that -89- the disease. The disease was in its early -90- but the most evident symptom was the -91- of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could not be seen under a -92- because it is even smaller than bacterial -93-. Trachoma could cause blindness, so Mrs Dada had to protect her family from this -94- disease. She should keep up a high standard of -95- by -96- her personal towels and face cloths. The doctor also wrote out a -97- of antibiotic drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a -98-. She was assured that this treatment would -99- the baby and restore him to good -100- in two or three days.
Aeven
Bequally
Cusually
Drarely
Enever
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Question 21
waec1998
In question numbered 71 above, choose the best option from letters A - E 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, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Words in English Language, and any other language for that matter, have one -71- A word -72- has more than one meaning -73- on its usage in the -74- Also, a particular thing or situation may be -75- using many -76- words of groups of words. Yet two words -77- ever have exactly the same meaning. Thus, although a word may have many -78- these do no mean exactly the same thing -79-, it is important that the writer should be very -80- in his -81- of words. Students should be advised not to put -82- the first words that come to their minds. Any writer needs time to -83- the context and -84- suitable words from the very many -85- options that can be used to described any situation.
When Mrs Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby didn't have much -86- to the parasites which the laboratory -87- the identified in the blood -88-. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that -89- the disease. The disease was in its early -90- but the most evident symptom was the -91- of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could not be seen under a -92- because it is even smaller than bacterial -93-. Trachoma could cause blindness, so Mrs Dada had to protect her family from this -94- disease. She should keep up a high standard of -95- by -96- her personal towels and face cloths. The doctor also wrote out a -97- of antibiotic drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a -98-. She was assured that this treatment would -99- the baby and restore him to good -100- in two or three days.
Asemblance
Blikeness
Csimilarity
Dthing
Epeculiarity
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Question 22
waec1998
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that best completes each of the following sentences.
The woman walked...fast that the little girl couldn't catch up with her.
Atoo
Bvery
Cso
Dquite
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Question 23
waec1998
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that best completes each of the following sentences.
The sole occupant of the car was injured in the.......accident
Afatal
Bghastly
Cincredible
Dtrival
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Question 24
waec1998
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that best completes each of the following sentences.
The teacher's .....of the word is faulty.
Apronouncement
Bpromulgation
Cprolongation
Dpronunciation
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Question 25
waec1998
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that best completes each of the following sentences.
Your contribution is not........for you to share in the profit.
Asuficient enough
Binsufficient
Cenough sufficient
Denough
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Question 26
waec1998
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that best completes each of the following sentences.
Those old tables and chairs are very valuable.......
Aitems of furnitures
Bfurniture
Citem of furnitures
Ditem of furniture
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Question 27
waec1998
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that best completes each of the following sentences.
He wasn't unanimously elected president......?
Awas he
Bdidn't he
Cdid he
Ddoes the
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Question 28
waec1998
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that best completes each of the following sentences.
The vehicle wasn't serviceable..........?
Ait was
Bdidn't it
Cis it
Dwas it
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Question 29
waec1998
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that best completes each of the following sentences.
Aliyu can change his mind.........?
Acan't he
Bdoes he
Cwill be
Ddoesn't he
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Question 30
waec1998
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that best completes each of the following sentences.
She hurt herself.........?
