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Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.
Without our relentless campaigns we might ....... sure of victory in the race for the National Assembly.
Anever have been
Bhave never be
Cnever had been
Dbe never
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Question 2942
jamb2000
Identify the word that has a different stress pattern from the others.
Aintegral
Bintimate
Cdiscourse
Daccelerate
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Question 2943
jamb2000
Identify the word that has the stress on the second syllable.
Areproduce
Balways
Cresult
Dunderstand
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Question 2944
jamb2000
Select the word that has the same pattern of stress as the given word.
Education
Aduplicity
Beconomics
Celaborate
Dconjectural
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Question 2945
jamb2000
Select the word that has the same pattern of stress as the given word.
Quality
Aguarantee
Baccepted
Cbachelor
Drelated
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Question 2946
jamb2000
Select the word that has the same pattern of stress as the given word.
Honour
Ahotel
Bhyena
Chuman
Dhumane
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Question 2947
jamb2000
Select the word that has the same pattern of stress as the given word.
Enormous
Ainterest
Bsolution
Cstupidly
Dcharacter
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Question 2948
jamb2000
Choose from the options the word that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the underlined.
Caliph
Apresently
Bperhaps
Cpowerful
Dopponent
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Question 2949
jamb2000
Choose from the options the word that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the underlined.
Thought
Atheatre
Btaught
Cweather
Dfate
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Question 2950
jamb2000
Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letters underlined.
Tear (noun)
Adare
Bcare
Chere
Dwear
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Question 2951
jamb2000
Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letters underlined.
Thunder
Aprefer
Bdiffer
Cconfer
Ddefer
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Question 2952
jamb2000
Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letters underlined.
Pleasure
Apliable
Bpleat
Cplenary
Djeopardy
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Question 2953
jamb2000
Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letters underlined.
Air
Aheir
Bher
Chear
Dfire
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Question 2954
jamb2000
Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letters underlined.
boat
Aboard
Bbought
Cgo
Dglory
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Question 2955
waec1999
In question numbered 100 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.
Read the passage below
In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined and one gap. From the list of words lettered A - D, choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentences.
The human brain is the most -76- organ in the body small and delicate it is -77- in a bony fortress called the -78-. The brain controls the emotions, the -79-, and indeed all the functions of the body. Tough we hear with the ears. see with the eyes and smell with the nose. It is in the brain that all -80- are sent and there -81-. No modern computer has the -82- of the brain. It -83- vast amounts of information. It works -84- from second twenty-four hours of everyday. Yet the brain is very -85-, reduce or stop its supply of -86- and blood, and its owner dies or suffers a -87-.
As soon as I took the newspaper from the -88-, I quickly -89- through the pages and stopped at the sports page. There the picture of Marvin Hagler, the broker attracted me. - He was preparing for the -90- of his title. The -91- harped on Hagler's op previous fights and -92- an easy victory over his -93-, I then read through the -94- which usually states the paper's opinion on current issues. The -95- were very many. with some of them taking up full pages. There was only one -96- by an artist whose intention was clearly to -97- readers. There was also a full page -98- announcing the death of a prominent chief. In the column for serious -minded readers was a -99- on political transition, one of the -100- issues of the time.
Acontemporary
Bcontroversial
Ccompetitive
Ddebatable
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Question 2956
waec1999
In question numbered 99 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.
Read the passage below
In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined and one gap. From the list of words lettered A - D, choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentences.
The human brain is the most -76- organ in the body small and delicate it is -77- in a bony fortress called the -78-. The brain controls the emotions, the -79-, and indeed all the functions of the body. Tough we hear with the ears. see with the eyes and smell with the nose. It is in the brain that all -80- are sent and there -81-. No modern computer has the -82- of the brain. It -83- vast amounts of information. It works -84- from second twenty-four hours of everyday. Yet the brain is very -85-, reduce or stop its supply of -86- and blood, and its owner dies or suffers a -87-.
As soon as I took the newspaper from the -88-, I quickly -89- through the pages and stopped at the sports page. There the picture of Marvin Hagler, the broker attracted me. - He was preparing for the -90- of his title. The -91- harped on Hagler's op previous fights and -92- an easy victory over his -93-, I then read through the -94- which usually states the paper's opinion on current issues. The -95- were very many. with some of them taking up full pages. There was only one -96- by an artist whose intention was clearly to -97- readers. There was also a full page -98- announcing the death of a prominent chief. In the column for serious -minded readers was a -99- on political transition, one of the -100- issues of the time.
Acaption
Bcommentary
Cedition
Dfeature
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Question 2957
waec1999
In question numbered 98 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.
Read the passage below
In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined and one gap. From the list of words lettered A - D, choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentences.
The human brain is the most -76- organ in the body small and delicate it is -77- in a bony fortress called the -78-. The brain controls the emotions, the -79-, and indeed all the functions of the body. Tough we hear with the ears. see with the eyes and smell with the nose. It is in the brain that all -80- are sent and there -81-. No modern computer has the -82- of the brain. It -83- vast amounts of information. It works -84- from second twenty-four hours of everyday. Yet the brain is very -85-, reduce or stop its supply of -86- and blood, and its owner dies or suffers a -87-.
As soon as I took the newspaper from the -88-, I quickly -89- through the pages and stopped at the sports page. There the picture of Marvin Hagler, the broker attracted me. - He was preparing for the -90- of his title. The -91- harped on Hagler's op previous fights and -92- an easy victory over his -93-, I then read through the -94- which usually states the paper's opinion on current issues. The -95- were very many. with some of them taking up full pages. There was only one -96- by an artist whose intention was clearly to -97- readers. There was also a full page -98- announcing the death of a prominent chief. In the column for serious -minded readers was a -99- on political transition, one of the -100- issues of the time.
Ain memoriam
Brequiem
Cobituary
Dfuneral
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Question 2958
waec1999
In question numbered 97 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.
Read the passage below
In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined and one gap. From the list of words lettered A - D, choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentences.
The human brain is the most -76- organ in the body small and delicate it is -77- in a bony fortress called the -78-. The brain controls the emotions, the -79-, and indeed all the functions of the body. Tough we hear with the ears. see with the eyes and smell with the nose. It is in the brain that all -80- are sent and there -81-. No modern computer has the -82- of the brain. It -83- vast amounts of information. It works -84- from second twenty-four hours of everyday. Yet the brain is very -85-, reduce or stop its supply of -86- and blood, and its owner dies or suffers a -87-.
As soon as I took the newspaper from the -88-, I quickly -89- through the pages and stopped at the sports page. There the picture of Marvin Hagler, the broker attracted me. - He was preparing for the -90- of his title. The -91- harped on Hagler's op previous fights and -92- an easy victory over his -93-, I then read through the -94- which usually states the paper's opinion on current issues. The -95- were very many. with some of them taking up full pages. There was only one -96- by an artist whose intention was clearly to -97- readers. There was also a full page -98- announcing the death of a prominent chief. In the column for serious -minded readers was a -99- on political transition, one of the -100- issues of the time.
Aamuse
Babuse
Cannoy
Dstimulate
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Question 2959
waec1999
In question numbered 96 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.
Read the passage below
In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined and one gap. From the list of words lettered A - D, choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentences.
The human brain is the most -76- organ in the body small and delicate it is -77- in a bony fortress called the -78-. The brain controls the emotions, the -79-, and indeed all the functions of the body. Tough we hear with the ears. see with the eyes and smell with the nose. It is in the brain that all -80- are sent and there -81-. No modern computer has the -82- of the brain. It -83- vast amounts of information. It works -84- from second twenty-four hours of everyday. Yet the brain is very -85-, reduce or stop its supply of -86- and blood, and its owner dies or suffers a -87-.
As soon as I took the newspaper from the -88-, I quickly -89- through the pages and stopped at the sports page. There the picture of Marvin Hagler, the broker attracted me. - He was preparing for the -90- of his title. The -91- harped on Hagler's op previous fights and -92- an easy victory over his -93-, I then read through the -94- which usually states the paper's opinion on current issues. The -95- were very many. with some of them taking up full pages. There was only one -96- by an artist whose intention was clearly to -97- readers. There was also a full page -98- announcing the death of a prominent chief. In the column for serious -minded readers was a -99- on political transition, one of the -100- issues of the time.
Adrawing
Bcartoon
Csketch
Dcaricature
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Question 2960
waec1999
In question numbered 95 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.
Read the passage below
In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined and one gap. From the list of words lettered A - D, choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentences.
The human brain is the most -76- organ in the body small and delicate it is -77- in a bony fortress called the -78-. The brain controls the emotions, the -79-, and indeed all the functions of the body. Tough we hear with the ears. see with the eyes and smell with the nose. It is in the brain that all -80- are sent and there -81-. No modern computer has the -82- of the brain. It -83- vast amounts of information. It works -84- from second twenty-four hours of everyday. Yet the brain is very -85-, reduce or stop its supply of -86- and blood, and its owner dies or suffers a -87-.
As soon as I took the newspaper from the -88-, I quickly -89- through the pages and stopped at the sports page. There the picture of Marvin Hagler, the broker attracted me. - He was preparing for the -90- of his title. The -91- harped on Hagler's op previous fights and -92- an easy victory over his -93-, I then read through the -94- which usually states the paper's opinion on current issues. The -95- were very many. with some of them taking up full pages. There was only one -96- by an artist whose intention was clearly to -97- readers. There was also a full page -98- announcing the death of a prominent chief. In the column for serious -minded readers was a -99- on political transition, one of the -100- issues of the time.
