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Question 3231
waec 1996
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.
If the advantages of international trade and division of labour are as strong and -76- as economists assert, the student of international trade may well be puzzled by the -77- to which governments impose -78- on their -79- trade. The actions of governments, however, are not swayed entirely by economic -80- When a country aims at economic self-sufficiency; the reasons are generally -81-. For example, a country may wish to -82- its farming industry in order to be able to feed itself in time of war, or it may try to build an iron and -83- industry as part of an -84- programme.
If a conference is called to consider a reduction of -85-, a country that had imposed no restrictions on imports would find itself at a -86-, since it would have no -87- to offer.
I made a visit to the University Teaching Hospital the other day. At the -88- Department where accidents -89- are treated, the doctors were battling to save the life of a man who had just been knocked down in a road accident. They -90- the injured man thoroughly with the aid of several -91- instruments such as the -92- used in measuring body temperature and the -93- used in listening to the sound of the heart and the lungs. By using -94-, several internal parts of the patient's body were photographed -95- and pain-killing injections were given. His bleeding was stopped. The nurses. -96- his wounds and he was carried on a -97- to the special care -98- where those under -99- care are kept. The doctor asked the nurses to keep the patient under close -100-
Asphere
Brange
Cstretch
Dscope
Eextent
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Question 3232
waec 1996
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.
If the advantages of international trade and division of labour are as strong and -76- as economists assert, the student of international trade may well be puzzled by the -77- to which governments impose -78- on their -79- trade. The actions of governments, however, are not swayed entirely by economic -80- When a country aims at economic self-sufficiency; the reasons are generally -81-. For example, a country may wish to -82- its farming industry in order to be able to feed itself in time of war, or it may try to build an iron and -83- industry as part of an -84- programme.
If a conference is called to consider a reduction of -85-, a country that had imposed no restrictions on imports would find itself at a -86-, since it would have no -87- to offer.
I made a visit to the University Teaching Hospital the other day. At the -88- Department where accidents -89- are treated, the doctors were battling to save the life of a man who had just been knocked down in a road accident. They -90- the injured man thoroughly with the aid of several -91- instruments such as the -92- used in measuring body temperature and the -93- used in listening to the sound of the heart and the lungs. By using -94-, several internal parts of the patient's body were photographed -95- and pain-killing injections were given. His bleeding was stopped. The nurses. -96- his wounds and he was carried on a -97- to the special care -98- where those under -99- care are kept. The doctor asked the nurses to keep the patient under close -100-
Airrefutable
Bdetestable
Cinvincible
Dplausible
Ehonourable
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Question 3233
waec 1996

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Each of the players........to receive a gift of N10,000.00

Aare
Bwere
Cis
Dhave
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Question 3234
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Ranti: Must we finish cracking all the nuts before noon? Ike: No, we
Amustn't
Bneedn't
Cshouldn't
Dcouldn't
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Question 3235
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Our tour of London came to an end all..........soon.
Avery
Bmuch
Crather
Dtoo
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Question 3236
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
You didn't knock before you entered
Adid you?
Bisn't it?
Cis it?
Dwere you?
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Question 3237
waec 1996

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Didn't I give Ada the pen a while ago?

AYes, you didn't
BNo, you did
CYes, you did
DNo, she didn't
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Question 3238
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The bicycle..........on the wet grass for several days
Ahas been lying
Bhas laid
Cis been lying
Dhave been lying
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Question 3239
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Tolu: I like playing table-tennis Yemi:
Aso am I
Balso I do
CI am too
Dso do I
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Question 3240
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
He willed his property to the poor
Aisn't it
Bdidn't he?
Cdidn't it?
Ddoesn't he?
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Question 3241
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
It was reported that he stole the radio
Adidn't he?
Bwasn't it?
Cdoesn't he
Dwasn't he?
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Question 3242
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The road cannot be constructed without
Athose huge earth-moving machines
Bhuge machines those earth moving
Cthose earth-moving huge machines
Dmachines those huge earth-moving
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Question 3243
waec 1996

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
I am looking forward.......from you before long

Aof hearing
Bto hear
Cfor hearing
Dto hearing
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Question 3244
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The government has been urged to provide more facilities for training..........
Aphysically disableds and mentally retardeds
Bthe physically disableds and mentally retardeds
Cthe physically disabled and mentally retarded
Dphysically disabled and mentally retarded
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Question 3245
waec 1996

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
What.......these last three years?

Aare you doing with yourself
Bhave you been doing with yourself
Cyou have been doing with yourself
Dhad you being doing with yourself
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Question 3246
waec 1996

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The principal, with all the teachers and students.......

Ahas arrived
Bhave arrived
Cwere arriving
Dwere to arrive
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Question 3247
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
How I wish she ............the note in time.
Ahas seen
Bsees
Chad seen
Dsee
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Question 3248
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
..........so dejected, he decided to stay at home,
Abeen
Bhaving being
Cbeing
Dhaving been
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Question 3249
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The beleaguered soldiers skilfully.......themselves out of trouble.
Adispatched
Bcatapulted
Cmanoeuvred
Dproceeded
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Question 3250
waec 1996
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
..........round the house I observed that there were more broken louvres than had been reported
Amoved
Bin moving
Cto move
Dmoving
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