English Language Past Questions

Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

Before the operation, the dentist found that his patient's teeth....

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He did not like .... leaving the class early

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When the beggar was tired he ..... down by the roadside

Choose the option that best convey the meaning of the underlined portion in each of the following sentence;
I have been able to observe him at close quarters

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When the man was caught by police, he presented a bold front.

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He stared at her

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The two sprinters were running neck and neck

If my father had not arrived, I would have starved. This sentence means

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Mr. Jack could be a successful businessman if he paid more attention to the more intricate aspects of his account

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Mrs. Dada has been deserted by her husband because he feels she has a heart of stone

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The traffic situation in Lagos can lead to disastrous consequences; a man lost a very lucrative job because he was held up by it.

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The state government appointed a commission of inquiry to go into the community's complaints carefully and without prejudice

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Being an optimist, our professor always sees the bright side of most things

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The result of his experiment represents a break through in medical science

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He was appointed specifically to put the recruits through

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The balance sheet at the end of the business year shows that we broke even

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All his plans fell through

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The bill has to wait as we are now insolvent