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Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
I am travelling by the 6:30 train tomorrow morning. Will you .... me ....?
Asee/off
Blook/up
Ctake/down
Dsee/to
Eput/up
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Question 42
jamb1980
Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
Why does a flamingo stand on one leg? Because if it lifted the other one, it would ....
Ago down
Blet down
Cfall down
Dcome down
Eget down
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Question 43
jamb1980
Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
Oxygen is necessary to life. Nothing can live without it. It was .... a century ago
Ainvented
Bfound out
Cdiscovered
Dlearnt
Eextracted
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Question 44
jamb1980
Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
The method .... does not give the expected results.
Ayou recommended
Byou visited
Cyou told
Dyou sent me
Eyou wanted
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Question 45
jamb1980
Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
The prices .... are too high for us
Ayou lent me
Byou quoted
Cyou attended
Dyou gave me
Eyou want to buy
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Question 46
jamb1980
Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:
Colossal means
Aa greek column
Bgigantic
Csomething which has lost too much fluid
Da calamity
Ethe sale of colos
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Question 47
jamb1980
Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:
Don't eat just any innocuous looking mushroom you see around
Aharmful
Bharmless
Cinnocent
Dimmunized
Econspicuous
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Question 48
jamb1980
Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:
The bible's prodigal son became quite wealth eventually
Aprestigious
Bphlegmatic
Cerrant
Dpecuniary
Eextravagant
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Question 49
jamb1980
Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:
His penury gave him a lifetime of hunger
Aavariciousness
Baffluence
Cpoverty
Dpenny pinching
Egreed
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Question 50
jamb1980
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
The old car .... several times this year
Awas repaired
Bhas been repaired
Chad been repaired
Dhas repaired
Ewas being repaired
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Question 51
jamb1980
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
You should show some consideration .... the feelings of others
Awith
Babout
Cby
Dto
Efor
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Question 52
jamb1980
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
If he had entered the room, i .... him
Asaw
Bhad seen
Cwould have seen
Dmay see
Ewill see
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Question 53
jamb1980
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
The horse is a winner, ....
Ayou can take that from me
Byou can say i say so
Cyou can take my word for it
Dit is my word against theirs
Eyou may or may not believe it
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Question 54
jamb1980
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
If we went to any European country .... Britain, we should need a substantial amount of money to pay our way
Alike
Blet us say
Cas an example
Dlike say
Eif we say
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Question 55
jamb1980
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
...., it might not look such a rosy proposition.
AFrom his viewing proposal
Bwhen he views the proposal
CHaving viewed the proposal
DFrom his point of view
EFrom his seesing it
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Question 56
jamb1980
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
Olukayode .... as a mechanic when he was young, but now he is a driver
Ahad been working
Bused to work
Cwould work
Dwould have worked
Ehad worked
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Question 57
jamb1980
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options
The students .... so much noise while the lecturer had to walk out of the class
Amade
Bhad been making
Cwere making
Dhad made
Ewould have been making
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Question 58
jamb1980
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five option:
In the past his father used to walk but nowadays he .... to work by bicycles
Awas going
Bis going
Cseldomly goes
Dgoes
Ehas gone
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Question 59
jamb1980
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five option:
By the end of the next semester he .... his University education
Awould have completed
Bwill be completing
Cshall have completed
Dwas completing
Emust complete
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Question 60
jamb1980
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five option:
The telephone .... in the nineteenth century and is now used in most countries in the world
