TOPIC: COMPREHENSION
DIRECTION: Choose the correct answer from the lettered options.
Read the passage carefully and answer the question.
- As the stranger approached, Shola noticed that he was handsome and her excitement increased. It was of such a man she had dreamt. He had a fine, arrogant carriage, like a soldier or someone in authority. When he reached the end of the pier, he addressed them in a rich, deep voice that disturbed her as the voluptuous rising of the tide had done.
‘You’re Tunde Onu, I’m told,’ he said to her father.
‘That’s right,’ said her father.
‘The bus conductor told me you take people to the islands,’ the man continued.’ I’d like to go there if you can take me.’ Her father examined the man from head to foot, shrewdly measuring his capacity to pay. Then he said:
‘When were you thinking of going?’ ‘Right away.’
‘That’s a different story, for my boatman is gone to Badagry and won’t be back before nightfall.
‘Oh! said the stranger,’ That’s too bad. You couldn’t get someone else instead of him?’
‘I would have to think hard’, he said gloomily,’ for it’s not everyone that would do for the job of going with me beyond the bay to the islands at this time of the year.’
Shola understood her father’s manoeuvre and felt ashamed.
Which of the following is true of the passage?
A. The stranger could not afford to miss the boat ride because he had come from a very far place.
B. Though the stranger had a rich deep voice, Shola’s father was more outspoken than him.
C. Shola and her father were idle when the stranger approached them.
D. Shola’s father sized the stranger’s capability to pay.
The correct answer is option [D].
Read the passage carefully and answer the question.
- The diseases afflicting Western societies have undergone dramatic changes. In the course of a century, so many mass killers have vanished that two-thirds of all deaths are now associated with the diseases of old age. Those who die young are more often than not, the victims of accidents, violence and suicide.
These changes in public health are generally equated with progress and are attributed to more or better medical care. In fact, there is no evidence of any direct relationship between changing disease patterns and the so-called progress of medicine.
The impotence of medical services to change life expectancy and the insignificance of much contemporary clinical care in the curing of diseases are all obvious, well documented but well suppressed.
Neither the proportion of doctors in a population nor the quality of the clinical tools at their disposal nor the number of hospital beds is a causal factor in the striking changes in disease patterns. The new techniques available to recognize and treat such conditions as pernicious anaemia and hypertension, or to correct congenital malformations by surgical interventions, increase our understanding of disease but do not reduce its incidence. The fact that there are more doctors where certain diseases have become rare has little to do with their ability to control or eliminate them. It simply means that doctors, more than other professionals, determine where they work. Consequently, they tend to gather where the climate is healthy, where the water is clean and where people work and can pay for their services.
The observance of strict rules is a feature of ______.
A. formality
B. dialects
C. languages
D. unconventionality
The correct answer is option [A].
TOPIC: LEXIS AND STRUCTURE
DIRECTION: Choose the correct answer from the lettered options.
Choose from the options lettered A-E, the option that most appropriately completes the sentence.
1. Obtaining a scholarship these days is a rare ______.
A. previlledge
B. priviledge
C. privilege
D. privilledge
E. priviledge
The correct answer is option [C]
Choose from the options lettered A-E, the option that most appropriately completes the sentence.
2. You have to be very good at a language before you can _______ it.
A. intaprete
B. interpit
C. interpret
D. interprete
E. interpreter
The correct answer is option [C]
Choose from the options lettered A-E, the option that most appropriately completes the sentence.
3. Yawning in public without covering one’s mouth shows lack of ______.
A. etequete
B. etiquette
C. etiquete
D. ettiquete
E. etequette
The correct answer is option [B]
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