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0130 April 2023 The Registrar, Federal University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos. Dear Sir, I am writing to express my deep disappointment regarding the postponement of the final examination results for the Department of Computer Science, which were originally scheduled for release on 15 April 2023. Despite numerous assurances from the examination board, the results remain unavailable, causing considerable anxiety among the final-year students who are awaiting graduation clearance. The number of students who have been waiting for the results are growing each day. In light of the above, I respectfully request that the university expedite the verification process and publish the results no later than 10 May 2023. I would also appreciate a written confirmation of the steps being taken to address this delay. Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter. Yours faithfully, Adaobi Okeke Matric No: 2020/CS/0456Free practice

02After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of all or part of the sentences is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.Free practice

03After each sentence, choose the interpretation that is most appropriate.Free practice

04Best complete the gapFree practice

05Choose from options A-D the one that has the stressed syllable in this word.(The stressed syllable is in capital)Free practice

06Choose from options A-D the words that are correctly spelt.Free practice

07Choose from the options the word that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letters underlined.Free practice

08Choose from the options, opposite in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in italics.Free practice

09Choose the correct answer to fill the gap.Free practice

10Choose the correct interpretations of the statement given, for the questionFree practice

11Choose the interpretation that most appropriately expresses the meaning of the sentence.Free practice

12Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.Free practice

13Choose the most options that have the same vowel sound as the ones represented by the letter(s) underlinedFree practice

14Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracketFree practice

15Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket.Free practice

16Choose the one opposite in meaning to the word(s) underlined.Free practice

17Choose the opposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italicsFree practice

18Choose the option nearest in meaning to the expression in each sentence.Free practice

19Choose the option nearest in meaning to the italicized words or expressions.Free practice

20Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined expression.Free practice

21Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word:Free practice

22Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word.Free practice

23Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined.Free practice

24Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word in quotation marks.Free practice

25Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase in italicsFree practice

26choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase in italics.Free practice

27Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phase in italicsFree practice

28Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in italics.Free practice

29Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word:Free practice

30Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word.Free practice

31Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word in quotation marks.Free practice

32choose the option opposite In meaning to the word or phrase In ItalicsFree practice

33Choose the option Opposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italics.Free practice

34Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) in italics.Free practice

35Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in italics.Free practice

36Choose the option that best complete the gapFree practice

37Choose the option that best completes each of the following sentences.Free practice

38Choose the option that best completes the gapFree practice

39Choose the option that best completes the gap.Free practice

40Choose the option that best completes the gap(s)Free practice

41Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).Free practice

42Choose the option that best completes the sentence:Free practice

43Choose the option that best completes the sentence.Free practice

44Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in each of the followingFree practice

45Choose the option that best explains the expression in quotation marks.Free practice

46Choose the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Free practice

47Choose the option that best explains the underlined expression:Free practice

48Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the others.Free practice

49Choose the option that has the correct stress pattern.Free practice

50Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) emboldened.Free practice

51Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.Free practice

52Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the word given.Free practice

53Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter in bold.Free practice

54Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letters underlined.Free practice

55Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the word given.Free practice

56Choose the option that has the stress on the second syllable.Free practice

57Choose the option that is correctly punctuated.Free practice

58Choose the option that is correctly spelt.Free practice

59Choose the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the key word or expression and correctly fits the sentence.Free practice

60CHOOSE THE OPTION THAT IS NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE WORD(S) IN BRACKET, FOR THE QUESTIONSFree practice

61Choose the option that rhyme with the given wordsFree practice

62choose the option that rhymes with the given word.Free practice

63Choose the option that rhymes with the word given.Free practice

64Choose the option which best completes the sentence.Free practice

65Choose the option which best explains the sentence.Free practice

66Choose the option which is nearest in meaning to the sentence.Free practice

67Choose the option which is nearest in meaning to the underlined expression.Free practice

68Choose the option which is nearest in meaning to the underlined word.Free practice

69Choose the word or group of words nearest in meaning to the key word as used in the sentence.Free practice

70Choose the word or group of words that best completes each sentence.Free practice

71Choose the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.Free practice

72Choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the key word as used in the sentence.Free practice

73Choose the word that best completes each sentence.Free practice

74Choose the word that best completes the sentence.Free practice

75Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others.Free practice

76Choose the word that has an opposite meaning to the one in bracket for questions below.Free practice

77Choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one in bracketFree practice

78Choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one in bracket, from questions belowFree practice

79Choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one in bracket, from questions below.Free practice

80Choose the word with the same vowel sound as the one in bracketFree practice

81Choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap.Free practice

82Choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s).Free practice

83ComprehensionFree practice

84COMPREHENSION Read the below passage carefully and answer the questions that follow itis possible to have a glimpse of life after death. Man has always believed in an afterlife, but only today do we have scientific reports of people who seem to have experienced the sensation of dying but lived to tell about it. Ongoing research is documenting hundreds of cases each year of the near ? death experience (NDE), and scientists think they are finding a clearly identifiable pattern: usually a man is dying and, as he reaches the point of greatest physical distress, he hears himself pronounced dead by his doctor. He begins to hear an uncomfortable noise, a loud ringing or buzzing, and at the same time feels himself moving every rapidly through a long dark tunnel. After this he suddenly finds himself outside of his own physical body, but still in the immediate physical environment, and he sees his own body from a distance, as though he is a spectator. He watches the resuscitation attempt from this unusual vantage point and is in a state of emotional upheaval. After a while, he collects himself and become more accustomed to hiss odd condition. He notices that he still have a ?body? but one of a very different nature and with very different powers form physical body he has left behind. Soon after things begin to happen. Others come to meet and help him. He glimpses the spirit of relative and friends who have already died. And a loving, warm sprit of a kind he has never encountered before-a being a light-appears before him. This being asks him a question, non verbally-to make evaluate his life- and help him against along by showing him a panoramic instantaneous playback of the major event of his life .Then he finds that he must go back to the earth, that the time for his death has not yet come .At this point he resist, for by now he is taken up with his experience in the afterlife and does not want to return.He is overwhelmed by intense feeling of joy, vlove and peace. Despite his attitude, though, he somehow reunites with his physical body and lives.Free practice

85COMPREHENSION Read the below passage carefully and answer the questions that follow The emergence of a standard dialect produces the phenomenon known as 'accent' which is quite different from dialect. In the process of learning a foreign language, it is normal to transfer the patterns of an indigenous language to those of the foreign language. With time, however, those of the form and most of those of orthography and phonology gradually get eliminated. This is because these can easily be identified and corrected. They are easy to correct because they do not involve patterns of muscular movement. It is necessary to correct them because otherwise they could seriously impair intelligibility. With phonetic patterns, on the other hand, there is a great deal of intelligibility tolerance because muscular patterns are involved, thus making corrections difficult when observed. Besides, phonetic patterns do not impair intelligibility much. Hence the transference of phonetic habits from one language to another is both easier to tolerate and more difficult to avoid than transference at the lexico-grammatical level. It follows that a speaker who is learning a second dialect does so with an accent since the muscle of his speech organs would have crystallized in responsed to the phonetics of his native dialect. The learning of a standard language is simply the learning of a second dialect - that which has been standardized. Members of a language community control at least two dialect and use both dialects in different situations. In the rural areas, the native dialect is used in most situation since there is less movement. Therefore, rural dwellers tend to be parochial in the homogeneity of their dialect. In the urban community, on the other hand, there is more demand on the standard dialect than the rural one. This is because people from different regions converge here. In order to ensure mutual intelligibility resulting from the pressure of communication, a great deal of demand is made on the standard dialect which now becomes the lingua franca amongst them.Free practice

86COMPREHENSION: Read each passage carefully and answer the question(s) that follows it. You would think that the common cold should be easy enough to study, but it is not so easy as it looks. Cold often seem to spread from one person to another, so it is often assumed that the cold must be infectious, but there are some puzzling observations which do not fit in with this theory. An investigator in Holland examined some eight thousand volunteers from different areas and came to conclusion that in each group that colds all appeared at the same time, transfer of infection from case to case could not account for that. Yet at the Common Cold Research Unit in Salisbury the infection theory has been tested out; two series of about two hundred people were inoculated, one with salt water and the other with secretions from known cold victims. Only one of the salt water group got a cold, compared with seventy-three in the other group. In British medical journal the other day, there was a report of a meeting, the common cold-fact and fancy; at which one of the speaker reported a study of cold made in Cirencester over the last five years. Three hundred and fifty volunteers had kept diary records of their colds and on an average each had seven every year, with annual morbidity of seventy days. So nearly one-fifth or our lives is spent in more or less misery, coughing and sneezing. Some widely held beliefs about the common cold have turned out to be true . it seems that old people are just as liable to colds as the young. Sailors in isolated weather ships have just as many cold while on board and not in contact with the outside world as when on shore. It is a truism that common illnesses pose more problems than the rare. The rare diseases is by comparison much easier to handle. There are not so many cases and all of them have been intensively studied. Someone has read up all the literature about diseases and published a digest of it. There will be more facts and fewer fancies.Free practice

87COMPREHENSION: Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follows it. All over the word till lately, and most of the world still today, mankind has been following the course of nature: that is to say, it has been breeding up to the maximum. To let nature take her extravagant course in the reproduction of the human race may have made sense in an age of in which we were also letting her take course in decimating mankind by the causalities of war, pestilence and famine. Being human, we have at least revolted against that senseless waste. We have started to impose on nature's heartless play a humane new order of our own. But when once man has begun to interfere with nature, he cannot afford to stop half way.We cannot, with impunity, cut down the death-rate and the at the same time allow the birth-rate to go on taking natures course.We must consciously try to establish an equilibrium or, sooner or later, famine will stalk abroad again.Free practice

88COMPREHENSION: Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follows it. I dare not lift the veil that protects our tribal marriage customs and ceremonies from the eyes of outsiders. There is already too little in this world that is sacred; and what Fatmata and i were required to go through during the next week must remains so. I was deeply in debt by the time everything was over, but i was absolutely satisfied with my parent choice. Fatmata was as black as satin, and as soft, She had teeth and smile of a goddess. The Dopo tutors had done their job well: she was completely efficient lover and mother. I brought her home with swelling pride, and began at once to save all I could spare towards the cost of acquiring my second wife. My anti-Western revoli was gaining momentum.Free practice

89COMPREHENSION: Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follows it. So far i have been speaking of science as it's universally viewed from prospective of the world at large. For in the context of our country and our sister developing countries many factors mentioned earlier are not very important. For example, pollution, deterioration of the environment and population explosion are not yet serious problem for us in this country. Let me now turn to a more specific area, namely, the question of scientific choice for developing countries. There is no doubt that the role which science and technology have played in the upliftment of the material and economic well-being of the developed nations will, and does influence the criteria that the Third World nations choose in order to establish their science policies and priorities. But the criteria to be used by these nations do not have to be the same as those which have brought the developed countries to their present stage of evolution. For while human beings have the same problems, their solution, to be meaningful will have to be sought within some relevant frame of reference, such as the available resources and expertise, social values, place and time in the historical scale.Free practice

90COMPREHENSION: Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follows it. The endeavour to maintain proper standard of fairness in journalism must be pursed. it is fatally easy for the journalist to deviate from the straight path. There is his natural desire to make a story and insidious temptation to twist facts to square with his paper's policy. Both are as indefensible as the framing of misleading headlines for the sake of effect. The conscientious journalist must check any tendency to bias; and guard against the dangers inherent in personal antipathies or friendship and in traditional opposition between rival schools of thought.When a political opponent, whose stupidity habitually provokes attack, makes an affective speech, honesty requires that he be given credit for it. Where personal relationships might make it easier and more congenial to keep silent than to criticize, the journalist must never forget his duty to the public and the supreme importance of recording the truth.Free practice

91COMPREHENSION: Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follows it. These two factors, the altitude and the weather, tend separately and together to defeat the climber. The height weakens low him down; it forces him to spend days and nights in the course of his assault on the summit; the weather besides adding to the demand of his energy and moral fortitude conspires to deny him the time he needs to complete his mission. whereas in lower mountains and on easy ground the weather may be no more than a handicap, high Himalayas it is decisive, regardless of terrain. The deduction to be drawn from these two factors was clear enough. We must either so fortify ourselves that we could continue, without detriment, to live and have our being above the limit of natural acclimatization, or better still, we must solve the problem of speed. It was desirable, in fact, that we should meet both these requirement, and thus give to those chosen to attempt the summit and to their supporting teams some measures of insurance against the, vagaries of the weather, for safety in mountain climbing is as much as matter of swiftness as sureness of foot. Either or both could be achieved only by the administration of oxygen in sufficient quantities to make up for the deficiency in the air, and for the duration of the upward journey above the limit of successful acclimatization.Free practice

92COMPREHENSION: Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follows it. Young men have strong passions and tend gratify them indiscriminately. Of the body desires, its is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of self control. They are changeable and fickle in their desire, which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep-rooted, and are like and are sick people's attacks of hunger and thirst. They are hot tempered and quick-tempered, and adapt to give way to their anger, bad temper often gets better of them, For owing to their love of honor they can not bear being slighted, and are indignant if they imagine themselves unfairly treated. While they love honour, they love victory still more, for youth is eager for superiority over others, and victory is one form of this. They love both more than they love money, which indeed they love very little, not having yet learnt what it means to be without it. They look at the good side rather than the bad, not having yet witnessed it many instances of wickedness. They trust others readily, because they have not yet been cheated. They are sanguine; nature warms blood as through with excess of wine; and beside that they have as yet met with few appointments. Their lives are mainly spent not in memory but expectation for youth has a long future before it and short past behind it: On the first day of ones life one has noting at all to remember, and can only look forward. They are easily cheated owing to the sanguine disposition just mentioned. Their hot tempers and hopeful dispositions makes them more courageous than older men are; the hot temper prevent fear, and the hopeful disposition creates confidence; we cannot feel fear so long as we are feeling angry, and any expectations of good makes us confident.Free practice

93COMPREHENSION: Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow By 1910, the motor car was plainly conquering the highway. The private car was now part of every rich man's establishment, although its price made it as yet an impossible luxury for most for most of the middle class. But for the adventure, some youth, there was the motor cycle, a fearsome invention producing accidents and ear-splitting noises. Already, the dignified carriages and smart pony-traps were beginning to disappear from the roads, and coachmen and grooms unless technically minded, were finding it more difficult to make a living. The roads which had gone to sleep since the coming of the railway, now awoke to feverish activity. Cars and motors cycles dashed along them at speeds which rivaled those of the express trains, and the lorry began to appear. Therefore the road system was compelled to adapt itself to a volume and speed of traffic for which it had never been intended. Its complete adaptation was impossible; but the road surface was easily transformed and, during the early years of the century, the dustiness and greasiness of the highways were lessened by tar-spraying. To widen and straighten the roads and get rid of blind corners and every steep gradient were tasks which had scarcely been tackled before 1914. The situation was worst of all in towns, where not only was any large scheme of road widening usually out of the, but also where crowding and danger were all too frequently increased by the short-sighted eagerness of town authorities in laying down tramlines. That was not only the road system that was in need of readjustment; the nervous system of those who used and the road suffered. The noises caused by the conversion of the roads into speed ways called for a corresponding up of the nerves; and especially in the towns, to practice himself in estimates of the speed of approaching vehicles and to run or jump for his life if he ventured of the payment. Adapted from Rachel Carson: The Advent of the Motor Car.Free practice

94For these questions, choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. The stressed syllable is written in capital letters.Free practice

95For these questions, choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. The stressed syllables are written in capital letters (s)Free practice

96For these questions, choose the option that best complete the gap(s)Free practice

97For these questions, choose the option that best completes the gap(s)Free practice

98For these questions, choose the option that best completes the gap(s).Free practice

99For these questions, choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the ones represented by the letter (s) underlinedFree practice

100For these questions, choose the option that have the same consonant sound as the ones represented by the letter (s) underlinedFree practice

101For these questions, choose the option that have the same consonant sound as the ones represented by the letter (s) underlined.Free practice

102For these questions, choose the option that rhymes with the given words.Free practice

103For this question, choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italicsFree practice

104For this question, choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italics.Free practice

105For this question, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the question.Free practice

106From the list of words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that is most nearest opposite in meaning to the underlined word or group of words and that will, at the same time correctly fill in the gap in the sentence.Free practice

107From the options, choose the word nearest in meaning to the underlined word.Free practice

108From the question, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phraseFree practice

109From the question, choose the option oposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italicsFree practice

110From the question, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Free practice

111From the words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences.Free practice

112From the words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentenceFree practice

113From the words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentence.Free practice

114From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same consonant sound(s).Free practice

115GrammarFree practice

116In 1951, the government decided to start a pottery training centre where new and more advanced technical methods, especially glazing, could be taught. The centre was intended to serve the whole of the defuct Northern region, and there were several reasons for choosing Abuja. The first was the excellence of the traditional pottery made in the Emirate. Secondly, firewood is plentiful; this is a most important consideration, becuase in the making of glazed pottery, more firewood than clay is required. Thirdly, there are good clays and good local sources for the raw materials needed for the glazes. Fourthly, water, which is another important raw material, is plentiful. Finally Abuja is in a central position for the whole region and is a town where learners from many different parts can find a cogenial temporary home, and where the Emir and his council are actively interested in the project. Nearly all the making is done by a process called "throwing", so called because the lumps of clay are thrown by the potter onto a wheel head. they are weighed out so that each pot will be roughly the same size,; for examle, for making pint sized jugs, the lump of clay will be one and half kilogrammes. The potter sits on the saddle of the wheel and spins it by pushing a pedal with his left foot. He has a bowl of water, a loofah, a bamboo knife, a pointed stick or porcupine quill, a wooden-smothening tool which potters call a rib, and a piece of wire like object that is used for wedging. He makes the wheel-head slightly damp, and throws the lumps into the middle. The first work is to force the lump to the centre, then he presses his thumb into the middle of the lump using water to keep it slipery. When the bottom is of the right thickness, he begins to draw up the walls until they are of the right height. then he shapes and shoulder of the pot. He trims of any waste clay. This way, a small and medium-sized pot can be made quickly and accurately.Free practice

117In each of question 66 to 85, choose the option that best completes the gap (s)Free practice

118In each of questions 46 to 55, choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.Free practice

119In each of questions, 92 to 94, choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are underlined in capital letters.Free practice

120In each of the following questions, the main or primary stress is indicated by writing the syllable on which it occurs in capital letters.Free practice

121In each of the question 66 to 85 choose the option that best completes the gap(s)Free practice

122In each of the questions 34 to 48, Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).Free practice

123In each of the questions 36 to 50 choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase.Free practice

124In each of the questions 49 to 63 choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word.Free practice

125In each of the questions 51 to 65 choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase.Free practice

126In each of the questions 64 to 83, choose the option that best completes the gap(s).Free practice

127In each of the questions 66 to 85 choose the option that best completes the gap(s)Free practice

128In each of the questions 90 to 92 choose the option that rhymes with the given word.Free practice

129In each of the questions 99 to 100 select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Free practice

130In each sentence, choose the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the key word and that correctly fills the gap.Free practice

131In the following options lettered A to D, all the words except one have the same stress pattern.Free practice

132Lexis and StructureFree practice

133Lexis and Structure - AntonymsFree practice

134Lexis and Structure - Fill in the blankFree practice

135Lexis and Structure - IdiomsFree practice

136Lexis and Structure - Question TagsFree practice

137Lexis and Structure - SynonymsFree practice

138LEXIS AND STRUCTURE fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.Free practice

139LEXIS, STRUCTURE AND ORAL FORMS In each of question 26 to 35, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentenceFree practice

140LEXIS, STRUCTURE AND ORAL FORMS In each of question 26 to 35, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Free practice

141LEXIS, STRUCTURE AND ORAL FORMS In the questions below, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in bold.Free practice

142Like all reptiles, snakes are cold-bloded, or more correctly, ectothermic- they cannot produce their own boy heat; instead, they rely on the sun to heat their bodies. Because they do not rely on energy from food to generate body heat, snakes can survive on an extremely meagre diet. some wait for months between successive meals, and a few survive by eating a large meal just once or twice in a year. When they do eat, snakes swallow their prey whole rather than biting off small pieces. Many snakes have specialized jaw that enable them to swallow animals that are far larger than their own heads. Although uncommon, some snakes, such as the African rock python, have been observed eating animals as large as an antelope or a small cow. With over two thousand five hundred species belonging to more than ten families, snakes are a large and successful group. They owe much of this success to their versatility- snakes occupy habitat ranging from underground burrows to the top of the tree, to ocean depths as great as one hundred and fifty metres. They are found on every continent except Antartica, and although they are most abundant in tropical areas, many survive in regions marked by extreme cold. The only places without snales are parts of the polar regions and isolated islands, such as the Republic of Ireland and New-zealand as opposed to places in Nigeria like Plateau and Gombe states in the Northern part where there is a large population of snakes.Free practice

143Oral EnglishFree practice

144Oral Forms - VowelsFree practice

145Political change and social transformation in the form of revolutions have radically altered the course of human civilization and history. Today, the world is witnessing political and social changes arising from the desire of people all over the globe for greater freedom and a voice in the way they are governed and a better standard of living. Part of these struggles and processes have become more pronounced in the Third world since the end of the east-west cold war in the late 1980's, and in the face of the challenges posed by the ongoing process of globalization. While political and social changes may appear to be distinct phenomena, they are analytical inseperable. Political and social changes refer to alteration or transformations in human behaviour, norms and politico-social institutions. Such chsnges are often a collective response to the need to change, or as a tacit recognition of a shift in the prevalent power relations in the society. Therefore, the coming to power of a new set of rulers, or the establishment of new structures and processes of governance broadly typifies socio-political changes. It is important to note that change cna either be positive or negative. In most cases, political and social changes are often caused by certain factors and reasons. These push people to collectively organize themselves to struggle for a change in the existing power relations. Another reason is to capture political power, in the hope of making life better for the generality of the people. If politics is defined as who gets what, when and how; it them implies that political change refers to an alteration in the form of power, and the identity of the group or class which controls and welds state power.Free practice

146Questions are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"Free practice

147Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"Free practice

148Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: In a world increasingly dominated by technology, the art of conversation seems to be fading. People often find themselves communicating through screens rather than face-to-face. This shift has raised concerns about the depth and quality of interpersonal connections. Experts argue that meaningful conversations are essential for developing empathy and understanding across diverse perspectives.Free practice

149Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: The rise of social media has transformed the way individuals interact with one another. While it facilitates communication across distances, it also presents challenges in terms of privacy and misinformation. Users must navigate an increasingly complex landscape where the lines between reality and virtual representations blur. Consequently, the implications for personal relationships, public discourse, and even mental health are profound.Free practice

150Read the passage below and answer the question that follows it.Free practice

151Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follow There are many different approaches to conflict management, each of which may have utility in particular circumstances. A great deal of scholarship has been devoted to analysing how and in waht situations different approaches can be applied most effectively. Conflict managment approaches can be classified into two broad categories: firstly on the basis of the level of escalation which the particular conflict is being managed. In this sense, one can distinguish between the peaceful and the 'military' approaches. The trademarks of the peaceful approach are negotiation, verbal persuassion, use of inducements, denial of privileges, and subtle manipulations short of the use of physical forces, while those of the military approach relate to the use of physical coercion. The use of physical force could be by a party to the conflict or third party, to promote one side's interest, impose a settlement, or create a situation in which diplomatic negotiations can occur. Secondly, conflict management approaches can also be classified according to the status of the participants in the bargaining process. For example, a conflict could be managed through 'negotiation', that is, direct bargaining by the parties involved in the conflict; or through 'mediation', that is with the help of a third party.Free practice

152Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follow. Curiosity is clear and definite as any of our urges. we wonder what is in a sealed telegram or in a letter which someone else is absorbed or what is being said in the telephone booth and in low conversation. This inquistiveness is vastly stimulated by jealousy, suspicion or any hint that we ouselves are directly of indrectly involved in. But there appears to be a fair amount of personal interest in other people's affairs even when they do not concern us except as a mystery to be unravelled or a tale to be told. The reports of a divorce suit will have 'news value' for many weeks, They consitute a story like a novel, a play or a moving picture. This is not an example of pure curiosity. However since we readily identify ourselves with others their joys and despair then become our own concern.Free practice

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154Read the passage carfully and answer the questions that follow. The grave danger that alcohol abuses poses to human health and well-being has again been highlighted by the World Health Organization (WHO) which recently disclosed that abuse of the substance causes nearly four percent more deaths than the dreaded acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and tuberculosis worldwide. The global body put the number of deaths from alcohol abuse, every year, at 2.5 million, rising incomes were identified to have triggered more drinking in Africa and Asia while binge drinking is a problem in many developed countries. The organization decried the failure of most governments to institute strong alcohol control policies in spite of its heavy toll on society from road accidents, violence, disease, child neglect and absenteeism at work. The WHO alert on alcohol abuse is timely. The organization's call for prioritization of alcohol control policies has come at a time when governments all over the world need information and support to reduce alcohol consumption.Free practice

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165These questions are based on A.H. Mohammed's The Last Days at Forcados High School.Free practice

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169Time was when boys used to point toy guns and say 'Bang!'. Now, they aim real guns and shoot one another. Nearly 4,200 teenagers were killed by firearms in 1990. Only motor vehicle accidents kill more teenagers than firearms and the firearms figures are rising. The chance that a black male between ages of 15 and 19 will be killed by a gun has almost tripled since 1985 and almost doubled for white males, according to the National Centre for Health Statistics. Who could disagree with Health and Human Services Secretary, Donna Shalala, when she pronounced these statistics 'frightening and intolerable?' In the shameful light of this 'waste young lives' in Ms. Shalala's words, an often-asked questions seems urgently due to be raised again: Would less violence on television - the surrounding environment for most children and young adults - make violence in actual life less normal, less accepted, less horrifying? It may be difficult to prove an exact correlation between the viewer of fantasized violence and the criminal who acts out violence after turning off the set. But if the premises of education is granted - that good models can influence the young - then it follows that bad model can have equivalent harmful effect. This is the reasonable hypothesis held by 80 percent of the respondents to a recent Times Mirror poll who think that violent entertainment is 'harmful' to society. Witness enough mined shootouts, see enough 'corpses' fall across the screen, and the taking of a human life seems no big deal. Even if a simple casual relationship cannot be established between watching violence and acting it out, is not this numbed sensitivity reason enough for cutting back on the overkill in film and TV? From: The Christian Science Monitor, April 16-22, 1993, p.20, CSPS, Boston, MA, USA.Free practice

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