Jamb English Online CBT Practice

The site which have been chosen was cleared and ____ engaged to start work on main function of which the most important process was pouring the concrete.

COMPREHENSION

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follow.

Chike must have passed the house five times. And yet
he was still not sure. Was this the house he had visited so often
in the past? The house he used to visit was a bungalow. This
house, too, was a bungalow. The old house wassituated between
two-storeyed building: this one too was so situated. But in spite
of this feeling of certainty, chike had a vague suspicion that the
house he had passed so often that day might be the wrong
house after all. Could an absence of two years have blurred his
memory so badly?

After a few moments€™ hesitation, Chike began to move
towards the house and then stopped, as if held back by an
invisible hand. His attention had been attracted by a girl of
about twenty-four, who was tripping along the pavement to his
right. He turned and advanced towards her, and was about to
call her bywhat he felt was her name when he discovered that he
had made a mistake in respect of her identity.

Just as Chike turned from the girl to continue his quest,
he heard voices shouting, €˜thief! thief!€™ and saw a crowd
materialize in seconds. At the head of thisjustice-impelled rabble,
was a ludicrously fat woman who, in spite of her size, bounced
along with the agility of a prize athlete. This barrel bellowed
loudest and clapped her hands vigorously to punctuate her
outburst. And as she did so the surplusflesh on her pudgy arms
quivered. €˜They are all the same€™, this woman screamed,
addressing nobody in particular. €˜they dress gorgeously, but
underneath they are rogues.€™

Again, she clapped her hands and again, there was a
quivering of loose flesh. Chike was so busily occupied with
watching the antics of this woman that he did not notice at first
that the object of her venom was the girl he had seen earlier. It
was this girl that was now surrounded by the crowd, with many
people groaning. Sighing and hissing in unison.
Chike relaxed, and prepared towatch the drama unfolding
before him.

Very soon the building took _____ and the roof was on in no time. The wood work done by a set of very fine competent carpenters was intricately interwoven, and the louvre windows added extra beauty to the new block, whose exterior walls look most striking after the second coating had been put on

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My hometown is situated in a valley that is completely encircled by hills. Old people say that in the past, lions used to roam around outside the town. I am glad they have been killed before I was born. It is a large town in which many people live. You need to climb the hills on which the new hotel has been built so that you can see how large it is. You will be able to see how many schools, hospitals, churches, and mosques we have. But I am sure you will not be able to count the thousands of mud bricks, corrugated iron-roofed house in which most of the town's people live and by which the big modern buildings are surrounded. Of course, nowadays, many houses are built of cement blocks and have asbestos roofs. I do not know if the new style of building looks better than the old. It certainly last much longer.

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I despise the way she lived her life.

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Measures were taken to authenticate the number of the booklets received.

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Mula was told that if he behaved badly he would go to bed without any supper

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My hometown is situated in a valley that is completely encircled by hills. Old people say that in the past, lions used to roam around outside the town. I am glad they have been killed before I was born. It is a large town in which many people live. You need to climb the hills on which the new hotel has been built so that you can see how large it is. You will be able to see how many schools, hospitals, churches, and mosques we have. But I am sure you will not be able to count the thousands of mud bricks, corrugated iron-roofed house in which most of the town's people live and by which the big modern buildings are surrounded. Of course, nowadays, many houses are built of cement blocks and have asbestos roofs. I do not know if the new style of building looks better than the old. It certainly last much longer. Our house is made of mud bricks and is roofed with corrugated iron.

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The smell is obnoxious

Many people have raised the issued about the need for an equitable distribution of our wealth

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My friend was reduced to beggary by various ill advised business deals.

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Many Nigerian have inured themselves to hardship..

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Our house is made of mud bricks and is roofed with corrugated iron. The family compound in which it stand is surrounded by a neat wall. Indeed, the whole town is kept very neat and clean; that is one of the reasons why I like it. And I love the near-by hills from which there are beautiful views of the surrounding country. These are some of the reasons why I like my hometown; but above all I like it because my family is there.

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The grave danger that alcohol abuses pose to human health and well-being has been highlighted by the world health organisation (WHO) which recently disclosed that abuse of the substance causes nearly 4% more deaths than the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome(AIDS) and tuberculosis worldwide.

The global body that 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 drinkingis a problem in many developed countries. The organisation decried the failure of most governments to institute strong alcohol 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 organisation's call for privatisation of alcohol control policies as come at a time when government all over the world need information and support to reduce alcohol consumption.

There are many areas of convergence between male and female behaviour.

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The grave danger that alcohol abuses pose to human health and well-being has been highlighted by the world health organisation (WHO) which recently disclosed that abuse of the substance causes nearly 4% more deaths than the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome(AIDS) and tuberculosis worldwide.

The global body that 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 drinkingis a problem in many developed countries.

The organisation decried the failure of most governments to institute strong alcohol 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 organisation's call for privatisation of alcohol control policies as come at a time when government all over the world need information and support to reduce alcohol consumption.

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The cleaner resigned from his job which he said had become a trivial round.