For the working woman, after the task of looking after the home and -76- up the children is not easy. Although the house may have every modern -77-, there is still much -78- to keep her -79- cooking, cleaning,mending, washing and ironing. If she is lucky to have a -80- help, her task is made somehow easier.

The working woman spends much of her income on beauty care. Share buys a lot of -81- and visits -82- regularly. Most women are so occupied with the daily -83- that they need these things to -84- themselves up.

Thus the responsibilities of a -85- are quite demanding and she could be so busy as to have little time for -86- engagements.

For fixed fees, insurance companies will help a firm insure against -87- and provide some -88- Most firms will seek -89- against fire, fraud and other -90- happenings for which they pay annual -91- to the insurance companies. The payments will vary according to the -92- to be -93- some of these happenings may be -94- sustained during work or -95- business debts. A -96- number is given to the insured for proper -97- if you have just bought a new car, it is advisable to undertake a -98- policy than a -99-, for more risks are covered in the former than in the -100-.

In the following passages, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below each passage, four options are given in columns lettered A to D. Choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.

PASSAGE A:
For thousands of years, man lived in a very primitive way. Before the recent -77- in agriculture, medicine and industry, life was difficult. It was hard to -78- a living from the -79- without modern farming -80-, and a single year of crop -81- could mean famine and therefore death. Illnesses as -82- and as -83- as influenza could kill a Stone Age man weakened by hunger; appendicitis was always -84- before the days of modern -85-. Even childbirth was a hazardous process. Under these conditions, the human race needed to -86- at a high -87- just to keep in existence.

However, with a sharp fall in the -88- rate relative to the -89- the world's population is now increasing very rapidly. This increase needs to be put in -90-to avoid the looming consequence of population -91-.

PASSAGE B:
When my elder brother decided to -92- a current account with United Bank for Africa, he walked into one of its -93- and obtained the necessary -94- which he completed and returned to the -95-. He was then given paying in -96-. Soon, he started issuing -97- to people with whom he transacted business. Whenever his signature was irregular, his cheque was not -98- Once, he wanted to obtain a -99- and the bank insisted on -100-.