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-.
In question numbered 95 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.
In question numbered 98 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.
In question numbered 99 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.
In question numbered 100 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.
In the following passages, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the passage below, four options are offered in columns lettered A to D. Choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passages.
Jide bought his car last year and now there is the need to renew the -76-. The first time he went to Mr. Olumide, the -77-, he was advised to -78- a -79- rather than a -80- cover. Mr Olumide had carefully explained the merits and demerits of both types, which included the fact that one was far more -81- than the other.
Now Jide has cause to smile because of his entitlement to a no-claim -82- Being a careful owner-driver, he had not been involved in any -83- during the period. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for his friend, Jackson, whose car was a total -84- after a -85- with a truck. He could not even make any claim for -86-, because he was not -87- at all
Jackson's experience clearly points to the need for insurance -88- to educate prospective -89- on the benefits of insurance.
The persistent fuel -90- in the country paralysed all aspects of life, especially in the cities. The streets were often -91- of the usual hustle and -92- that characterized city life. A visitor might erroneously think it was a public holiday until he came near a -93-. There he would find long -94- of haphazardly parked vehicles waiting to buy the non-existent fuel from the idle -95-.
Another look at the bus stops would reveal groups of people anxiously trying to get to their places of work. Even car owners used the few -96- buses, the drivers of which had increased the -97- by anything from 100 to 500 percent.
Though this could be very annoying, -98- should not blame the drivers for the -99- rates because the drivers had to pay through the nose to procure fuel at the -100-.
In question numbered 77 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.
