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Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

My father is one of the vociferous few challenging the company's appointment of the manager?

  • A. my father is the one who shouts with a loud voice against the appointment of the manager
  • B. My father and others speak on behalf of the company against the appointment of the manager
  • C. My father is one of those objecting to the appointment of the manager
  • D. My father is agitated by the appointment of the manager
View Answer & Discuss (4) JAMB 2008
17

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

In those days in this school, everyone who spoke in a language other than English paid a fine of ten naira?

  • A. Everyone of us paid a fine of ten naira because we did not always speak in English
  • B. Everyone would pay a fine of ten naira for wanting to use a language other than English
  • C. Those who spoke a language other than English on the premises paid a fine of ten naira
  • D. Those who intended to speak other language on the school premises were required to pay ten naira
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 2008
18

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

The officer has discussed the vexed issue of incessant power failure?

  • A. In anger the officer explained the problem of constant power failure
  • B. The officer added his voice to the much discussed problem of power cut
  • C. The officer's explanations angered those failures who have suffered the effects of frequent power failure
  • D. The officer told the people not to be angered by the frequent power cut
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 2008
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After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of the sentence is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.
It is alleged that the accountants doctored the accounts of the company. This means that the accountants

  • A. called in the company doctor
  • B. falsified the accounts
  • C. became sick on account of the bribe they received
  • D. improved the accounts of the company
View Answer & Discuss (1) WAEC 1999
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Choose from the options A to E the one that is the MOST APPROPRIATE INTERPRETATION for each of the following statements.

The house is going under the hammer. This means the house is being___________

  • A. constructed
  • B. demolished
  • C. renovated
  • D. repaired
  • E. sold
View Answer & Discuss (7) NECO 2001
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