Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase
1. The student’s essay was brief and to the point
A. crucial
B. accurate
C. prompt
D. precise
E. minimal 
2. This soft drink is fortified with Vitamin C
A. mixed
B. endowed
C. prepared
D. enriched
E. endow 
3. Religious fanaticism should be discouraged
A. bigotry
B. tolerance
C. extremism
D. liberalism
E. determination

Young people have strong passions, and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it 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 desires, which are  violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted, and are like sick people’s attacks of hunger and thirst...
4. The statement ‘nature warms their blood as though with excess of wine’, as used in the context means
A. act with considerable confidence and trust
B. respond with suspicion and alertness
C. behave shamelessly like a drunkard
D. move with care and self-control

5. A sum of money invested at 5% per annum simple interest amounts to £285.20 after 3 years. How long will it take the same sum to amount to £434.00 at 7 ½ % per annum simple interest?
A. 14 years
B. 12 years
C. 10 years
D. 5 years
6. A housewife bought 3kg of garri at N13.00 per kg. She deposited N160.00 for half a cow and bought 24 apples at 10k each. She came back home with N20.60, she therefore left home with
A. N201.40
B. N220.00
C. N222.00
C. N222.00
D. N180.80

7. If the price of a car fell from N280,000 to n200,000. Find the percentage decrease? A. 26.57%
B. 27.57%
C. 28.57%
D. 29.5%
E. 30.57%
8. A man borrowed N16,000 for 1 year and paid back N18,000. Express the interest paid as a percentage of the principal?
A. 1.25%
B. 11.25%
C. 12.5%
D. 13.5%
E. 2.5%