Year : 
2008
Title : 
English Language
Exam : 
WASSCE/WAEC MAY/JUNE

Paper 1 | Objectives

81 - 90 of 96 Questions

# Question Ans

In the following passages the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the below each passage, 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.

One of the indicators of -76- under development in this country is the backward state of the transport sector. This is typified by the poor state of the railway -77-. In advanced countries, commuter trains carry passengers from city and within suburbs. The -78- train goes a lot faster connecting major cities and even states; such trains have -79 only.
In the intra- city trains, it is only shelter and seats that are provided. There are no -80-. In some cases, and because of the long hours of service of inter-city or inter-state trains, -81- and -82- are available in addition to coaches.
Apart from the very fast electric trains, there are passenger trains that are -83- powered. There are others that use coal or steam as -84-. Some trains offer -85- services, transporting goods. Such trains stop at specific -86- to deliver goods or to refuel. Most trains have -87- to push or pull them to prevent them from turning around.
It is interesting to watch a modern-88- spring up and get completed in a matter of months. A few months ago, a building company brought some -89- to the virgin forest next to our school. The trees were -99-, the ground was cleared and -91-, and the workers brought out various -92- with which they measured a marked the -93-. Then the -94- was dug and the -95- were brought from somewhere else -96- was made from a mixture of sand cement and water, and the walls grew before our very eyes. Before the end of the second month, we realized it was not going to be a -97- but a storeyed building. The -98- was cast in only one day by the workers who -99- for the whole day. Thereafter things moved even faster. By the end of the third month, the whole -100- was in place.

81.

In question numbered 85 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. freight

B. delivery

C. postal

D. courier

D

82.

In question numbered 86 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. checkpoints

B. duty-posts

C. stations

D. centres

C

83.

In question numbered 87 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. gadgets

B. locomotives

C. compasses

D. bearings

C

84.

In question numbered 88 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. construction

B. building

C. erection

D. fabrication

B

85.

In question numbered 89 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. trailers

B. bull-dozers

C. tractors

D. machines

B

86.

In question numbered 90 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. felled

B. pulled

C. cut

D. broken

A

87.

In question numbered 91 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. levelled

B. paved

C. demolished

D. destroyed

A

88.

In question numbered 92 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. apparatus

B. items

C. machinery

D. equipment

D

89.

In question numbered 93 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. plan

B. trenches

C. ground

D. space

C

90.

In question numbered 94 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. base

B. foundation

C. pavement

D. guitter

B

In the following passages the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the below each passage, 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.

One of the indicators of -76- under development in this country is the backward state of the transport sector. This is typified by the poor state of the railway -77-. In advanced countries, commuter trains carry passengers from city and within suburbs. The -78- train goes a lot faster connecting major cities and even states; such trains have -79 only.
In the intra- city trains, it is only shelter and seats that are provided. There are no -80-. In some cases, and because of the long hours of service of inter-city or inter-state trains, -81- and -82- are available in addition to coaches.
Apart from the very fast electric trains, there are passenger trains that are -83- powered. There are others that use coal or steam as -84-. Some trains offer -85- services, transporting goods. Such trains stop at specific -86- to deliver goods or to refuel. Most trains have -87- to push or pull them to prevent them from turning around.
It is interesting to watch a modern-88- spring up and get completed in a matter of months. A few months ago, a building company brought some -89- to the virgin forest next to our school. The trees were -99-, the ground was cleared and -91-, and the workers brought out various -92- with which they measured a marked the -93-. Then the -94- was dug and the -95- were brought from somewhere else -96- was made from a mixture of sand cement and water, and the walls grew before our very eyes. Before the end of the second month, we realized it was not going to be a -97- but a storeyed building. The -98- was cast in only one day by the workers who -99- for the whole day. Thereafter things moved even faster. By the end of the third month, the whole -100- was in place.

81.

In question numbered 85 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. freight

B. delivery

C. postal

D. courier

D

82.

In question numbered 86 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. checkpoints

B. duty-posts

C. stations

D. centres

C

83.

In question numbered 87 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. gadgets

B. locomotives

C. compasses

D. bearings

C

84.

In question numbered 88 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. construction

B. building

C. erection

D. fabrication

B

85.

In question numbered 89 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. trailers

B. bull-dozers

C. tractors

D. machines

B

86.

In question numbered 90 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. felled

B. pulled

C. cut

D. broken

A

87.

In question numbered 91 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. levelled

B. paved

C. demolished

D. destroyed

A

88.

In question numbered 92 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. apparatus

B. items

C. machinery

D. equipment

D

89.

In question numbered 93 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. plan

B. trenches

C. ground

D. space

C

90.

In question numbered 94 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap.

A. base

B. foundation

C. pavement

D. guitter

B