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Post-UTME English Language 2009 Objective — Question 4

Question 4 of 21 from the Post-UTME Screening (Post-UTME) English Language 2009 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.

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[Passage: Alan, a friend who likes country life, is fishing in a river; the fish slips off the hook, flies over his head and lands in a field where picnickers are gathered. When they ask what he's doing, he claims fish jump out of the river to look for flies, then secretly finds his fish in the grass and shows it to them, pretending to be hunting for another.] Alan made the picnickers believe that fish jump out of the river to look for flies by

  • A. Telling a storyCorrect
  • B. Finding his trout and showing it to them
  • C. Picking up a fish and looking for more
  • D. taking them down to the river

Explanation

Alan invents and tells the picnickers a story to explain his odd behaviour.

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