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• Question 1171: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined: The term has become indomitable quite recently Options:
  A) incorrigible
  B) disobedient
  C) unconquerable
  D) unruly
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1172:

  Choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s).

  The pastor asked the women to _________ their hearts to God in prayers.

  Options:
  A) Bare
  B) Bear
  C) Bar
  D) Barrr
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1173:

  Choose the best option that best completes the gap(s):

  Snakes and ladders always _____ me happy these days.

  Options:
  A) makes
  B) make
  C) made
  D) making
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1174:

  The evidence given so far demonstrates that a nuclear exchange in the Northern Hemisphere would have an unavoidable global aftermath making the continued existence of mankind impossible anywhere. It is also very improbable that a nuclear exchange would be confined exclusively to the vicinity of the industrialized developments indicate that a nuclear disaster would be carried into the territories of the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These developments include the preparations being made by aggressive forces for the armed seizure of the Middle East oil fields, the nuclear missile deployment in the south of Western Europe, the establishment of military bases for the rapid deployment of forces in North Africa and the Indian Ocean and the tensions in the south Atlantic and the Caribbean.

  According to the author, current world development points to Options:
  A) an exclusive destruction of the developing countries
  B) a likely spread of nuclear calamity to the third world countries
  C) nuclear excxhange taking place in africa, asia and latin america
  D) a confrontation between the industrialized and the developing countries
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1175:

  Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. The stressed syllable are written in capital letters(s).

  satisfactory?

  Options:
  A) satisfacTORY
  B) saTISfactory
  C) SATisfactory
  D) satisFACtory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1176:

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that rhymes with the given word.

  Tenderly

  Options:
  A) actually
  B) slenderly
  C) faithfully
  D) constantly
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1177:

  Choose the word that best completes the following sentence:

  I really like working in that office: I find the _____ very friendly.

  Options:
  A) condition
  B) atmosphere
  C) air
  D) situation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1178:

  Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before the discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. He discovered that the firebrand, from which the torch may well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.

  Lamps too probably developed by accident. Early man may had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twing or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps which were made of hollow stones or sea-shells have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

  Primitive man preserved fire because Options:
  A) he used it for illumination during his travels
  B) his method of making fire was labourious
  C) he wanted to discover how to make a lamp
  D) he wanted to develop the torch
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1179: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).In spite of Shade's good looks, her hair is always _____ ? Options:
  A) unkept
  B) unkempt
  C) unwashed
  D) uncleaned for
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1180:

  Complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:

  I started writing this test at 8 : 00 a.m It is 10 : 00 a.m now. By 11 : 00 a.m. I _____ it for three hours

  Options:
  A) shall be writing
  B) have been writing
  C) shall have been writing
  D) am writing
  E) was writing
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  The correct answer is C .