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The passage below has gaps. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.
PASSAGE IV
With the most profound respect to the members of the Senate, I do not think that it is within the competence of that ...1... body to pass a motion to ...2... the executive action of the President. The Senate is ...3... of the National Assembly. But it is not by itself alone the National Assembly. One can imagine the confusion, which would be created if the ...4... were to take a view diametrically opposed to that reflected in the Senate resolution. The strongest objection to the action of the Senate in passing the resolution is the fact that it constituted itself the ...5... as well as the judge of the constitutionality of the action of the President. The function of the Senate is to ...6... laws. But the Senate has no authority or ...7... to control the President in the exercise of his ...8... powers. It cannot by a mere resolution or motion give any directive to the President regarding the exercise of his powers nor can it undo what the President has done in the exercise of those powers. The only way in which the exercise of the powers of the President can be ...9... is by ...10... of the National Assembly.
Adapted from The Guardian of July 8, 1999, p. 8.
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Options:In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fills the gap(s):
The quarrel has got to a stage where someone has to _____
Options:This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.
According to Salma, No man was worthy to be called a man except ____
Options:The word in capital letters has an emphatic stress, Choose the option that best fits the expression in the sentence?
The fire destroyed MANY lives?
Options:Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word.
The lady was completely nonplussed when her suitor rejected her gifts?
Options:In many places in the world today, the poor are getting poorer while the rich are getting richer and the programmes of development planning and foreign aid appear to be unable to reverse this trade. Nearly all the developing countries have a modern sector, where the pattern of living and working are similar to those in developed countries. But they also have a non-modern sector where the patterns of living and working are not only unsatisfactory but in many cases are even getting worse.
What is the typical condition of the poor in developing countries? Their work opportunities are so limited that they cannot work their way out of their situation. They are underemployed or totally unemployed. When they do find occasional works, their productivity is extremely low. Some of them have land but often too little land. Many have no land and no prospect of ever getting any. There is no hope for them in the rural areas and so, they drift into the big cities. But there is no work for them in the big cities either-and of course no housing. All the same, they flock into cities because their chances of finding some work appear to be greater there than in the village, where they are nil. Rural unemployment then produces mass migration into cities, rural unemployment becomes urban unemployment.
The problem can be stated quite simply: what can be done to promote economic growth outside the big cities, in the small towns and villages which still contain 80 to 90% of the total population? The primary need is workplace, literally millions of workplaces.
The expression 'work their way out of their situation' means Options:From the words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences.
Mr Cham will never tell you everything, he is very ________
Options:Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The weather was still very heavy and sultry.
Options:Choose the correct word to fill the space in the following sentences:
Every time you pay a bill you must insist _____ being given a receipt
Options:Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence;
The state government appointed a commission of inquiry to go into the community's complaints carefully and without prejudice
Options: