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• Question 141:

  This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  Salma and her roommates were _________

  Options:
  A) A students
  B) Outstanding students
  C) B students
  D) Average students
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 142:

  The passage below has gaps numbered 11 to 20. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  Capitalism is an economic system which is founded on the principle of free enterprise and the private ownership of the means of production and distribution. The - 11 – [A. protagonists B. antagonists C. determiners D. attorneys] of capitalism claim that its essential characteristic is economic - 12- [A. exploitation B. manipulation C. manoeuvring D. freedom]. The producer is free to produce whatever goods he – 13 - [A. sells B. buys C. fancies D. manufactures]. but the - 14 – [ A. customer B. consumer C. controller D. marketer]. is equally free to buy what he wants. There is a market mechanism under this system, which brings the producer and consumer together and tends to equate the supplies of the one to the demands of the other, and -15 – [A. neutralize B. harmonize C. settle D. decide] the whims and caprice of both. It is this same - 16 – [A. market B. controlling C. operational D. production] mechanism which determines what prices the consumers pay to the producers, as what share of the total - 17- [ A. dividends B. interest C. output D. profit], in cash or kind, goes to each of the four recognized -18 – [ A. managers B. agents C. methods D. factors] of production – land, labour capital and organization. It is further claimed for this system that every person is capable of watching his or her own interest, and that whatever injustice is done by the - 19 – [A. pricing B. operations C. managers D. buyers and sellers] of the market mechanism, this mechanism tends to bring about a state of - 20 – [ A. conflict B. equidistance C. equilibrium D. opprobrium] between the producers and the consumers.

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  In the gap numbered 14 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap. Options:
  A) customer
  B) consumer
  C) controller
  D) marketer
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 143:

  Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

  Our new Vice-Chancellor has stepped off the wrong foot?

  Options:
  A) injured his foot while entering his office
  B) started off badly
  C) made a costly mistake
  D) stepped on the wrong toes
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 144:

  Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  The class has fallen in with the teacher's plans?

  Options:
  A) The class has ignored the plans
  B) The class has rejected the plans
  C) The class has accepted the plans
  D) The class has modified the plans
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 145: Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).It is _____ responsibility to look after parents in old age? Options:
  A) theirs'
  B) their
  C) theirs
  D) their's
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 146:

  Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  We should discourage further investments in existing factories?

  Options:
  A) productive
  B) prosperous
  C) prospective
  D) precious
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 147:

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

  I knocked at his door, but he _____

  Options:
  A) has already left
  B) left already
  C) would already leave
  D) had already left
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 148:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  The man drew a sword as people congregated round him?

  Options:
  A) praised
  B) gathered round
  C) mobbed
  D) fled from
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 149:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined words :

  His summary of the meeting was brief and to the point

  Options:
  A) careful
  B) precise
  C) accurate
  D) exact
  E) crucial
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 150:

  In the question below choose the word or phrase which best fills the gap in each sentence:

  James _____ reminding that not all that glitters is gold.

  Options:
  A) needs
  B) need
  C) needing
  D) need's
  E) need to
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  The correct answer is A .