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• Question 1581:

  There is a joke in a country that the closest anyone will come to experiencing eternity is the country’s court system. The problem is a strange aversion to settling cases. Judges pass them along to somebody else and rarely dismiss lawsuits, no matter how frivolous. The country’s lower courts have a backlog of about 20 million civil and criminal cases. An additional 2.3 million cases are pending before the high courts, while the Supreme Court has about 20,000 old cases on the docket. Many of those cases will take far longer than 16 years to resolve.

  But now, experts say, the country’s new Prime Minister is committed to fixing the problem. And the judiciary itself, long criticize as insular and resistant to change, seems finally to have concluded that changes are needed. The chief Justice of the Supreme Court has declared that soon the country will reduce its massive case backlog. After that, ‘there will be no place for any corruption or indolence in the system’. His choice of words was telling. Whatever moral imperative exists, the chief reason that the country is getting serious about streaming the legal system is economic. Dysfunctional courts increase the risk of foreign investors, tortuous rules slow the rise of new enterprises and murky laws regarding land ownership and other issues stifle the growth of industries like construction and retail. The country’s business is lobbying for change; its Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, for instance, recently published a report that bemoaned the regulatory maze that confronts every commercial project, contributing to delays and cost overruns and providing one explanation why it receives only a tiny fraction of the foreign direct investment deposited in a neighbouring country. ‘Speedy judicial resolution will be one of the keys to making the country a competitive economy, conducive to growth and foreign investment,’ says an observer.

  The reasons for the country’s judicial debacle are legion. For one thing, it has fewer judges per capital than almost any other country in the world. In 2007, it had fewer than three judges per 100, 00 people. And the state itself, which account for 60 per cent of court cases, is overly litigious.

  we can infer that the neighbouring country has more foreign investments because it Options:
  A) Is a bigger country
  B) Is more conveniently located
  C) Has a better balance of payments
  D) Has a more efficient judiciary
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1582:

  Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the opposite in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:

  While most of our recently elected legislators are living a life of affluence and ostentation the vast majority of those who elected them into office are unhappy

  Options:
  A) influence
  B) pleasure
  C) poverty
  D) happiness
  E) consequence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1583:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:

  His attempts were nipped in the bud

  Options:
  A) unsuccessful
  B) cut short
  C) frustrated
  D) disqualified
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1584:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s):

  One of the rioters who _____ arrested yesterday _____ released

  Options:
  A) was/had been
  B) were/have been
  C) was/have been
  D) were/has been
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1585:

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

  It was our collective idea but Ado was doing everything to steal the show.

  Options:
  A) Ado was not part of the plainning but he tried rub us of the benefit of it
  B) We planned the show together bt Ado was trying to abort it
  C) It was a joint project but Ado is trying to attract the most attention
  D) We collated the idea for the show but Ado was trying to steal the programme
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1586:

  Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

  bushes

  Options:
  A) shapes
  B) shoes
  C) rapes
  D) rakes
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1587:

  After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of all or part of the sentences is given. Choose the interpretation that youconsider most appropriate for each sentence.

  Muiz does not let the grass grow under his feet. This means that Muiz _________

  Options:
  A) does not waste time in doing things
  B) is a very wicked man
  C) cuts the grass in his field regularly
  D) cares about himself
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1588:

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same consonant sound(s) as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

  Barge

  Options:
  A) gin
  B) guest
  C) gasp
  D) grade
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1589:

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

  The principal said that he was pleased _____ my effort.

  Options:
  A) on
  B) of
  C) with
  D) about
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1590: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).Tunde's reaction underscores the point I was making? Options:
  A) justifies
  B) emphasizes
  C) summarizes
  D) contradicts
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  The correct answer is D .