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• Question 1941:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:

  The instructions on the examination paper are explicit

  Options:
  A) simple
  B) ambiguous
  C) detailed
  D) definite
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1942:

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

  What bothered me about the lecture was that the speaker _____ too many irrelevant works

  Options:
  A) slighted
  B) sighted
  C) sited
  D) cited
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1943:

  In question below fill the gap with the appropriate option:

  I sent _____ news to the press yesterday

  Options:
  A) a parcel of
  B) a flash of
  C) an item of
  D) a number of
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1944:

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

  In this house, children are supposed to be in bed by ten o'clock?

  Options:
  A) just before
  B) not before
  C) about
  D) not later than
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1945:

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

  Many of the workers hired for firing the furnace had themselves fired as a result of the unfortunate accident

  Options:
  A) got themselves burned accidentally
  B) jumped into the fire themselves
  C) got themselves sacked from their jobs
  D) were sacked from there jobs
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1946:

  In the question below, choose the expression or word which best completes each sentence:

  The young lady decided to _____

  Options:
  A) do away with the many advices given by her relatives
  B) reject all the advices given by her relations
  C) take to all the advice given by her relations
  D) take to all the advices given by her relations
  E) eject all the advice given by her relatives
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1947:

  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.

  ...8...

  Options:
  A) executive
  B) judicial
  C) authoritative
  D) official
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1948:

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

  I am surprised to learn that Badmus is an agnostic?

  Options:
  A) someone that believes in God
  B) some one who antagonizes God
  C) someone who is nonchalant about the existence of God
  D) someone who does not believe in the existence of God
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1949:

  In the question bellow choose the expression or word which best completes each sentence:

  There is not doubt that every lady takes great pride _____ her appearance.

  Options:
  A) with
  B) in
  C) at
  D) on
  E) about
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1950:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  He sent the children out to play _____ he might be alone

  Options:
  A) because
  B) so that
  C) yet
  D) since
  E) while
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  The correct answer is B .