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• Question 1961:

  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.

  A suitable tittle for this passage is Options:
  A) preparation for nuckear war on the third world countries
  B) possible effects of nuclear war on thirs world countries
  C) strategies for a nuclear confrontation
  D) the merits and demarits of nuclear exchange
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1962:

  Either Buntu or you ........ to go

  Options:
  A) was
  B) are
  C) has
  D) is
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1963:

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

  Before the bill could be settled, Chuwang _____ all the money

  Options:
  A) has spent
  B) will have spent
  C) had spent
  D) will have spent
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1964: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).The boxer fizzled out just in the sixth round? Options:
  A) knocked out his opponent
  B) showed off his talents
  C) became tired out fought on sppiritedly
  D) surrendered rather disappointingly
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1965:

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letters or letters underlined.

  Done

  Options:
  A) don
  B) sun
  C) clown
  D) dawn
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1966:

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

  The company director has a vivacious personality.

  Options:
  A) a positive
  B) an unmanageable
  C) an unimpressive
  D) a gregarious
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1967:

  Is work for prisoners a privilege to save them from the demoralizing effects and misery of endless unoccupied hour? Is it something added to a prison sentence to make it harder and more unpleasant, or something which should have a positive value as part of a system of rehabilitation?

  Those magistrates who clung to a sentence of hard labour doubtless looked upon strenuous work as an additional punishment. This point of view is widely accepted as right and proper, but it ignores the fact that unwillingness to work is often one of the immediate causes of criminality. To send prisoners back to the outside world, more than ever convinced that labour is an evil to be avoided, it to confirm them in their old way of life. It has been said that the purposed of prison work in a programme of rehabilitation is twofold: training for work and training by work. The prisoner, that is to say, needs to be trained in habits of industry; but over and above this, he will gain immeasurably if it is possible to rouse in him the consciousness of self-mastery and of purpose that the completion of any worthwhile piece of work can give to the doer. He may find the pride of achievement in something more satisfying, and more socially desirable, than crime. But these things can only come when the work itself has a purpose and demands an effort.

  Demoralizing in this passage means Options:
  A) deforming
  B) reforming
  C) agonizing
  D) destructive
  E) corrupting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1968:

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

  The commission was set up to enquire _____ the general conditions of child abuse in such institution

  Options:
  A) at
  B) from
  C) after
  D) before
  E) into
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1969:

  For these questions, choose the option that best complete the gap(s):

  It is impossible to say whether_______Ola and her sister will be offered jobs by the firm.

  Options:
  A) both
  B) either
  C) each
  D) neither
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1970:

  Choose the option that rhymes with the given word.

  call

  Options:
  A) dull
  B) slate
  C) wall
  D) quail
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  The correct answer is C .