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• Question 2191:

  In 1973, Japanese sericulturists arrived in Malawi with a batch of 40000 silkworm eggs. They were taken to the Bvumbwe Agricultural Research Station in Thyolo District. In this station, work is being done to determine the favourable silkworm rearing conditions and areas where Mulberry trees whose leaves the worms feed on, could grow well. According to researchers, the silkworms which eventually develop into cocoons from which raw silk is produced do well in areas with warm climatic conditions.

  Silk is one of the strongest of the fibres. In fact, for thousands of years, silk fabrics have been regarded as the most beautiful and durable materials woven by man. Many people call silk “the cloth of kings and queens”.

  The weaving of silk originated in China. An old Chinese book, believed to be written by Confucius, tells us the wife of Emperor Huangi-ti was the first person to make fabrics of silk. Around 2640 B.C, Emperor Huangi-ti asked his wife His Ling-shih to study the worms that were destroying the mulberry trees in his garden. The Empress took some of the cocoons. She picked up the gauzy mass and found that one of the threads could be unwound almost without end from the cocoon. His Ling-shih had discovered silk! She was delighted with the discovery and even wove a ceremonial robe for the Emperor out of the cocoon threads. After that, the officials in the Emperor’s court wore brightly dyed robes on important occasions.

  People in other countries regarded the new fibres as something rare and beautiful. A few traders went to China to learn about making cloth from silk, but the Chinese kept their Silk worms a closely guarded secret.

  The work carried out at the Agricultural Research Station in Malawi on the silkworm egg was to

  Options:
  A) Try to breed cocoons which would produce more silk
  B) Determine the survival rate of silkworms
  C) Find out the most suitable areas and conditions for rearing silkworms.
  D) Find out how cocoons become silkworms.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2192: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) Underlined:Adah has not been regular at lectures because she has been off colour Options:
  A) gloomy
  B) trying to hide her bleached skin
  C) slightly sick
  D) upset
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2193:

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

  Good student can easily identify spurious arguments?

  Options:
  A) genuine
  B) interesting
  C) false
  D) illogical
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2194:

  Choosing the word or phrase from A to E which has the same meaning as the underlined word or words in each sentence:

  When a man is immune to an illness, he is

  Options:
  A) opposed to it
  B) attached to it
  C) hated by it
  D) protected against it
  E) addicted to it
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2195: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined: What he received from the visitors was invaluable Options:
  A) priceless
  B) worthless
  C) valueless
  D) costly
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2196:

  Fill in the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

  The students in my junior class seem to have performed _____ they did last year

  Options:
  A) as brilliant as
  B) more brilliant than
  C) as brilliantly
  D) brilliantly than
  E) same brilliantly as
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2197:

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

  Employees have been urged to desist from witch-hunting and character assassination

  Options:
  A) commanded to stop hunting witches
  B) ordered to stop assassinating witches
  C) entreated not to accuse individuals unjustly and malicious
  D) informed to resist witch-hunters and character assassins
  E) urged to desist from barbaric acts
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2198: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).Tsadu always cautions that difficult jobs should be done _____? Options:
  A) step from step
  B) step by step
  C) steps after steps
  D) steps by steps
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2199:

  Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  The director is to liaise _____ the management _____ corporate matters?

  Options:
  A) with / in
  B) in / on
  C) with / on
  D) on / with
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2200:

  The Save the Children Fund (SCF) was first started in London on 19th May, 1919 by an English woman named Miss Jebb. It is now a worldwide organization, dedicated to helping needy children everywhere. The SCF of Malawi was formed in 1953, under the patronage of His Excellency the Life President Ngawazi Dr. H. Kamuzi Banda. “Our job in Malawi is to give those unfortunate children the rights that are deprived of through no fault of theirs. These are internationally recognized as the ten rights of children and includes protection, care, food and accommodation, and relief, a spokesman for the Fund explained.

  One of those who benefited from the help of the Fund is Samuel Mpetechula, a graduate of Chancellor. His sponsorship started in 1967. The SCF of Malawi found him sponsors. They were Mr. and Mrs. Sutton of Australia who paid is school fees and continued to help him financially throughout his University education. Mr. Mpetechula said, ‘They even built a house for me at home and looked after my family while I was a student. They were really helpful to me, and the thought that there were these sponsors caring, for me from thousands of kilometres away from here was an encouragement for me to work hard at college.

  Another important function of the work of the SCF is in the field of nutrition. With the help of the Australian Government, the SCF established two nutrition rehabilitation centres for children; one at Mpemba and another in Mulanje’. The object of the Centre’s, explained Mr. Petre Chimbe, the Executive Secretary of the Fund, ‘is to combat malnutrition in children, by giving them the proper food’ .

  Deprived of means Options:
  A) spared
  B) prevented from getting
  C) robbed of
  D) unable to take
  E) snatched from
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  The correct answer is B .