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• Question 3981: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).Everyone admired the manager's adroit handling of the crises in the company? Options:
  A) clever
  B) tactless
  C) skilful
  D) clumsy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3982:

  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.

  ...2...

  Options:
  A) modify
  B) nullify
  C) order
  D) enforce
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3983: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.These _____. must have _____. the World Bank officials? Options:
  A) analyses / attract
  B) analyses / attracted
  C) analysis / attract
  D) analysis / attracted
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3984:

  Choose the option that best answers the question from the options lettered A-D

  He travels every WEEKEND

  Options:
  A) Does he sleep every weekend?
  B) Does he wash every week days?
  C) Does he travel every month?
  D) Does he travel every day?
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3985:

  So far I have been speaking of science in its universality, viewed from the perspective of the world at large. For the context of our own country and our sister developing countries, many of the factors mentioned earlier are not very important. For example, pollution, deterioration of the environment and population explosion are not yet serious problems for us in this country.

  Let me now turn to a more specific area, namely the question of scientific choice for developing countries. There is no doubt that role which science s and technology have played in the upliftment of the material and economic well-being of the developed nation will, and does, influence the criteria that the Third World nations must choose in order to establish their science policies and priorities.

  But the criteria to be used by this nation do not have the same as those which have brought the developed countries to their present stage of evolution. For while human beings have the same problems, their solutions, to be meaningful will have to be sought within some relevant frame of reference, such as the available resources and expertise, social values, place and time in the historical scale.

  According to the passage, the basic consideration for developing science and technology should be three of the following.

  1. Technical know-how

  2. availability of raw material

  3. atmospheric pollution

  4. the people's tradition and beliefs

  5. population

  6. capital

  Options:
  A) 2,1 and 6 only
  B) 3,2 and 4 only
  C) 5,3 and 6 only
  D) 6,5 and 4 only
  E) 5,2 and 6 only
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3986:

  The words in capital letter have the emphatic stress. Choose the options to which the given sentences relate.
  I bought my WIFE a red dress

  Options:
  A) Did I buy my husband a red dress?
  B) Did I buy my wife a red shoe?
  C) Did he buy my wife a red dress?
  D) Did I buy my wife a black dress?
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3987: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The president held forth for several minutes on the need for patriotism? Options:
  A) The president was silent for some minutes when patriotism was being discussd
  B) The president whispered a few things about patriotism
  C) The president spent time saying a few things about patriots
  D) The president gave a rather long speech on the importance of patriotism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3988:

  Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options below:

  palatable

  Options:
  A) PAL—a—ta—ble
  B) pal—A—ta—ble
  C) pal—a—TA—ble
  D) pal—a—ta—BLE
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3989:

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

  National

  Options:
  A) sugar
  B) raise
  C) glass
  D) tree
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3990:

  In the question below, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  One thing I will not be complaining about in my new job is a lack of excitement.

  Options:
  A) The job is bad.
  B) The job is exciting.
  C) The job is not too exciting.
  D) The job has been previously done.
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  The correct answer is B .