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• Question 571:

    ADUKE: Listen my fellow women. The issue has little to do with being literate or not. It is true that most members of NAM (New Awareness Movement) are literate, but this does not make all of us enlightened. We must be able to draw a line between the two. You may be literate and yet possess a consciousness that is decadent and servile. On the other hand you may not have received formal education and yet may be the greatest exponent of progressive ideas.

    HASANA: I agree with what our sister has said. Let us not allow ourselves to be divided by a greedy and an inflated notion of the certificates we possess. In this century, as we march towards the year 2000, our primary concern should be how best to improve the lot of womanhood in our society. Let us not forget that for each woman who is beaten up by her man for flimsy reasons are status of all of us here is downgraded. For each woman who is insulted for no reason than that of her sex, every one of us here is spat on in the face. For each woman who is denied opportunities in the society simply because she is a woman, the whole lot of us are dehumanized. Each widow in this society is an everywoman, and the lot of each of us should be viewed as collective. Each rotten egg that is thrown at anyone of us is an eternal splash of dirt on our faces. Each decayed tomato that is cast at her is a collective curse on our fecundity: each pebble thrown at her, a missile against our womanhood. This is an age of awareness, and it is the duty of NAM to collectively rise in defence of the right of women.

    IME: We can no longer allow ourselves to be fried alive. We are going to squeeze ourselves into tight-fitting trousers, register into judo classes, and then file out into the street and punch the face of every man we behold.

  The speech of Hasana implies that Options:
  A) It is the practice to throw rotten eggs at women
  B) It is the practice to cast decayed tomatoes at women
  C) To throw rotten egg and decayed tomatoes at women is to reduce their fecundity
  D) To throw rotten eggs and decayed tomatoes at women is dehumanizing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 572:

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

  All we need is a concerted effort to combat the epidemic

  Options:
  A) persistent
  B) dramatic
  C) joint
  D) concentrated
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 573:

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

  I shuddered in revulsion as i watched the snake slowly swallow the struggling rat?

  Options:
  A) was fascinated
  B) was repelled
  C) was interested
  D) was distressed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 574:

  This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  Who can be described as meddlesome?

  Options:
  A) Daddy
  B) Ummi
  C) Bint
  D) Bint's Social Studies teacher
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 575:

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

  The trader _____ his wares at the trade fair?

  Options:
  A) exhibited
  B) displayed
  C) spread
  D) demonstrated
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 576:

  One fact that we have to complement is that, in our unconscious mind, we cannot distinguish between a wish and a deed. We are all aware of some of our illogical dreams in which two completely opposite statements can exist side by side – very acceptable in our dreams but unthinkable and illogical in our waking state. Just as our unconscious mind cannot differentiate between the wish to kill somebody in anger and the act of having done so, the young child is unable to make this distinction. The child who angrily wishes his mother to drop dead for not having gratified his needs will traumatized greatly by the actual death of his mother – even if this event is not linked closely in the time with his destructive wishes. He will always take part of or the whole of the blames for the loss of his mother. He will always say to himself - rarely to others - I did it. I am responsible. I was bad, therefore mummy left me. ‘It is well to remember that the child will react in the same manner if he loses a parent by divorce, separation or desertion.

  Death is often seen by a child as an impermanent thing and has therefore little distinction from a divorce which he may have an opportunity to see the parent again.

  This passage emphasizes Options:
  A) child growing up in ignorance
  B) our unconcious mind
  C) a child's inability to distinguish between dream and reality
  D) illogical dreams
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 577:

  Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the option. The syllables are written in capital letters.

  catholicism?

  Options:
  A) caTHOlicism
  B) catholiCIsm
  C) CAtholicism
  D) cathoLIcism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 578:

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

  Jane and Jarawa love …. very much.

  Options:
  A) Themselves
  B) Each other
  C) One another
  D) Theirselves
  E) Each others
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 579:

  For these questions, choose the option that have the same consonant sound as the ones represented by the letter (s) underlined

  tasked

  Options:
  A) bagged
  B) floored
  C) laughed
  D) shouted
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 580:

  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 .