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• Question 2011:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  When they examined his body, they found that he _____ ?

  Options:
  A) had been dead
  B) had been dying
  C) died
  D) was dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2012:

  CHOOSE THE OPTION THAT IS NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE WORD(S) IN BRACKET, FOR QUESTIONS below.

  These policies have been [espoused] by the ruling party

  Options:
  A) condemned
  B) rejected
  C) supported
  D) outlined
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2013:

  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.

  ...7...

  Options:
  A) power
  B) strength
  C) dynamism
  D) might
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2014:

  Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five option:

  By the end of the next semester he _____ his University education

  Options:
  A) would have completed
  B) will be completing
  C) shall have completed
  D) was completing
  E) must complete
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2015:

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

  Funnily enough, the priest prayed for the robber who shot him

  Options:
  A) Timidly
  B) Unexpectedly
  C) Disappointingly
  D) Fearlessly
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2016:

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

  The doctor examined the patient painstakingly?

  Options:
  A) carefully
  B) perfunctorily
  C) professionally
  D) painfully
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2017:

  Choose the option that best complete the gap (s):

  The philanthropist devoted himself _______the poor.

  Options:
  A) by helping
  B) to be helping
  C) to helping
  D) in helping
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2018: Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.The police came early enough to _____ the bomb planted by the rioters. Options:
  A) diffuse
  B) insulate
  C) detonate
  D) defuse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2019:

  Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.

  If you would do me this favour, I ______ be very grateful?

  Options:
  A) should
  B) would
  C) shall
  D) will
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2020:

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

  To most people last Christmas was an austere period

  Options:
  A) prosperous
  B) harsh
  C) severe
  D) sour
  E) stern
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  The correct answer is A .