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• Question 3291: Choose the option that best complete the gap. Those _____ are very beautiful. Options:
  A) Flowers of ours.
  B) Flowers of her.
  C) Flowers of her's.
  D) Our flowers.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3292:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  Ife asked me _____ ?

  Options:
  A) what time it was
  B) what is it by my time
  C) what time is it
  D) what time it is
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3293:

  In this question, choose the option nearest in meaning to the bold and underlined word(s) or phrase.

  Janet will not attend the dinner party tonight. She is afraid of her own shadow

  Options:
  A) Attending another party
  B) Not in the mood
  C) Scared of imaginary things
  D) Unhappy with his assigned role
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3294:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  The world bank team which visited the land-lock country _____ a bleak economic future for it

  Options:
  A) forecast
  B) thought of
  C) discovered
  D) prophesied
  E) projected
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3295:

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

  The expected guest eventually arrived _____ his wife?

  Options:
  A) in company with
  B) in company of
  C) by company of
  D) accompanied with
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3296:

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

  Ator led a dog's life for twenty years he stayed in the United Kingdom

  Options:
  A) lived a dirty life
  B) was promiscuous
  C) was domesticated
  D) led an unhappy and troubled life
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3297:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  Yesterday in the hall, Ola said that _____ his watch?

  Options:
  A) he had mislaid
  B) he had forgot
  C) he has misplaced
  D) he have lost
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3298:

  Choose from the option the word that has the same consonant sound as the represented by the letter(s) underlined.Past?

  Options:
  A) wrestle
  B) preached
  C) castle
  D) pasture
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3299:

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

  We have to identify the protagonists of the new movement

  Options:
  A) enemies
  B) leading figures
  C) oponents
  D) believers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3300:

  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.

  ...5...

  Options:
  A) plaintiff
  B) attorney
  C) defendant
  D) litigant
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  The correct answer is D .