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• Question 331:

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

  The speaker took his audience down memory lane before he went to the topic of his lecture

  Options:
  A) Took his audience on a journey through a street called memory lane
  B) recalled events from the past
  C) told a tale about a place called memory lane
  D) gave an outline of his lecture
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 332:

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

  The lecture was merely obfuscating the issue with his endless examples

  Options:
  A) complicating
  B) clarifying
  C) confusing
  D) summarizing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 333:

  Read the Passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

  The term Mass Communication occurs when information is disseminated to a relatively large number of people in different places. it should be seen as the same thing with talking face to face with someone else. With mass communication, there is no answer, smile, laugh or lock of surprise. the people who receive the message are as far away from the source of the message as far away as you are from the announcers on the radio or from the newscasters on television, or from the writer of a column in the local newspaper.

  There are three identifiable means of errors in mass communication. There is one done through the printed words, books, magazine and newspapers. The other is primarily radio, but also records and tape recordings. Also, it can be done through a combination of sound and pictures as in television, films and the more recently popular video tape.

  Together, they are referred to as the mass media.

  All media can be used to inform and entertain. However, there are coverts roles played. It may be to educate as in school broadcast. Again, the aim may be to persuade as when the media are used by advertisers or for political broadcasts. The media are often in strong position to influence public opinion because they select the topics to be presented and can stress the importance of one issue over the other.

  The mass media have, in recent times, come under acerbic criticism. Many presenters have become not only conscientized but also immensely concerned about the possible effects that science of violence and bad behavior may have on their children. More worrisome are the potential danger of political and commercial propaganda.

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  One of the following is NOT true in the passage

  Options:
  A) Mass communication don't talk
  B) Mass communication don't personalize discourse
  C) Mass media determine what the public gets to know
  D) All of the above
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 334:

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

  The telephone _____ in the nineteenth century and is now used in most countries in the world

  Options:
  A) had been invented
  B) was invented
  C) would have been invented
  D) has been invented
  E) was being invented
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 335:

  For these questions, choose the option that best complete the gap(s):

  It is impossible to say whether_______Ola and her sister will be offered jobs by the firm.

  Options:
  A) both
  B) either
  C) each
  D) neither
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 336:

  Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it

  All over the world till lately, and in most of the world still today, mankind has been following the course of nature, that is to say, it has been breeding up to the maximum. To let nature take her extravagant course in the reproduction of the human race may have made sense in an age in which we were also letting her take her course in decimating mankind by the casualties of war, pestilence and famine. Being human, we have at last revolted against that senseless waste. We started to impose on nature’s heartless play a humane new order of our own. But, when once man has begun to interfere with nature, he cannot afford to stop half way. We cannot, with impunity, cut down the death-rate and at the same time allow the birth-rate to go on taking nature’s course. we must consciously try to establish an equilibrium or, sooner or later, famine will stalk abroad again

  'we must consciously try to establish an equilibrium, (line 8)implies that mankind must Options:
  A) realistically find an equation
  B) strive not to be wasteful
  C) delibrately try to fight nature
  D) try to fight nature
  E) purposely find a balance
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 337: Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.Mischief Options:
  A) Christmas
  B) ritual
  C) brochure
  D) champagne
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 338:

  complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:

  Could i ring him up? I'd rather you _____

  Options:
  A) visit him
  B) visited him
  C) would visit him
  D) visiting him
  E) will visit him
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 339:

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

  When the man lost his two sons in a motor accident, he cracked up

  Options:
  A) became broken-hearted
  B) became inconsolable
  C) became slightly deranged
  D) became temperamental
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 340:

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

  He was reported _____ the policeman

  Options:
  A) to be assualting
  B) to assault
  C) assualting
  D) to have assualted
  E) to have been assaulted
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  The correct answer is D .