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• Question 4071:

  Is work for prisoners a privilege to save them from the demoralizing effects and misery of endless unoccupied hour? Is it something added to a prison sentence to make it harder and more unpleasant, or something which should have a positive value as part of a system of rehabilitation?

  Those magistrates who clung to a sentence of hard labour doubtless looked upon strenuous work as an additional punishment. This point of view is widely accepted as right and proper, but it ignores the fact that unwillingness to work is often one of the immediate causes of criminality. To send prisoners back to the outside world, more than ever convinced that labour is an evil to be avoided, it to confirm them in their old way of life. It has been said that the purposed of prison work in a programme of rehabilitation is twofold: training for work and training by work. The prisoner, that is to say, needs to be trained in habits of industry; but over and above this, he will gain immeasurably if it is possible to rouse in him the consciousness of self-mastery and of purpose that the completion of any worthwhile piece of work can give to the doer. He may find the pride of achievement in something more satisfying, and more socially desirable, than crime. But these things can only come when the work itself has a purpose and demands an effort.

  What the author is trying to put across in this passage is that Options:
  A) crime does not pay
  B) prisoners should be made to work hard
  C) work is more desirable than crime
  D) life in prison is one of misery
  E) work in priso without a purpose is bad
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 4072: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).His taciturnity amazed everyone in the court during the legal tussle? Options:
  A) obliviousness
  B) sensibilty
  C) reticence
  D) pervasiveness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4073:

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

  I am yet to write the penultimate paragraph of my essay

  Options:
  A) last but one
  B) third to the last
  C) second
  D) concluding
  E) introductory
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4074:

  From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:

  If only i _____ insured! But i wasn't. Now i have to pay a lot of money

  Options:
  A) am
  B) have been
  C) had been
  D) would be
  E) was to be
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4075:

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

  In those days, an ordinary school drop-out would come around putting on airs?

  Options:
  A) trying to impress people
  B) trying to oppress people
  C) wearing flashy clothes
  D) dressed in light materials
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4076:

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

  xenophobia?

  Options:
  A) XEnophobia
  B) xeNOphobia
  C) xenoPHObia
  D) xenophoBIA
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4077:

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

  When we looked up, we _____ the plane some miles away?

  Options:
  A) site
  B) cited
  C) sited
  D) sighted
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4078:

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

  I know you've been eaves-dropping all along.

  Options:
  A) dropping gently
  B) paying attention
  C) listening secretly
  D) dropping all the leaves
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4079:

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

  The sun cast its shadow on the wall

  Options:
  A) reflection
  B) rays
  C) resemblance
  D) substance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4080:

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

  By January 1999, I _____ ten years in the service of this institution?

  Options:
  A) should have been
  B) would be
  C) can be
  D) must be
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  The correct answer is B .