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• Question 41:

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

  Ummi's husband wanted to study law but the providence chose that he study _____

  Options:
  A) commerce
  B) accounting
  C) law
  D) history
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 42: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).After the war, the visitors became increasingly vindictive Options:
  A) friendly
  B) vociferous
  C) arrogant
  D) treacherous
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 43:

  From the list of words or group of wordslettered A to D, choose the one that is mostnearest opposite in meaning to the underlined word or group of words and that will, at the same time correctly fill in the gap in the sentence.

  The economist argued that the apparently inconsequential rise in the price of petrol had a _________ effect on thecost of living

  Options:
  A) capricious
  B) frivolous
  C) dangerous
  D) bright
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 44: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.Though David's condition is serious, his life is not in immediate danger? Options:
  A) nastly
  B) hypertensive
  C) dangerous
  D) grave
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 45:

  I began work at the smithy on the Monday morning. My wages were half a crown a week. My hours were from six in the morning till six in the night, with an hour break for launch. My boss, Boeta Dick, was a tall, bent, reedy consumptive. He has a parched yellow skin, brawn tight over his jutting bones. His cheeks were so sunken it was as though he were permanently sucking them in. his eyes were far back in his head. He coughed violently, and beside his seat was a bucket of sand into which he spat. Changing the sand daily was the only part of my job I hated.

  The smithy was divided into two parts. At one end were the machines that cut, shaped, and put the tins together. The man who worked on the machines were on a regular weekly wage. At the other end, was a row of small furnaces, each with it own bellows and piles of fuel. Here, at each furnace a man sat soldering the seams of the tins as they came from machines. The solders were on piece work. To average two or three pounds a week they had to do a mountainous amount of soldering. Each solderer had a boy to cart the tins from the machines to him, then to smear the seams of each tin with sulphur powder so that the lead took easily and, after checking, to cart the tins of the yard where the Lorries collected them.

  Sulphur powder was added to Options:
  A) beautify the tin
  B) complete the manufacture
  C) strenghten the tin
  D) satisfy the boss
  E) ensure that the tins were not damaged during transportation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 46:

  Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence;

  Being an optimist, our professor always sees the bright side of most things

  Options:
  A) charming
  B) illumined
  C) brilliant
  D) pleasing
  E) cheerful
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 47:

  For these questions, choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. The Stressed syllable are written in capital letter (s):

  inoffensive

  Options:
  A) inOFfensive
  B) inoffenSIVE
  C) inofFENsive
  D) INoffensive
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 48:

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

  For their part in the unsuccessful _____ the mutineers were court - martialled

  Options:
  A) coopes
  B) coupes
  C) coupe
  D) coup
  E) coupse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 49:

  Choose the word that has a different stress pattern

  Options:
  A) calender
  B) aloud
  C) mechanic
  D) convivial
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 50: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Benjamin exclaimed, 'If it is Napoleon who said it, it must be right'? Options:
  A) Benjamin never believes what Napoleon says
  B) Benjamin does not know what is right unless Napoleon says it
  C) Napoleon always says what Benjamin believes to be right
  D) Benjamin thinks that Napoleon always says the right thing
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  The correct answer is D .