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• Question 531: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.As the triumphant rebels were returning to their base they met with a serious reverse? Options:
  A) a defeat
  B) an enemy
  C) an army
  D) a victory
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 532:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap:

  The lecturer said that we _____ be able to finish the next chapter this evening

  Options:
  A) must
  B) can
  C) shall
  D) should
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 533:

  Typical Zacharia! Devil-may are and irreverent as ever. No doubt he was just the same when he was cook to a Greek trader in the town. In fact, I suspect that to him the Reverend Father is just another sort of trader. Conceited ass, thinking himself superior to the Father! And in what is he superior? Success with women perhaps? Zacharia knows that they all admire him and is always striving for still more admiration. He dresses sharply and walks in a haughty manner that suits in his tallness. And then he feeds his pride on the swarms of girls who run after him. It’s maddening to him how little you need to attract them. I remember my mother coming home from market in the town, after selling her vegetables and cocoa. How indignant she was ‘It’s so shameful, ‘she cried,’ our best-looking and most respectable girls go to town and throw themselves at strangers as ugly as sin, speaking the most outlandish tongue. Men I can scarcely look at without shuddering! And why? Just money! Money! Ah, what a world! And my father replied in a buried voice, ‘It is the times!’ ‘the times!’ shouted mother ‘can you imagine my child Ann with creatures like those?

  But perhaps the girls who chase Zacharia aren’t drawn by his tallness or his leather shoes. Perhaps they’re only after childish things, a bit of bread or a pot of jam, knowing that he’s a cook. My father often says women are like children in their desires. And after all, I too can boast a little. Plenty of women turn to look at me, especially when I’m dressed all in white! But I’m not vain enough to fuse over a little thing like that. Not like Zacharia, who doesn’t know women are simply children.

  From the passage we can conclude that the young girls were Options:
  A) attractive
  B) religious
  C) modern
  D) easily led
  E) indifferent
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 534:

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

  A cool bath in a hot weather can be truly invigorating?

  Options:
  A) debillitating
  B) devastating
  C) disgusting
  D) unpalatable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 535:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:

  We later on discovered that some members _____ another meeting before the one advertised.

  Options:
  A) were holding
  B) have held
  C) have been holding
  D) had held
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 536:

  In the question below select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence:

  You could have heard the sound if you weren't aslee.

  Options:
  A) You were not asleep so you heard the sound
  B) You were asleep so you did not hear the sound
  C) You heard the sound though you were asleep
  D) You did not hear the sound though you were not asleep
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 537:

  Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  Though Mr. Iro is our new chairman, he views other members with jaundiced eye.

  Options:
  A) He takes a rather forceful position on dealing with his members
  B) He takes an unfavourable position concerning his members
  C) He takes a sicky view of his members
  D) He takes a rather hazy view of his members
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 538:

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

  Getting a well paid job nowadays is an _____ task?

  Options:
  A) utmost
  B) upbeat
  C) uphill
  D) upfield
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 539:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

  I cannot stand Simon. I find his attitude offensive?

  Options:
  A) unapproachable
  B) obnoxious
  C) wicked
  D) unpardonable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 540:

  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 .