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• Question 551: The word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option that best fits the expression in the sentence.The man BOUGHT the newspaper. Options:
  A) Is this the newspaper which the man bought?
  B) Did the man read the newspaper?
  C) Who bought the newspaper?
  D) What did the man buy?
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 552:

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

  I think i'll like to reiterate the points earlier made.

  Options:
  A) withdraw
  B) change
  C) challenge
  D) repeat
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 553:

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

  Many people would always find reasons to _____ the law.

  Options:
  A) arrogate
  B) debase
  C) circumvent
  D) circumspect
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 554:

  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 555: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.The coalescence of the groups created additional problems? Options:
  A) proscription
  B) fighting
  C) disbandments
  D) union
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 556:

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

  I ran _____ an old friend of mine on Broad Street and brought him home

  Options:
  A) into
  B) to
  C) over
  D) across
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 557: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.That centre-forward was _____ consequently the goal was not disallowed? Options:
  A) in an off-side position
  B) very well positioned
  C) a brilliant player
  D) the captain of the team
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 558:

  The disease afflicting Western societies have undergone dramatic changes. In the course of a century, so many mass killers have vanished that two-third of all deaths are now associated with the disease of old age. Those who die young are more often than not, the victims of accidents, violence and suicide.

  These changes in public health are generally equated with progress and attributed to more or better medical care. In fact there is no evidence of any direct relationship between changing disease pattern and the so-called progress of medicine.

  The impotence of medical services to change life expectancy and the insignificance of much contemporary clinical care in the curing of diseases are all obvious, well documented but well suppressed.

  Neither the proportion of doctors in a population nor the quality of the clinical tools at the disposal not the number of hospital beds is a casual factor in the striking changes in disease patterns. The new techniques available to recognize and treat such conditions as pernicious anaemia and hypertension, or correct congenital malformations by surgical interventions, increase our understanding of disease but do not reduce its incidence. The fact that there are more doctors where certain diseases have become rare has little to do with their ability to control or eliminate them. It simply means that doctors, more than other professionals, determine where they work. Consequently, they tend to gather where the climate is healthy, where the water is clean and where people work and can pay for their services.

  The statement, ‘The diseases afflicting Western societies have undergone dramatic change, implies that Options:
  A) Change have taken place in the mode of diseases affliction
  B) Medical services have been important in changing life expectancy
  C) A lot of significant progress has taken place in public health
  D) Death from diseases in western societies are minimal
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 559:

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

  You are just the hat on _____.

  Options:
  A) don't you
  B) isn't it
  C) arent you
  D) not so
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 560:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined words :

  The clerk refused to answer for the mistake made by the manager and his assistants

  Options:
  A) to reply to
  B) to give an answer
  C) to explain
  D) to accept responsibility
  E) to account for
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  The correct answer is D .