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Arrange sentences A, B, C and D between sentences 1 and 6, to form a logical
sequence of six sentences.
1.
1. Women’s groups in Spain sued a Muslim imam Mohammed Mustafa.
A. The imam says he was not advising men to beat their wives.
B. His book ‘Women and Islam’ gives instructions to husbands.
C. They accused him of inciting violence towards women.
D. He advises, for example, that a beating – administered with a “fine and
light” rod – on the feet is better than one around the face because bruises
would be less visible.
6. He wanted to just tell them how to do it as a last resort, and under
strict guidelines.
a. ACDB b. BACD c. CABD d. CBDA
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2. Fire ripped through another oil pipeline in southern Nigeria, killing at
least 40 people.
A. The explosion was the third in two weeks.
B. Police were deployed to stop villagers from stealing fuel from other
pipelines.
C. Local politicians have blamed this vandalism on cartels.
D. Once the cartels have siphoned off fuel, impoverished locals move in to
collect what they can for sale to passing motorists.
6. But pipelines often explode, and the practice has left about 2,000 people
dead in the past 2 years.
a. ACBD b. ABCD c. CABD d. CBDA
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3.
Witness the marked contrast between the stability of governments in states
ruled by regional parties and those by the national parties.
A. There is no superior authority to whom the dissident MLA can go to with his
complaints.
B. Invariably, they enforce party discipline with a firm hand.
C. It is not that the former leaders are paragons of democratic virtues.
D. Yet, they are directly responsible and accountable to the legislators.
6. Looked at another way, the tendency to control from above is a reflection
only of leadership insecurities.
a. ABCD b. BDAC c. CDBA d. ABDC
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4.
1. More than 90% of the nation’s primary schools are run by government
bodies, and most of them are non – performing institutions.
A. The non – performance of our government schools is the primary reason why the
majority of their students complete four or five years of education, and still
do not acquire the literacy and numeric skills expected after the first two
years of schooling.
B. On the literacy front, we will be adding millions of illiterates, or virtual
illiterates, from these primary schools every year.
C. This is one of the main reasons why 25% of children in the primary school –
going age group 6 – 10 years, estimated at 20 million children, are not in
school.
D. What is the impact of our non – performing primary schools on our students,
the educational system and the country as a whole?
6. Since 40% of our population is illiterate, illiteracy will remain with us
well into the next century. a. CBAD b. CADB c. CDAB d. CBDA
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5.
1. The first thing that strikes you as your Airbus lands at Don Muang
Airport is the heat and the humidity.
A. Japanese tour groups, complete with Nike shoes and matching bags; huge
contingents from mainland China easily distinguishable with their obsession
with Khaki, animated Malaysians, colourful smatterings of Indonesians and
Koreans and the rest.
B. In Thailand, it is hot and humid, very hot and humid or mild and humid.
C. Many a thousand of tourists descending upon a kingdom which must boast the
most successful tourism industry in the world.
D. Almost as overwhelming is the rush of humanity as you approach the
immigration clearance area.
6. The inclement weather apart. Thailand is overstuffed with cars, choked
with auto pollution, and always in a state of flux.
a. CBAD b. CADB c. CDAB d. BDCA
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6.
India wants e – commerce transactions across countries to remain duty – free
for at least another two – three years.
A. The ITA – II aims to reduce tariffs on a range of IT items.
B. It will push for this at the World Trade Organization ministerial meet in
Seattle later this month.
C. India had opposed the ITA – II earlier on the ground that it included
certain defence items and consumer electronics not related to IT.
D. The government will however, resist pressure to sign the Information
Technology Agreement – II at Seattle.
6. Corporate representatives involved in finalizing India’s stand argue that
products covered under ITA – II are not of material export interest.
a. BDAC b. BDCA c. BCDA d. ABCD
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7. The Ibn Fadlan Manuscript represents the earliest known eyewitness
account of Viking life and society.
A. The manuscript has not, of course, survived intact over that enormous span of
time.
B. It is an extraordinary document, describing in vivid detail, events which
occurred more than a thousand years ago.
C. The original manuscript disappeared centuries ago; only partial fragments
have been preserved in later sources.
D. It has a peculiar history of its own, and one no less remarkable than that
of the text itself.
6. One of these is an Arabic geographical lexicon of the 10th century, and
another was discovered.
a. ABCD b. BCAD c. CBAD d. BADC
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8.
The study examined how a company’s ability to notice when competitors were
reacting to its strategic moves affected its performance.
A. Each team’s performance was evaluated according to its final position
relative to its four competitors.
B. Competitive decisions were made in several rounds, which allowed each team
time to analyse and interpret their rival’s reactions in the study.
C. Based on a simulation called Markstrat 2, the study placed five teams in
charge of competing companies in a hypothetical durable goods industry.
D. In other words, if you know that the competition opened the Y office in
response to your opening the X office, will you be more successful?
6. The authors of the study are professors at North-eastern and Stanford
universities.
a. DCAB b. DBCA c. DACB d. DBAC
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9.
1. Galileo challenged the centrality of earth and man in the cosmos.
A. Picasso and other modernists challenged representational art.
B. Revolutionaries are subversive, but their goal is not subversion.
C. The American colonists challenged the feudal dependencies and inherited
privileges in European society.
D. Einstein challenged Newtonian physics.
6. What the defenders of orthodoxy see as subversiveness, the champions of
new thinking see as enlightenment.
a. CADB b. DABC c. ACBD d. BACD
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10.
1. Identify the 10 or 20 most fundamental beliefs that incumbents on your
industry share.
A. But if you check in at 1 a.m. after a gruelling journey, why should you have
to check out at the same time.
B. Consider the hotel industry’s definition of a day, which begins when you
check in and ends at noon, when you must check out.
C. Also, there is no need to pay the same amount as the person who arrived at 5
the previous afternoon.
D. What new opportunities present them when you relax those beliefs?
6. If a rental company can manage a fleet of cars on a rotating 24 – hour
basis, why can’t a hotel do exactly the same with a fleet of rooms?
a. DABC b. DBAC c. BCDA d. CBAD
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