Scientific psychology recognises ----( I )----truth that no two individuals are----( II )----in this world----( III )----equality is a fostered norm of civil society, the truth is that men----( IV )----unequals in----( V )----hues or degrees
Choose the best word in place of ( II ) from the given passage
Answer: A
Correct answer: alike
The sentence says no two individuals are the same, and alike is the predicative adjective for that. Close would need to, liked is a different word entirely, and equal anticipates the sentence's own contrast with equality, which comes next.
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Choose the best word in place of ( III ) from the given passage
Answer: D
Correct answer: even though
The two halves of the sentence pull against each other: equality is the norm society fosters, yet men are in fact unequal. Only a concessive connective can join them, and even though is the one offered. When, since and as would make equality the cause or the occasion of inequality.
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Choose the best word in place of ( IV ) from the given passage
Answer: B
Correct answer: are
The subject is the plural men, and the sentence states a present, general truth, so the present plural are is required. Is fails to agree, and the past and future forms would take the claim out of the present.
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Choose the best word in place of ( V ) from the given passage
Answer: B
Correct answer: varying
Men are unequal to different extents, which is what varying hues or degrees says. High and total would fix a single level and so contradict degrees, and no would reverse the sentence.
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Following questions have the second sentence missing. Choose the MOST APPROPRIATE sentence from the given options to complete it
A. I will not be able to see you tomorrow. B. ___________________. C. There is only a simple laboratory test to be done.
Answer: C
Correct answer: However, if you like, you can phone me
B has to bridge I cannot see you tomorrow and there is only a simple laboratory test to be done. Offering the telephone instead does that: the visit is unnecessary because nothing but a test remains. The options about the diagnosis and about following instructions look ahead to a stage the exchange has not reached.
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A. James Watt used the power of steam to drive machines. B. _____________________. C. His invention was used later by other clever men to give us the railway engine.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Then, many years later, the petrol engine was invented
C says his invention was used later by other clever men, so B must keep the focus on later inventions built on Watt's work. Then, many years later supplies exactly that step. The options about motor cars, aeroplanes and jets jump past the railway engine that C is about to introduce.
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A. The lion used to be very widely distributed in Africa and Asia. B. ______________________. C. Indiscriminate killing by hunters has been the cause of this drastic fall in their numbers.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Today they are a relatively rare species
C explains this drastic fall in their numbers, so B must be the statement of that fall. Only the keyed option reports it. The others describe reserves and national parks, which are remedies rather than the fall itself.
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A devastating earthquake had hit Mexico City. B. ______________________. C. It was the worlds most severe quake since the quake in Chile last March
Answer: D
Correct answer: The quake's force was measured at 7.8 on the Richter scale
C compares this earthquake with the one in Chile for severity, so B must give the measure that makes the comparison possible. The options counting collapsed and unsafe buildings describe damage, which is not what a comparison of severity on a scale rests on.
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A. When he joined the college, he was an adolescent and immature. B. ______________________. C. He learnt a lot from his experiences at the college
Answer: B
Correct answer: Four years of study in the college changed him completely
A describes him on arrival and C says he learnt a lot there, so B must cover the span between: the years at college and the change they produced. The option about leaving college looks past C, and the ones about a job leave the college behind altogether.
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A. Your resources, like money are limited. B. _____________________. C. Sooner or later you should learn to delegate your authority to others
Answer: B
Correct answer: You must invest them wisely
Them must refer to the limited resources named in A, and C then moves to a second consequence of that limitation. Only the keyed option carries the pronoun back to A; the others introduce other people, whom C brings in for the first time.
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