Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

Their Prime Minister is able to act more aggressively because he has .... his power within the government.

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence. Pakistan _____ the Indus and its tributaries for almost half of its irrigation supplies.

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence. The auroras are caused by the ______ of solar winds with gases in the Earth's atmosphere.

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

It seems strange to us now that miners and others employed in dangerous work have not demanded the provision of ______ headgear.

Directions: Choose the best answer to fill in the gaps. _______ providing luxury on every imaginable level, a five- star hotel should also have the ability to take you by suprise.

Directions: Choose the best answer to fill in the gaps. Ancient Peruvian textiles have survived in an excellent state of preservation ______ the dry conditions of much of the country.

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

In the past 30 years, our knowledge of the ancient Maya civilization has increased ____ as a result of the decipherment of a newly discovered script.

Directions: Choose the best answer to fill in the gaps. Exciting new research is transforming industrial robotics, offering the promise of whole new generation of ______ intelligent machines

Directions: Choose the best answer to fill in the gaps. He is hoping that, by the time he for the grant, his book on Egyptiant silverwork _________

Directions: Choose the best answer to fill in the gaps. The big test _____ over the next few weeks when the government _____ to introduce a plan to include drug coverage in Medicare.

Directions: Choose the best ooption to fill in the gaps. It seems that, even if big western companies _____ to help develop lifesaving GM (genetically modified) seeds for the underdeveloped countries, only South Africa ______ to accept them.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the gaps. Seafarers' records _____ back to 1590 _____ it possible to visuallse the behaviour of one of the planet's most mysterious phenomena: its magnetic field.

Directions: Choose the best answer to fill in the gaps. The software has been designed to help detectives solve complex cases & .. prompting them to explore lines & & .. enquity other than the obvious ones.

Directions: Choose the best answer to fill in the gaps. Recent findings have suggested that, in ancient times too, man was capable & & & causing rapid and decisive changes & & . the genetic make-up of staple crops.

Directions: Choose the best answer to fill in the gaps. _______ helmets had been revived for soldiers and extended to many workers, safety head coverings for athletes almost inevitably followed.

Directions: Find out the appropriate word to fill blank (i).

Technology is the (i)…….. part of solving problems. There are zillions of cool (ii)……... Plenty of college (iii)……….. have come up with a (iv)………. new technology for the poor. The bigger challenge comes from the (v)……… around any new device: How do you build a market for a technology focused on people with no money? How do you physically get it to where it needs to be? How do poor people acquire it? How do you make it last?

Directions: Find out the appropriate word to fill blank (iii).

Technology is the (i)…….. part of solving problems. There are zillions of cool (ii)……... Plenty of college (iii)……….. have come up with a (iv)………. new technology for the poor. The bigger challenge comes from the (v)……… around any new device: How do you build a market for a technology focused on people with no money? How do you physically get it to where it needs to be? How do poor people acquire it? How do you make it last?

Directions: Find out the appropriate word to fill blank (ii).

Technology is the (i)…….. part of solving problems. There are zillions of cool (ii)……... Plenty of college (iii)……….. have come up with a (iv)………. new technology for the poor. The bigger challenge comes from the (v)……… around any new device: How do you build a market for a technology focused on people with no money? How do you physically get it to where it needs to be? How do poor people acquire it? How do you make it last?

Directions: Find out the appropriate word to fill blank (v).

Technology is the (i)…….. part of solving problems. There are zillions of cool (ii)……... Plenty of college (iii)……….. have come up with a (iv)………. new technology for the poor. The bigger challenge comes from the (v)……… around any new device: How do you build a market for a technology focused on people with no money? How do you physically get it to where it needs to be? How do poor people acquire it? How do you make it last?

Directions: Find out the appropriate word to fill blank (iv).

Technology is the (i)…….. part of solving problems. There are zillions of cool (ii)……... Plenty of college (iii)……….. have come up with a (iv)………. new technology for the poor. The bigger challenge comes from the (v)……… around any new device: How do you build a market for a technology focused on people with no money? How do you physically get it to where it needs to be? How do poor people acquire it? How do you make it last?

Directions: Complete the unfinished sentence with the best choice While most people still saw computers as science fiction

Directions: Complete the unfinished sentence with the best choice ______ so long as you pay attention and stick to the rules.

Directions: Complete the unfinished sentence with the best choice. _______ unless there is an agreement to the contrary.

Directions: Complete the unfinished sentence with the best choice. ______ that a road once linked the newly discovered settlement with one of the great Inca cities.

Directions: Complete the passage with the best choice. The ability to recognize people automatically by analyzing bodily characteristics such as fingerprints, faces and eyeballs -known as biometrics - has long been a goal of both technologists and governments. .................... Both America and Europe plan to start issuing biometric passports as soon as next year

Directions: Complete the unfinished sentence with the best choice Although Japan has one of the world's most rapidly ageing populations, _______ .

Directions: Complete the passage with the best choice. There was a time when the American accounting system was the envy of the world, .......... it encouraged millions of average people to invest, thus transforming America into the world's first mass equity culture.

Directions: Which sentence is different in meaning from the others? (I) In India, a lower-middle-class group is steadily emerging, (II) it was a long time before any improvements were made to the infrastructure, (III) Further, with the arrival of television, the expectations of these people have risen considerably. (IV) Indians are now demanding better education for their children. (V) They are also asking for tarred roads to facilitate business, and better products and services to make their lives easier.

Directions: Complete the passage with the best choice. Researchers are attempting to create the computer equivalent of human cognitive abilities, and they have had considerable success....................... . But as little as 50 years ago, how would people have reacted to a machine that corrected errors in spelling and grammar!

Directions: Which sentence is different in meaning from the others? (I) After decades of experimentation, the first practical and fairly reliabie typewriters arrived on the market in the early 1870s. (II) Over the next fifteen years or so they became established in American offices and were soon regarded as indispensable. (III) But they were large and ungainly. (IV) Obviously, these early models printed under the roller, so you couldn't see what you had typed till several lines later. (V) Indeed, one of the early models was built into a table, like a sewing machine and had a pedal to operate carnage return.

Directions: Which sentence is different in meaning from the others? (l) While megacities are renowned for pollution, they often generate a lot of money. (II) Estimates made during the past two decades suggested that most megacities would continue to increase at an alarming rate. (III) But contrary to expectations, more people are now leaving many of the world's (argest urban areas than are moving in. (IV) For example, the population of Sao Paulo was expected to reach 24 million by the year 2000, but fewer than 13 million live there now. (V) There is a similar situation in cities such as Calcutta, Buenos Aires and Beijing.

Directions: Re-state the sentences in bold. The meeting lasted for longer than we had expected as, for some reason or another, there were continual interruptions

Directions: Re-state the sentences in bold. He should have known better than to have left his son in charge of the factory if only for a week.

Directions: Re-state the sentences in bold. To be honest, l wasn't expecting Andy to stand up for me so openly at the meeting.

Directions: Read the passages carefully and answer the question. Much has been said and written about the declining numbers of and disappointing lack of diversity among American college students majoring in engineering. Among the factors cited to explain this phenomenon are the lack of exposure of high school students to the very idea of engineering and the fact that many have insufficient mathematics and science background to gain entrance to engineering school, even if they do identify the profession as a possible career. This is unfortunate, for the ideas of engineering should be integrated into the curricula not only of high schools but also of middle and primary schools. Our children are being done a disservice by not being exposed properly throughout their education to engineering activities identifted as such. Arter all, even pre-school children have the prerequisites in their play for appreciating exactly what engineering is: design. Indeed, design is everywhere around them throughout their school day, even in their before-school and after-school activities. it need only be pointed out to them that they are designing something, and therefore being engirteers of sorts, in virtually everything that they do. The writer of the passage feels strongly that ............

Directions: Read the passages carefully and answer the question. Much has been said and written about the declining numbers of and disappointing lack of diversity among American college students majoring in engineering. Among the factors cited to explain this phenomenon are the lack of exposure of high school students to the very idea of engineering and the fact that many have insufficient mathematics and science background to gain entrance to engineering school, even if they do identify the profession as a possible career. This is unfortunate, for the ideas of engineering should be integrated into the curricula not only of high schools but also of middle and primary schools. Our children are being done a disservice by not being exposed properly throughout their education to engineering activities identifted as such. After all, even pre-school children have the prerequisites in their play for appreciating exactly what engineering is: design. Indeed, design is everywhere around them throughout their school day, even in their before-school and after-school activities. it need only be pointed out to them that they are designing something, and therefore being engirteers of sorts, in virtually everything that they do. The writer points out that children can, at a very early age..........

Directions: Read the passages carefully and answer the question. Much has been said and written about the declining numbers of and disappointing lack of diversity among American college students majoring in engineering. Among the factors cited to explain this phenomenon are the lack of exposure of high school students to the very idea of engineering and the fact that many have insufficient mathematics and science background to gain entrance to engineering school, even if they do identify the profession as a possible career. This is unfortunate, for the ideas of engineering should be integrated into the curricula not only of high schools but also of middle and primary schools. Our children are being done a disservice by not being exposed properly throughout their education to engineering activities identifted as such. Arter all, even pre-school children have the prerequisites in their play for appreciating exactly what engineering is: design. Indeed, design is everywhere around them throughout their school day, even in their before-school and after-school activities. it need only be pointed out to them that they are designing something, and therefore being engirteers of sorts, in virtually everything that they do. The writer recognizes the fact that engeenering.........

Directions: Read the passages carefully and answer the question. Much has been said and written about the declining numbers of and disappointing lack of diversity among American college students majoring in engineering. Among the factors cited to explain this phenomenon are the lack of exposure of high school students to the very idea of engineering and the fact that many have insufficient mathematics and science background to gain entrance to engineering school, even if they do identify the profession as a possible career. This is unfortunate, for the ideas of engineering should be integrated into the curricula not only of high schools but also of middle and primary schools. Our children are being done a disservice by not being exposed properly throughout their education to engineering activities identifted as such. After all, even pre-school children have the prerequisites in their play for appreciating exactly what engineering is: design. Indeed, design is everywhere around them throughout their school day, even in their before-school and after-school activities. It needs only to be pointed out to them that they are designing something, and therefore being engineers of sorts, in virtually everything that they do. The writer recognizes the fact that engineering.............

Directions: Read the passages carefully and answer the question. Much has been said and written about the declining numbers of and disappointing lack of diversity among American college students majoring in engineering. Among the factors cited to explain this phenomenon are the lack of exposure of high school students to the very idea of engineering and the fact that many have insufficient mathematics and science background to gain entrance to engineering school, even if they do identify the profession as a possible career. This is unfortunate, for the ideas of engineering should be integrated into the curricula not only of high schools but also of middle and primary schools. Our children are being done a disservice by not being exposed properly throughout their education to engineering activities identifted as such. Arter all, even pre-school children have the prerequisites in their play for appreciating exactly what engineering is: design. Indeed, design is everywhere around them throughout their school day, even in their before-school and after-school activities. it need only be pointed out to them that they are designing something, and therefore being engirteers of sorts, in virtually everything that they do. According to the passage, all school programmes--------.

Directions: Complete the passage with the best choice. The Conservative Party, which dominated British politics in the 20th century, is a shadow of its former self.............There is now only one conservative Member of Parliament from Scotland and none from Wales. Large cities such as Liverpool elect no conservatives.