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11856.Microsoft Verbal Ability TestSynonym:Glib
Stammer
Fluent
Tragic
Dull
11857.Antonym:Untenable
supportable
tender
sheepish
tremulous
11858.Fill in the blank:There is thick cloud ___________ the south of England.
over
above
on
across
11859.Error Correction:Sheela told her teacher to explain the chapter once again.
ordered her teacher
invited her teacher
asked her teacher
said to her teacher
11860.Sentence Ordering:(A) But this does not mean that death was the Egyptians` only pre-occupation.(B) Even papyri come mainly from pyramid temples.(C) Most of our traditional sources of information about the Old Kingdom are monuments of the rich like pyramids and tombs.(D) Houses in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not been preserved, and when most people died, they were buried insimple graves.(E) We know infinitely more about the wealthy people of Egypt than we do about the ordinary people, as most monuments were of the rich people.
CDBEA
ECDAB
EDCBA
DECAB
11861.David _________ across a field one sunny morning, when he noticed a bird stumbling awkwardly.
Was strolling
Is strolling
Strolled
Has strolled
11862.Error Spotting:It was him (1)/ who (2)/ approached the Collector (3)/ and got the work done. (4)/ No error (5).
1
2
3
4
Explanation:
Replace `him` with `he`.
11863.The assault on the purity of the environment is the price that we pay for many of the benefits of modern technology. For the advantage of automotive transportation, we pay a price in smog-induced diseases; for the powerful effects of new insecticides, we pay a price in dwindling wildlife and disturbances in the relation of living things and their surroundings; for nuclear power, we risk the biological hazards of radiation. By increasing agricultural production with fertilizers, we worsen water population.The highly developed nations of the world are not only the immediate beneficiaries of the good that technology can do, that are also the first victims of environmental diseases that technology breeds. In the past, the environmental effects which accompanied technological progress were restricted to a small and relatively short time. the new hazards neither local nor brief. Modern air pollution covers vast areas of continents: Radioactive fallout from the nuclear explosion is worldwide. Radioactive pollutants now on the earth surface will be found there for generations, and in case of Carbon-14, for thousands of years.The widespread use of insecticides has
reduced the number of wild animals
caused imbalance in the relationship between living beings and their environment
eliminated diseases by killing mosquitoes and flies
caused biological hazards
11864.The passage emphasis that modern technology
is an unmixed blessing
has caused serious hazards to life
has produced powerful chemicals
has benefited highly developed nations
11865.According to the passage the increasing use of fertilizers is responsible for
abundance of food
disturbance in the ecological system
water pollution
increase in diseases
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