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Passage Completion Test

78. (A) big (B) short ( C) small ( C) lobby
(D) group
79. (A) tall (B) thrashed ( C) subdued
80. (A) him (B) they ( C) them 92. (A) favoured
(B) accepted
81. (A) pleased (B) shocked ( C) amused
( C) approved
82. (A) weights (B) lengths ( C) heights (D) affirmed
83. (A) difference (B) shortage ( C) clarity
93. (A) charge
84. (A) lady (B) couple ( C) gentlemen (B) control
( C) care
85. (A) clearly (B) vehemently ( C) politely
(D) rarely
Passage 8
94. (A) often
Some people believe that marriages are made in heaven. (B) rarely
One cannot say (86) _____ this is true or not. However, ( C) occasionally
in America now many (87) _____ who get married, seek (D) intermittently
to evolve a foolproof (88) _____ to ensure that the
marriage survives. However, the idea of married persons 95. (A) maintained
(89) _____ the burden of domestic chores, instead of all (B) obeyed
the dirty work being dumped on the woman had (90) ( C) executed
_____ been propagated by the feminist (91) _____ and it (D) respected
has gradually, though grudgingly, been (92) _____ . This
arrangement may work on a temporary basis but taking Passage 9
(93) _____ of a particular domestic work on a permanent
basis will pose problems of its own. For instance, taking Belief systems are the framework upon which cultures and
out the rubbish may (94) _____ make a refreshing change societies function. It is the bond that (96) _____
from washing baby’s nappies. However, a contract is a civilisations together and it is the small voice (97) _____
contract and must be (95) _____ . You may not like it but each fo us that urges us to be (98) _____ to what we have
been taught. We cannot (99) _____ our spiritual teachings
this is what life is coming out to be in the modern
from our learning, nor can we separate our beliefs about
countries in the world.
who and what we are (100) _____ our values and our
86. (A) however behaviours.
(B) whether
( C) that 96. (A) compels
(D) still (B) makes
( C) breaks
87. (A) men (D) holds
(B) women
( C) couple 97. (A) outside
(D) pairs (B) around
( C) about
88. (A) system (D) inside
(B) plan
( C) project 98. (A) habitual
(D) method (B) accurate
( C) true
89. (A) sharing (D) graceful
(B) dividing
( C) undertaking 99. (A) see
(D) executing (B) separate
( C) distinguish
90. (A) sometimes (D) search
(B) occasionally
( C) always 100.(A) about
(D) long (B) on
( C) near
91. (A) faction (D) from
(B) section
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