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231.

In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each, four words are suggested. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Every month, scientists (i) new gadgets and new ways to make technology faster and better. Our homes are full of hardware (such as DVD players and computers) (ii) and (such as computer games and MP3s (iii) suggests, however, that it is the young people who are best able to deal with this change. Whereas teenagers have no problem (iv) a DVD player, their parents and grandparents often find using new technology (v) and different. But if you are a teenager who criticizes your parents to their (vi) of technological awareness, don't be too hard on them! Sometime (vii) the future, when you have got children of your own, your skill (viii) to deal with new technology will probably (ix) and your children will feel more (x) with new technology than you do.

(iv) = ?


  • inventing

  • explaining

  • discovering

  • discovering

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232.

In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each, four words are suggested. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Every month, scientists (i) new gadgets and new ways to make technology faster and better. Our homes are full of hardware (such as DVD players and computers) (ii) and (such as computer games and MP3s (iii) suggests, however, that it is the young people who are best able to deal with this change. Whereas teenagers have no problem (iv) a DVD player, their parents and grandparents often find using new technology (v) and different. But if you are a teenager who criticizes your parents to their (vi) of technological awareness, don't be too hard on them! Sometime (vii) the future, when you have got children of your own, your skill (viii) to deal with new technology will probably (ix) and your children will feel more (x) with new technology than you do.

(x) = ?




  • easy

  • able

  • comfortable

  • comfortable

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233.

In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each, four words are suggested. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Every month, scientists (i) new gadgets and new ways to make technology faster and better. Our homes are full of hardware (such as DVD players and computers) (ii) and (such as computer games and MP3s (iii) suggests, however, that it is the young people who are best able to deal with this change. Whereas teenagers have no problem (iv) a DVD player, their parents and grandparents often find using new technology (v) and different. But if you are a teenager who criticizes your parents to their (vi) of technological awareness, don't be too hard on them! Sometime (vii) the future, when you have got children of your own, your skill (viii) to deal with new technology will probably (ix) and your children will feel more (x) with new technology than you do.

(ii) = ?




  • software

  • laptops

  • gadgets

  • gadgets

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234.

In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each, four words are suggested. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Every month, scientists (i) new gadgets and new ways to make technology faster and better. Our homes are full of hardware (such as DVD players and computers) (ii) and (such as computer games and MP3s (iii) suggests, however, that it is the young people who are best able to deal with this change. Whereas teenagers have no problem (iv) a DVD player, their parents and grandparents often find using new technology (v) and different. But if you are a teenager who criticizes your parents to their (vi) of technological awareness, don't be too hard on them! Sometime (vii) the future, when you have got children of your own, your skill (viii) to deal with new technology will probably (ix) and your children will feel more (x) with new technology than you do.

(vii) = ?




  • on

  • in

  • at

  • at

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235.

In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each, four words are suggested. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Every month, scientists (i) new gadgets and new ways to make technology faster and better. Our homes are full of hardware (such as DVD players and computers) (ii) and (such as computer games and MP3s (iii) suggests, however, that it is the young people who are best able to deal with this change. Whereas teenagers have no problem (iv) a DVD player, their parents and grandparents often find using new technology (v) and different. But if you are a teenager who criticizes your parents to their (vi) of technological awareness, don't be too hard on them! Sometime (vii) the future, when you have got children of your own, your skill (viii) to deal with new technology will probably (ix) and your children will feel more (x) with new technology than you do.

(iii) = ?




  • research

  • program

  • experiment

  • experiment


A.

research

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236.

In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each, four words are suggested. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Every month, scientists (i) new gadgets and new ways to make technology faster and better. Our homes are full of hardware (such as DVD players and computers) (ii) and (such as computer games and MP3s (iii) suggests, however, that it is the young people who are best able to deal with this change. Whereas teenagers have no problem (iv) a DVD player, their parents and grandparents often find using new technology (v) and different. But if you are a teenager who criticizes your parents to their (vi) of technological awareness, don't be too hard on them! Sometime (vii) the future, when you have got children of your own, your skill (viii) to deal with new technology will probably (ix) and your children will feel more (x) with new technology than you do.

(viii) = ?






  • ability

  • talent

  • possibility

  • possibility

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237.

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

How the domestication of animals began is not known. Perhaps, there were large numbers of animals in areas near water where men also were (i). Here man could observe the animals and study their habits, and this knowledge must have, (ii) him to tame them. It was again, easy for an (iii) people to domesticate animals and feed them on the husks of the grain that were left after threshing. In any event, sheep and goats, pigs and cattle and later horses and asses were tamed and kept in pens. Man, thus (iv) food from the soil and also from animals. In the pens, the animals could be observed even more closely. Calves suckling milk must have given man the idea that he too could get food other than meat from cows and goats. This practice which combines agriculture with the raising of animals is known was (V) farming. Animals, however, were chiefly used to provide meat and milk, they were yet to be used as beasts of burden or to draw the plough.

(iii) = ?

  • business

  • farming

  • rural

  • rural

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238.

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

How the domestication of animals began is not known. Perhaps, there were large numbers of animals in areas near water where men also were (i). Here man could observe the animals and study their habits, and this knowledge must have, (ii) him to tame them. It was again, easy for an (iii) people to domesticate animals and feed them on the husks of the grain that were left after threshing. In any event, sheep and goats, pigs and cattle and later horses and asses were tamed and kept in pens. Man, thus (iv) food from the soil and also from animals. In the pens, the animals could be observed even more closely. Calves suckling milk must have given man the idea that he too could get food other than meat from cows and goats. This practice which combines agriculture with the raising of animals is known was (V) farming. Animals, however, were chiefly used to provide meat and milk, they were yet to be used as beasts of burden or to draw the plough.

(v) = ?


  • joined

  • blended

  • united

  • united

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239.

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

How the domestication of animals began is not known. Perhaps, there were large numbers of animals in areas near water where men also were (i). Here man could observe the animals and study their habits, and this knowledge must have, (ii) him to tame them. It was again, easy for an (iii) people to domesticate animals and feed them on the husks of the grain that were left after threshing. In any event, sheep and goats, pigs and cattle and later horses and asses were tamed and kept in pens. Man, thus (iv) food from the soil and also from animals. In the pens, the animals could be observed even more closely. Calves suckling milk must have given man the idea that he too could get food other than meat from cows and goats. This practice which combines agriculture with the raising of animals is known was (V) farming. Animals, however, were chiefly used to provide meat and milk, they were yet to be used as beasts of burden or to draw the plough.

(ii) = ?


  • authorised

  • enabled

  • modified

  • modified

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Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

How the domestication of animals began is not known. Perhaps, there were large numbers of animals in areas near water where men also were (i). Here man could observe the animals and study their habits, and this knowledge must have, (ii) him to tame them. It was again, easy for an (iii) people to domesticate animals and feed them on the husks of the grain that were left after threshing. In any event, sheep and goats, pigs and cattle and later horses and asses were tamed and kept in pens. Man, thus (iv) food from the soil and also from animals. In the pens, the animals could be observed even more closely. Calves suckling milk must have given man the idea that he too could get food other than meat from cows and goats. This practice which combines agriculture with the raising of animals is known was (V) farming. Animals, however, were chiefly used to provide meat and milk, they were yet to be used as beasts of burden or to draw the plough.

(iv) = ?


  • gained

  • obtained

  • attained

  • attained

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