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The secretary of Budget
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(A) |
post
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(B) |
business transaction |
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(C) |
dealing |
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(D) |
privilege |
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The wealthy financier
was a portly gentleman. |
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(A) |
lanky |
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(B) |
slim |
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(C) |
stout
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(D) |
slender |
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Population explosion
poses numerous problems. |
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(A) |
presents
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(B) |
goes without |
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(C) |
resolves |
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(D) |
defies |
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It is our responsibility
to leave a better world to posterity. |
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(A) |
pedigree |
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(B) |
lineage |
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(C) |
genealogy |
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(D) |
offspring
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Many an artist,
impoverished while living, came to posthumous fame. |
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(A) |
opportune |
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(B) |
seasonable |
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(C) |
timely |
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(D) |
occurring after death
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We must accept these
statements as postulates before pursuing our discussions
any further. |
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(A) |
facts |
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(B) |
figures |
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(C) |
fictions |
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(D) |
assumptions
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The eighty-year-old man
still stands in an erect posture. |
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(A) |
hunch |
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(B) |
bearing of the body
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(C) |
bending |
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(D) |
garland |
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8. |
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The forced resignation
of Nixon has a potent effect on American politics. |
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(A) |
faulty |
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(B) |
feeble |
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(C) |
powerful
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(D) |
flawed |
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The farmer has made
raising poultry a very lucrative business. |
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(A) |
domestic fowls
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(B) |
beasts |
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(C) |
hogs |
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possums |
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The prairie is so
immense as if it were boundless. |
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(A) |
sea |
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(B) |
ocean |
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(C) |
mountain range |
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(D) |
extensive grassland
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Answers 1A
2C 3A 4D 5D 6D
7B 8C 9A 10D |
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