1 . Read the following passage and answer the Increasing every year questions: Forests are an important part of civilization. They not only form a considerable portion of the national wealth of a country, but also play an important role in maintaining the environmental balance. Indiscriminate felling of trees to enhance city areas is a threat to our civilization. We often forget that a peaceful and well-balanced co- existence of man-made civilization and nature is absolutely important for human existence on the earth. Indiscriminate felling of trees makes our planet less green and threatens the wildlife. Forests and trees have an enormous impact on the climate as they are instrumental in drawing rain to the earth. Deforestation has resulted in radical changes in our climate. The overall temperature of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate. The duration of seasons is fluctuating all over the world. The rate of rainfall is becoming erratic. The future of this planet is in trouble unless immediate attention is paid to this danger. According to the passage, Indiscriminate felling of trees results in-

• A. An expansion of urban centers
• B. Radical changes in our climate
• C. Environmental balance
• D. An increase in rainfall

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

2 . Read the following passage and answer the Increasing every year questions: Forests are an important part of civilization. They not only form a considerable portion of the national wealth of a country, but also play an important role in maintaining the environmental balance. Indiscriminate felling of trees to enhance city areas is a threat to our civilization. We often forget that a peaceful and well-balanced co- existence of man-made civilization and nature is absolutely important for human existence on the earth. Indiscriminate felling of trees makes our planet less green and threatens the wildlife. Forests and trees have an enormous impact on the climate as they are instrumental in drawing rain to the earth. Deforestation has resulted in radical changes in our climate. The overall temperature of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate. The duration of seasons is fluctuating all over the world. The rate of rainfall is becoming erratic. The future of this planet is in trouble unless immediate attention is paid to this danger. According to the passage, the temperature of the world is:

• A. Increasing in a disturbing way
• B. Increasing every year
• C. Decreasing every year
• D. Increasing only in the Polar Regions

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

3 . According to the passage ....... .

• A. debit or cash cards were early forms of money.
• B. debit and cash cards have always been there.
• C. debit and cash cards are newer forms of money.
• D. debit and cash cards are money only in our imagination.

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

4 . According to the passage, modern transporation __

• A. Reduces the number of wild animals
• B. Exposes passengers and drivers to radiation
• C. Causes biological disasters
• D. Increases the risk of diseases

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

5 . According to the passage, the increasing use of fertilizers is responsible for__

• A. Abundance of food
• B. Disturbance in the ecological system
• C. Disturbance in the weather patterns
• D. Water pollution

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

6 . According to the passage

• A. Dolphins have been helping drowsing sailors since the Roman time .
• B. Sailors have helped drowing dolphins since the Roman times.
• C. Dolphins have drowned sailors since the Roman times.
• D. Drowning sailors and dolphins have been helping each other since the Roman times

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

7 . According to the passage, the Singapore government wants to diversify its food sources __ of its high position in the global food security index.

• A. In spite
• B. Despite
• C. In case
• D. Because

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

8 .    Increased numbers of women in science can only be a good thing. Not simply because it is grossly unjust for women to be unable to experience the challenging but also hugely intellectually rewarding experience of participating in scientific resource in half.  sWhat's more, women bring new ways of thinking and a broader range of ideas to the table, which is crucial for science to flourish. All scientists have a responsibility to be feminists and encourage women to participate in science and fight the barriers that exist. However, this is often more easily said than done. There are several proposed reasons for why women are discouraged from participating in science at a ranger of levels -form primary school children to professors. Among other things, these include a lack of role models and support network  -as well as harassment and bullying but also less obvious barriers, for example, unconscious biases in job interviews and letters of reference.  In the end, the way to tackle prejudice against women is to increase awareness of the particular challenges faced by female scientists and to put systems in place that promote equal opportunities. Meanwhile, we need outstanding female role models to show unequivocally that women can compete on the same intellectual level as men and encourage other women to follow their lead  Together we can create the level playing field which is so desperately required.  which of the following is not the reason for women staying away form science, according to the passage?

• A. lack of role models
• B. inadequate faccilities
• C. orthodox mindset
• D. character trait

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

9 . According to the passage judgement are______.

• A. seldom made
• B. frequently made
• C. rarely made
• D. discouraged

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

10 . According to the passage the main function of literacy is to

• A. promote interaction between people
• B. enable people to read and write
• C. enable people to get better jobs
• D. promote knowledge

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

11 . According to the passage the main medium of 'communication's is --

• A. TV
• B. radio
• C. standard language
• D. telephone

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

12 . According to the passage the lives of the people were -

• A. greatly influenced by nature
• B. little influenced by nature
• C. somewhat influenced by nature
• D. were not influenced by nature

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

13 . according to the passage before the final results of the study were known which of the folllowing seemed likely?

• A. That he highest productivity
• B. That workers who initially achieved high productivity
• C. That the highest performance ratings would be achived by workers with highest roductiviy
• D. Taht supervisors who claimed to value

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

14 . According to the passage hygiece factor is an aspect of worker's performace that:

• A. has no effect on the rating of
• B. is sobasic performace
• C. is given les imprtance than it deserves in rating a worker's performance
• D. is not likely to affect a worker's rating unless it is judged to be inadequate

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

15 . According to the passage , the main difference between the system of medical practice is that _

• A. the modern medical system ignores environmental causes.
• B. the modern medical system does not always examine the root cause of the disease
• C. the modern medical system looks at the emotional imbalance of a patient .
• D. the modern medical system believes that a balanced life can prevent illness

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

16 . According to the passage , what is ATP?

• A. A biochemical process
• B. The tip of root
• C. A chemical compound
• D. A type of p;ant cell

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

17 . According to the passage, NASA is worried that ____ .

• A. Its spacecraft may unwillingly harm Jupiter's life forms
• B. NASA astronauts may be harmed by Jupiter's life forms
• C. Its spacecraft may crash land into Jupiter accidentally
• D. NASA should abandon its Jupiter programmer immediately

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

18 . According to the passage, education is - 

• A. the sharpening of wits
• B. tapping and encouraging the inherent values in human
• C. substitution of old traditions with new ones
• D. the development of moral standards

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

19 . According to the passage, a food stylist working on hamburger commercial might use glue to

• A. keep the sesame seeds on the bun in perfect order
• B. arrange the lettuce on the tomato
• C. hold the entire hamburger together
• D. make sure the meat patty stays attached to the bun

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

20 . According to the passage, fast food companies use thingslike glue and glycerin on hamburgers that appear in advertisements because I. no one actually has to eat the food used in the commercial II. it is important that people who see these advertisements would pay for the food being advertised III. filming a commercial or a print ad can take a very long time .

• A. I, II and III
• B. II and III only
• C. I only
• D. I and II only

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

21 . According to the passage salt flats were located in ---

• A. Rome
• B. Tiber
• C. Ostia
• D. Salaria

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

22 . Some educationalists think that the aim of education is merely to give knowledge. They want students to read books and do nothing else. Others think that knowledge alone is not enough; only that which enables one to earn his or her living can be called education. Still other believe that education should aim solely at making good citizens and real patriots. As a matter of fact , education should aim at all these three things put togrther. It should give people knowledge, make them self-sufficient and enable them to serve others.  1.According to the passage, reading books is 

• A. the basis of living
• B. to generate knowledge
• C. the only goal of education
• D. not an important source of knowledge

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

23 . According to the passage a leader's priority is to- 

• A. alleviate poverty
• B. rule the country strictly
• C. promote equilable development
• D. stand against unpatroitic and anti-social activities

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

24 . According to the passage, leaders will be evaluated by their- 

• A. uprightness
• B. words
• C. charisma
• D. foresight

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

25 . According to the passage the increasing use of fertilizers is responsible for

• A. abundance of food
• B. disturbance in the ecological system
• C. water pollution
• D. increase the number of living things

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

26 . What, according to the passage, is correct?

• A. Fire is the invention of science
• B. Man's colon is as large as chimpanzee's
• C. Cooked food gives more energy than uncooked
• D. A chimpanzee's brain absorbs one fifth of the total energy it consumes

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

27 . According to the passage, present day customers.

• A. are encouraged to buy ready-made goods available in the shops
• B. are pleased for more easily than customers were in the past
• C. do not attach much importance to production methods
• D. specify what they want and insist on getting it

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

28 . According to the passage, people are involved in terrorism because of:

• A. Political ideology
• B. Frustration stemming from economic failure
• C. Adventurism of section of people
• D. Regional disparities

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

29 . According to the passage:

• A. There is a positive relationship relationship between terrorism and economic development
• B. Terrorism is a global phenomenon and can be eliminated by war
• C. There is a negative relationship between terrorism and economic development
• D. There is no relationship between terrorism and economic

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

30 . According to the passage, "war on terrorism"----------------means:

• A. Stop the terrorism by war
• B. Reduce the terrorism activities
• C. Reduce terrorism by increasing economic growth
• D. Showing disparities between war and terrorism

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

31 . According to the passage, war on terrorism means?

• A. Stop the terrorism by war
• B. Reduce the terrorism activities
• C. Showing disparities between war and terrorism
• D. Reduce terrorism by increasing economic growth

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

32 . What is not true according to the passage?

• A. Conflict can make our relationship stronger
• B. Conflict can be managed properly
• C. Two persons may think differently
• D. Conflict is a curse in human relationship

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

33 . According to the passage the first victim of an Ebola outbreak is a-

• A. man
• B. woman
• C. monkey
• D. non-human primate

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

34 . According to the passage, people respond to loud noises in the same way that they respond to

• A. annoyance
• B. damage
• C. danger
• D. disease

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

35 . Unemployment is an important index of economic slack and lost. output, but it is much more than that. For the unemployed person, it often a damaging affront to human dignity and sometimes a Pastimes a catastrophic blow to family life. Nor is this cost.distributed in proportion to ability to bear it. It falls most heavily on the young, the semiskilled and unskilled, the black person, the older worker, and underemployed person in a low income rural area who is denied the option of securing more rewarding urban employment.The concentrated incidence of unemployment among specific groups  in the population. means far greater costs to society that can be-measured simply in hours of involuntary idleness or dollars of income lost. The extra costs include disruption of the careers of young people, increased juvenile delinquency, and perpetuation of conditions which breed racial discrimination in employment and  otherwise deny equality of opportunity. There is another and more subtle cost. The social and economic strains of prolonged high under utilization create strong pressures for cost-increasing solutions. On the side of labor. prolonged high unemployment leads to “share-E the-work” pressures for. shorter hours, intensifies resistance to technological change and to rationalization of work rules. On the side of business, the weakness of markets leads to attempts to raise prices to cover high average overhead costs and to pressures for protection against foreign and domestic competition.   1.According to the passage, unemployment is and index of-

• A. over utilization of capacity
• B. economic slack and lost output
• C. diminished resources
• D. the employment rate

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

36 . According to the passage, a typical business recaction to a recession is to press for

• A. Higher unemployment insurance
• B. Protection against imports
• C. Government action
• D. Restrictive business practices

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

37 . According to the passage which of the following can be inferred to be more common in the early 2000s?

• A. Pursuit of setting standard for information appliances
• B. Declining need for information
• C. Regular upgredes of computer components
• D. Technology firms with marketing efforts focused on many different segments

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

38 . Which, according to the passage, is not true?

• A. The notion of patriotism is the same over time
• B. People do not have the same views about patriotsm
• C. The eighteenth century saw the emergence of thinocracy
• D. Patriotism is related to one's love for the native land

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

39 . According to the passage science has helped man to___

• A. Control the forces of nature
• B. Lead a life of comfort and luxury
• C. Conquer the forces of nature
• D. Live a peaceful life

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

40 . Twentieth century has witnessed a gigantic revolution in the field of science and technology. It has enabled man to harness the forces of nature, conquer distances and bring about  revolution in the methods of industrial and agricultural production. Scientific knowledge and technical innovation have vastly helped in improving the life of man, and removing diseases and ignorance. But'they have not helped in creating :environment which could be favorable to life's full worth. Man has sadly created an imbalance between himself :and nature. The very instruments which were supposed to help -man, have created many problems. Today man stands on the brink of annihilation as a result of environmental pollution   1.According to the passage science has helped man to-

• A. control the fores of nature
• B. lead a life comfort and luxury
• C. conquer the forces of nature
• D. live a peaceful

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

41 . According to the passage, Professor Yunus believed that:

• A. Poor borrowers never repay loans
• B. Poor borrowers try their best to repay loans
• C. Poor borrowers by chance repay loans
• D. Poor borrowers repay loans after making a profit

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

42 . According to the passage, bacilli are responsible for-.

• A. polluting air
• B. causing throat diseases
• C. spoiling food
• D. spoiling soil

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

43 . According to the passage, the main factor responsible for today's global warming is:

• A. Natural disaster
• B. Rapid industrialization
• C. Decrease rainfall
• D. Deforestation

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

44 . If natural factors were still governing the climate. according to the passage, the northern hemisphere would:

• A. be warmer
• B. Would be same as now
• C. Would be colder than itis now
• D. None of these

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

45 . Direction: Transform the sentences as directed, Put cross mark (x) on right answer choice. "According to the passage, people who repeat a rumor as truth want to do so because they:"

• A. are mutually gullible
• B. are pessimistic by nature
• C. are impressed with antiquity of this method of spreading news
• D. find that the rumor reflects their own unexpected beliefs

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

46 . According to the passage, a writer must-----

• A. not be uninteresting
• B. be interesting and meaningful
• C. fial to communicate his message
• D. not foil to be communicative

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

47 . According to the passage what do you have to do to find the right job?

• A. set goals
• B. Search jobs
• C. Browse job sites
• D. Visit organizations

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

48 . According to the passage, signals from how many satellites will be used to calculate a position ?

• A. 1
• B. 4
• C. 3
• D. 2

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

49 . According to the passage , the information received by Rajib Hassan during his visits is

• A. incorrect
• B. biased
• C. exaggerated
• D. reliable
• D. None of them

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

50 . According to the passage

• A. bacteria feed on sugar
• B. kills unhealthy cells
• C. glass is formed from sugar
• D. sugar promotes healing

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

51 . According to the passage, researchers have concluded that --

• A. The mind has a much greater capacity for memory than was previously believed
• B. The physical basis for memory is clear .
• C. Different points of view are valuable.
• D. Human memory is inefficient .
• D. None of them

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

52 . According to the passage, natural growth hormone is not marketed now because—

• A. it may have caused brain disease
• B. people were killed by it
• C. it failed to make people grow
• D. not enough pituitary

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

53 . According to the passage, Beouvoir's book asserted that the status of women -

• A. is the outcome of political oppression
• B. is inherently tied to their economic condition
• C. can be best improved under a communist government
• D. is a theoretical, rather than a pragmatic, issue

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

54 . According to the passage, one difference between The Feminine and The Second Sex is that Friedan's book.

• A. regects the idea that women are oppressed
• B. provides a primarily theoretical analysis of women's lives
• C. does not reflect the political beliefs of its author
• D. concentrates on the practical aspects of the question of women's emancipation

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

55 . Choose the best option . A virus is a very tiny type of germ that can make you extremely sick. Viruses only can survive in the living things. Viruses can cause many different types of infectious diseases including the common cold, flu and smallpox. Viruses take over living cells and make many copies of themselves. These new virus particles go on to infect other cells. When our body is being affected by a virus, our immune system kicks into action to stop or slow it down. At the end of 2019, the world came across a new type of virus called the Coronavirus (COVID-19). We have known about and studied coronaviruses for decades, but COVID-19 was a new strain to humans. COVID-19 is much more serious than the common cold or flu. It spread far and wide from March 2020, causing a pandemic, but timely invention of vaccines has stopped the outbreak of the pandemic. According to the passage, COVID-19 sperad on a large scale ________ .

• A. in 2019
• B. decades ago
• C. in 2020
• D. before it became a pandemic

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

56 . Choose the best option . A virus is a very tiny type of germ that can make you extremely sick. Viruses only can survive in the living things. Viruses can cause many different types of infectious diseases including the common cold, flu and smallpox. Viruses take over living cells and make many copies of themselves. These new virus particles go on to infect other cells. When our body is being affected by a virus, our immune system kicks into action to stop or slow it down. At the end of 2019, the world came across a new type of virus called the Coronavirus (COVID-19). We have known about and studied coronaviruses for decades, but COVID-19 was a new strain to humans. COVID-19 is much more serious than the common cold or flu. It spread far and wide from March 2020, causing a pandemic, but timely invention of vaccines has stopped the outbreak of the pandemic. According to the passage, viruses can_____________ .

• A. live outside a living body
• B. multiply themselves
• C. be sensitive to vaccines
• D. transmit only fiom humans to humans

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

57 . Read the following passage and answer the questions : Music has healing power. For this, it has been used for centuries to heal the body. It was recorded in the Ebers Papyrus that physicians chanted to heal the sick. Later therapists also noticed that it could help calm anxiety and reduce blood pressure. Now it is used with cancer chemotherapy to reduce nausea. Besides, for the treatment of asthma, autism, depression and brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's diseases, epilepsy, and stroke musical therapies are used. Music helps people cope with their stress and mobilize their body's capacity to heal. According to the passage, which of the following is not true?

• A. Music helps decrease vomiting tendencies.
• B. Music helps increase blood pressure.
• C. Music could reduce mental anxieties.
• D. Doctors used to sing to treat patients.

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

58 . According to the passage

• A. all students in schools are obedient
• B. teachers only teach students to be obedient
• C. students listen to teachers obediently without asking questions
• D. students are forced to ask questions by teachers

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

59 . According to the passage, a food stylist working on hamburger commercial might use glue to

• A. keep the sesame seeds on the bun in perfect order
• B. arrange the lettuce on the tomato
• C. hold the entire hamburger together
• D. make sure the meat patty stays attached to the bun

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

60 . According to the passage, fast food companies use thingslike glue and glycerin on hamburgers that appear in advertisements because I. no one actually has to eat the food used in the commercial II. it is important that people who see these advertisements would pay for the food being advertised III. filming a commercial or a print ad can take a very long time .

• A. I, II and III
• B. II and III only
• C. I only
• D. I and II only

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

61 . Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. The primary purpose of education is to make our lives easy and beautiful in all aspects. However, if we analyze the actions done and the endeavours undertaken by the educated people of all times, we find that those have not always been beneficial to humankind; some have even threatened the existence of human beings. Thus, education at many times has failed to serve its primary purposes. Why does it happen? Education gives us knowledge and skills, and eventually provides us with power. This power sometimes turns us into monsters and, sometimes, angels because the power of education can be used both for good and evil purposes depending on the intention of its users. The wars, for example, that took the lives of billions of innocent people were waged and executed by the educated people. Heinous scams and horrific incidents of corruption were also committed by the individuals having high academic degrees from world famous institutions. So, education does not always guarantee beauty and ennoble us unless it is imbued with morality, ethics and humanity. According to the passage, which of the statements is false?

• A. The educated people have always done heinous acts.
• B. Education affects us in the way we intend to use it.
• C. True education can guarantee ennoblement of our minds.
• D. Ethics and humanity are important catalyst using education for noble purposes.

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

62 . Read the passage below and choose the best alternative (A. B, C, or D) to answer the questions. Throughout human history there have been many stringent taboos concerning watching other people eat or eating in the presence of others. There have been attempts to explain these taboos in terms of inappropriate social relationships either between those who are involved and those who are not simultaneously involved in the satisfaction of a bodily need or between those already satiated and those who appear to be shamelessly gorging. Undoubtedy such elements exist in the taboos, but there is an additional element with a much more fundamental importance. In prehistoric times, when food was so precious and the on-lookers so hungry, not to offer half of the little food one had was unthinkable since every glance was a plea for life. Further, during those times, people existed in nuclear or extended family groups, and the sharing of food was quit literally supporting one's family or, by extension, preserving one's self.   According to the passage, the author believes that past attempts to explain some taboos concerning eating are _.

• A. unimaginative
• B. implausible
• C. inelegant
• D. incomplete

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

63 . Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow Modern supermarkets, which are gradually replacing traditional grocery shops in Bangladesh, have been growing at 15 percent a year since 2014, The factors that have led to the rise of the supermarkets include changing consumer behavior, the growth of e-commerce, advancement of technology, and consciousness about quality products. To these can also be added the ease and advantage of choice shoppers find in supermarket chains. Population growth, increased urbanization, and rising income have been driving the growth of consumerism in the country. However, despite the growth of modern supermarkets, traditional grocery trade still remains dominant. According to the passage, one of the factors responsible for the growth of consumerism in Bangladesh is-

• A. rising income
• B. online shopping
• C. dominance of traditional grocery shops
• D. growth of agriculture

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

64 . According to the passage, which of the following is more contagious?

• A. Influenza
• B. Rhino
• C. Coronavirus
• D. COVID-19

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

65 . Influenza, or flu, is a virus that attacks the respiratory system. The flu virus is highly contagious: when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks, respiratory droplets are generated and transmitted into the air, and can then be inhaled by anyone nearby. Additionally, a person who touches something with the virus on it and then touches his or her mouth, eyes or nose can become infected. Before COVID-19, the most severe pandemic in recent history was the 1918 influenza virus, often called "the Spanish Flu". The virus infected roughly 500 million people - one-third of the world's population - and caused SO million deaths worldwide (double the number of deaths in World War I). In the United States, a quarter of the population caught the virus, 675,000 died, and life expectancy dropped by 12 years. With no vaccine to protect against the virus, people were urged to isolate, quarantine, practice good personal hygiene, and limit social interaction. The first observations of illness and mortality were documented in the United States (in Kansas) in March 1918 and then in April in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. To maintain morale, World War I censor minimized these early reports. Newspapers were free to report the epidemic'seffects in neutral Spain, such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII, and these stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit. This gave rise to the name "Spanish Flu". Until February 2020, the 1918 epidemic was largely overlooked in the teaching of American history, despite the ample documentation at the National Archives and elsewhere of the disease and its devastation. The 100-year-old pictures from 1918 that just months ago seemed quaint and dated now seem oddly prescient. According to the passage, all of the following is TRUE about "1918 Influenza" EXCEPT.

• A. it was beyond censorship
• B. it decreased life expectancy
• C. it was overlooked in American history lessons
• D. it infected one third of world's population

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

66 . Influenza, or flu, is a virus that attacks the respiratory system. The flu virus is highly contagious: when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks, respiratory droplets are generated and transmitted into the air, and can then be inhaled by anyone nearby. Additionally, a person who touches something with the virus on it and then touches his or her mouth, eyes or nose can become infected. Before COVID-19, the most severe pandemic in recent history was the 1918 influenza virus, often called "the Spanish Flu". The virus infected roughly 500 million people - one-third of the world's population - and caused SO million deaths worldwide (double the number of deaths in World War I). In the United States, a quarter of the population caught the virus, 675,000 died, and life expectancy dropped by 12 years. With no vaccine to protect against the virus, people were urged to isolate, quarantine, practice good personal hygiene, and limit social interaction. The first observations of illness and mortality were documented in the United States (in Kansas) in March 1918 and then in April in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. To maintain morale, World War I censor minimized these early reports. Newspapers were free to report the epidemic'seffects in neutral Spain, such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII, and these stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit. This gave rise to the name "Spanish Flu". Until February 2020, the 1918 epidemic was largely overlooked in the teaching of American history, despite the ample documentation at the National Archives and elsewhere of the disease and its devastation. The 100-year-old pictures from 1918 that just months ago seemed quaint and dated now seem oddly prescient. Which of the following. according to the passage, is NOT TRUE about 'Flu virus'?

• A. cannot be controlled by personal hygiene
• B. examples: Covid-19 and 1918 in influenza
• C. communicable
• D. vaccine can protect against the virus

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

67 . Read the following passage and answer questions An alloy is a substance that is formed by combining a metal with other metals, or nonmetals. For example, brass is an alloy of the metals copper and zinc, and steel is alloy of the metal iron with the nonmetal carbon. The special characteristics of metals, such as hardness, strength, flexibility, and weight are called its properties. By the process of alloying it is possible to create materials with the exact combinations of properties for particular use. In the aircraft industry, there is a need for metals that are both strong and light. Steel is strong but too heavy, whereas aluminum is light but not strong. By mixing aluminum with copper and other metals, an alloy is created that is strong to withstand the stresses of flight, but light enough to reduce the cost of fuel to lift the aircraft. There is an important difference between the alloys created by us and the combination of metals that occur accidentally as impure metals.. Both are mixtures, but alloys are mixtures that have been deliberately combined in specific proportions for definite purpose. Which one of the following, according to the passage,is applicable to metals?

• A. They do not have any weight
• B. They are not strong
• C. They are pliable
• D. They are soft

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

68 . According to the passage, a typical business reaction to are cession is to press for-

• A. higher unemployment insurance
• B. protection against imports
• C. government action
• D. restrictive business practices

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

69 . Which of the following statements, according to the passage is wrong?

• A. The role of public enterprise is supportive to private business
• B. SOEs still occupy a central role in many economies
• C. Public enterprise is a cause of inflation
• D. SoEs performance is not generally satisfactory.

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

70 . Which of these statements is true according to the passage?

• A. The tramp started to work after breakfast
• B. The tramp was able to eat three meals because none of time was big
• C. The farmer said he didn't need 25 pence
• D. The tramp said he would not work because he was still hungry

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

71 . According to the passage, a man who was accused of a crime often had to go through a strange test-

• A. in 1932
• B. in the early 20th century
• C. in the late 20th century
• D. two or more centuries ago

Answer: Option D

Explanation: