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choices will appear. Select the appropriate answer choice for each
blank.
Although some prevention efforts have succeeded, many analysts believe that
the Blank 1 solution to the global AIDS crisis is the development of a vaccine
that will prevent people from Blank 2 AIDS in the first place. Many researchers
believe that the development of a Blank 3 vaccine is possible and absolutely
necessary in order to eradicate AIDS. However, many pharmaceutical companies
do not want to invest in AIDS vaccine research because of the large expense
involved and the belief that profits could not be made on the vaccines. Funding
for research to develop an AIDS vaccine comes from several sources, mainly the
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), UNAIDS, the U.S. National Institutes of
Health (NIH), U.S. government agencies, and a few multinational pharmaceutical
companies.
In the Blank 4, AIDS continues to spread in the developing world. Although
successes have occurred, many experts contend that much more needs to be
done. They argue that the Blank 5 to AIDS needs to be of greater duration,
greater quality, and greater scope to reach the many areas of life which AIDS
touches and affects.
1-first ,next, intermediate, important,ultimate
2-passing,repelling,contracting,suffering,useful
3-remedial,curative,antidote,preventive,corrective
4-interim,ultimate,period,instance,meanwhile
5- answer,response,cure,prevention,reply.
Question 2 of 15-Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on each
blank; a list of choices will appear. Select the appropriate answer choice
for each blank.
The savage, in spite of his membership of a small Blank 1, lived a life in which
his initiative was not too much hampered by the community. The things that he
wanted to do, usually hunting and war, were also the things that his neighbours
wanted to do, and if he felt an inclination to become a medicine man he only had
to ingratiate himself with some individual already Blank 2 in that profession, and
so, in due course, to succeed to his powers of magic. If he was a man of
exceptional talent, he might invent some improvement in weapons, or a new
Blank 3 in hunting. These would not put him into any opposition to the
community, but on the contrary, would be welcomed. The modern man lives a
very different life. If he sings in the street he will be thought to be Blank 4 and if
he dances a policeman will reprove him for impeding the traffic.
1-Families,Kingdom,Community,Country.
2-ignorant,duped,joined,eminent
3-Skill,Technology,Management,Device

4-Sinning,drunk,Childlike,,Singer.
Question 3 of 15-Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on each
blank; a list of choices will appear. Select the appropriate answer choice
for each blank.
The Chinese worked on the Great Wall for over 1700 years. In turn, all emperors
who came to power added pieces of the wall to protect their Blank 1 But the
wall was not a solid wall. It was a line of Blank 2 barricades. First Emperor Oin
wanted a much better barricade to protect his people from the Mongol invaders
to the north. He wanted a Blank 3 wall 30 feet wide and 50 feet high. First
Emperor Qin used peasants, captured enemies, criminals, scholars, and anyone
else who irritated him, and put them all to work building the Great Wall.
Labourers were not paid for their work. It was Blank 4 labour. About 3000 people
worked on the wall during the Qin Dynasty. Rocks fell on people. Walls caved in.
Workers died of exhaustion and Blank 5 Labourers were fed only enough food to
keep them alive. There is an old Chinese saying, Each stone in the wall
represents a life lost in the walls construction.
1-Families,Society,dynasties,Country
2Divided,Disconnected,Joined,made
3-Strong,Ideal,Sound,perfect
4-Slave,Captive,Victim,Servant
5-Disease,Virus,Epidemic,Fever
Question 4 of 15 -Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on each
blank; a list of choices will appear. Select the appropriate answer choice
for each blank.
There was a/an Blank 1 when the summit of Mount Everest was about as
isolated as you could get, but now climbers who reach the roof of the world will
be able to pause to check their Blank 2 or perhaps surf the internet.
A Nepalese telecommunications company has Blank 3 a 3G mobile phone
network around the mountain and says its coverage will even reach the summit.
Ncell says the installation of base stations along the Blank 4 to the mountain
has, for the first time, brought a mobile data service to local people, tourists and
climbers.
When Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing reached Everest's summit in 1953,
expedition leaders had to send runners to carry Blank 5 to the nearest telegraph
office.
Satellite, then mobile voice phones have since helped Blank 6 travel faster, but
now a station near Everest base camp in the Khumbu valley has heralded a
communications revolution in the Himalayan country, Ncell's parent company,
the Swedish-based TeliaSonera, says.
1-Time,Year,Occasion,opportunity
2-Emails,Cards,letters,Phones

3-Installed,Created,Built,Constituted
4-Way,route,Track,Road
5-Letters,Script,Telegram,messages
6-News,Report,message,Bulletin
Question 5 of 15Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on each
blank, a list of choices will appear. Select the appropriate answer choice
for each blank.
Before the start of World War I, the Gibson girl was the rage; she did not date,
and waited until a proper young man Blank 1 to her for marriage. However,
nearly a whole generation of young men had died in the War leaving a whole
Blank 2 of young women without desirable suitors. They decided not to waste
away their young lives waiting idly for spinsterhood but to enjoy life. The new
women broke away from the set conventions, turned fashionable, they Blank 3
the black wool stockings and became crazy about new fashions, wore rayon
stockings, feet, ankles, and calves formerly hidden were now on show. Scott
Fitzgerald referred to them as a whole race going hedonistic deciding on
pleasure. The famous film star Louise Brooks became the ideal for young girls,
Brooks exuberant social life, her contacts with the wealthy and her Blank 4 life
style inspired young women to break away from the Victorian traditions of
repression and conventionality. The Victorian cult of true womanhood preached
piety and purity as the cardinal virtues for women. They were supposed to
follow the dictates of men and domesticity was the chief ideal to be Blank 5 to
maintain chastity and purity.
1-Proposed,Rejected,Denied,Agreed
2-Creation,lot,society,generation
3-Adopted,created,Discarded,Brought forth
4-Lavish,conservative,superficial,ignored
5 -Shunned,Traced,Pursued,glamorous
Question 6 of 15-Directions: In the text below, some words are missing.
Click words from the drop-down box below to the appropriate place in
the text. To undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box
below the text.
Freud was an Austrian neurologist and his psychoanalytical theories had a great
Blank 1 on art, literature, philosophy and criticism. He propounded Blank 2 of
the unconscious mind, mechanism of repression and value of dreams to Blank 3
the mystery of unconscious desires. Freuds research concentrated on
association, dream Blank 4 and the hidden conscious.
Exclude, comprehend, reasons, theories, magic, impression, analysis,
lesson , impact
Question 7 of 15-Directions: In the text below, some words are missing.
Click words from the drop-down box below to the appropriate place in

the text. To undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box
below the text.
A huge fish that is impervious to piranha attacks could become the Blank 1 for a
new class of ultra-tough composite materials. Its scales are so tough that piranha
teeth crack when they Blank 2 down onto them. Each scale is coated with a
rock-hard mineral material, but they have soft Blank 3 made from strings of
stretchy protein. The fish is called the Arapaima, and it'sBlank 4 to Brazil.
Soote, thrill, inspiration, alien, chomp, cores, exterior, native
Question 8 of 15-Directions: In the text below, some words are missing.
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the text. To undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box
below the text.
The environment we are in Blank 1 our moods, ability to Blank 2 relationships,
effectiveness in work or play even our health. In addition, the early childhood
group environment has a very Blank 3 role in childrens learning and
development.
Negative, Affects, Mitigates, form, Try, Crucial, stress
Question 9 of 15-Directions: In the text below, some words are missing.
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the text. To undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box
below the text.
People say that a dog knows its name because it comes when it is called, and
that it remembers its master, because it looks sad in his absence, but Blank 1
its tail and Blank 2 when he returns. That the dog behaves in this way is matter
of Blank 3, but that it knows or remembers anything is an Blank 4, and in fact a
very doubtful one.
Observation, statement, wags, Recognize, barks, inference, moved,
supposition
Question 10 of 15-The text boxes in the left panel have been placed in a
random order. Restore the original order by dragging the text boxes
from the left panel to the right panel.
1. In the United Stales, Lake Erie was dead; in Japan, people were dying of
mercury poisoning.
2. The environmental revolution has been almost three decades in the making,
and it has changed forever how companies do business.
3. Today many companies have accepted their responsibility to do no harm to
the environment.
4. In the 1960s and 1970s, corporations were in a state of denial regarding their
impact on the environment.
5. Then a series of highly visible ecological problems created a groundswell of
support for strict government regulation.

Question 11 of 15-The text boxes in the left panel have been placed in a
random order. Restore the original order by dragging the text boxes
from the left panel to the right panel.
1. Would it kill you to not drive for the fun of it, possibly walk or car pool?
2. These machines release chemicals into the air which pollutes the stuff we
breathe into our bodies.
3. If we want to breathe healthy air so we can enjoy the outdoors, were going to
have to be more conscious on what we do.
4. Every time we gun that engine or peel our tires we pollute the air.
5. We use huge machinery to destroy the rainforest.
Learning through doing
Modern education attaches great importance to learning through doing. It is fully
recognized that the knowledge gained through actually doing the task is more
effective and lasting than that gained through mere reading. That is why all the
modern methods of education give top priority to some hand-work round which
they base the teaching of the curriculum.
Three Rs replaced
In the past, whereas education laid stress on training of three Rs i.e. Reading,
Writing and Arithmetic, modern education attaches great importance to the
training of three Hs i.e. Head, Heart and Hand. It has been realized that the
head, the heart and the hand get the best training through self-activity with
hands and brain, especially when carried out in cooperation with others. Mere
reading of books or listening to others does not help much in this direction.
Participation, not listening
In modern education, the student is not merely a passive listener but is an active
participant in the process of education. In the past, it was the teacher who did
most of the talking. Now it is the student who is expected to be more active and
up and doing and the teacher is merely a guide. For the healthy development of
the mind, it is most essential that the student should be an active giver and not
merely a passive receiver. It is this activity of the mind which will lead to
emotional integration, so necessary for a healthy personality. If the child is
merely a recipient, all the time listening to his teachers, his own personality gets
dwarfed because the teachers personalities dominate over his personality.
Question 12 of 15-Read the text and answer the question by selecting
all the correct responses. More than one response is correct.
Which of the following statements about modern education can be supported
from the text?
1. A basic craft is compulsory in the curriculum of modern education.
2. Knowledge gained through practical training is permanent.
3. It lays greater emphasis on activity based training.

4.Here the teacher plays merely a supportive/facilitating role.

5.Modern education provides greater opportunity for development of distinctive
personality.
A clean river nurtures plankton and water-weeds, which are the food and
nourishment of small fish. This natural cycle of life becomes a feature of any
stretch of water; even an artificially created piece of water like a pond or a canal
will, if left alone, start its own life cycle, beginning with things that wriggle in
the mud. In a short time, small predators will move in, and a complex little food
chain will have started. All water, whether still or flowing, is richly productive, for
where there is water there is life. You often see people fishing in a narrow water
channel; they fish in ponds the size of puddles, in streams that look like gutters.
And they are nearly always rewarded with a catch. The combination of water and
organic matter can always be counted upon to produce some kind of living
matter. The one condition is that the water must have a certain proportion of
oxygen, for all life needs some oxygen. In other words, it must not be polluted
with chemicals.

Question 13 of 15-Read the text and answer the question by selecting

all the correct responses. More than one response is correct.
Which of the following statements are supported by information given in the
text?
1. In all food chains, the weak and sickly are the first to become prey to their
enemies.
2. Predators reduce the fish population.
3.The presence of adequate oxygen in waters is likely to ensure that we get a
better catch of the fish we want.
4.The absence of oxygen in water ensures that the quality of fish it supports is
poor.
5.Water and organic matter combine to start life cycle.
Directions: Read the text and answer the multiple-choice question by
selecting the correct response. Only one response is correcUntil the
1600s, English was, for the most part, spoken only in England. However, during
the course of the next two centuries, English began to spread around the globe
as a result of exploration, trade, colonization, and missionary work. English
gradually became the primary language of international business, banking, and
diplomacy. Currently, more than 80 percent of the information stored on
computer systems worldwide is in English. Two thirds of the worlds science
writing is in English, and English is the main language of technology, advertising,
media, international airports, and air traffic controllers. Today there are more
than 700 million English users in the world, and over half of these are non-native
speakers, constituting the largest number of non-native users of any language in
the world.

Question 14 of 15-Which of the following most accurately summarizes

the opinion of the author in the text?
1.Small enclaves of English speakers have grown in various parts of the world.
2. Over the past 500 years, small English communities have proliferated all over
the world.
3.English has become the dominant language of international communication.
4. English is the native language of more than half a billion people of the world.
Directions: Read the text and answer the multiple-choice question by
selecting the correct response. Only one response is correct.
It is believed that Cushitic-speaking people were the first ethnic group to migrate
to today's Kenya. It is believed that they moved in from northern Africa
somewhere around 2000 BCE. Then came the Arab Traders who started
frequenting the Kenyan coast way back in the first century CE (Common Era).
The Kenyan coast served host to communities of iron workers, subsistence
farmers, hunters and fishermen who supported the economy with agriculture,
fishing, metal production and trade with foreign countries.
Question 15 of 15-Which of the following statements is not true with
reference to Kenya?
1. Settlers from Arab Countries constitute a significant fraction of Kenya's
population today.
2.Cushitic speaking people moved into today's Kenyan territory around 2000
years ago.
3. Arab traders started paying regular visits to Kenya ever since the turn of the
Common Era.
4.The Kenyan coast has over the centuries served host to diverse communities
and cultures.