COMPREHENSION TEST
 91. (1) Mount Olympus                   126. (4) There is a lack of coordina-    166. (2) a lower death rate
 92. (3) To honour Zeus                        tion among individuals, groups,    167. (1) An impending earthquake
 93. (4) 2781 years (2006 + 776)               institutions and states            168. (2) Animals have certain instincts
 94. (2) Skating                         127. (2) Divisiveness and asking for          that human beings don’t possess
 95. (1) physical fitness, education of        criticism                          169. (3) The Chinese failed to predict
     youth and friendship                128. (4) Tarnish                              the earthquake
 96. (1) Faith in progress is deep-      129. (3) Age-old beliefs, religious tol- 170. (1) remove
     rooted in our culture                     erance, poverty and diversity in   171. (3) should resemble mathemati-
 97. (3) That material progress leads          day-to-day living                       cal formula
     to higher satisfaction and well-    130. (2) The object of ambition          172. (3) a linguist
     being                               131. (3) they wanted to take parts of    173. (2) technical terminology
 98. (3) They were lazy                       the ship and sell them.             174. (3) the average man often uses
 99. (3) They had limited desires        132. (4) By pumping air into the tanks.       in his own vocabulary what was
100. (1) They have a low degree of       133. (3) Having to contend with               once technical language not
     wants                                    sharks.                                  meant for him
101. (4) Because of lack of self-disci-  134. (2) they had succeeded when ev-     175.(4) Government
     pline                                    eryone thought they would fail.     176. (2) The Eradication of Small-pox
102. (1) By taking risks                 135. (1) rudder                          177. (2) To eliminate small-pox world-
103. (3) It helps us to learn            136. (2) if we use it carefully               wide in ten years.
104. (1) By taking a short holiday       137. (1) if we express ourselves alike   178. (3) Isolation of victims and mass
105. (2) One has to work hard and             to all                                   vaccinations
     learn at least from failures.       138. (3) using words carelessly          179. (1) Previous projects had failed.
106. (3) punishments do not help to      139. (2) careless use of words creates   180. (3) Small-pox victims no longer
     reform criminals.                        enemies.                                 die when they contract the dis-
107. (2) to cremate his mother           140. (4) he lacks the power of discrimi-      ease
                                              nation in the use of words.         181. (3) our efforts to assimilate
108. (1) rushed her children to the hos-
     pital.                              141. (4) Discipline                           po liti cal and technological
                                         142. (1) with self                            activities
109. (2) are less dangerous than other
     criminals.                          143. (1) Society                         182. (2) Political revolutions
110. (2) the woman regrets what she      144. (2) rebuilding and restructuring    183. (3) play instinct
     has done, but not the man                 society into a strong nation       184. (1) his organized purposefulness
111. (3) its main purpose was to         145. (2) spreading to everyone           185. (3) political and technological
     change inequalities between men     146. (1) 40 hours a week                      revolutions achieved by man
     and women.                          147. (4) employing someone to look       186. (4) both (1) and (3)
112. (4) Men have done nothing to dis-         after the child                    187. (4) A good religion supports demo-
     sipate ignorance.                   148. (2) she was not able to control          cratic system
113. (1) men have no right to judge            her angry baby                     188. (3) science and democracy
     women.                              149. (3) I had no money and so I left    189. (4) Faith without rational evi-
114. (3) beauty cannot be defined ad-          the baby alone                          dence may not be acceptable to
     equately.                           150.(4) He can tolerate cruelty neither       the educated people
115. (2) a lot of excitement and cheer-        to children nor to animals         190. (2) To inculcate scientific spirit
     fulness in the conference hall      151. (2) To weigh and consider                in man
116.(2) lack social responsibility       152. (3) To be read only in parts        191. (3) falling
117. (1) there is a benefit for them-    153. (4) It makes him an exact man       192. (2) four times
     selves                              154. (4) Meaner sort of books            193. (2) ahead
118. (1) wants to acquire new tech-      155. (1) Thoroughly read and under-      194. (2) very slow growth in popula-
     nology                                    stood                                   tion and modern agricultural
119. (1) the poor and the weak must      156. (2) suggestion made in trance            practices and better irrigation
     benefit from new technology         157. (3) taking it seriously             195. (4) two and a half times
120. (2) Individuals must work for the   158. (2) make life easier                196. (2) 21st century
     benefit of the society without ex-  159. (3) it was a substitute for         197. (1) not to be taken seriously
     pecting any return or personal            anaesthesia                        198. (2) serious planning is needed
     benefits                            160. (4) curing war anxiety              199. (3) plenty of oil
121. (3) what journalism is about        161. (4) good spirits walk on them       200. (3) sixty nine
122. (1) all the rules of writing        162. (3) plenty                          201. (1) very low
123. (2) have a good nose for news       163. (2) it is closely associated with   202. (3) nearly three fourths of the
124. (1) respect for truth                     the growth of the child                 households
125. (1) A plastic surgeon can help a    164. (3) lovers of nature                203. (2) sanitised
     journalist                          165. (3) curved                          204. (2) indifference
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