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Directions for questions 1 to 14: Sentences in each question when properly sequenced form a coherent
paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter a, b, c, …. Choose the most logical order of sentences
from the four choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. (a) If you thing chimpanzees are cuddly, think again.

(b) A new study of wild chimpanzees found that gangs of the apes routinely attack rival chimps
to seize their land and massacre their young, preserving their dominance.
(c) For researchers claim that the mankind’s closest cousins in the animal world are ruthless
killers with a taste for gang warfare.
(d) Over the 10-year study, the researchers witnessed 18 attacks and found evidence of three
others.

A. abcd B. acbd C. cbda D. bdac

2. (a) Papastathopoulos did everything but ask for Messi’s autograph

(b) But perhaps he should try writing the name down for future reference
(c) Lionel Messi may not have heard of Sokratis Papastathopoulos before
(d) As he followed the Barcelona star around the pitch at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in
Polokwane on Tuesday

A. abcd B. abdc C. cbad D. cdab

3. (a) And confronted us with inconvenient truths, as with global climate change
(b) It has set limits to our technology, such as the impossibility of reaching the speed of light
(c) Failed to overcome our vulnerabilities to cancer and other diseases
(d) Science has given humanity more than its share of letdowns

A. dbca B. dbac C. bcad D. dabc

4. (a) Like them or hate them, it seems we can’t do without them

(b) FIFA 2010 has come to be as much about the noisy vuvuzelas as about the nail-biting
matches and the only way to escape the cacophony is by hitting the mute button.
(c) And while there are a large number of people who cannot bear the very mention of the
word.
(d) There are a whole lot of others who have taken to the vuvuzela, now considered FIFA’s
favourite memorabilia.

A. bacd B. bcad C. abdc D. abcd

5. (a) From Shakespearean drama to the 1963 mega-movie starring feisty Elizabeth Taylor, cultural
representations have mostly projected the Egyptian queen as a woman of beauty and
indomitable spirit
(b) Film producer Scott Rudin thinks she’d be “perfect” for the role, and with reason.
(c) Angelina Jolie’s a serious contender to play big screen Cleopatra.
(d) A superstar, Jolie lacks neither attribute.

A. abcd B. abdc C. adcb D. cbad

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6. (a) A study has found that cartoon characters that appear on snack packaging can actually
influence a child’s taste buds.
(b) The study was conducted by Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity on 40
children in the age group of 4 to 6.
(c) Researchers found that when exactly the same food items were put into different packages,
about 50 percent of the children claimed that snacks from packaging with Dora the Explorer,
Shrek and Scooby-Doo tasted better than snacks from plain packaging.
(d) It was also found that when given a choice, two-thirds of the kids preferred a snack with
images of cartoon celebrities on the front.

A. acdb B. cdab C. abcd D. cdba

7. (a) Ernst Mayr was born in Kempten, Germany, in 1904.

(b) In 1953 he joined the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, where he is
currently Professor Emeritus.
(c) He has written sixteen books, and published more than seven hundred scientific papers.
(d) One of the main architects of the modern synthesis of genetic and evolutionary theory, his
career has spanned fields as diverse as ornithology, systematics, zoo-geography,
evolutionary theory and the philosophy and history of science.

A. adcb B. dcba C. abdc D. abcd

8. (a) That was when I realized that economists have not grasped a simple fact that to scientists is
obvious.
(b) The size of the Earth as a whole is fixed.
(c) Neither the surface nor the mass of the planet is growing or shrinking.
(d) The same is true for energy budgets: the amount absorbed by the Earth is equal to the
amount it radiates.

A. abcd B. bcda C. cdab D. bacd

9. (a) Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist.

(b) He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s
(c) As did his apparent life of adventure and the public image he cultivated
(d) His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th
Century fiction.
(e) His career peaked in 1954 when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A. abcde B. adcbe C. abecd D. adbec

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10. (a) I don’t know whether this is true

(b) They have just been presented with the bill for the years they spent shouting down anyone
who questioned the company.
(c) I’m finding it difficult to summon up the sympathy demanded by the institutional investors
now threatening to sue BP
(d) But I do know that the investors did all they could not to find out.
(e) They claim that the company inflated its share price by misrepresenting its safety record.

A. cbade B. adbec C. adebc D. ceadb

11. (a) Meditation has been proven to help

(b) Or stop, even briefly, to try to make sense of things.
(c) In a world seemingly moving at hyperspeed, it can be daunting to simply slow down
(d) But exactly what is it?
(e) Why practice it?

A. acbde B. adecb C. cbade D. adebc

12. (a) A Zambian who flew down to the Capital barely a week ago, Kirby is the recreational
manager who oversees the hotel’s Pilates studio, gymnasium and the tennis and squash
courts.
(b) Which is make them sweat.
(c) In a black spandex suit, Kirby makes them flex their muscles on the mat and contour their
body on the silver gym ball before they rush for their breakfast meetings and power lunches.
(d) What Jane Kirby does to the guests at The Aman, no one else would dare to.
(e) “I had never been here so there was a fear of the unknown. But within a day that feeling
evaporated since the atmosphere resembled that of my hometown Lusaka”, says the 38
years old, settling in to the comfort of a Pilates routine.

A. dbcae B. acbde C. daceb D. deabc

13. (a) Beginning with the Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century, more and more
scientific observations were in conflict with the biblical story.
(b) It was inevitable that in due time the early practitioners of science would feel compelled to
find explanations for many other phenomena in the world.
(c) The Copernican Revolution was the first development to demonstrate that not every
statement in the Bible could be interpreted literally.
(d) The newly developing science was at first primarily concerned with astronomy, that is, with
the sun, the starts, the planets and other physical phenomena.
(e) Its credibility was gradually being weakened by a series of discoveries.

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A. abcde B. deabc C. aecdb D. daecb

14. (a) William Dalrymple’s new book is a riveting account of the dynasty’s final months.
(b) At its height, under the Emperor Aurangzeb in the early 18th century, it ruled over all of the
Indian Subcontinent bar its southernmost tip.
(c) By the time Zafar came into his inheritance in 1837, the Mughal emperor was a pensioner of
the British, whose writ scarcely ran beyond the walls of Delhi.
(d) On November 7th 1862 the body of the exiled Bahadur Shah Zafar II was lowered into an
unmarked grave in Myanmar, in the city then known as Rangoon.
(e) Zafar had been the last Mughal emperor, his death the final act of a dynasty that had reigned
for 350 years.
A. adebc B. abdec C. abcde D. debca
Directions for questions 15 to 20: Four sentences of the paragraphs are jumbled up and labeled a, b, c
and d. These four sentences when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph with sentence 1 and
6 being the first and the last sentence. Choose the correct sequence of these 4 four sentences.
15. 1. Although per capita real income in the United States increased 50 percent in just one generation
A. These middle-class families have had to work hard for their modest gains.
B. As for how hard they worked and the modesty of their gains, it is doubtful whether most other
people in the world would regard Americans’ work in air conditioned offices with coffee breaks as
“hard”
C. Or their standard of living as “just getting by.”
D. However, as someone once said: “Just as soon as people make enough money to live
comfortably, they want to live extravagantly.”
6. Even millionaires can have a hard time making ends meet if they try to live like billionaires.
A. dbac B abcd C. acbd D. badc
16. 1. To known that economics is, we must first know what an economy is
A. That is true as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough
B. Perhaps most of us think of an economy as a system for the production and distribution of
the foods and services we use in everyday life.
C. The Garden of Eden was a system for the production and distribution of goods and services.
D. But it was not an economy, because everything was available in unlimited abundance.
6. Without scarcity, there is no need to economize and therefore no economics.
A. bacd B. abcd C. bcda D. badc
17. 1. A great deal new has been learned about the workings of evolution since Darwin’s day.
A. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Darwin himself, a clear and forceful writer as well as the greatest
biologist of his generation, could write for us a new book on the status of evolutionary thought
today.
B. This book is the next best
C. Of course that’s impossible, because Darwin died in 1882
D. It has been written by a man who is one of the greatest biologists of our own day
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6. Who has also enjoyed a long and incredibly productive life, and who is also a clear and
forceful writer.
A. abcd B. acdb C. abdc D. acbd
18. 1. So what is to be done?
A. For instance, in five-year-olds, phonics training can clear up dyslexia within six to 18 months.
B. Earlier detection means quicker correction.
C. The first step is to recognize exceptional intelligence as well as development disorders so
that parents and teachers can intervene.
D. But if treatment begins only a year later, the correction can take twice as long
6. Extending the chance that the child gives up on school.

A. abcd B. cdba C. cabd D. cbad

19. 1. People have pondered the power of nails since the Roman days.
A. For centuries, blacksmiths made nails one at a time, at considerable expense.
B. By drawing a short rod of red-hot iron, hammering one end to a point and pounding the
other end to a head.
C. By the 1880s steam-powered machines sped up the process and “cut nails” became less
expensive, however, their strength was still variable.
D. By the late 1700s nailsmiths had devised hand-operated machines that could cut nails from
flat iron sheets.
6. That changed in the early 1900s, when steel became both flexible and very strong.

A. abcd B. abdc C. cdab D. cdba

20. 1. Anyone who lives on a flight path known how noisy aircraft can be as they come in to land.
A. Because the airport is often congested, aircraft are frequently directed to circle over the
capital, increasing the misery.
B. The direction of the prevailing wind means that for most of the time the planes must fly over
central London.
C. At Heathrow airport in west London an aircraft lands every 45 seconds, starting at four
o’clock in the morning and continuing until almost midnight.
D. More than 1m people live under the flight path into Heathrow and the Department of
Transport in Britain estimates that 375,000 people are affected by the noise to the extent
that conversation is regularly and frequently interrupted.
6. So he unveiling of a design for a new “silent” aircraft this week was met with uncritical
approval.

A. abcd B. cbad C. cdab D. acdb

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