1 |
<u>Thrifty</u> housewives preserved (Kept in condition) their homegrown vegetables, |
- A. Carefull
- B. Economical
- C. Wise
- D. Cautions
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2 |
Nowadays water is also carried to cities through an<u>aqueduct:</u> |
- A. An iron channel
- B. A pipeline
- C. System of rubber papers
- D. A system of machenical pumps
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3 |
People are now more <u>willing</u> to look for new truths. |
- A. In a mood
- B. Happy
- C. Ready
- D. Agreeable
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4 |
It is against the law to throw ______ in the streets. |
- A. Old clothes
- B. Garbage (Waste Foods)
- C. Pieces of furniture
- D. Old tyres and tubes
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5 |
A.................... ago it was common practice in many cities to buy water by the bucketful. |
- A. Decade
- B. Score
- C. Century
- D. Millennium
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6 |
Water had to be carried a <u>considerable</u>distance: |
- A. Short
- B. Great (or long)<br>
- C. enough
- D. tiresome
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7 |
In other words more than ______ years have been added to the expected length of man's life |
- A. Fifteen
- B. Twenty
- C. Thirty
- D. Forty
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8 |
<u>Altitude </u>means: |
- A. Thinking and feeling about
- B. Thinking about
- C. Feeling about
- D. Knowing about
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9 |
Astrology and fortune telling are still pratised. |
- A. Biology
- B. Maths
- C. Puzzle
- D. Knowledge of heavenly bodies
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10 |
This was a <u>remarkable</u> advance from the bucket system: |
- A. great
- B. surprising
- C. noticeable
- D. useful
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