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Spot the error.

This is a remarkable advance A) ‘than’ the bucket system B) ‘of’ supplying C) ‘homes’ D) ‘with’ water.

Identify the underlined segment in the following sentence, which contains the mistake that needs to be corrected.
It should also help you to understand how can you make better use of the scientific method in your everyday living.

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Read the passage and answer the following question:

Due to the extremely hot weather, the electric company is planning to turn off power in certain districts during the day. This will reduce the total demand for electricity and prevent a city-wide shutdown of electrical services. Power will not be out longer than two hours in your area. For further information, please visit our Web site at www.electricity.com. All areas affected by the shutdown are listed there, as well as the times that the power will be turned off in each area.

How long will power be off?

SPOT THE ERROR: In the following sentences, some segments of each sentence are underlined.

The three Abdul Rehman, like his illustrious predecessor, was a young man of twenty-three when he took office.

How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ‘HISTORICAL’ that have as many letters between them in the word as they have between them in the English alphabet?

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Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters:

ABANDON

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Choose the correct answer:

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he underlined part in the sentence adverbial clause of:

Although Mehran is hardworking, yet he failed.

Questions 7-8 are based on the following passage.

The fact that we were all as safe as kittens under a cook-stove did not, however, assuage in the least the fine despair and the grotesque desperation which seized upon the residents of the East Side when the cry spread like a grass fire that the dam had given way. Some of the most dignified, staid, cynical, and clear-thinking men in town abandoned their wives, stenographers, homes, and offices and ran east. There are few alarms in the world more terrifying than The dam has broken! There are few persons capable of stopping to reason when that clarion cry strikes upon their ears, even persons who live in towns no nearer than five hundred miles to a dam.

Identify the phrase in which the people of the East Side experienced one of the deadliest fears of their lives:

The archaeologist made a _____ discovery that would _____ our understanding of ancient civilizations.

Read the passage and answer the following question:

That freedom means freedom only from foreign domination, is an outworn idea. It is not merely governments that should be free but the people themselves who should be free; and no freedom has any real value for the common man or woman unless it means freedom from want, freedom from disease, freedom from ignorance. This is the main task that confronts us if we are to take our rightful place in the modern world. We cannot hold the clock back, and there it is we who must go forward at a double pace bending all our resources and all our energies to this great purpose.

The great purpose mentioned by the writer at the end of the passage refers to:

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