In the days of white rule, the South African economy suffered immensely from global indifference. Sanctions deterred foreign firms from investing in the country. _____ . Since they could not easily operate abroad, they then started to expand sideways. The mining company Anglo Tech, for instance, diversified into cars, newspapers and other enterprises.
  A) At the same time, rigid exchange controls prevented South African firms from expanding overseas
  B) As a result, there was no foreign competition and this proved disastrous
  C) The crisis is not yet over and interest rates remain steep
  D) In fact, South Africa desperately needs access to global capital
  E) Actually neither of these expectations materialized

  1972 was not an easy or a successful year for the Heath Government in Britain. It was a year of confrontation with the trade unions. _____ . Indeed, it was even forced to adopt certain policies similar to those which it had attacked so vehemently when it had been in Opposition.
  A) Finally, after 1972, there was industrial action in protest against the Government's prices and incomes policy
  B) These problems were aggravated by persistently high levels of unemployment, especially in certain regions.
  C) It was also a year in which the pressure of circumstances forced the Government to abandon many of the initiatives it had started in I970
  D) Moreover, negotiations with the EEC started immediately after the general election of 1970
  E) Consequently, a 90-day standstill was imposed on wages, and prices and charges for goods and services were similarly frozen

  Though free politics and free-market economics go most happily together, _____ .
  A) no new aid would be approved for six months
  B) they could no longer blame the colonialists, who had withdrawn from America two or three decades before
  C) five years ago, dictatorships proclaiming socialists policies prevailed in Africa
  D) one does not necessarily lead to the other, nor guarantee its success
  E) Africans have shown that they want multiparty democracy and are beginning to achieve it

  Read and complete the passage with the correct option.
  
  Brain Linguistic Systems
  
  Neurocognitive Linguistics is an attempt to understand the linguistic system of the human brain. The object of investigation is the mental system that supports our language processing. _____. That is the basic challenge facing neurocognitive linguistics. But since our linguistic systems are housed in our brains, we have no choice but to treat language as a mental phenomenon.
  
   A) Man has always been fascinated by amazing facts about his own brain
   B) Of course, this mental system is not directly observable
   C) There have been numerous kinds of research done on the brain structure
   D) There was one single professor famous for his ideas about the function of the brain
   E) The structure of a human brain is totally different from that of an animal

  _____ . This, we are assured, will enable it to become more "efficient". All affiliated sectors are targeted: hospital care and other care services, ambulance services, care for the aged, social benefits, and the highly-lucrative area of plastic surgery. Patients would henceforth become customers, and hospitals health-care supermarkets.
  A) The medico-pharmaceutical industry is one of the world's leading business sectors and one with an enormous potential for growth and profits in the new century
  B) In fact, to subject healthcare to the laws of the market can only lead to increased inequality and tension in the country
  C) After the privatization of telecommunications and postal services, it is now the turn of the health sector to be opened up to competition and eventual take-over by corporations
  D) The service sector, in which health-care is included, is as vast as it is undefined
  E) For over fifty years, access to health-care for all has come to be regarded as a fundamental human right in many countries

  Which statement is irrelevant ?
  (I) Getting through a day without being exposed to the media would be unthinkable.
  (II) Both directly and indirectly the media have a profound effect on our daily lives.
  (III) What we eat, what we buy, what we do, even what we think is influenced by the media.
  (IV) Yet, the question is whether what the media provides us with can always be good and revealing.
  (V) According to one study, 64 % of the American public turns on television for most of its news.
  A) I
  B) II
  C) III
  D) IV
  E) V

  Arnie becomes so _____ when he talks about painting that it is
  hard not to be infected by his enthusiasm.
  A) laconic
  B) circuitous
  C) impertinent
  D) ardent
  E) recalcitrant

  ice and prepare for major exams such as Cambridge's FCE, PET and KET. Find the irrelevant sentences in each paragraph below.
  Find irrelevant sentence to "Veganism"
   A) Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of exploitation of the animal kingdom.
   B) It wasn't until 1944, when the first Vegan Society was formed in England.
   C) It applies to the practice of living on the products of the plant kingdom to the exclusion of all animal products.
   D) Vegans oppose the unnecessary and barbarous testing of cosmetics and drugs.
   E) Furthermore, vegans do not use soaps, cosmetics, or household products which contain animal fats or oils.

  According to pirate lore, a terrible _____ would follow whoever
  opened the treasure chest.
  A) precursor
  B) precession
  C) rendition
  D) insurgence
  E) malediction

  The primary purpose of notes is to aid learning. Whether the
  notes are taken from a lecture or a discussion, one obviously
  doesn't want to put all the material on record _____ The items selected
  in the notes should be sufficient to enable one to reconstruct the rest
  of the material.
  A) Even so, note-taking from lectures requires more skill than notetaking
  from books.
  B) For many types of courses there are printed notes sold by
  booksellers.
  C) Rather, one makes notes of the most important items only.
  D) Unfortunately, some students can't see that notes are their
  primary source of information.
  E) It is helpful to bear in mind that this is not the only way of taking
  notes.