9 in my mind for something non-committal to say.   "Is it really possible to   10    our society down the middle like that?" I asked. "I mean," I said, panicking a   11   lest I had offended this eminent man, "is it really as bad as all that? Shouldn't we be trying to 12    understanding between people, rather than setting them up   13   one another?" I hunted in my mind for a way of turning the conversation   14   to less troubled waters.

3.   Choose the word from A, B or C that best completes the sentence.

1.   National and international efforts should give     to action programs integrating population and development.   

A. privilege      B. priority    C. principle     

2. At Golden State Power we are accused of the same thing for      reasons.

A. identical      B. optional       C. original

3.   Greatly agitated, I rushed to the apartment and tried the door,     to find it locked.

A. just        B. only     C. hence

4.   On a rainy day I was driving north through Vermont      I noticed a young man holding up a sign reading " Boston ".

A. where    B. which       C. when

5.   The remarkable     of life on the Galopagos Island inspired Darwin to establish his theory of evolution.

A. variety        B. celebrity      C. diversity

6.   If you want to set up a company, you must      with the regulations laid down by the authorities.

A. confirm       B. accord        C. comply

7.   A wage-earner has to make     for his/her old age by putting aside enough money to live on when old.

A. supply B. provision     C. assurance         

8.   We all know that the farmers are more anxious for rain than the people in the city because they have more at            

A. stake    B. loss           C. danger

9.   The pollution question as well as other issues is going to be discussed when the Congress is in      again next spring.

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