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Q1:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

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explained the difference between the representation of people and the actual fact.

illustrated how narrow minded and racist westerners were.

argued that cultural imperialism was more significant than colonial domination.

demonstrated how cultural imperialism was used to justify colonial domination

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Q2:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

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their identity was redefined when they were away from home.

they were on a quest to discover their diverse identities.

they were from the progressive middle- and upper-classes of society.

they developed a feminist perspective of the world

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Q3:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

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awareness of gender issues in Victorian society

awareness of the ways in which identity is formed

perspective that they bring to their research

knowledge of class tensions in Victorian society

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Q4:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

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developed the male protagonists' desire for independence.

showed participation in local traditions.

presented travellers' discovery of their identity as different from others.

celebrated the freedom that travel gives.

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Q5:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q5:

historical fiction

political journalism

feminist writing

autobiographical writing

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Q6:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q6:

a civilised society being coercive and unjust.

a property-less mode of living being socially harmonious.

the role of agriculture in the advancement of knowledge.

the role of pathogens in the spread of infectious diseases.

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Q7:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q7:

make the argument that an environmentally conscious lifestyle is a more harmonious way of living.

bolster his argument that people are basically decent, but progress as we know it can make them selfish.

advocate the promotion of less complex societies as a basis for greater security and prosperity.

highlight the enormous impact that settled farming had on population growth.

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Q8:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Easy

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a time that enables changes in societies and cultures.

a sign of regression in society's trajectory.

a temporary phase which can be rectified by social action.

resulting from a breakdown in the veneer of human nature.

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Q9:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q9:

Bregman agrees with Hobbes that firm leadership is needed to ensure property rights and regulate strife.

Hobbes and Rousseau disagreed on the fundamental nature of humans, but both believed in the need for a strong state.

the author of the review believes in the veneer theory of human nature.

most people agree with Hobbes' pessimistic view of human nature as being intrinsically untrustworthy and selfish.

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Q10:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q10:

It can cause depression in viewers.

It is designed to be addictive.

It increases human contact as it fills an isolation void.

It is shown to have adverse effects on young children's learning.

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Q11:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q11:

screens provide social contact in an increasingly isolating world.

with falling costs, people are streaming more content on their devices.

some workers face punitive action if they are not online.

there is a growth in computer-based teaching in public schools

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Q12:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

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promoting screen time in public schools while opting for a screen-free education for their own children.

developing new work-efficiency programmes while lobbying for the "right to disconnect" bill.

concealing the findings of psychologists and neuroscientists on screen-time use from the public.

pushing for greater privacy while working with advertisement-support platforms to mine data.

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Q13:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q13:

"How comfortable someone is with human engagement could become a new class marker."

screens are filling a crucial void."

studies show that time on these advertisement-support platforms is unhealthy.

"Gmail is the same Gmail. And it's all free."

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Q14:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q14:

Whoever you are, you would be crazy to think that there is no crisis.

The aftermath of the crisis will strengthen the central ideology of individualism in the Western world.

The ideology of individualism must be set aside in order to deal with the crisis.

In the decades to come, other ideologies will emerge in the aftermath of the crisis.

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Q15:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Easy

Q15:

The author's preoccupation with the economic crisis is not less than two years old.

The economic crisis outlasted the author's preoccupation with it.

The author has witnessed many economic crises by travelling a lot for two years.

The author is preoccupied with the economic crisis because he is being followed.

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Q16:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q16:

Most people are yet to gain any real understanding of the workings of the financial world.

The global economic crisis lasted for more than two years.

The huge gap between science and the arts has steadily narrowed over time.

The economic crisis was not a failure of collective action to rectify economic problems.

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Q17:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q17:

The difficulty with understanding financial matters is that they have become so arcane.

Economic crises could be averted by changing prevailing ideologies and beliefs.

The story of the economic crisis is also one about international relations, global financial security, and mass psychology.

The failure of economic systems does not necessarily mean the failure of their ideologies.

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Q18:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q18:

An educational curriculum that promotes economic research.

Economic policies that are more sensitively calibrated to the fluctuations of the market.

An educational curriculum that promotes developing financial literacy in the masses.

The complete nationalisation of all financial institutions.

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Q19:

CAT

Medium

Q19:

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Q20:

CAT

Medium

Q20:

Aesthetic political representation advocates autonomy for the representatives drawing from disinterestedness, which itself is different from indifference.

Aesthetic political representation advocates autonomy for the representatives manifested through disinterestedness which itself is different from indifference.

Disinterestedness is different from indifference as the former means a non-subjective evaluation of things which is what constitutes aesthetic political representation.

Disinterestedness, as distinct from indifference, is the basis of political representation.

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Q21:

CAT

Medium

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CAT

Medium

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Q23:

CAT

Medium

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Q24:

CAT

Medium

Q24:

Most believe that language originated from a need to articulate facts, but others think it emerged from the need to promote social cohesion and cooperation, thus enabling human survival.

From the belief that humans invented language to process factual information, scholars now think that language was the outcome of the need to ensure social cohesion and thus human survival.

Since its origin, language has been continuously evolving to higher forms, from being used to identify objects to ensuring human survival by enabling our ancestors to bond and cooperate.

Experts are challenging the narrow view of the origin of language, as being merely used to describe facts and label objects, to being necessary to promote more complex interactions among humans.

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Q25:

CAT

Medium

Q25:

Genetic theory has a wide range of theoretical approaches and applications and Metabolic theory must have the same in the field of ecology.

Genetic theory has evolved to spawn a wide range of theoretical models and applications but Metabolic theory need not evolve in a similar manner in the field of ecology.

Genetic theory has a wide range of theoretical approaches and application and is foundational to evolutionary biology and Metabolic theory has the potential to do the same for ecology.

Genetic theory provides an example of how a range of theoretical approaches and applications can make a theory successful.

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Q26:

CAT

Medium

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