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5. Man's first steps civilisation came with the discoveries that animals could be

tamed and plants could be cultivated.

(1) toward
(2) beyond
(3) around
(4) about

6. By the 1960s, technological advances had made sending a person to the moon .

(1) lethal
(2) gradual
(3) irreconcilable
(4) feasible

7. Like many of its neighbouring countries, Oman almost all of its wealth from

petroleum.

(1) portrays
(2) condenses
(3) derives
(4) inhabits

8. Unfortunately, the powers granted by the Constitution to the first government of the

United States proved to be for dealing with the problems which the country faced.

(1) invaluable
(2) inadequate
(3) inadmissible
(4) inseparable

Restatements (Questions 9-12)

This part consists of several sentences, each followed by four possible ways of restating the
main idea of that sentence in different words. For each question, choose the one restatement
which best expresses the meaning of the original sentence.

9. Considering that we spend close to one-third of our lives asleep, it is hard to believe that

sleep has been studied seriously for only the last 30 years.

(1) During the last 30 years, serious students of sleep have come close to developing
new beliefs about what we do when asleep.

(2) During the last 30 years, sleep has been studied more seriously than activities that
we perform when we are not asleep.

(3) Only during the last 30 years have people begun to change their beliefs about the
amount of time that should be spent sleeping.

(4) It is amazing that research on sleep has been going on for only the last 30 years, in
view of the fact that so much of our time is spent sleeping.

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