1) The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A Edison in 1879, created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill, and it fueled the earliest power stations (which were set up at the end of the nineteenth century by Edison himself). As more power plants were constructed throughout the country, the reliance on coal increased. Since the first world war, coal –fired power plants have accounted far about half of the electricity produced in the United States each year. In 1986 such plants had a combined generating capacity of 289, 000 megawatts and consumed 33 percent of the nearly 900 million tons of coal mined in the country that year. Given the uncertainty in the future growth of nuclear power and in the supply of oil and natural gas, coal fired power plants could well provide up to 70% of the electric power in the United States by the end of the century. Yet, in spite of the fact that coal has long been a source of electricity and may remain one for many year ( coal represents about 80 percent of United States fossil – fuel reserves), it has actually never been the most desirable fossil fuel for power plants. The cost of ameliorating these environmental problems, along with the rising cost of building a facility as large and complex as a coal fired-power plant, has also made such plants less attractive from a purely economy perspective. Changes in the technological base of coal fired power plants could restore their attractiveness, however. Whereas some of these changes are evolutionary and are intended mainly to increase the productivity of existing plants, completely new technologies for burning coal cleanly are also being developed.

1. What is the main idea of the passage?

2) Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

Despite being very tolerant, she could not bear his ………. Remarks.

3) Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

………… violation of law and rules has left the country backwards and chaotic

4) Choose the correct SYNONYM.

BRUSQUE:

5) Choose the correct ANTONYM.

IMITATE:

6) Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

A ……. Is distrustful of human goodness and sincerity, and a misanthrope has a hatred of people in general.

7) Choose the correct Synonym.

     CONFESS:

8) Choose the correct ANTONYM:

       DESPITE:

9) Choose the correct SYNONYM.

CORDIAL:

10) Choose the correct SYNONYM.

COMPASSION:

11) Choose the correct synonym.

BREVITY:

12) There is a relationship between the above CAPITILIZED words. Choose the same relation in given options:

BOW : VIOLONIST

13) There is a relationship between the above CAPITILIZED words. Choose the same relation in given options:

FOUNDATION : ROOF

14) There is a relationship between the above CAPITILIZED words. Choose the same relation in given options:

PERJURY : TRUTH

15) Choose the correct synonym:

CONVICT:

16) Choose the correct SYNONYM.

       CRIPPLE:

17) Choose the correct synonym:

       ODD:

18) Choose the correct synonym:

       ODD:

19) Choose the correct antonym:

ENCROACH:

20) Choose the correct synonym.

      BOOST:

21) Choose the correct synonym.

DISAPPOINT: