Q34-47 Theme Exercise

Q A Explanation Skills tested
34 A "regular exercises" collocates with "pulling a trolley full of cardboard through traffic" which shows an irony Context

Collocation

35 B "spare enough money to support our senior citizens" collocates with "respect" Context
36 D "without a family to maintain" collocates with "have to work from dawn until bedtime" Context

Cause and effects relationship

37 A "affluent society" contrast with " "poor countries" with the use of BUT Contrast

Context

38 C "family values" collocates with "sense of community" Parallelism

Context

39 D "unfortunately" shows a negative tone so does "deep shame" Context
40 B Elderly "still working all day long" collocates with" unfortunately" Context
41 C "show thousands more" collocates with "less unusual" Context

Collocation

42 D A contrast is shown between "lives somewhat easier" and" by no means adequate" Context
43 C "saved all their lives" collocates with "still have to find a job" Context
44 A Savings cannot be replenished Context

Collocation

45 D "forced to live on $2440 a month" collocates with "costly city" Context

Collocation

46 B If the officials "tried to live on that amount for a month" , they will" be more realistic in fixing the amount" Context

Cause and effect relationship

47 A "worked for 50 years" collocates with "old age" Context

Collocation

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