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2 scarcity mindsets to a vacuum will reproduce old hierarchies. Settlements would require closedloop lifesupport, radiation shielding, and governance that can withstand smallgroup politics. (8) _______ the hype, even optimistic timelines acknowledge decades of incremental trials. Any credible blueprint must budget oxygen, water, and power with (9) _______ redundancy and must prioritize habitat design: (10) _______ pressurized habitats capable of modular expansion. The rhetoric should also be sober, matching (11) _______ risks with ethical clarity, and distinguishing research stations from colonies. Finally, institutions – funding models or institutional mandates – will (12) _______ whether Mars talk remains parable or practice. (Adapted from The New Yorker, “The Long History of Life on Mars,” 2025) Question 7. A. nevertheless B. accordingly C. paradoxically D. incidentally Question 8. A. Beside B. Despite C. Except D. Along Question 9. A. much B. many C. ample D. every Question 10. A. durable lightweight habitats B. lightweight durable habitats C. habitats durable lightweight D. durable habitats lightweight Question 11. A. systemic B. systematical C. systemicly D. systemically Question 12. A. dictate B. determine C. prolong D. govern Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the best arrangement of utterances or sentences to make a meaningful exchange or text in each of the following questions from 13 to 17. Question 13. a. We propose a unified registry so benefits can travel with workers across platforms without administrative rupture. b. Preliminary consultations reveal gaps in accident insurance and retirement savings that cannot be left to voluntary corporate pilots. c. As requested, this note outlines our department’s roadmap to extend legal protection to appbased workers before the current fiscal closes. d. To forestall misclassification, we recommend statutory definitions that bind aggregators to socialsecurity contributions. e. With legislative time tight, stakeholder mapping and a public dashboard will be our accountability spine. (Adapted from The Times of India, “Maharashtra begins mapping gig workers, plans policy to extend legal and welfare cover by yearend”) A. c – b – a – d – e B. b – c – a – e – d C. c – a – e – b – d D. a – c – b – d – e Question 14. a. Minister: If platforms can offload risk indefinitely, your incomes stay volatile and your safety nets imaginary. b. Worker: Then ensure portability – benefits should follow the person, not the app they happen to log into this week. c. Minister: We’re drafting provisions to tether platforms to contributory funds; mapping the workforce is step one. (Adapted from The Times of India, “Maharashtra begins mapping gig workers, plans policy to extend legal and welfare cover by yearend”) A. a – b – c B. c – a – b C. a – c – b D. c – b – a Question 15. a. Researcher: Publication bias inflated early claims; null effects at conferences rarely survived into journals. b. Researcher: Some tasks do show edges, but they are narrow, and aging benefits may be the more reliable signal. c. Parent: Yet I keep reading that bilingual kids switch tasks faster and resist distraction. d. Parent: So I should still raise my child bilingual? e. Researcher: Absolutely – languages expand worlds; just don’t market it as a magic executivefunction pill. (Adapted from The New Yorker, “Is Bilingualism Really an Advantage?”) A. a – b – c – d – e B. b – a – c – d – e C. a – c – b – d – e D. b – d – a – c – e Question 16. a. Contrary to the midcentury fear that multiple codes muddle a child, longitudinal cohorts show no penalty to verbal growth.

4 C. many of which, having sprawled beyond their zoning, quietly ossify into informal economies D. many of which having been sprawl beyond its zonings, quietly ossify into informal economy Question 19. A. disbursements that, if they had arrived sooner, stabilizes water, sanitation, and shelter pipelines B. disbursements which will, were they to arrive sooner, stabilized water, sanitation, and shelter pipelines C. disbursements that would, had they arrived sooner, have stabilized water, sanitation, and shelter pipelines D. disbursements which, arriving sooner, would stabilizing water, sanitation, and shelter pipeline Question 20. A. whose mandate, though municipal rather than federal, are stretched across migration’s entire lifecycle B. whose mandates, though municipal rather than federal, are stretched across migration’s entire lifecycle C. who mandates, though municipal rather than federal, is stretched across migration’s entire lifecycle D. which mandates, though municipal rather than federal, are stretching across migration’s entire lifecycle Question 21. A. only then will ministries budget for tenyear horizons rather than oneoff surges B. only then ministries will budget for tenyear horizons rather than oneoff surges C. not until will ministries budget for tenyear horizons rather than oneoff surges D. not unless ministries would budget for tenyear horizons rather than oneoff surges Question 22. A. were regional compacts to negotiate earlier, border towns had not become triage sites indefinitely B. if regional compacts negotiate earlier, border towns would not have become triage sites indefinitely C. had regional compacts been negotiated earlier, border towns might not have become triage sites indefinitely D. unless regional compacts had negotiated earlier, border towns would not become triage sites indefinitely Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 23 to 30. In cities where statues are draped rather than toppled, remembrance is practiced through hesitation. Plaques acquire footnotes, tour guides rehearse competing chronologies, and schoolchildren learn that the absence of a monument can itself be a monument. When proposals for new memorials stall, archives become pilgrimage sites – reading rooms stand in for plazas – while former plinths gather candles and cardboard manifestos. The politics of caution, though derided as paralysis, often signals an ethical refusal to let one narrative calcify at the expense of others. Curators and urbanists increasingly speak of “nonuments”: sites whose power derives from what no longer stands. The category is capacious – the rejected, the removed, the ruined, the rebuilt, the repurposed – and resists singular readings. Because memory is a choreography between objects and their publics, no monument, however didactic, can dictate a single past. In Paris, the Bastille’s vanished masonry, the Panthéon’s secular liturgy, and the Fourth Plinth’s revolving commissions illustrate how absence, ritual, and experiment braid into a living syllabus of history. For critics, the danger is nostalgia masquerading as neutrality. Efforts to “restore” often smuggle yesterday’s hierarchies into tomorrow’s plazas; conversely, total erasure can launder responsibility by deleting the evidence of harm. A more demanding civic pedagogy reframes sites rather than sanitizes them, insisting that damaged statues, empty sockets, or reprogrammed