Direction: Identify the option that arranges the given parts in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
a) In Shakespeare’s hands, English drama
b) that first shone forth in his early history plays
c) William Shakespeare is considered as the greatest dramatist and poet of English language.
d) achieved a matchless brilliance
Direction: Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the word ‘Naïve’ from the given sentence.
After years of working in politics, she had become cynical and jaded, convinced that all politicians were corrupt and that the system was rigged against the people.
Direction: Select the most appropriate phrasal verb to fill in the blank.
The driver very subtly ______ the traffic violation he committed.
Direction: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Colonialism had a great impact on the lives of the aboriginal Australians who were eventually ______ (1) ______ by the whites with all power and privilege. The colonisers turned their land into rubbish pits and ______ (2) ______ sites for their own betterment. The aborigines were often ______ (3) ______ as sub-humans with low status and dirty habits. The whites not only displaced the tribes off their homeland but also ______ (4) ______ the beauty and balance of the natural world. An increase in deforestation and destruction of traditional land led ______ (5) ______ like emu, eagle, and kangaroo, among many others to dwindle over time.