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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Everyone expected Mary Zophres to win for her retro-revival Technicolor clothes in La La Land — the eventual winner, Colleen Atwood for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, seemed surprised too. But as other awards began to slip away from the well-reviewed musical, a theme could be teased out. What is Fantastic Beasts if not a plea for equal treatment of people, magical or otherwise? Then, Arrival, a film about the inherent benignity of aliens (read immigrants) won for Best Sound Editing. Hacksaw Ridge, which is, in a way, an anti-guns movie, won in two categories. Fences, about an African-American father who fears racial discrimination, took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Earlier, Moonlight, featuring two minority communities (black and gay), won for Best Supporting Actor. This turned out to be one of those years the Oscar voter was underestimated. As a majority of voters are actors, there was the tendency to think they'd reward La La Land, a celebration of creation: the heroine wants to make movies, the hero wants to make jazz. It looked like the year of The Artist all over again.

Why was it assumed that La La Land would win a lot of awards?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Imagine what this can do

P-­the news industry in our part of the world
Q­-for trust in, and engagement
R-­with, professional journalism and

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Gone are the days

P-about foreign trade and payments
Q-and not really worried
R-when we could think of ourselves as a closed economy

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Further negotiations

P-are necessary
Q-to reach a common understanding
R-to enable implementation

Select the related word/letters/numbers from the given alternatives:

42 : 56 :: 110 : ?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order

It is becoming

P-increasingly clear that anyone
Q-of freedom, justice and equality is seen as a threat
R-who dares to raise issues

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

In some seats, the

P-­winning margin, thereby
Q­-votes for NOTA have been larger than the
R­-determining the result

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Practically (every) part of the coconut tree is used by man.