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

My coat's pretty warm, even though it cost £9.99 and came from the flea market. It had a label in it, CHRISTIN BIOR, but I cut it out as soon as I got home. You can't work where I work and have CHRISTIN BIOR in your coat. You could have a genuine vintage Christian Dior label. Or something Japanese. Or maybe no label because you make your clothes yourself out of retro fabrics that you source at Alfies Antiques. But not CHRISTIN BIOR.

As I get near Catford Bridge, I start to feel a knot of tension. I really don't want to be late today. My boss has started throwing all sorts of hissy fits about people "swanning in at all times," so I left an extra twenty minutes early, in case it was a bad day. I can already see: It's a god-awful day. They've been having a lot of problems on our line recently and keep cancelling trains with no warning. Trouble is, in London rush hour, you can't just cancel trains. What are all the people who were planning to get on that train supposed to do? Evaporate?

Which of the following situations creates a 'bad day' for the author?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The Greek plays

P : maintain an extremely

Q : particularly the tragedies,

R : high intellectual level 

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

We need not
P-order to nurture true cosmopolitanism
Q-burden of loving each other in
R-place on ourselves the unbearable

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The white American underclass is in thrall

P-and used heroin needles
Q-to a vicious, selfish culture
R-whose main products are misery

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

We are late because my wife took two hours to (put up) her make-up.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

I went to sleep last night, (almost as soon as) my head hit the pillow.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The pilgrim (lain) in the shade of the tree.

What would be the next number in the series  

  9, 8, 18, 6, 36, 4, 72, 2, 144, ?