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Question 1 (case study, 5 parts)
Asked once: 24 Sep 2025 S2
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank: To conceive of gender as ontologically prior or naturally originary is to misrecognize its status as a [1] _______, a semiotic and performative topology whose coherence is secured only through its reiteration across spatial, legal, and psychic apparatuses. Within this regime, embodiment is not merely lived but mediated—filtered through hermeneutic technologies that valorize some corporealities while rendering others abject, deviant, or structurally unintelligible. The state, in tandem with biomedical epistemes and juridico-political grammars, exercises a necropolitical calibration of life itself—where recognition is not a right but a [2] _______, allocated via matrices of intelligibility that are historically contingent and politically fungible. This diposit if renders gender a function of discursive legibility rather than biological inevitability. Resistance, when funneled through these grammars, risks becoming complicit in the very structures it seeks to subvert. Hence, the radical task is not merely to “expand” recognition but to effect a [3] _______ of recognition’s ontological architecture. This entails refusing the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion that liberal frameworks offer and instead exposing their constitutive foreclosure of alterity. Such a politics necessitates the [4] _______ of normativity as a structuring logic of embodiment. Only through its unmaking can a post-identitarian ethics of becoming be envisioned—one that privileges contingency over coherence, opacity over transparency, and relational indeterminacy over categorical fixity. In this schema, freedom is not recuperative but [5] _______—a rupture from taxonomic legibility, a departure from the logocentric compulsion to be known.83What should come in the place of blank number [1]?Tap an option to check your answer.
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Question 2 (case study, 5 parts)
Asked once: 23 Sep 2025 S3
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank: The pursuit of global equity in the anthropocene is less a matter of distributive justice and more a theatre of ontological misrecognition. While the Global North presents technocratic solutions as universally applicable, such solutions often encode assumptions of temporal supremacy and civilizational [1] _______. Climate finance, for instance, masquerades as benevolence while entrenching hierarchies of surveillance and dependence. The epistemes of the South, rather than being engaged on their own terms, are often reconfigured through extractive logics of “capacity building,” a term whose etymology betrays its colonial [2] _______. Embedded within these discourses is the idea that certain populations must be “readied” for modernity—thus reproducing a pedagogical asymmetry that masks itself as aid.Meanwhile, planetary imaginaries are increasingly framed through cartographies of emergency. The language of “tipping points” and “irreversible loss” evokes a moral urgency that, paradoxically, facilitates a form of ecological [3] _______, wherein radical structural reform is substituted by incremental techno-fixes. Carbon offsets, biodiversity credits, and green financialization proliferate not as correctives, but as symptoms of an underlying refusal to dislodge anthropocentric capitalism. In such a milieu, protest is not silence-breaking but often met with strategic [4] _______, where rhetorical accommodation obscures institutional inertia. Civil society is co-opted, not crushed. The subaltern voice is archived, not amplified. Thus, to reclaim ecological justice is not merely to demand inclusion, but to interrogate the ontologies that define inclusion itself. Absent this, the dream of planetary stewardship will remain a ceremonial [5] _______, rich in symbolism, barren in substance.83What should come in the place of blank number [1] ?Tap an option to check your answer.
84What should come in the place of blank number [2]?Tap an option to check your answer.
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87What should come in the place of blank number [5]?Tap an option to check your answer.
Question 3 (case study, 5 parts)
Asked once: 23 Sep 2025 S1
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank: To speak of the political as an abstract structure is, perhaps, already to concede to the logic of the archive: that which preserves through containment, and [1] _____ through its very naming. The subject here is neither born nor made—but suspended, deferred in the machinic interplay of signifiers. One becomes governable only to the extent that one appears, and to appear is already to capitulate to the syntax of recognition. Power, then, does not suppress but surfaces—it emerges in the folds of citation, in the gentle violence of classification. The biometric gaze is not ocular but computational; not what it sees, but what it does not allow to vanish. Resistance, if it resists at all, cannot be found in opposition, but in [2] _____—in the refusal to be coherent, in the grammarless whisper. The body, meanwhile, becomes a ledger: inscribed, decoded, re-encoded. What justice can exist in such a system? Not that of law, but of rupture. A justice that unbinds, that refuses the terms of its own invocation. It is not reparation that is sought, but [3] _____—the unworking of systems, the destitution of legibility. To enter this mode is to abandon appeal, to relinquish the comfort of meaning. One must instead submit to the possibility of a justice that never arrives, that remains [4] _____, excessive and unlocatable. Only then can we imagine a politics not of representation, but of presence without capture, of subjectivity without scaffolding. What remains, finally, is not identity but [5] _____—a presence that eludes, that persists in the absence of affirmation.83What should come in the place of blank number [1]?Tap an option to check your answer.
84What should come in the place of blank number [2]?Tap an option to check your answer.
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Question 4 (case study, 5 parts)
Asked once: 22 Sep 2025 S3
In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank: Climate discourse, once the domain of ecological alarm and policy whitepapers, has now become a theater of geopolitical choreography. What masquerades as international cooperation often (1) _____ the residues of colonial asymmetry—where culpability is distributed politely, but power still negotiates who must “transition” and who may continue. The carbon footprint becomes a moral metric only when traced in Southern sand; in Northern snow, it is reframed as “developmental necessity.”Funding mechanisms are not immune to this dissonance. Green finance flows in tributaries engineered by creditworthiness, not climate need. Adaptation becomes a (2) _____, where vulnerable nations perform resilience to attract capital, rather than receive redress. “Net zero,” meanwhile, floats like a talisman—invoked often, defined rarely. In such a paradigm, technocratic optimism obscures the uneven cartography of suffering. Satellites scan deforested zones with precision, but remain blind to the (3) _____ histories beneath them. Carbon markets, too, offer the illusion of absolution—one entity's excess “offset” by another's austerity. But offsets do not erase the heat; they only relocate the guilt. To resist climate colonialism is to unmask the benevolence of treaties and question the neutrality of metrics. Until the grammar of environmental justice is (4) _____, and not merely adjusted, any climate action risks becoming a ritual of (5) _____, not repair.84What should come in the place of blank number (1)?Tap an option to check your answer.
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Question 5 (case study, 5 parts)
Asked once: 22 Sep 2025 S1
In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank: Global sustainability discourse has not so much evolved as ossified into a lexicon of managerial (1) _____—terms engineered more for reputational lubrication than ecological redress. What was once a moral reckoning with planetary precarity now traffics in dashboards and metrics, calibrated less to redistribute power than to launder it. Words like “resilience,” “stakeholder engagement,” and “net-zero” populate position papers, their meanings stretched until they acquire the elasticity of (2) _____.In this semantic economy, language ceases to be revelatory and becomes performative. Reports teeter on euphemism; declarations bristle with procedural piety. Crises are not named; they are (3) _____ into ‘developmental challenges.’ The grammar of suffering is bleached, even as the facts remain uncompromising. What emerges is not truth, but a choreography of credibility—an affective simulation of care. Meanwhile, epistemic asymmetries persist: indigenous knowledge is (4) _____ as “local insight,” offered just enough space to decorate, never to reorient. Environmental justice, once confrontational, now wears a diplomatic smile, folded neatly into intergovernmental communiqués. If sustainability is to escape the orbit of self-congratulation, it must surrender its obsession with optics and inhabit the discomfort of history. Anything less is not stewardship—it is semantic (5) _____ masquerading as progress.84What should come in the place of blank number (1)?Tap an option to check your answer.
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Question 6 (case study, 5 parts)
Asked once: 21 Sep 2025 S2
In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank: Literature, far from being a static repository of aesthetic delight, is a restless medium through which cultures interrogate themselves. The novel, the poem, the play—all are not merely forms but fields wherein ideologies (1) _____, mutate, and sometimes dissolve. To read deeply is to risk disorientation, for every interpretation implies an act of displacement: of authorial intent, of reader expectation, of historical certainty. The literary canon itself is less a monument than a (2) _____—a site of contestation shaped by inclusion, exclusion, and reinvention. A Shakespearean soliloquy may bear universal resonance, yet it also emerges from a matrix of Elizabethan anxieties and power structures. The illusion of timelessness is, more often than not, a function of critical emphasis rather than intrinsic merit. Postcolonial and feminist critiques have challenged this apparent neutrality, foregrounding the voices that were once peripheral. Such interventions have not diminished literature’s prestige but instead (3) _____ its moral and political stakes. Texts once considered apolitical are now read as cultural artifacts entangled in empire, patriarchy, and resistance. In this light, literary criticism becomes an act not of judgment but of (4) _____—an excavation of silences as much as meanings. The reader, then, is not a passive consumer but a co-creator, whose insights must be (5) _____ with humility and historical awareness.84What should come in the place of blank number (1)?Tap an option to check your answer.
85What should come in the place of blank number (2)?Tap an option to check your answer.
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Question 7 (case study, 5 parts)
Asked once: 20 Sep 2025 S1
In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank: Postcolonial infrastructures often inhabit a schizochronic condition—a simultaneity of obsolescence and futurity. Flyovers half-finished, railway stations calcified mid-renovation, and electric grids oscillating between blackout and surplus do not signify simple malfunction. Rather, they manifest a (1) _____ temporality in which the present is neither a continuity of the past nor a stable projection of the future. These infrastructures function not as inert utilities but as affective indexes of temporal rupture. Modernity, once telegraphed through asphalt and concrete, now flickers within these arrested developments—gestures of progress suspended in bureaucratic amber. Here, functionality is beside the point. What matters is the performative (2) _____ of development: roads that signify mobility even when impassable, metros that symbolize futurity even when immobile. In this schema, infrastructure ceases to be an engineering problem and becomes a narrative technology—a spatial discourse that (3) _____ the nation-state’s promises into sedimented form. Bridges-to-be and always-rebuilding airports constitute not failure, but continuity: the continual renewal of unfinished intention. Such spatial artifacts require a recalibrated hermeneutics. To read them literally is to miss their symbolic resonance. Their disrepair is not decay but (4) _____: a visual vocabulary of state temporality, in which incompletion is the political idiom of continuity. This is the temporal grammar of anticipation without arrival. Thus, the postcolonial built environment articulates not stasis, but (5) _____—a condition where motion exists without direction, and progress is simulated through perpetual incompletion.84What should come in the place of blank number (1)?Tap an option to check your answer.
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Question 8 (case study, 5 parts)
Asked once: 26 Sep 2024 S3
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Global warming is a major problem. The result will be the problems created by the rising temperatures of the Arctic region. As a result of global warming, (1)_________ in rainfall and plant distribution affect the migration patterns, feeding behaviour, and breeding preferences of numerous bird species. The increase in the temperature may also alter ocean currents, which may alter the (2)__________ ecology as a whole. Greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for the ongoing melting of the Arctic. This will result in a (3)__________loop since greenhouse gases trap the heat in the atmosphere and the additional emissions may (4)__________ the global warming process. Now, the only way to reverse the harm is for every person to be environmentally sensitive. This may offer us hope that we will be able to leave a green planet to our future generations, who presently appear to face (5)__________.96Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.Tap an option to check your answer.
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Question 9 (case study, 5 parts)
Asked once: 26 Sep 2024 S2
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Social media companies (1)______ claim that they promote democracy and are dedicated to the empowerment of ordinary individuals. The assertion (2)______ entirely unfounded. Recent history shows how (3)______ citizens have been mobilised against totalitarian regimes on social networking sites. Starting from MeToo to Black Lives Matter, digital networks (4)______ indispensable in bringing together critical voices against social and political (5)______ .96Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 1.Tap an option to check your answer.
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Question 10 (case study, 5 parts)
Asked once: 26 Sep 2024 S1
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. 2022 sees us entering a third year of the pandemic, and the harm 1________ children is increasingly evident: A record rise in child poverty. Setbacks to progress on 2_________ vaccinations. Disruption to education for entire generation. That harm 3________ as an unintended side effect of the world's efforts to manage the crisis. COVID has been a uniquely dis-equalizing crisis. Lopsided 4________ vaccines aside, learning losses have been greatest among poorest children, and job losses have been disproportionately borne by women and youth. What next for the world’s children in the year ahead? As in the past two years, prospects for children will continue to hinge 5________ on the pandemic and how it is managed.96Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No. 1.Tap an option to check your answer.
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