1. The author states that during wartime the regular sources of news present only ---

optimistic reports

pesssimistic reports

limited information

government propaganda

2. the author suggests that rumors ueually ---

alarm their hearers

are hardy in their growth

are hardy in their growth

can be suppressed by cansorship

3. The author is mainly concerned with ----

the nature of rumor

the fascination of rumors

rumor as primitve man's newspaper

the breeding places of rumors

4. The passive from of the sentence 'some children were helping the wounded man'---

the wounded man was helped by some children

the wounded man was helping some children

the wounded man was being helping some children

The wounded man was to be helped by some children

5. The passive from of the sentence 'some children were helping the wounded man'---

the wounded man was helped by some chikdren

the wounded man was helping some children

the wounded man was being helping some children

The wounded man was to be helped by some children

6. The word euphemism means -----

stating one thing like another

description of a disagreeable thing by an agreeable name

contrast of words is made in the same sentence

a statement is mademphatic by overstatement.

7. The word ' dilly dally' means ---

to dilute

wait impatientiy

repeat

waste time

8. Anger, even when it is --- has one virtue, it overcomes ---

sinful --- sloth

inevitable ---- desire

unnecessary --- malice

intense --- hate

9. Few people would care to take the negative side of the proposition that the women of the world are --- and ---.

admired --- provoked

oppressed --- scorbed

rebuked --- regaled

slighted --- celebrated

10. the influence of the technological revolution in ---- and ---- the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few should worry us all.

proliferating ---- diminidhing

undermining ---- neutralizing

accelerating ---- intensifying

aggravating ---- demolishing