Megan Danielczak couldn’t stand living with her husband, but couldn’t afford to live without him. So she came up with a plan: Hire a killer to murder him, and collect the life-insurance payout. She met the hit man in a Walmart parking lot on Valentine’s Day last year, and gave him a down payment of three gold rings and $402 in cash. Fortunately for Danielczak’s husband, the hit man was an undercover cop. She is now serving two miserable years in a Wisconsin prison, having been convicted of solicitation to commit first-degree intentional homicide.

Stories of contract killings make headlines on a regular basis. Criminologists have confirm what news stories suggest: Lots of people who hire a killer get caught because they don’t know what they are doing. After all, most of us don’t socialize with professional killers. The average person therefore looks to acquaintances or neighbours for referrals, or finds his way to criminal bottom-feeders who are likely to be lame and inexperienced. This helps explain why so many murders for hire don’t produce any dead bodies.

Which of the following answers is neutral language?

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has rightly compared the China-US trade war to the scenario where two elephants fight, and the grass gets stomped on. China and the US, as the two largest economies in the global economy, will only thrive together in cooperation, or wither together in confrontation, with the world economy following suit.

Due to the uncertainty of the prospect of a China-US trade dispute, the World Trade Organisation has lowered its forecast for global trade growth this year from 3.7 per cent to 2.6 per cent. Over the past two years, with the dark cloud of “trade war” looming over the world, many countries are worried that the global economy would be dragged into the trap.

Which of the following answers is not loaded language?

China was pulled into the trade war with the U.S. with its back to the wall. For China, this is a war to combat economic bullying, a war to safeguard its legitimate right of development, and a war to safeguard the international rules and the multilateral trade system.

The ultimate motive of the US is to bully China under the name of “fair trade”. The US, wielding its club of tariff and carrying the banner of protectionism, blatantly pursues the policy of “America First” and tries to coerce China into giving up its own interests and development rights..

Which of the following answers is not loaded language?

Climate change will affect all of us. There is worrying scientific evidence of climate change and that human activity is largely responsible for this change through emissions of greenhouse gases.

It is also widely accepted that climate change will damage economies, devastate populations, deplete resources and dramatically impact the cost of doing business.

We are alive only because the environment or ecosystem is providing us a service. Presently, we largely take this for granted and are not able to fully or fairly value this.

It is of course difficult to constantly weigh the impact our household purchasing decisions can have on the climate, but our attitude extends to companies, where discussions revolve around measures, metrics and results that are within our control, and this results in short-term thinking.

Which of the following answers is loaded language?

The proliferation of e-commerce companies, such as Amazon, Ezbuy, Lazada and Lelong in Malaysia, has set off an alarming trend — the desertion of retail spaces facing brick-and-mortar retailers in the United States, such as Toys “R” Us, but retailers will do well to arm themselves ahead of the digital revolution.

For many retailers, the answer is seemingly obvious: go digital. With the low cost of setting up a website vis-a-vis rental, many have hopped on the bandwagon and invested in e-commerce only to realise later that the digital marketplace is highly competitive with low margins.

They are confronted with a logistical nightmare and the realisation that many e-commerce retailers go unnoticed simply because they appear only on the second page of search results, and gain salience only when investments have been made.

Which of the following answers is neutral language?

We have seen international movements protest against environmental and ecological destruction, demanding action arising from predictions that humans face an existential threat, with plans to establish a citizens’ assembly to devise an emergency plan of action.

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg’s speech made a profound impact where the president of the European Union declared that the grouping would go towards climate mitigation actions.

An ominous United Nations report warned that human activity had pushed one million plant and animal species to the brink of extinction.

Recently, we passed a grim milestone: not just the highest concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide in recorded history, but in all of human history: “we are entering an era never before experienced by humans.”

Which of the following answers is not loaded language?

Without trust, no personal relationship can thrive.

Unfortunately, even in your closest relationships, at times, people do not cherish trust. Often, you give it away quite freely to those you care about. As a consequence, it also is easily taken for granted. When that trust is broken, it breaks relationships, and it can be very hard to earn it back.

In your workplace, betrayal feels like personal and professional deception. It is stressful, and disappointing. More importantly, it lowers your morale, and destroys your personal efficacy.

Betrayal is one of the most devastating events in our adult lives. Most people hold the word betrayal as synonymous with infidelity. Perhaps that is because it is the most common form of broken trust in an intimate relationship, and represents the most basic elements that destroy faith between intimate partners.

Which of the following is neutral language?

One of the biggest threats to achieving results at work is when your work environment is filled with toxic people. If you’re dealing with a toxic person at work, you’re not alone: according to a study by leadership development consultancy, Fierce Inc., four out of five employees work or have worked with a colleague who could be considered toxic to the work environment. All too often, this behavior is tolerated. Only 40% of bosses say they would eliminate a toxic team member.

Colleagues who are toxic thrive with a negative attitude, and will create a damaging work atmosphere. They judge people and situations to suit their needs, and in every narrative, they will paint themselves as the victim.

Which of the answers below is neutral?

The biggest victims of the palm oil crisis are mostly the rural people — the government linked companies and agencies appear not to be doing enough to find a solution to the crisis.

We have been too defensive and fighting a losing war with the West, with the odds heavily stacked against us. Many officials and industry players seem to be relying on luck and hoping for natural factors like weather and weaker demands for competitor oils.

The recent offer by China to buy our palm oil stockpile for this year of 4.7 million tonnes is good news, but it is only a temporary reprieve to buy us some time to get our act together. In a free market economy, we cannot be too dependent on a major importer to buy up our stockpiles.

Malaysia is now desperately fighting to avert the European Union’s (EU) palm oil curbs with the emphasis on safeguarding the “lowest hanging fruit” of palm oil usage — biodiesel — because other oils, except rapeseed, are not price competitive yet.

Which of the following is not loaded language?

If we can increase pay for labourers, the salary for seemingly middle-class jobs would have to increase too.Then there will be a virtuous cycle. Otherwise, graduates would choose to become labourers. If we fail to deal with the job and pay challenge, we will have a political crisis to face with at some point.

We are already seeing signs of such painful strains. Unfortunately, the debate about cost of living is still dominating the minds of political leaders and the public.

If you look at the statistics, the inflation rate was at 1.0 per cent in 2018 (3.7 per cent in 2017) and it was surprisingly negative 0.7 per cent (year on year) in January 2019.

Yet no one seems to feel the benefits of low inflation and even a technical deflation. The reason is simple. It’s not the cost of living which is high, it is the low pay!

Which of the following is not loaded language?

In a land where half the workers earn less than RM2,160 a month, one is moved to ask: is the cost of living today more oppressive than it was 20 years ago?

The utility bills, the visits to the clinics and hospitals, the housing loans and the kids’ education cry out for money, and is it not obvious that their cries are getting louder these days?

A calamitous day may come when this changes, as warned recently by former Reserve Bank of India governor Rajan Bhatt. When many of those who are not given help revolt against capitalism.

Which of the following is loaded language?

These days we are constantly bombarded with media advertising that promotes unhealthy eating while the prices of fresh produce continue to rise.

Fast-food giants are free to advertise their products, but it behooves many of them to recognise their corporate social responsibility.

These businesses must awaken to the fact that without offering and promoting healthier menu options, they are pushing their customers down the path of serious medical issues that will inevitably compel an entire generation to shun their products.

Finally, of equal importance is the government’s role in curbing the obesity epidemic.

In its social contract with citizens that is the Constitution, the government is duty-bound to protect their lives and livelihoods, and both are at risk should a significant chunk of the population become susceptible to potentially fatal diseases.

Which of the below answers is not loaded language?

For years, “brands” have been paying “ordinary” “people” to “mention” their products in meaningless, easily ignored social media posts. This is called “influencer marketing,” and it’s collapsing.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this relatively new concept is that social media influencers do not necessarily have to be well-known celebrities or famous athletes. Instead, everyday people have risen up the ranks of social media to amass hundreds, thousands or even millions of followers due to their charisma and expertise on a given subject. As such, these influencers often charge companies to promote their product or service accordingly based on the size of their following. Unfortunately, as with so much within the digital realm, it’s actually quite complex. If you aren’t properly informed, you can get deceitfully scammed by social media influencers who artificially inflate their following.

Which of the following is not a loaded word or phrase?

Midway through the new film Our Planet: Our Business — which is available today for streaming around the world — aquaculture pioneer Bren Smith recalls seeing the codfish industry in his native Newfoundland collapse from overfishing in the early 1990s. He has a message for people worried that climate change–related policies will lead to unemployment. There are no jobs on a dead planet.

Our Planet: Our Business is a call to action for private enterprise to play a leading role in the innovation, recovery, and restoration needed to avoid environmental collapse. The 40-minute film was created as a collaboration between the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Silverback Films. It was inspired by the Netflix documentary series Our Planet, which was released in April. If you are a business leader, the reality of environmental crisis is inescapable. What was formerly considered extreme weather — storms, wildfires, tidal waves, droughts, floods, and anomalous freezing spells and heat waves — is now commonplace. Trillions of dollars each year are already spent on remediation, rebuilding, and insurance.

The parameters of the crisis are still not widely understood, but they are predicted to be momentous; for instance, millions of species are at risk of extinction in the next few decades. The film is full of beautiful, compelling images of animals and insects — bees, birds, frogs, great cats, primates, and many others — that may well soon be gone, along with their habitats.

Which of the following word or phrase is loaded language?