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the right to fail

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Find the synomyn word be underline:


This could mean, as their elders might say, that they are just plumb lazy, secure in the comforts of an affluent state.

a)

humble

b)

poor

c)

rich

d)

heroic

2.

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I’m not urging everyone to go out and fail just for the sheer therapy of it, or to quit college just to coddle some vague discontent

a)

discomfort

b)

disappear

c)

nonsense

d)

imperceptible

3.

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Luckily, such rebels still turn up often enough to prove that individualism, though badly threatened, is not extinct.

a)

villain

b)

coadjutor

c)

cretin

d)

antagonis

4.

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History is strewn with eminent dropouts, ‘loners’ who followed their own sense of direction

a)

satter

b)

petite

c)

brusque

d)

laconic

5.

Recalling the three years of his life that went into it, taking almost with elation about the troubles that belief his unit in Cambodia,…

a)

wistful

b)

mournful

c)

joy

d)

pity

6.

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Still, he must have learned something during those unorthodox years, for he dropped in again at the top of his profession.

a)

regular

b)

unconventional

c)

standard

d)

common

7.

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Yet in the fluid years of youth, the only way for boys and girls to find their proper road is often to take a hundred side trips, poking out in different directions, faltering, drawing back, and starting again

a)

stabilize

b)

fix

c)

sustain

d)

hesitate

8.

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We need mavericks and dissenters and dreamer far more than we need junior vice-presidents, but we paralyze them by

a)

host

b)

anchor

c)

protester

d)

participant

9.

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Our advertisements and TV commercials are a hymn to material success, our magazine articles a toast to people who made it to the top.

a)

symphony

b)

orchestra

c)

chant

10.

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Nobody else, real or invented, has made such an engaging shambles of our ‘goal-oriented society’, so gratified our secret belief that the ‘phonies’ are in power and the good guys up the creek.

a)

systematical

b)

efficient

c)

disarray

11.

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Luckily, such rebels still turn up often enough to prove that individualism, though badly threatened, is not extinct.

a)

rioter

b)

easy

c)

compliant

12.

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We were gratified by the response to our appeal.

a)

evious

b)

accomplished

c)

upset

13.

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Smoke the right cigarette or drive the right car-so the ads imply-and girls will be swooning into your deodorized arms or caressing your expensive lapels

a)

pass out

b)

normal

c)

conscious

14.

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A flower was pinned in her lapel.

a)

coat

b)

bend

c)

neckline

15.

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We had the carpet cleaned and deodorized.

a)

air

b)

paint

c)

cook