Question 38. A. pinch B. drop C. grain D. speck

Question 2. Where in the passage does the following sentence best fit?

Yet the novelty of dashboards can distract from a stubborn truth: coordination costs still accrue across agencies.

A.  [I]                        B. [II]                                C. [III]                        D. [IV]

Question 3. Which of the following best summarises paragraph 2?

A.  Public dashboards transform streaming city data into shared sense-making, enabling early anomaly detection and informed, contestable choices for ordinary residents.

B.  Predictive software eliminates uncertainty entirely, allowing governments to automate all operational and budgetary decisions across departments without human oversight.

C.  Citizens mainly consume curated updates while experts quietly adjust models to maintain service levels, avoiding public controversy or prolonged consultations.

D.  Sensor networks replace traditional public meetings by conveying civic emotions directly into models that autonomously allocate resources citywide.

Question 4. What does the passage imply enables participatory planning within digital twins?

A.  Accessible visualisations for lay users                B. Compulsory voting on scenarios

C.  Anonymous budgeting lotteries                        D. Outsourced private moderators

Question 5. According to paragraph 3, predictive maintenance alerts allow cities ______.

A.  to schedule repairs before failures cascade and reduce costly, disruptive emergency interventions

B.  to outsource accountability while maintaining appearances of prudent, scientifically informed stewardship

C.  to pause monitoring until quarterly reviews consolidate trends into retrospective performance memos

D.  to delay procurement cycles so contractors can rebid after models stabilise their cost estimates

Question 6. What chiefly distinguishes Digital Twin Citizens from passive service recipients?

A.  They interrogate assumptions, annotate proposals, and influence trade-offs via transparent, continuously updating civic interfaces.

B.  They approve annual budgets through binding referendums conducted exclusively on municipal mobile applications.

C.  They submit household sensor data in exchange for tiered discounts on utilities and transit fares.

D.  They manage departmental staffing by ranking officials after each simulated infrastructure scenario completes.

Question 12. A. commerce                B. commercial        C. commercially        D. commercialize

Question 20. A. Legislators have been presented the value of these breakthroughs, thereby justifying persistent allocation toward space research activities

B.  Decision-makers have been communicated the importance of these findings, thus supporting continued funding for extraterrestrial research initiatives

C.  Authorities have been conveyed the relevance of these achievements, consequently validating ongoing expenditure on cosmic investigation projects

D.  Policymakers have been explained the significance of these discoveries, helping justify sustained investment in space exploration programs

Question 21. A. Forthcoming ventures should address multiple technological difficulties, involving particle protection and survival system integrity

B.  Future missions will confront various engineering obstacles, encompassing cosmic ray shielding and environmental control dependability

C.  Upcoming expeditions must navigate numerous technical challenges, including radiation protection and life support system reliability

D.  Impending projects need to overcome several practical barriers, containing radiation defense and habitat maintenance consistency

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best arrangement of utterances or sentences to make a cohesive and coherent text.

Question 22. a. At the same time, nearshoring trends opened opportunities in regional trade, reducing logistics uncertainty significantly.

B. As competitiveness deepens, workforce upskilling and green financing become decisive for durable export momentum ahead.

C. Northern clusters specialised in performance fabrics; southern hubs focused on design-driven, higher-margin capsules instead.

D. Upgraded machinery and lean workflows improved productivity, while compliance programs met sustainability requirements from buyers.

e. Textile exports rebounded strongly, as orders diversified and supply chains adjusted to new standards globally.

A.  d-e-a-b-c                        B. e-c-d-a-b                        C. e-d-c-a-b                        D. e-d-a-c-b

Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions from 1 to 10.

        Urban managers face ineluctable trade-offs: scarce budgets, volatile demand, and citizens who expect responsiveness without opacity. A digital twin – a live, virtual counterpart to streets, pipes, bridges, and services – can make those trade-offs explicit by simulating consequences before policies harden into practice. In the emergent paradigm of Digital Twin Citizens, residents are not mere “data points” but participants whose feedback and constraints shape scenarios. [I] When dashboards surface choices and their distributive effects, officials can foreground equity and efficiency rather than aftermarket rationalisations.

        At city scale, three functions recur: real-time fusion of sensor streams, predictive modelling of bottlenecks, and frugal resource orchestration. Public-facing interfaces translate this complexity for lay audiences; “this civic mirror” lets neighbourhoods visualise proposals, annotate risks, and contest assumptions. [II] Because the model refreshes continuously, small anomalies – leaks, surges, idle fleets – become legible before they metastasise. Citizen visibility is not ornamental: participation pressures agencies to document methods, data provenance, and plausible counterfactuals.

        Traffic retiming, bridge upkeep, and flood drills exemplify pragmatic wins: a twin ingests weather feeds, meter readings, and camera loops to stage “what-ifs,” averting repair panics and evacuation chaos. [III] Far from being a techno-toy, the twin compels officials to justify interventions with legible evidence, thereby disciplining impulse and rewarding foresight. Cities that integrate such evidence loops with procurement and maintenance calendars normalise prevention over heroic, post-hoc fixes.

        Case studies – Singapore’s city-wide model, New York’s climate-aware infrastructure planning, Helsinki’s participatory visualisations – show that when residents can preview impacts, deliberation deepens and trust thickens. [IV] In effect, Digital Twin Citizens co-produce governance: they flag blind spots, test trade-offs, and help prioritise investments that minimise waste while maximising public benefit. The promise is not gadgetry but a steadier civic metabolism – decisions paced by shared facts and argued in daylight.

(Adapted from GovPilot, “The Rise of Digital Twins: How Cities Are Creating Virtual Models for Real-World Impact”)

Question 1. The word ineluctable in paragraph 1 mostly means ______.

A.  barely negotiable                                        B. virtually unavoidable

C.  loosely connected                                        D. mildly optional