[{"text": "Throughout human history, nearly all people were close to the soil. Therefore their lives were profoundly affected by the alternation of winter and summer, by the coming and going of the full moon, and by the pattern of rain and drought and the annual harvest. Steadily the ever-expanding city replaced the countryside as the home of most of the world's people, and the big cities now have dwarfed the biggest city of several hundred years earlier. In 1995 at least 25 cities each \u00a0held more than seven million inhabitants.", "type": "text_block", "database_type": "", "university": "", "year": "", "unit": "", "shift": "", "subject": "", "chapter": "", "topic": ""}, {"question": "In the passage the word 'dwarfed' means -", "mark": 1.0, "answer": "one", "explanation": "", "options": [{"option": "were smaller than", "answer": false}, {"option": "made look smaller", "answer": true}, {"option": "are comparable to", "answer": false}, {"option": "are not as big as", "answer": false}], "type": "question", "database_type": "qb", "university": "du", "year": "2006-07", "unit": "b", "shift": "", "subject": "e-b", "chapter": "e-31", "topic": "", "title": "In the passage the word 'dwarfed' means -", "full_question": "In the passage the word 'dwarfed' means -

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"}, {"question": "\"Steadily the ever expanding city replaced the countryside as the home of most of the world's people \" means _", "mark": 1.0, "answer": "one", "explanation": "", "options": [{"option": "gradually the cities destroyed the village.", "answer": false}, {"option": "gradually the cities took up all the space occupied by villages", "answer": true}, {"option": "gradually more people started living in cities than in villages", "answer": false}, {"option": "people loved city life.", "answer": false}], "type": "question", "database_type": "qb", "university": "du", "year": "2006-07", "unit": "b", "shift": "", "subject": "e-b", "chapter": "e-40", "topic": "", "title": "\"Steadily the ever expanding city replaced the countryside as the home of most of the world's people \" means _", "full_question": "\"Steadily the ever expanding city replaced the countryside as the home of most of the world's people \" means _

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"}, {"question": "The word 'drought' is closest in meaning to _", "mark": 1.0, "answer": "one", "explanation": "", "options": [{"option": "flood", "answer": false}, {"option": "occasional rain", "answer": false}, {"option": "rainless period", "answer": true}, {"option": "storm", "answer": false}], "type": "question", "database_type": "qb", "university": "du", "year": "2006-07", "unit": "b", "shift": "", "subject": "e-b", "chapter": "e-31", "topic": "", "title": "The word 'drought' is closest in meaning to _", "full_question": "The word 'drought' is closest in meaning to _

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"}, {"question": "According to the passage the lives of the people were -", "mark": 1.0, "answer": "one", "explanation": "", "options": [{"option": "greatly influenced by nature", "answer": true}, {"option": "little influenced by nature", "answer": false}, {"option": "somewhat influenced by nature", "answer": false}, {"option": "were not influenced by nature", "answer": false}], "type": "question", "database_type": "qb", "university": "du", "year": "2006-07", "unit": "b", "shift": "", "subject": "e-b", "chapter": "e-40", "topic": "", "title": "According to the passage the lives of the people were -", "full_question": "According to the passage the lives of the people were -

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