2026 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Will Be Announced Friday

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1. Question 1 · Single choice

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   What is the article’s principal purpose?

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   1. To identify the likely recipient through contextual clues
   2. To explain the prize’s historical selection process
   3. To distinguish confirmed information from unresolved speculation
   4. To evaluate the merits of several peace-building initiatives
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   To distinguish confirmed information from unresolved speculation

   It establishes confirmed facts while carefully delimiting what remains unknown.

   At present, the available information establishes the timing of the announcement, but not the identity of the recipient or the considerations behind the decision.

2. Question 2 · Single choice

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   Why does the article discuss the broad range of peace-related work?

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   1. To argue that the prize should recognize only mediation
   2. To show why possible associations cannot identify the recipient
   3. To catalogue every activity previously honored by the prize
   4. To suggest that peace-building has become conceptually impossible
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   To show why possible associations cannot identify the recipient

   The range demonstrates why associating possible work with a recipient would be premature.

   This broad field makes it especially important to distinguish a prize’s eventual recipient from the many kinds of work that may be associated with peace.

3. Question 3 · Single choice

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   What does “Those broader reactions” refer to?

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   1. The recipient’s private response to the committee
   2. The various public consequences of announcing the recipient
   3. The committee’s undisclosed deliberations before Friday
   4. The historical disputes surrounding international awards
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   The various public consequences of announcing the recipient

   It refers to attention, discussion, and interpretations that may follow the announcement.

   Those broader reactions, however, depend on facts that will emerge only after the decision is made public.

4. Question 4 · Single choice

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   What relationship does the fifth paragraph establish?

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   1. Expectation can become evidence when repeated frequently
   2. Unverified assumptions should not be presented as settled knowledge
   3. Public reactions are more important than the recipient’s identity
   4. The announcement will probably confirm existing speculation
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   Unverified assumptions should not be presented as settled knowledge

   It contrasts present uncertainty with the error of treating conjecture as established fact.

   Treating those matters as settled in advance would blur the distinction between information and expectation.

5. Question 5 · Single choice

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   How is the article organized overall?

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   1. Chronologically, from the prize’s origins to its future reforms
   2. Argumentatively, from uncertainty to a case against awards
   3. Analytically, from known facts through context to expected clarification
   4. Comparatively, by contrasting this prize with competing awards
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   Analytically, from known facts through context to expected clarification

   It moves from confirmed timing, through context and implications, toward the forthcoming resolution.

   For now, the event remains defined by anticipation rather than resolution.

6. Question 6 · Single choice

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   What can reasonably be inferred about the announcement’s immediate significance?

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   1. It will reveal the recipient but leave interpretive debate possible
   2. It will establish the rationale beyond any reasonable dispute
   3. It will eliminate disagreement about effective peace-building
   4. It will disclose every fact about the committee’s deliberations
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   It will reveal the recipient but leave interpretive debate possible

   It will resolve the article’s central uncertainty without automatically settling wider interpretations.

   Once the name is known, attention can turn to the recipient’s work and to the significance observers may attach to the decision.

7. Question 7 · Single choice

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   Which claim does the article explicitly withhold?

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   1. Whether the announcement will occur on Friday
   2. Whether peace-related work can take varied forms
   3. Why the committee selected the eventual recipient
   4. Whether awards can attract international attention
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   Why the committee selected the eventual recipient

   The article confirms neither the recipient’s identity nor the decision’s rationale.

   The recipient has not been identified, and no verified details have been established about the rationale, the recognized work, or any response to the decision.

8. Question 8 · Single choice

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   What stance does the article adopt toward pre-announcement speculation?

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   1. Skeptical and disciplined
   2. Enthusiastically predictive
   3. Dismissive of the prize’s public importance
   4. Indifferent to distinctions between fact and conjecture
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   Skeptical and disciplined

   Its measured stance permits context but rejects speculation presented as verified knowledge.

   Until then, the confirmed point is straightforward.

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Before you practise: a worked example

Look for evidence in the text. Separate what the writer says from what you already know about the topic.

The library normally closes at six, but on Fridays it stays open until eight. When does it close on Friday?

The answer is eight. But introduces an exception to the normal closing time, so the first time mentioned is not the answer.

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