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Directions for questions: You have a passage followed by questions based on it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. The railroad was not the first institution to impose regularity on society, or to draw attention to the importance of precise time keeping. For as long as merchants have set out their wares at daybreak and communal festivities have been celebrated, people have been in rough agreement with their neighbours as to the time of day. The value of this tradition is today more apparent than ever. Were it not for public acceptance of a single yardstick of time, social life would be unbearably chaotic: the massive daily transfers of goods, services and information would proceed in fits and starts: the very fabric of modern society would begin to break.

Synonym of "Massive".

A) Ponderous         

B) Slender

C) Small               

D) Petty