In each of these questions, you are given a sentence. A part of the sentence is underlined. This is followed by four ways of phrasing the underlined part. Choice (1) repeats the original; the other three are different. Select the version that best rephrases the underlined part:
It is difficult to diagnose malaria because its first symptoms are similar to any viral fever.
To create a new game means expending lot of sweat, and calls for all the members of the development team to play its role with aplomb throughout the long - drawn - out procedure before the game sees the light of the day.
The all-pervasiveness of the Internet has led to a joke, that a few bored homosapiens left to themselves in a single room with a couple of computers for some days, would eventually produce something that would either make Shakespeare jealous or plain wild.
Each of the sentences against these questions has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choosethe set of words for each blank that best fits the meating of the sentence as a whole:
The term ‘rare earths’ is in fact a , .............. for paradoxically, the rare-earth elements are in actuality ............., being presentin low concentration in virtually all the minerals.
According to the $$12^{th}$$ century cosmologies, the natural philosopher must strive to .......... a state of detached objectivity in order to free his capacity for constructing useful hypothesis from the ................. of unquestioned assumptions and accepted opinions about nature.
The columnist was very gentle when he mentioned his friends but was bitter and ever ........... when he discussed people who ............ him.
She conducted the interrogation not only with dispatch but with .........., being a person who is ......... in manner yet subtle in discrimination.
In these questions, find out the part of the sentence that has an error. Choose 'D' if there is no error.
They cook meals, lay the table and wash up (A)/ clean the house (B)/ and mend the clothes (C)
He seemed distracted (A)/ thinking less about what he was doing tonight (B)/than what he would be doing on the morrow (C).