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In the following questions, a party of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (A),(B) and (C) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is ‘(D)’.
The ground was wet outside when I got up in the morning yesterday. I had been raining all in the night.
The Women’s Emancipation Bill was sent back to the Lok Sabha by the President for further examination.
The Finance Minister said that he would work for the impartial distribution of wealth.
Will you lend me few rupees in this hour of need?
After the heavy rains last week, the water in the lake raised another two feet.
Unless you work hard, you will not pass.
The minister was removed from a key post.
Audacity is the mother of invention.
Professionals must continuously improve their skills.
Mr. Raj has been asked to submit details of his tax returns.
More than 60 percent of India’s population live under the poverty line.
Since we are living in Bangalore for five years, we are reluctant to move to another city.
Being too costly for him, he could not buy the coat.
No sooner has she agreed to marry him than she started having terrible doubts.
I didn’t need to water the follower. Just after I finished it started raining.
He complained of the following of having tortured by the police.
The orphans have been clamouring for nutritious food from the past two weeks.
The good fortune of being your student in my younger days has helped me greatly in my life.
He should not had done it.
I will now deal with him in a manner different from the one I have adopted so far.
In the following question, sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.
Kiran asked me, “Did you see the cricket match on television last night.
David said to Anna, “Mona will leave for her native place tomorrow.”
I said to him, “Why are you working so hard”?
He said to her, “What a cold day!”
The tailor said to him, “Will you have the suit ready by tomorrow evening?”
He said to the interviewer, “Could you please repeat the question?”
He said, “Be quiet and listen to my words.”
He said to me, “I have often told you not to play with fire.”
The Captain said to his men, “Stand at ease.”
Pawan said to me, “If I hear any news, I’ll phone you.”
The teacher said to Mahesh, “Congratulations! Wish you success in life.”
The poor examine said, “O God, take pity on me.”
“Where will you be tomorrow,” I said, “in case I have to ring you?”
Seeta said to me, “Can you give me your pen?”
The father warned his son that he should be beware of him.
Manna asked Rohan, “Have you sat in a trolley bus before?”
Farhan asked Geeta, “Could you lend me a hundred rupees until tomorrow?”
“What about going for a swim,” he said, “It’s quite fine now.”
“You can’t bathe in this sea,” he said to me, “it’s very rough.”
Jagdish said, “We passed by a beautiful lake when we went on a trip to Goa.”
He said to me, “I expect you to attend the function.”
He said, “Why didn’t you send your application to me?”
Dinesh asked, “Are you going to the party tomorrow, Eliza?”
John asked, “How long will it take to travel from Germany to South Africa?”
“What did you see at the South Pole?” Ashok asked Anil.
In the following question, some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and the number of that part is your answer. If a sentence is free from errors, your answer is (D) i.e. No error.
The minister for ‘Education’ (1) / vehemently refused (2) / the allegation that he had taken bribes. (3) / No error. (4)
If I were Zubin (1) / I would not attend (2) / the wedding, come what may. (3) No error. (4)
He says that (1) / he reads novels / (2) to pass away the time. (3) / No error. (4)
He left for Mumbai on Sunday (1) / arriving there (2) on Monday. (3) No error. (4)
No sooner did the teacher (1) / enter the class room (2) / the students got up. (3) No error. (4)
It is (1) / nothing else (2) / than pride. (3) / No error. (4)
To the ordinary man, in fact, the pealing of bells (1) / is a monotonous jangle and a nuisance (2) / tolerably only when mitigated by remote distance and sentimental association. (3) / No error. (4)
The increasing mechanisation of life (1) / have led us farther away from daily contact with nature and (2) / the crafts of the farm. (3) / No error. (4)
If you have a way with words, (1) / a good sense of design and administration ability (2) / you may enjoy working in the high pressure word of advertising. (3) / No error. (4)
Last week’s sharp hike in the wholesale price of beef (1) / is a strong indication for (2) / higher meat cost to come. (3) / No error. (4)
In the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four.
My windows look _____ the garden.
I have made a rough ____ of the report.
The reward was not commensurate _______ the work done by us.
I didn’t care _____ the expense; I want the party to be a real success.
Vinay does not play cricket, and ______ does Yeshwant.
In the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
susceptible
frugal
cessation
procrastinate
potent
In the following questions out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses meaning of the given word.
prognosis
poach
repartee
exhort
lurid
In the following questions, there are four different words out of which one is wrongly spelt. find the wrongly spelt word.
In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.
to foam at one’s mouth
to feel like a fish out of water
at the eleventh hour
to burn one’s fingers
To add fuel to fire
In the following questions, the 1st and the last parts of the sentence are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence and find out which of the four combinations is correct. Then find the correct answer.
1. Can any one
P. falsehood triumph
Q. and let
R. for a long time
S. suppress truth
S. permanently?
1. And then word
P. came from inside
Q. meet the released civilians
R. that after all
S. the press could
6. but fleetingly.
1. The man
P. and no one passing him in the street
Q. was singularly inconspicuous
R. who was called Alfred Nobel
S. would have given him
6. another look.
1. In paliopathology
P. would be to obtain
Q. the fundamental objective
R. background information
S. as much
6. on the skeleton as possible.
1. Generally speaking,
P. for me by those who have invited me or
Q. follow programmes that have been worked out
R. who offer themselves as guides and usually in such cases
S. the journeys that I undertake for the purpose of publicity
6. I find the thing I have to do wearisome.
1. Jeff is a very good dancer,
P. who always tries new dance steps
Q. while the rest of the class is struggling.
R. which are demonstrated,
S. which are demonstrated,
S. and masters them quickly
6. he shows off.
1. These positive effects vary from genetic changes that
P. to other related infections,
Q. make us more resistant to the diseases responsible
R. for epidemics and
S. which have effects on human that are
6. hard to pin down and quantify.
1. After the entire generation of parents and teachers
P. the level of depression
Q. children’s self-esteem and indicator of good mental health,
R. has worked hard to improved its
S. in young people has skyrocketed.
6. It is how we feel about ourselves,
1. The Bermuda Triangle is an area
P. of many unexplained disappearances,
Q. the three points of the triangle being Miami,
R. is famous for being the supposed site
S. of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida and
6. Bermuda, and San Juan in Puerto Rico,
1. Most of the people acquire
P. which makes them hesitant
Q. their ancestral culture and
R. to accept new ideas and theories of
S. tradition without questioning them,
6. the changing world.
1. Local industries often
P. protest the high salaries
Q. that this will unreasonably raise
R. arguing vehemently
S. offered by multinational firms
6. all wages to an excessive leve
1. Although fruits can no longer grow once picked,
P. taking in oxygen and
Q. they continue to respire for sometime,
R. giving off carbon dioxide,
S. just as human beings do
6. when they breathe.
1. The multi sourcing of
P. financial mess with
Q. coins led to a
R. using their own mix of
S. different mints
6. metals and alloys.
1. It may seem odd
P. one should one read
Q. but people read for such a
R. to have to insist that
S. because one liked it
6. variety of reasons.
1. Effort should be made to stimulate exports.
P. We have another source of foreign exchange.
Q. But people are reluctant to part with it.
R. I mean the huge quantities of hoarded gold.
S. It is necessary to increase out foreign exchange reserves.
6. If they are willing, gold can be sold abroad.
1. The vegetable bin of my refrigerator contained and assortment of weird - looking items.
P. The carrots dropped into U shapes and I picked them up with the tips of my fingers.
Q. To the right of the organs was a bunch of carrots that had begun to sprout points, spikes and tendrils.
R. Near the carrots was a net bag of onions.
S. Next to a shriveled, white-coated lemon were two oranges covered with blue fuzz.
6. Each onion had sent curling shoots through the net until the whole thing resembled a mass of green spaghetti.
1. There was no proper light system on the highway.
P. In addition, clouds were gathering in the sky.
Q. The night was darker than usual.
R. Then suddenly, the wind dropped,
S. The atmosphere now was very stuffy.
6. The moon also hid behind the clouds and it made the night gloomier.
1. AIDS is a disease caused by a virus called HIV.
P. This result in the victim’s inability to defend themselves from any infections leading to death.
Q. This disease destroys part of the body’s immune system.
R. AIDS patients are carries of the virus.
S. People who are infected develop AIDS within five to ten years.
6. And they are infected for years without knowing it and transmit the disease to others.
1. Helen Keller has an ageless quality about her in keeping with her amazing life story.
P. Although warned by this human reaction, she has no wish to be set aside from the rest of mankind.
Q. She is an inspiration to both blind and who can see everywhere.
R. When she visited Japan after World War II, boys and girls from remote villages ran to her, crying, “Helen Keller”.
S. Blind, deaf and mute from early childhood, she rose above her triple handicap to become one of the best known characters in the modern world.
6. She believes the blind should live and work with their fellows, with full responsibility.
1. India led the battle of freedom against imperialism.
P. That technique brought us success.
Q. We therefore championed the cause of other countries.
R. We fought it with a special technique.
S. We are happy that they achieved freedom.
6. But some countries are still slaves.
In the following questions, out of the four alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.
To secretly store more than what is allowed
Very dramatic
A figure of speech b which a thing is spoken of as being that which it only resembles
The process by which a person or an organization reduces the, amount of money it spends
An established principle of practical wisdom
In a sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best
expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice.
Our task had been completed before sunset.
The boy laughed at the beggar.
The government has launched a massive tribal welfare programme in Jharkhand.
The boys were playing cricket.
They drew a circle in the morning.
They will demolish the entire block.
The burglar destroyed several items in the room. Even the carpet has been torn.
We must respect the elders.
We have warned you.
Has anybody answered your question?
The shopkeeper lowered the prices.
One must keep one’s promises.
The government has not approved the new drug for sale.
They have published all the details of the invention.
He teaches us grammar.
The manager could not accept the union leader’s proposals.
Prepare yourself for the worst.
Please shut the door and go to sleep.
It is impossible to do this.
We must take care of all living species of Earth.
In the following three passages some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Passage I:
The last decade has been 126 for management education and development. When the economies of most western countries were 127 in the early 1980’s there were 128 cuts both in corporate training and in higher education. During the boom years of the mid 1980’s there were some 129 in both areas. In the early 1990’s industrialized countries were in the 130 of another serve recession and a 131 retrenchment was to be recession reasonably 132 throughout the training word. But this had not been the case so far. Many leading companies are 133 their belief in training as the key to future competitiveness and governments are 134 an era of rapid 135 in higher education.
In the following three passages some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Passage II:
One of the oldest cities of Asia, Srinagar is known for its unique wooden architecture. Its 136 network of narrow streets amid multi-story wooded houses 137 out its waterways, make it took like medieval Islamic 138 centres. The largescale demolition of traditional buildings and bazaars 139 the quest for modernity have, however, 140 to their disappearance.
In the following three passages some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Passage III:
More than 7,000 people died within a matter of days when toxic gas leaked 141 a chemical plant in Bhopal, India. The leak began late at night and 142 for several hours unnoticed. Since then, 143 to the toxins created by the leak has resulted in innumerable deaths. Many more are sick and 144 to live normal lives. Despite trying to the 145 for the disaster, the people have been no real attempt to compensate them. The company involved, UCC, has publicly 146 all responsibility for the leak. No one till date has been held 147. What was it the 148 of the machinery of simply human error? Many questions remain 149. The investigation has been dealt with in a very 150 manner.
In the following questions, you have eight brief passage with 5/10 questions following each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage I:
In the word have we made health an end in itself? We have forgotten that health is really a means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine is concerned with promotion of good health. Many patients as well as many physicians pay very little attention to health; but very much attention to health makes some people imagine that they are ill. Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspaper, the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of the television programme and all those books on medicine we talk about health all the time. Yet for the most only result is more people with imaginary
illnesses. The healthy man should not be wasting any time talking about health, he should be using health for work, the work he does and the work that good health makes possible.
Modern medicine is primarily concerned with
A healthy man should be concerned with
Talking about health all the time makes people
The passage suggests that
The passage tells us
In the following questions, you have eight brief passage with 5/10 questions following each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage II:
Time was when people looked heavenward and prayed, “Ye Gods, given us rain, keep drought away,” Today there are those who pray. “Give us rain, keep EI Nino away.”
El Nino and its atmospheric equivalent, called the Southern Oscillation, are together referred to as ENSO, and are household words today. Meteorologists organize it as often being responsible for natural disaster worldwide. But this wisdom dawned only after countries suffered, first from the lack of knowledge, and then from the lack of coordination between policy making and the advance in scientific knowledge.
Put simply, El Nino is a weather event restricted to certain tropical shores, epically the Peruvian coast. The event has diametrically opposite impacts on the land and sea. The Peruvian shore is a desert. But every few years, an unusually warm ocean current - El Nino - warms up the normally cold surface-waters of the Peruvian coast, causing very heavy rains in the early half of the year.
And then, miraculously, the desert is matted green. Crops like cotton, coconuts and banana grow on the other wise stubbornly barren land. These are the Peruvians’ anos de adundencia or years of abundance. The current had come to be termed El Nino, or the Christ Child because it usually appears as an enhancement if a mildly warm current that normally occurs here around every Christmas.
But this boon on land is accompanied by oceanic disasters. Normally, the waters off the South American coast are among the most productive in the world because of a constant upswelling of nutrient rich cold waters from the ocean depths. During an El Nino, however waters are stirred up only from near the surface. The nutrient-crunch pushes down primary production, disrupting the food chain. Many marine species, including anchoveta (anchovies) temporarily disappear.
This is just one damming effect of El Nino. Over the years its full impact has been studied and what the Peruvians once regarded as manna, is now seen as a major threat.
Meteorologist took time to understand El Nino because
El Nino in a layman language is
What are the two types of landscapes that are effected by El Nino?
Which word in Para 3 is the antonym for - ‘Fertile’?
What, according to the author, is a positive effect of El Nino?
How can we say the El Nino proves to be a boon for South American Coast?
The ‘years of abundance’ is when
The phrase, ‘damning effect’ means
People today, pray to God to keep
The word which means - ‘equal in value, power and meaning’ is
In the following questions, you have eight brief passage with 5/10 questions following each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage III:
There is a general consensus that ‘International Understanding’ need to be taught as a separate subject at the school stage as that would add to the curricular load which is already too heavy. Instead it should be woven into the curriculum and the numerous opportunities that present themselves while teaching normal school subjects may be intelligently and imaginatively used by the teacher to promote International Understanding.
The school subject which can be most profitably used for this purpose are History, Geography, Civics, Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Social Science, Languages as well as Physical and Life Science. However, at the higher education level, international education can be prescribed as a separate subject of study. In fact, the present situation on India broadly conforms to this consensus so far as the school stage is concerned.
At the under-graduate and the post-graduate levels, courses of study in subjects like History, Geography, Economics, Political Science,
International Law and International Organizational have been prescribed by most of the universities and these contain content which
has a direct or indirect bearing on promoting UNESCO ideals.
How International Understanding can be taught at the school level?
Which phrase from the passage means “combined with the curriculum”?
What are the two stages where “International Understand” should be taught as a separate subject?
Which word out of the given options means - ‘felling of most people’?
Which word from the passage is the opposite of the word - narrow?
Find the word from the passage which means - advised.
Pick out the name of the subject which deals with ‘the study of society’.
On reading Para 1, it can be inferred that
The implied meaning of Para 3 is
Pick out the most probable meaning of the phrase : ‘most profitably used’.
In the following questions, you have eight brief passage with 5/10 questions following each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage IV:
Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe are known for their theories about cycles of generations in American history. They refer to
each cycle of four generations as a constellation, and they posit that each constellational era corresponds to “recurring types of historical events” and moods. They state that adjacent generations do not live similar lives, and that each generation ages as a singular cohort as time moves forward. According to Stratus and Howe, each generation is comprised or people who possess (1) common age (2) common beliefs and (3) perceived membership in the same generation. A generation is approximately 22 years in length. Since a lifetime may reach 80-90 years, members of 4 generations are alive at one time. The four generational archetypes identified by Strauss are Idealist, Reactive, Civic and Adaptive. Idealist are “increasingly indulged youth after a secular crisis,” who cultivate principle rather than pragmatism in midlife, and emerge as “visionary elders.” Reactives grow up “Under protected and criticized youths during a spiritual awakening,” mature into risk taking adults, mellow into “pragmatic midlife leaders during a secular crisis,” and become reclusive elders. Civics grow up “increasingly protected youths after a spiritual awakening,” become “a heroic and achieving cadre of young adults,” build institutions as midlifers, and “emerges as busy midlifers, attacked by the next spiritual awakening.”
Adaptive grow up as “overprotected and suffocated youths during a secular crisis,” become “risk-average, conformist rising adults,” mature into “indecisive arbitrator leaders during a spiritual awakening,” and become sensitive elders.
What is the assumption made by Strauss and Howe?
What is the dissimilarity between adjacent generations?
According to the passage which of the following statements can be inferred?
According to the passage, what happens to the Civic generation at its members enter midlife?
‘Pragmatic’ most closely means
In the following questions, you have eight brief passage with 5/10 questions following each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage V:
An old shepherd was playing on a flute on the marshlands outside Rome. He played so sweetly that a lovely fairy came and listened to him.
“Will you marry me, and play to me in my castle?” she said.
“Yes, yes, lovely lady!” said the shepherd.
The fairy put a ring on his finger. At once he became a handsome young man dressed in princely robes.
“But I must first go to Rome and bid farewell to my friends”, he said.
The fairy gave him a golden coach with twelve white horses. As he rode in State to Rome, he met the young Queen of Italy, who invited him to her place.
The shepherd saw that he had won the Queen’s heart. He resolved to marry her and become the Kind of Italy and let the fairy go. So when he had an the Queen were alone together he knelt down and took her land, saying:
“Marry me, dearest and I will help you to govern Italy.”
But at soon as he spoke he turned into an old and rugged shepherd.
“What is this horrible beggar doing here?” cried the Queen. “Whip him out of the palace.”
The fairy wanted to marry the shepherd because
When the fairy put a ring on his finger, the shepherd
The shepherd went to Rome in a
When the shepherd reached Rome, he
The Queen ordered the shepherd to be whipped out of the palace because he
In the following questions, you have eight brief passage with 5/10 questions following each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage VI:
The environment comprises all the physical, social and cultural factors and conditions influencing the existence or the development of
an organism. Due to indiscriminate industrialization, man has created a state of decadence. He has continuously tampered “with nature which has resulted in the threat to the sustenance of mankind. Although, attempts have been made to restore nature to its previous state of purity and serenity, the efforts have not been whole-hearted.
Earth is the home we all share and would pass on to our future generations as their legacy. But if they inherit the present state of the world, they would be unable to sustain themselves. Man has steadily improved the technologies and other means necessary for higher production of wealth and for the availability of devices that could give more physical and mental pleasures. The industrial revolution led to a drastic escalation of earth’s surface temperature. Man exploited nature for his benefits, without any foresight as to what
the implications of his actions would be. Indiscriminate industrialization resulted in urban migration as the rural poor settled in cities in search of opportunities. Cities, already facing a population crisis could not accommodate the migrants and this led to the development of slums. This had resulted in increased pressure on the available resources and further degradation of the environment.
A state of decadence has come abut because of
Why would the future generations find it difficult to live on the earth?
Implication means
The theme of the passage is
Industrialization has resulted in
In the following questions, you have eight brief passage with 5/10 questions following each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage VII:
A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle which uses two or more kinds of propulsion. Most hybrid vehicles use a conventional gasoline engine as well as an electric motor to provide power to the electric motor to provide power to the vehicle. These are usually called hybrid-electric-vehicles, of HEVs. Hybrids use two types of propulsion in order to use gasoline more efficiently than conventional
vehicles do. Most hybrid vehicles use the gasoline engine as a generator which sends power to the electric motor. The electric motor then power the car. In conventional vehicles, the gasoline engine powers the vehicle directly. Since the main purpose of using a hybrid system is to efficiently use resources, most hybrid vehicles also use other efficient systems. Most hybrid vehicles have
regenerative braking systems. In conventional vehicles, the gasoline engine powers the brake, and the energy used in braking is lot. In
regenerative braking system, the energy lost in braking is sent back into the electrical battery for use in powering the vehicle. Some hybrid vehicles use periodic engine shutoff as a gas-saving feature. When the vehicle is in idle, the engine temporarily turns off. When the vehicle is put back in gear, the engine comes back on. Some hybrids use tires made of a stiff material which rolls easily
and prevents drag on the vehicle. Since hybrid vehicles use less gasoline than conventional vehicles, they put fewer emissions into the
atmosphere than conventional vehicles do. As hybrids become more popular, conventional vehicles are being used less, and he level of
emissions being put into the air is decreasing. Hybrid vehicles are an example of an energyefficient technology that is good for both
consumers and the environment.
Two kinds of propelling forces used by hybrid vehicles are
The difference between hybrid and conventional vehicle is that
Why do HEVs use two types of propulsions?
‘Regenerative’ most closely means;
In the context of the passage which of the following best articulates how the author regards the topic?
In the following questions, you have eight brief passage with 5/10 questions following each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage VIII:
If you are a poet, you will see carefully that there is cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud there will be no rain: without rain, the tress cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are ….. If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow. In fact, nothing can grow. Even we cannot grow without sunshine. And so, we know that the sunshine is also in this sheet of paper. The paper and the sunshine inter-are.
And if we continue to look, we can see the logger who cut the tree and brought it to the mill to be transformed into paper. And we see the wheat. We know that the logger cannot exist without his daily bread, and therefore the wheat that became his bread is also in this sheet of paper. And the logger’s father and mother are in it too. When we look in this way, we see that without all of these things, this sheet of paper cannot exist.
Looking even more deeply, we can see we are in it too. This is not difficult to see, because when we look at a sheet of paper, the sheep of paper is part of our perception. Your mind is in there and mine is also. So we can say that everything is in here with this sheet of paper. You cannot point out one thing that is not here - time, space, the earth, the rain, the minerals in the soil, the sunshine, the cloud, the river, the heat. Everything co-exists with this sheet of paper. This is why I think the word inter - be should be in the dictionary, “To be” is inter-be. You have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.
A poet sees a cloud in a sheet of paper is
A cloud ad the paper inter-are means
Why can’t the logger exit without his bread?
The theme of the comprehension is
Why does the writer think that the word ‘inter-be’ should be in the dictionary?
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