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English Language [ Question No: 1 To 20 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 1 To 3 ] :
In this type of questions, you are provided with the first and last parts of a sentence. The remaining sentence is broken into four parts labelled (P), (Q), (R) and (S). You are required to arrange these parts so as to form a complete meaningful sentence and then choose the correct combination.
P: play in New Jersey.
Q: other "New York" teams, the Jets and Giants,
R: in the state of New York as both
S: They are the only team to play
1. In-spite of an unprecedented boom in the market
P: and had to remain content
Q: the paper dealer could not
R: push up his sales
S: with the volume of sale lower than
6: what he had sold the previous year.
He dared
(P) the forty thieves
(Q) to fight
(R) who
(S) challenged him
to a duel
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 5 ] :
Select the combination of numbers so that letters/words arranged accordingly will form meaningful word
In the following question, a group of letters is given which are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Below are given four alternatives containing combinations of these numbers. Select that combination of numbers so that letters arranged accordingly, form a meaningful word.
T E L S C A
1 2 3 4 5 6
The letters R, E, T, W, A can be rearranged to form a common word. What is the third letter of that word ?
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase to make the grammatically correct?
Despite of their differences on matters of principle, they all agree on the demand for a hike in salary.
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'E' as the answer.
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
Change the following complex sentences into simple sentences.
We have warned you.
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
The world dismisses curiosity by calling it idle or mere idle curiosity even though curious persons are seldom idle. Parents do their best to extinguish curiosity in their children because it makes life difficult to be faced everyday with a string of unanswerable questions about what makes fire hot or why grass grows. Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline are invited to join our university. With the university, they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers. In the eyes of a scholar, that is what a university is for. some of the questions which the scholars ask seem to the world to be scarcely worth asking, let alone answering. they asked questions too minute and specialised for you and me to understand without years of explanation. If the world inquires of one of them why he wants to know the answer to a particular question he may say especially if he is a scientist, that the answer will in some obscure way make possible a new machine or weapon or gadget. He talks that way because he knows that the world understands and respects utility.
But to you who are now part of the university, he will say that he wants to know the answer simply because he does not know it, the way the mountain climber wants to climb a mountain, simply because it is there. Similarly a historian asked by an outsider why he studies history may come out with the argument that he has learnt to respect to report on such occasions, something about knowledge of the past making it possible to understand the present and mould the future. But if you really want to know why a historian studies the past, the answer is much simpler, something happened and he would like to know what. All this does not mean that the answers which scholars find may have enormous consequences but these seldom form the reason for asking the question or pursuing the answers. It is true that scholars can be put to work answering questions for sake of the consequences as thousands are working now, for example, in search of a cure for cancer. But this is not the primary business of scholars. For the consequences are usually subordinate to the satisfication of curiosity.
The common people consider some of the questions that the scholars ask unimportant
Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 11 ] :
What needs to be set right is our approach to work. It is a common sight in our country of employees reporting for duty on time and at the same time doing little work. If an assessment is made of time they spent in gossiping, drinking tea, eating "pan" and smoking cigarettes, it will be shocking to know that the time devoted to actual work is negligible. The problem is the standard which the leadership in administration sets for the staff. Forget the ministers because they mix politics and administration. What do top bureaucrats do? What do the below down officials do? The administrative set-up remains weak mainly because the employees do not have the right example to follow and they are more concerned about being in the good books of the bosses than doing work.
The leadership in administration
Direction for [ Question No: 12 To 13 ] :
In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Direction for [ Question No: 14 To 16 ] :
In each of the following questions, out of the given alternatives,choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. _______! I hit my foot on a stone there.
Select the most appropriate verb form to fill in the blank.
He used to visit the library every week, but he ______ now.
Based on his --------- as the chairman and founder as well as an active underwater diver
Select the one which conveys the meaning of the sentence correctly
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
English Language [ Question No: 1 To 20 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 1 To 3 ] :
In this type of questions, you are provided with the first and last parts of a sentence. The remaining sentence is broken into four parts labelled (P), (Q), (R) and (S). You are required to arrange these parts so as to form a complete meaningful sentence and then choose the correct combination.
P: play in New Jersey.
Q: other "New York" teams, the Jets and Giants,
R: in the state of New York as both
S: They are the only team to play
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: SRQP
The sentence reads:
They are the only team to play in the state of New York, as both other 'New York' teams, the Jets and Giants, play in New Jersey.
S opens the main clause and R completes it, since to play needs its place. Q then supplies the subject of the as clause and P its verb.
1. In-spite of an unprecedented boom in the market
P: and had to remain content
Q: the paper dealer could not
R: push up his sales
S: with the volume of sale lower than
6: what he had sold the previous year.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: QRPS
The sentence reads:
In spite of an unprecedented boom in the market the paper dealer could not push up his sales and had to remain content with the volume of sale lower than what he had sold the previous year.
Q gives the subject and the negated verb, and R completes it. P adds the second predicate with and, and S supplies what he had to remain content with, which the closing comparison completes.
He dared
(P) the forty thieves
(Q) to fight
(R) who
(S) challenged him
to a duel
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: QPRS
The sentence reads:
He dared to fight the forty thieves who challenged him to a duel.
Q completes dared with its infinitive, P is the object of fight, and R and S form the relative clause describing the thieves.
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 5 ] :
Select the combination of numbers so that letters/words arranged accordingly will form meaningful word
In the following question, a group of letters is given which are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Below are given four alternatives containing combinations of these numbers. Select that combination of numbers so that letters arranged accordingly, form a meaningful word.
T E L S C A
1 2 3 4 5 6
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: 5, 6, 4, 1, 3, 2
The letters are T E L S C A, and taken in that order they spell CASTLE.
Read the option as a set of positions: 5 = C 6 = A 4 = S 1 = T 3 = L 2 = E.
None of the other three orders produces an English word, so checking each against the letter list is quicker than trying to build the word from scratch.
The letters R, E, T, W, A can be rearranged to form a common word. What is the third letter of that word ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: T
The letters rearrange to WATER, whose third letter is T. The alternative arrangement TAWER is not a word in ordinary use.
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase to make the grammatically correct?
Despite of their differences on matters of principle, they all agree on the demand for a hike in salary.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: Despite their
Despite is already a preposition, so it takes its object directly and never needs of. The redundancy comes from confusing it with in spite of, which does require the preposition.
Both of these are correct and interchangeable:
- Despite their differences…
- In spite of their differences…
Mixing them into despite of is a very common error.
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'E' as the answer.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : E
No correction is required.
As healthy as, if not healthier than, is the complete double comparison - the first as ... as is closed before the parenthesis, and than follows healthier. Dropping either half leaves the sentence unbalanced.
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The error is in when we took a hasty breakfast.
No sooner pairs with than, not when. Hardly and scarcely are the ones that take when.
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
Change the following complex sentences into simple sentences.
We have warned you.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The sentence is of the present perfect form ‘ has/have + past participle form of the verb’. Its conversion will be like ‘has/have + been + past participle form of the verb’. Only option (c) matches to the conversion structure, hence it is the correct answer
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
The world dismisses curiosity by calling it idle or mere idle curiosity even though curious persons are seldom idle. Parents do their best to extinguish curiosity in their children because it makes life difficult to be faced everyday with a string of unanswerable questions about what makes fire hot or why grass grows. Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline are invited to join our university. With the university, they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers. In the eyes of a scholar, that is what a university is for. some of the questions which the scholars ask seem to the world to be scarcely worth asking, let alone answering. they asked questions too minute and specialised for you and me to understand without years of explanation. If the world inquires of one of them why he wants to know the answer to a particular question he may say especially if he is a scientist, that the answer will in some obscure way make possible a new machine or weapon or gadget. He talks that way because he knows that the world understands and respects utility.
But to you who are now part of the university, he will say that he wants to know the answer simply because he does not know it, the way the mountain climber wants to climb a mountain, simply because it is there. Similarly a historian asked by an outsider why he studies history may come out with the argument that he has learnt to respect to report on such occasions, something about knowledge of the past making it possible to understand the present and mould the future. But if you really want to know why a historian studies the past, the answer is much simpler, something happened and he would like to know what. All this does not mean that the answers which scholars find may have enormous consequences but these seldom form the reason for asking the question or pursuing the answers. It is true that scholars can be put to work answering questions for sake of the consequences as thousands are working now, for example, in search of a cure for cancer. But this is not the primary business of scholars. For the consequences are usually subordinate to the satisfication of curiosity.
The common people consider some of the questions that the scholars ask unimportant
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: as it's beyond their comprehension
The passage says scholars ask questions too minute and specialised for you and me to understand without years of explanation. The questions seem not worth asking because the world cannot follow them, not because of any judgement about the scholars themselves.
Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 11 ] :
What needs to be set right is our approach to work. It is a common sight in our country of employees reporting for duty on time and at the same time doing little work. If an assessment is made of time they spent in gossiping, drinking tea, eating "pan" and smoking cigarettes, it will be shocking to know that the time devoted to actual work is negligible. The problem is the standard which the leadership in administration sets for the staff. Forget the ministers because they mix politics and administration. What do top bureaucrats do? What do the below down officials do? The administrative set-up remains weak mainly because the employees do not have the right example to follow and they are more concerned about being in the good books of the bosses than doing work.
The leadership in administration
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: is of a very poor standard
The passage asks what top bureaucrats and lower officials actually do, and concludes that employees do not have the right example to follow. Setting no example to follow is precisely a poor standard, and it is offered as the main cause of the weakness described.
Direction for [ Question No: 12 To 13 ] :
In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The opposite is understatement.
Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration for effect, from the Greek for throwing beyond. Understatement, or litotes, is its rhetorical opposite.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The opposite is wanting.
Liberal here means generous in giving. Aplenty, bounteous and bountiful are synonyms; wanting means lacking or deficient.
Direction for [ Question No: 14 To 16 ] :
In each of the following questions, out of the given alternatives,choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
It is unavoidable.
Essential means absolutely necessary. Desirable, advisable and beneficial all describe things that would be good to have, which is precisely the difference - the essential cannot be done without.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
It is bankrupt.
Insolvent means unable to pay one's debts, which is the legal condition bankrupt names. Poor, penniless and broke describe having little money, which is not the same as owing more than one can pay.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
It is skilful.
Adroit means deft or dexterous, from the French a droit, to the right - the right hand being the skilled one. Inept and clumsy are its opposites, and gauche, from the French for left, is the word formed the other way round.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. _______! I hit my foot on a stone there.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The correct word is 'Ouch'. It is the interjection used for a sudden pain, and the speaker hit a foot on a stone, which is a painful knock.
'Wow' shows surprise or admiration, 'Whoa' is used to ask someone or something to stop or slow down, and 'Alas' expresses sorrow or regret in a more formal or literary way, not a sharp physical pain. Of the four, only 'Ouch' expresses pain from a hurt foot, so the third option is correct.
Select the most appropriate verb form to fill in the blank.
He used to visit the library every week, but he ______ now.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The sentence contrasts a past habit with the present, so the blank takes the simple present with a frequency adverb: he used to visit the library every week, but he rarely comes now.
Is rarely coming would describe an action in progress at the moment, has rarely come would need a period such as lately, and the plain comes lacks the idea of the change from regular visits that the but sentence needs.
Based on his --------- as the chairman and founder as well as an active underwater diver
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: experiences
Based on his ______ as the chairman and founder needs a noun for what he has lived through, and experiences is it.
Stand and diver do not fit based on his… as the chairman, and penned is a verb.
Select the one which conveys the meaning of the sentence correctly
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: He wasn't rich by any means, but he never turned away anyone who needed help.
The two facts stand in contrast - little money, yet unfailing generosity - and but is the connective that marks a contrast between two independent clauses.
Why the others fail:
- Since he lacked needed money, he never turned down anyone - since makes poverty the cause of his generosity, which reverses the sense.
- although subordinates the wrong half, leaving the emphasis on his poverty.
- Being not rich by any means - the negative is misplaced; English says not being rich.
Marks
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20