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i) General Awareness
1. What is USB stands for in terms of 5. To whom among the following English
computer peripherals? writers, 54th Jnanpith Award was
awarded?
(A) Universal Service Bus
(A) Anita Desai
(B) Universal Serial Bus
(B) Amitav Ghosh
(C) Universal Secured Bus (C) Sal man Rushdie
(D) None of the above (D) None of the above
2. What is CD stands for in terms of 6. Lionel Messi is an Eminent International
computer peripherals? player of which of the following sports
type?
(A) Cooling Disc
(A) Cricket
(B) Compact Disc (B) Snooker
(C) Contrast Disc (C) Football
(D) None of the above (D) None of the above
7. Dhyan Chand was an Eminent
3. Grammy award given in the field of
International player of which of the
(A) Music
following sports type ?
(B) Sports (A) Kabaddi
(C) Science (B) Hockey
(D) None of the above (C) Cricket
(D) None of the above
4. Who among the following also considered
as Father of Indian Cinema? 8. Usain Bolt is a former sprinter from
which of the following countries?
(A) Mani Ratnam
(A) Uganda
(B) Satyajit Ray
(B) Jamaica
(C) Dada Saheb Phalke (C) Kenya
(D) None of the above (D) None of the above
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9. In which of the following sports we can 13. World Animal Rights Day is celebrated
see the terminologies like Back stroke, every year on
Breast stroke, Butterfly stroke etc. ? (A) October 4th
(A) Swimming
(B) January 3rd
(B) Hockey
(C) November 2nd
(C) Gymnastic
(D) None of the above
(D) None of the above
14. Which country has unveiled South
10. What was the official tagline of
Asia's tallest tower?
FIFA World Cup, 2018?
(A) India
(A) Where the stars align
(B) Pakistan
(B) Where the real heroes' shines
(C) Sri Lanka
(C) Never before
(D) Bangladesh
(D) None of the above
15. Which of the following city is also called
11. Moortidevi Award is given annually in
as City of chillies?
which of the following field?
(A) Guntur
(A) Singing
(B) Hyderabad
(B) Literature
(C) Mysuru
(C) Sports
(D) None of the above (D) None of the above
12. Lal Bahadur Shastri birth anniversary is 16. Which of the following city is also known
celebrated every year on as Pink City?
(A) October 22nd (A) Jaipur
(B) November 3rd (B) Haryana
(C) October 2nd (C) Kochi
(D) None of the above (D) None of the above
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17. Humsafar trains of Indian railways are 21. Which of the following is not the member
(A) All AC 3 tier trains of G4 countries ?
(A) Germany
(B) All AC general compartment trains
(B) India
(C) Roll-on-Roll-off (Ro-Ro) service to
(C) Japan
carry loaded trucks on wagons
(0) None of the above
(D) None of the above
22. Which of the following organization
18. Which of the following was the first
launched the "Cauvery Calling"
space shuttle to reach space?
Movement?
(A) Columbia
(A) Ramakrishna Mission
(B) Discovery
(B) Isha Foundation
(C) Enterprise
(C) ISKCON
(D) None of the above
(0) None of the above
19. The first man to walk on the moon
23. Who among the following also known
(A) Neil Alden Armstrong as "Missile Man of India"?
(B) Rakesh Sharma (A) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
(C) Alan Shepard (B) A. S. Pillai
(D) None of the above (C) Kailasavadivoo Sivan
(0) None of the above
20. Which of the following countries holds
the rotating presidency of BRICS 24. Who has authored the book "Social
meeting 2019? Harmony" ?
(A) Brazil (A) Manmohan Singh
(B) Russia (B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) India (C) Narendra Modi
(0) None of the above (D) None of the above
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25. 'Save Money. Live Better' is the motto of 29. The holy city Ayodhya is lies on the
banks of
(A) Wal-Mart
(A) Raavi
(B) Flipkart
(B) Sarayu
(C) Alibaba
(C) Sutlej
(D) None of the above
(D) None of the above
26. Indian Institute of Vegetable Research
30. Yellow Revolution in India refers to
is located at
(A) Revolution in oilseeds production
(A) Kochi, Kerala
(B) Revolution in goat milk production
(B) Bengaluru, Karnataka
(C) Revolution in solar power
(C) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
generation
(D) None of the above (D) None of the above
27. Who is also known as Father of Green 31. World Students' Day celebrated every
Revolution in India? year on
(A) M. S. Swaminathan (A) 14th November
(B) Verghese Kurien (B) 15th October
(C) Sam Pitroda (C) 16th March
(D) None of the above (D) None of the above
28. City of London is lies on the banks of 32. The first Indian-American to be nominated
to post of federal judge in Florida
(A) The River Thames
(A) Neomi Rao
(B) The River Effra
(B) Sri Srinivasan
(C) The River Wandle
(C) Anuraag Singhal
(D) None of the above
(D) None of the above
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33. Indian Ambassador honored with UAE's 37. Recently test-fired indigenously
First Class Order of Zayed 11 is developed Astra missile is a
(A) Navdeep Singh Suri
(A) Surface-to-surface missile
(B) Tsewang Topden
(B) Air-to-air missile
(C) Jaideep Sarkar
(0) None of the above (C) Air-to-surface missile
(0) None of the above
34. Which of the following country has
recently won the Cricket "Under-19
38. Bold Kurukshetra-2019 is a joint military
Asia Cup" 2019 ?
exercise held between India and
(A) Bangladesh
(A) Singapore
(B) Pakistan
(C) India (B) Japan
(0) None of the above (C) Brazil
(0) None of the above
35. Which of the following State Legislative
Assemblies of the country recently
39. Exercise Shakti-2019 is a joint military
inaugurated and became first Legislative
Assemblyof the countryto go papertess? exercise held between India and
(A) Jharkhand State Legislative (A) UAE
Assembly (B) France
(B) Odisha State Legislative Assembly
(C) USA
(C) Jammu and Kashmir State
Legislative Assembly (0) None of the above
(0) None of the above
40. Which of the following is not the general
36. In which year was the Indian National type of blood groups in human?
Congress formed? (A) AB
(A) 1860
(B) A
(B) 1906
(C) 1885 (C) K
(0) 1910 (0) B
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ii) General Intelligence and Reasoning Ability
41. 39798 + 3798 + 378 = ? 46. Which of the following is equal to
(A) 43576 3.14 x 106?
(8) 43974 (A) 314
(C) 43984 (8) 3140
(0) 49532 (C) 3140000
(0) None of these
42. If n is a negative number, then which of
the following is the least ?
(A) 0 (8) -n 47. The ratio of 30 minutes to 1 hour is
(C) 2n (0) n2
(A) 1: _1
30
43. 461 + 462 + 463 + 464 is divisible by
(8) 1 : 2
(A) 3 (8) 10
(C) 11 (0) 13 (C) 2: 1
(0) 30: 1
44. HCF of 30 and 42 is
(A) 6
(8) 210 48. Value of 8.40 - 5.36 =
(C) 3 (A) 4.4
(0) 2
(8) 3.04
(C) 3.4
45. Which of the following fractions is
3 5 (0) 2.64
greater than "4 and less than 6" ?
1
(A) -
2 49. If x * Y = x2 + y2 - xy, then the value of
2 9 * 11 is
(8) -
3 (A) 93
4
(C) - (8) 103
5
(C) 113
9
(0) -
10 (0) 121
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54. A student obtained 76, 65, 82, 67
. (P+O). P -7 ?
50. What ISthe value of (P _0) If Q - . and 85 marks (out of 100) in English,
Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and
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(A) - Biology. What are his average marks?
3
2 (A) 65
(B) -
3 (B) 69
4
(C) - (C) 72
3
(0) None of these
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(0) -
8
55. If the cost of 7 m of cloth is Rs. 1,470
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then the cost of 2 m of cloth is
(A) RS.410
2
(A) -
3 (B) RS.420
4 (C) RS.210
(B) -
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(0) None of these
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25 56. If a car travels 60 kms in 1Y2 hours, then
(0) -
81 the distance travelled by it in 1 hour is
(A) 30 km
52. The square root of (7 + 3-J5) ( 7 - 3-J5) is (B) 38 km
(A) -J5
(C) 45 km
(B) 2
(C) 4 (0) 40 km
(0) 3-J5
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57. The value of (Jar' is
53. Age of a father is 42 years and his son
(A) 2
is 14. The ratio of age of father to that
(B) 4
of his son is
(A) 7: 2 (B) 1:3
(C) 12
(C) 3: 1 (0) 2:7 (0) 8
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58. The value of [(10)150 + (10)146]is 62. If the age of Ms. Sony is x years, then
(A) 1000 her age 5 years from now will be
(8) 10000 (A) -x
5
(C) .100000
(8) x-5
(0) 106
(C) 5+x
59. The length of a room is 5.5 m and width (0) 5x
is 3.75 m. Find the cost of paving the
floor by slabs at the rate of Rs. 800 per
63. The number of right angles turned by
sq.metre.
the hour hand when it goes from 12 to
(A) Rs.15,000
9 in the clockwise direction is
(8) Rs.15,550
(A) 3
(C) Rs.15,600
(8) 1
(0) Rs.16,500
(C) 2
(0) 8
60. Choose the correct alternative that will
continue the same pattern and replace
the question mark. 64. Choose the correct alternative.
1,9,25,49,?,121 Moon : Satellite : : Earth : ?
(A) 64 (A) Sun
(8) 81 (8) Planet
(C) 91 (C) Solar system
(0) 100 (0) Asteroid
61. In the given series one term is wrong, 65. Select the pair in which the numbers
find out the wrong term. are similarly related as in the given pair
196,169,144,121,101 12: 144.
(A) 101 (A) 22: 464
(8) 121 (8) 20: 400
(C) 169 (C) 15: 135
(0) 196 (0) 10: 140
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70. Choose the group of letters which is
66. The greatest prime number between 1
different from the others.
and 10 is
(A) 3 (A) BCD
(B) 7 (B) KMN
(C) 9 (C) QRS
(D) 5 (D) GHI
67. Value of (- 31) + ((- 30) + (-1)) = 71. Choose the group of letters which is
(A) 1 different from others.
(B) -1 (A) BD
(C) 0 (B) IK
(D) None of these (C) PN
(D) SU
68. If a batsman scored 36, 36, 50, 46 runs in
4 innings, the mean of runs scored in 72. If in a certain code language, POPULAR
4 innings is is coded as QPQVMBS, which word
could be coded as GBNPVT?
(A) 40
(B) 42 (A) FARMER
(C) 38 (B) FAMOUS
(D) None of these (C) FRAMES
(D) FARMES
69. Choose the odd numerical pair/group in
each of the following questions. 73. If A = 2, M = 26, Z = 52, then BET = ?
(A) 80-9 (A) 44
(B) 64-8 (B) 54
(C) 36-6 (C) 64
(D) 49-7 (D) 72
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74. .lf 'sky' is 'star', 'star' is 'cloud', 'cloud' is 77. If the area of triangle ABC is 36 cm2
then length of base BC is
'earth', 'earth' is 'tree' and 'tree' is 'book'
then where do the birds fly? A
(A) Cloud
(B) Sky
(C) Star
(0) None of these (A) 28 cm (B) 20 cm
(C) 24 cm (0) none of these
75. Find out the number that lies inside all 78. If L stands for +, M stands for -, N stands
the figures. for x, P stands for +, then
14 N 10 L 42 P 2 M 8 = ?
(A) 153 (B) 216
4 (C) 248 (0) 251
79. In the box given below, the values of
(A) 2 A, Band Care
9 A 12
(B) 5
B 10 7
(C) 9 8 C 11
(0) No such number is there (A) A = 13, B = 11, C = 9
(B) A = 13, B = 9, C = 11
(C) A = 9, B = 11, C = 13
76. If in a certain language, CHARCOAL
(0) A = 9, B = 13, C = 11
is coded as 45164913 and MORALE
is coded as 296137, how is the word 80. Find the missing character.
ALLOCHRE coded in that language?
(A) 13396875
(B) 16693985
(C) 13394567 (A) 2 (B) 4
(0) 19943785 (C) 6 (0) 18
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iii) Arithmetical and Numerical Ability
81. A rectangular paper of width 7 cm is 85. A cuboidhas dimensions60 cm x 54 cm x
rolled along its width and a cylinder 30 cm. How many small cubes with side
of radius 10 cm is formed. Then the 6 cm can be placed in the given cuboid?
volume of the cylinder is (1t = 2%) (A) 225
(A) 176000 cm3 (8) 400
(8) 2200 cm3 (C) 450
(C) 1100 cm3 (0) None of these
(0) None of these
86. The diagonals of a rhombus are
82. If each edge of a cube is doubled, the 7.5 cm and 12 cm. Then the area'of the
number of times its surface area will rhombus is
increase is
(A) 22.5 cm2
(A) 8
(8) 90cm2
(8) 4
(C) 45cm2
(C) 24
(0) None of these
(0) None of these
87. The area of a trapezium shaped field
83. A milk tank is in the form of a cylinder
is 480 m2, the distance between two
whose radius is 1.5 m and length is 7 m.
parallel sides is 15 m and one parallel
The quantity of milk in litres that can be
side is 20 m. The other parallel side is
stored in the tank is (1m3 = 1000 L)
(A) 49.5 L (A) 44 m
(8) 49500 L (8) 40 m
(C) 495000 L (C) 80 m
(0) None of these (0) None of these
84. Side length of a cube whose surface 88. Area of a rectangle whose length is
area is 600 cm2 is 3 cm and breadth is 4 cm is
(A) 100 cm (A) 6cm2
(8) 10cm (8) 7cm2
(C) J600cm (C) 12 cm2
(0) None of these (0) 16 cm2
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89. Value of 1532 - 1472 is 95. The ratio of 50 paise to Rs. 5 is
(A) 1200 (B) 180 (A) 1: 5
(C) 1800 (0) 625 (B) 1: 10
(C) 10: 1
(0) None of these
90. (2x + 5)2 - (2x - 5)2 is
(A) 8x2 + 50 (B) 20x
(C) 40x (0) - 40x 96. If Ms. Meena had Rs. 600 left after
spending 75% of her money, how much
did she have in the beginning?
91. Product of (a + b + c) and (a + b - c) is (A) Rs. 1,000 (B) Rs. 650
(A) a2 + b2 - c2 (C) Rs.800 (0) Rs.900
(B) a2 + b2 + c2 - 2ab
(C) a2 + b2 - c2 + 2ab
97. An article was purchased for Rs. 1,239
(0) None of these including GST of 18%. The price of the
article before GST was added is
(A) Rs. 1,000
92. Value of a (a2 + a + 1) + 5 for a = -1 is
(B) Rs. 1,050
(A)0 (B)-1
(C) Rs. 1,320
(C) 2 (0) 4
(0) None of these
93. Volume of a rectangular box of length,
98. A shop keeper buys 80 articles for
breadth and height respectively are
Rs. 2,400 and sells them at a profit of
2p, 4q and 8r is
16%. The selling price of one article is
(A) 64 pqr cubic units
(A) Rs.46 (B) Rs.96
(B) 32 pqr cubic units
(C) Rs. 34.8 (0) Rs. 34
(C) 14(p + q + r) units
(0) None of these
99. The list price of a shirt was Rs. 220.
A discount of 30% was announced on
94. If 72% of 25 students are interested in sales. The amount of discount on it is
Mathematics. The number of students (A) Rs.36
who are not interested is
(B) Rs.66
(A) 8 (B) 6 (C) Rs.56
(C) 7 (0) 10 (0) None of these
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100. Cube root of 15625 is 106. A person has 1000 plants. He wants
(A) 35 to plant these in such a way that the
number of rows and columns remain
(B) 15
same. The minimum number of plants
(C) 25
he needs more for this is
(0) None of these
(A) 24
(B) 1
101. Which among the following options is (C) 48
not a perfect cube? (0) None of these
(A) 216 (B) 729
(C) 1 (0) 128
107. The least number added to 252 so as
to get a perfect square is
102. By what smallest natural number 392 (A) 16 (B) 4
has to be multiplied so that the product (C) 9 (0) 3
is a cube?
(A) 5 (B) 9
108. All square numbers can not end with
(C) 7 (0) 3
which of the following number at units
place?
103. The length of the side of a square whose (A) 0 (B) 9
area is 441 cm2 is (C) 5 (0) 2
(A) 31 cm (B) 21 cm
(C) 11 cm (0) None of these
109. If one number of a Pythagorean triple
is 6, then the other 2 are
104. In a right angled triangle ABC, l§ = 90 0
,
(A) 4,8 (B) 10,8
AC = 13 cm, BC = 5 cm then AB is (C) 7,5 (0) 4,6
(A) 12 cm
(B) 9 cm 110. Ms. Sheela thinks of a number and
5
(C) 18 cm subtracts 2" from it. She multiplies the
(0) None of these
result by 8. The result now obtained is
3 times the same number she thought
105. The square root of 2.56 is of. What is the number?
(A) 0.16 (B) 1.6 (A) 3 (B) 12
(C) 0.016 (0) None of these (C) 4 (0) 2
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111. Sum of the digits of a two digit number 116. The denominator of a rational number
is 9. When we interchange the digits, is greater than its numerator by 8. If
it is found that the resulting number the numerator is increased by 17 and
is greater than the original by 27. The the denominator is decreased by 1, the
number is number obtained will be ~. The rational
(A) 27 (B) 18 number is 2
(C) 36 (0) 45 (A) 13 (B) 12
21 25
11
112. Ms. X's mother's present age is 6 times (C) 23 (0) None of these
her present age. X's age 5 years from now
will be one third of her mother's present
age. Her mother's present age is 117. Additive inverse of ~~ is
(A) 25 years
-17 17
(A) - (B) -
(B) 30 years 9 9
(C) 32 years 9
(C) (0) None of these
(0) 24 years 17
6 -7
113. If 6x + 1 + 1 = x - 3 then x = 118. Product of 13 and reciprocal of 16 is
3 6
-14 -96
(A) 1 (B) 0 (A) 7 (B) 91
1
(C) -1 (0) 2 (C) 96 (0) None of these
91
n 3n 5n
114. If ---+- = 21 then n = 119. A rational number between
1
4' and 2" is
1
2 4 6
(A) 16 (B) 26
(A) 1 (B) 2
(C) 18 (0) 36 8 3
(C) 3 (0) 5
115. The age of Hand K are in the ratio 5 : 7. 8 6
Four years from now, the ratio of their ages
will be 3 : 4. The present age of H is 120. The least common multiple of 3 and 4 is
(A) 30 yrs. (B) 20 yrs. (A) 1 (B) 12
(C) 18 yrs. (0) 15 yrs. (C) 0 (0) 6
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v) English Language and Comprehension
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Choose the best way to complete the sentences 166. The protesters by the police.
below (in Reported speech). (A) are holding back
161. Please tell me (8) are being holding back
(A) where is the bus stop (C) are being held back
(8) where the bus stop be (0) are being hold back
(C) where stops the bus
167. She with a fine.
(0) where the bus stop is
(A) was let off
162. I think (8) was letted off
(A) today it is Wednesday (C) was letting off
(8) that is today Wednesday (0) were let off
(C) today is Wednesday
(0) today be Wednesday 168. The flood water by barriers.
(A) was being kept back
163. She said (8) was being keep back
(A) that she was hungry (C) was been kept back
(8) she hungry (0) was being keept back
(C) she be hungry
(0) her was hungry Fillinthe blanksby choosingthe correctconnector
from among the choices given below them.
164. I believe
169. He could not get the prize, _
(A) him he is right
she tried hard for it.
(8) he is right
(A) yet
(C) he be right
(8) though
(0) that he right
(C) but
Choose the best way to complete these passive (0) when
voice sentences.
170. She is more intelligent her
165. She _ sister.
(A) have never been heard of (A) as
(8) has never been hearing of (8) that
(C) has never been heared of (C) because
(0) has never been heard of (0) than
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171. My uncle left for Mexico _ Choose the correct synonyms of the words
I was six years old. underlined from the alternatives given below
(A) when them.
(8) since
177. We need the blessings of our elders.
(C) while
(A) good advice
(0) still
(8) suggestions
(C) directions
172. We want to respectour feelings, _
(0) good wishes
we should respect the feelings of others.
(A) nevertheless . 178. My friend has a notion to renovate our
(8) similarly house.
(C) on the other hand (A) idea
(0) none of these (B) project
(C) desire
Identify the rightly spelt word from among (0) dream
the choices given below and mark the
corresponding alphabet as your answer. 179. The assault was extremely vicious.
(A) exercise
173. (A) temprature (B) dialogue
(8) tempareter (C) attack
(C) tempareteru (0) exchange
(0) temperature
180. He sold his property at an enormous
profit.
174. (A) expirience
(A) small
(8) exparience
(B) extra
(C) experience
(C) huge
(0) experiance (0) handsome
175. (A) incident
Fill in the blanks with the antonyms of the words
(8) insident underlined.
(C) insidentt
(0) insidant 181. The traders were busy in selling and
____ things.
176. (A) definate (A) marketing
(8) definite (B) dealing
(C) difinite (C) trading
(0) difinate (0) buying
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182. Many feel that it is easier to _ Choose one word substitutes for the following
than to descend the Himalayas. from among the choices given below them.
(A) climb down
(B) derive
(C) ascend 187. Extreme dry weather without any
(0) move down rainfall.
(A) flood
183. I finally managed to complete all the
____ assignments. (B) hoax
(A) discomplete
(C) drought
(B) incomplete
(C) uncomplete (0) depression
(0) miscomplete
Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate 188. Lines on the face due to old age.
words from those given among choices below (A) rinkles
them.
(B) wrinkles
184. He was carrying a bag of _ (C) wrestling
on his shoulders.
(0) none of these
(A) rise
(B) rice
(C) raise 189. Vehicle that rides on a cushion of air.
(0) none of these
(A) Radar
185. Biscuits are made with butter and (B) Aircraft
(A) flour
(C) Hovercraft
(B) flower
(C) flaur (0) Galaxy
(0) floor
190. A padded bed covering
186. The atmosphere heightens
feelings of piety. (A) quilt
(A) quait
(B) seam
(B) quite
(C) kipdown
(C) quiet
(0) none of these (0) none of these
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Each sentence given below has been divided Fill in the blanks.
into four parts A, 8, C and D and one of the 197. you read when you were five ?
parts has error in it. Mark that part's alphabet as (A) May
your answer and identify the erroneous part.
(8) Can
(C) Could
191. The cost of constructing!
(D) Might
(A)
houses are increased/ 198. The wound not heal in spite
of all the treatment he had.
(8)
(A) will
because of the high/price of cement. (8) would
(C) (D) (C) shall
(D) should
192. Let we/be the/bidders at/the auction.
Do as directed.
(A) (8) (C) (D)
199. Identify the simple sentence from among
the sentences given below.
193. He saw / I / laughing / no error.
(A) Some girls like to study in the
(A) (8) (C) (D) morning
(8) I tried to speak French, and Ram
194. Is your/parents/coming for/the festival? tried to speak English
(C) Ram played football, for Mira went
(A) (8) (C) (D)
shopping
(D) None of these
195. I am/much/glad to/see you.
200. Select the compound sentence from
(A) (8) (C) (D)
among the choices given below.
(A) Take whatever you like
196. He reached/the ground/ (8) I am certain that she has gone
(A) (8) mad
(C) I am very tired for I have been
earlier than the players/no error walking all the morning
(C) (D) (D) Honesty is the best policy
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