Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Life is to death as pleasure is to ......
Answer: D
Correct answer: Pain
The analogy pairs opposites: death is the opposite of life, so the fourth term must be the opposite of pleasure.
Suffering and anguish are close, but pain is the exact counterpart of pleasure; poverty is the opposite of wealth, not of pleasure.
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This, partly, explains how the Mehta family has been able to ...... its lavish lifestyle in recent times, despite the fact that all its assets have been ......
Answer: D
Keep up means to Maintain a required pace or level. Here we are talking about longer period of time.Afford means to Have the financial means to do something or buy something. It means one may do something now but in future he may not be able to do.So option D fits well.
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The machine is difficult to build ...... easy to maintain.
Answer: A
Correct answer: But
The two halves contradict each other - hard to build, easy to maintain - and but is the connective for a contrast.
And would join them as though they agreed, for would make one the reason for the other, and it is not a conjunction.
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If you work beyond your capacity, you will naturally feel ......
Answer: B
Correct answer: Tired
Working beyond one's capacity produces fatigue, and tired is the plain word for it.
Drowsy is sleepy, giddy is dizzy, and confident is not a consequence of overwork.
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If you persists in telling lies to me I shall sue you ...... slander.
Answer: C
Correct answer: For
One sues a person for the wrong done: sue for slander, sue for damages.
No other preposition follows sue in naming the offence.
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His father-in-law ...... him up in business.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Set
Set someone up in business is the fixed phrase for establishing them in it.
Put up means to lodge, build up to develop gradually, and made up has no such sense.
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...... works of reference are as valuable as the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Few
Few without an article means hardly any, which is the point: almost nothing matches the Britannica.
A few would mean some, reversing the sense; the few points to a definite group already known; fewer is a comparative with nothing to compare.
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This book is quite similar ......
Answer: C
Correct answer: to the one I read last week
Similar is followed by to, and the comparison must be between two like things - here, book with book.
Similar with and similar than are not English, and comparing a book with a film compares unlike things.
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If our friends are not able to take us in their car, we must make ...... arrangements to go to the airport.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Alternative
Alternative means other, in place of the first, which is what a second plan for reaching the airport is.
Alternate means every other one in a series. Another and possible are grammatical but vaguer, and neither carries the sense of a substitute plan.
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A crescendo of metallic thuds arose from the market, where the iron-smiths were ...... the pieces of metals.
Answer: C
Correct answer: hammering
The clue is metallic thuds - the repeated blows of a hammer, which is what iron-smiths work with.
Striking is close but does not name the tool or the repetition; flattening names a result rather than an action, and thrashing is used of beating a person or a crop.
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