1) Some parts of the sentence in the passage below are left blank. Fill them with the best alternative.
When trade unions …(1)….. computerization, they were ……(2). that computerization would create more jobs, only with different …(3)..requirements.
1. a) understood
b) approved
c) protested
d) resisted
2. a) worried
b) fearful
c) confirmed
d) assured
3. a) quality
b) skill
c) aptitude
d) language
a. 1 - d ,2 - d,3 - b
b. 1 - a, 2 - b, 3 - d
c. 1 - b,2 - c, 3 - a
d. 1 - a, 2 - d, 3 - a
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ANSWER: 1 - d ,2 - d,3 - b
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2) In the question below, a part of the sentence has been underlined. Replace the underlined part with the most appropriate choice from the four options provided below. In case no improvement is required, choose the option d.) no improvement required.
Poland’s new president, Andrzej Duda, has complained about “dictates” from the European Union to accept migrants flowing onto the Continent from the Middle East and Africa.
a. of the European Union to accept migrants flowing onto the Continent from the Middle East and Africa.
b. of European Union for acceptance of migrants from Middle East and Africa.
c. from European Union to accept migrants from Middle East and Africa.
d. no improvement required
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ANSWER: no improvement required
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3) In the question below, a part of the sentence has been underlined. Replace the underlined part with the most appropriate choice from the four options provided below. In case no improvement is required, choose the option d.) no improvement required.
Cancer claimed Kim Suozzi at age 23, but she chooses to preserve her brain with the dream that neuroscience may one day claim her mind.
a. chose to preserve her brain with the dream that neuroscience may one day revive her mind.
b. chose to have her brain preserved with the dream that neuroscience might one day revive her mind.
c. chose neuroscience to preserve her brain with the hope that one day it might be revived.
d. no improvement needed.
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ANSWER: chose to have her brain preserved with the dream that neuroscience might one day revive her mind.
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4) In the question below choose the alternative that best substitutes the underlined expression.
Prices of grain have risen in the retail markets due to shortage but wholesalers have their storehouses of grain full.
a. barns
b. granaries
c. graineries
d. warehouses
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ANSWER: granaries
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5) In the question below choose the alternative that best substitutes the underlined expression.
If you teach at a big international school, besides receiving a handsome salary your child will receive education there for free.
a. voluntarily
b. pricelssly
c. nominally
d. gratis
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ANSWER: gratis
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6) In the following questions, a sentence is broken up into parts. One of the parts may have an error. You are required to identify the part containing the error. If there is no error, choose “none of the above” as your answer.
Each of them /have been given /a bouquet and a cake.
a. Each of them
b. have been given
c. a bouquet and a cake
d. no error
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ANSWER: have been given
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7) In the following questions, a sentence is broken up into parts. One of the parts may have an error. You are required to identify the part containing the error. If there is no error, choose “none of the above” as your answer.
What made you/ to go to that/ disreputable place?
a. What made you
b. to go to that
c. disreputable place
d. no error
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ANSWER: to go to that
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8) Choose the word closest in meaning to the given word
Revivify
a. Resurrect
b. Renovate
c. Spruce
d. Retrieve
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ANSWER: Resurrect
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9) Choose the word closest in meaning to the given word,
Align
a. Disunited
b. Divergent
c. Adjust
d. Subserviant
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ANSWER: Adjust
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10) Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word,
Authoritarian
a. Foremost
b. Fundamental
c. Domineering
d. Permissive
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ANSWER: Permissive
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11) Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word,
Prevaricate
a. Equivocate
b. Dodge
c. Garble
d. Confront
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ANSWER: Dodge
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12) In the question below, there is a sentence with jumbled up parts. Rearrange these parts, which are labelled A, B, C and D to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence.
By defining ‘our best’…….
A) a task, I fear we are letting ourselves
B) merely put a lot of effort into
C) as the thing we did when we
D) off the hook
a. DCAB
b. CBAD
c. ADCB
d. DCBA
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ANSWER: CBAD
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13) In the question below, there is a sentence with jumbled up parts. Rearrange these parts, which are labelled A, B, C and D to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence.
It is possible that he thinks his …..
A) job is to be a clerk
B) and to read the results out loud as he stands at the cash register
C) to keep people from stealing things
D) to type letters into a computer
a. ABCD
b. DCAB
c. BCAD
d. ACDB
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ANSWER: ACDB
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14) Complete the following sentences with the most appropriate words/phrases with reference to grammar, idioms, proverbs and syntax.
The child was ………………. her mother in the dead of the night.
a. abducted to
b. abducted for
c. abducted away
d. abducted from
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ANSWER: abducted from
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15) Complete the following sentences with the most appropriate words/phrases with reference to grammar, idioms, proverbs and syntax.
Do not expect me to ……… you ……. this horrendous crime.
a. abet, by
b. abet, with
c. abet, in
d. abet, to
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ANSWER: abet, in
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16) The question below consists of four sentences marked A, B, C and D. Arrange the sentences in a proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph.
A) All I could remember was people around me, whispering to one another that I got lucky.
B) I did not realize what I was considering just another sting would turn out to be something serious.
C) When I look back, I don’t remember too much- of what I was thinking, what was going on in my head.
D) The unbearable pain and burns had somehow numbed my senses.
a. DCAB
b. CDBA
c. ABCD
d. DCBA
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ANSWER: CDBA
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17) The question below consists of four sentences marked A, B, C and D. Arrange the sentences in a proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph.
A) Gun control is hotly debated in USA, with access to children, being a subset of a larger topic.
B) While the ads are creative and funny will they be effective in creating a change in behavior towards gun possession and usage.
C) The ads advocate gun control through a simple thought-provoking proposition: if they find it, they will play with it.
D) A brilliants set of ads for Evolve USA, is shortlisted at the Clio Awards 2015.
a. DCAB
b. CDBA
c. ABCD
d. DCBA
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ANSWER: DCBA
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18) The given sentence is in active/ passive voice. Change the voice of the sentence. Select the correct option from the sentence below.
She has preserved all the old letters of her dead lover.
a. All the old letters of her dead lover have been preserved by her.
b. All the old letters of her dead lover has been preserved by her.
c. All the old letters have been preserved.
d. The letters of her old lover have been preserved.
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ANSWER: All the old letters of her dead lover have been preserved by her.
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19) The given sentence is in active/ passive voice. Change the voice of the sentence. Select the correct option from the sentence below.
He has a gut feeling that his brother may be keeping a secret.
a. He has a gut feeling that a secret may be being kept by his brother.
b. A gut feeling is had that a secret is kept by his brother.
c. He had a gut feeling that a secret was kept by his brother.
d. He has a gut feeling that maybe his brother kept a secret.
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ANSWER: He has a gut feeling that a secret may be being kept by his brother.
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20) The given sentence is in direct/ indirect speech. Change the narration of the sentence. Select the correct option from the sentence below.
He said, ‘’I hardly have time to attend any party.”
a. He said that he has no time to attend any party.
b. He said that he hardly has time to attend any party.
c. He said that he hardly had time to attend any party.
d. He says that he hardly had time to attend any party.
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ANSWER: He said that he hardly had time to attend any party.
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21) The given sentence is in direct/ indirect speech. Change the narration of the sentence. Select the correct option from the sentence below.
The young man promised her that he would be there the next day.
a. The young man said, “I will be there the next day”
b. The young man said, “I promise to be here tomorrow.”
c. The young man said, “I will try to be there the next day.”
d. The young man said, “I will be here the next day.”
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ANSWER: The young man said, “I promise to be here tomorrow.”
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22) In the following question, four pairs of words follow the first pair. Select the pair whose relation most closely matches the first pair.
Serpentine: River
a. Problematic: Solution
b. Circuitous: Track
c. Rib-tickling: Wit
d. Exhaustive: List
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ANSWER: Circuitous: Track
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23) In the following question, four pairs of words follow the first pair. Select the pair whose relation most closely matches the first pair.
Deferential: Sycophantic
a. Imposing: August
b. Dutiful: Assiduous
c. Thrifty: Parsimonious
d. Blunt: Plainspoken
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ANSWER: Thrifty: Parsimonious
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24) Pick the word/phrase most nearly opposite in meaning.
Retrench
a. Diminish
b. Expand
c. Truncate
d. Wane
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ANSWER: Expand
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25) Pick the word/phrase most nearly opposite in meaning.
Sapient
a. Astucious
b. Injudicious
c. Impostrous
d. Clandestine
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ANSWER: Injudicious
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26) Pick the word/phrase most nearly opposite in meaning.
Peremptory
a. Circumspect
b. Command
c. Firm
d. Longanimous
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ANSWER: Longanimous
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27) In the following question , a part of the sentence has been underlined. Replace the underlined part with the most appropriate choice from the four options provided below. In case no improvement is required, choose the option marked ‘no improvement needed’.
What is the time on your watch?
a. (a) No improvement needed
b. (b) in your watch
c. (c) of your watch
d. (d) by your watch
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ANSWER: (d) by your watch
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28) In a following question, a part of the sentence has been underlined. Replace the underlined part with the most appropriate choice from the four options provided below. In case no improvement is required, choose the option marked ‘no improvement needed’.
Your answer is different than mine.
a. (a) from mine
b. (b) no improvement needed
c. (c) to mine
d. (d) of mine
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ANSWER: (a) from mine
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29) Four alternatives are given for the idioms/ phrases underlined in the sentence. Choose the one that best expresses the meaning of the idiom
The demolition of the Babri Masjid had been a political hot potato for years.
a. a hotly debated delicate issue
b. a helping agent
c. forbidden issue
d. something that has been for long in the newspapers
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ANSWER: a hotly debated delicate issue
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30) Choose the correct alternative which can be substituted for the below given word/ sentence.
A physician who diagnoses and interprets the changes caused by disease in tissues and body fluids
a. Pharmacist
b. Psychologist
c. Optometrist
d. Pathologist
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ANSWER: Pathologist
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31) Choose the correct alternative which can be substituted for the below given word/ sentence.
A person who cannot help but steal whatever he can find.
a. daconomaniac
b. thanatomaniac
c. kleptomaniac
d. theomaniac
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ANSWER: kleptomaniac
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32) Pick the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given words.
Impertinent
a. Intelligent
b. Disrespectful
c. Candid
d. Believable
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ANSWER: Disrespectful
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33) Pick the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given words.
Prurient
a. Prudent
b. Lustful
c. Funny
d. Inclined
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ANSWER: Lustful
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34) The Question below consist of four sentences marked A, B, C and D. Arrange the sentences in a proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph.
A) My grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman.
B) People said that she had once been young and pretty and even had a husband.
C) She had been old and wrinkled for twenty years that I had known her.
D) But that was hard to believe.
a. DCAB
b. ACBD
c. ABCD
d. DCBA
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ANSWER: ACBD
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35) The Question below consist of four sentences marked A, B, C and D. Arrange the sentences in a proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph.
A) Quinten was immediately admitted as an apprentice into his studio.
B) In fifteenth century a master blacksmith called Quinten Metsys fell in love with a painter’s daughter.
C) So Quinten sneaked into the painter’s studio and painted a fly on his latest panel.
D) The father would not accept a son-in-law in such a profession.
a. ABCD
b. DCAB
c. BCAD
d. BDCA
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ANSWER: BDCA
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36) In the question below, there is a sentence with jumbled up parts. Rearrange these parts, which are labelled A, B, C and D to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence.
A classical Chinese painting….
A) as would a
B) is not meant to
C) Western figurative painting
D) represent an actual view
a. ACBD
b. BDAC
c. BACD
d. DCAB
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ANSWER: BDAC
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37) In the question below, there is a sentence with jumbled up parts. Rearrange these parts, which are labelled A, B, C and D to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence.
One cannot recall any movement……
A) which has gripped the imagination of the entire human race
B) in world history
C) which started nearly twenty-five years ago
D) so completely and so rapidly as the Green Movement
a. CBAD
b. CDBA
c. ADCB
d. BADC
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ANSWER: BADC
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38) In the question below, there is a sentence with jumbled up parts. Rearrange these parts, which are labelled A, B, C and D to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence.
A swathe of the white stuff
A) stretching for maybe fifteen metres
B) lay across the track in front of us
C) and the dirt track reappeared
D) before it petered out
a. ABDC
b. BCDA
c. BADC
d. DBAC
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ANSWER: BADC
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39) Some parts of the sentences in the passages below are left blank. Fill them with the best alternative.
We ….. reached the top of the pass. It was lined by a large ……. of rocks …… with white silk scarves and ragged prayer flags. We all took a turn round the rocks in the clockwise direction, as was the …... and Tsetan checked the tyres on his vehicle.
1 (a) immediately
(b) hesitantly
(c) finally
(d) currently
2. (a) cairn
(b) monument
(c) assembly
(d) shaft
3. (a) garnished
(b) festered
(c) festooned
(d)enriched
4. (a) habit
(b) fashion
(c) etiquette
(d) tradition
a. 1- c, 2 - a ,3 – c,4 - d
b. 1 – d ,2 - b,3- a, 4 - d
c. 1 – a, 2 – c , 3- c,4 - a
d. 1 – d,2 – a,3 – c, 4 - b
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ANSWER: 1- c, 2 - a ,3 – c,4 - d
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40) Fill in the blanks with the correctly spelled alternative.
We ……..many words in our day to day usage.
a. misspell
b. mispell
c. mispel
d. misspel
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ANSWER: misspell
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41) Fill in the blanks with the correctly spelled alternative.
Can you ……..her in another room?
a. acommodate
b. accommodate
c. accomodate
d. acomodate
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ANSWER: accommodate
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