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Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it.

The ceremony of crowning a sovereign

A) Felicitation B) Promotion
C) Coronation D) Installation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Coronation

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All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of cosmopolitanism. A city by definition is a space, as ________________ historians and sociologists have already told us, which ideally privileges and _________________ the unexpected encounter, and calls on its citizens to be able to respond humanely even to those _______________ are not linked to us in familial, ethnic, nationalist or caste ___________________.

 

respond humanely even to those _______________ are not linked to us in familial

 

A) who B) whom
C) whose D) whoever
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) who

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Add fuel to the fire

A) Go from one bad situation to another B) A cause becomes stronger when more people join
C) The flame will extinguish if it runs out of oil D) Cause a situation to become worse
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Cause a situation to become worse

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.
Lugubrious

A) Clumsy B) Lucid
C) Optimistic D) Sinister
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Optimistic

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Sordid

A) Dirty B) Black
C) Corrupt D) Reputable
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Reputable

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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

 

To know language is to be able to speak it; even a child who does not yet attend school can speak his or her language. In order to speak a language it is important to listen to it and to read a few pages in it everyday. A child picks up language and learns to talk just as (s)he learns to walk. Walking and talking comes naturally to a child as it grows. In our country, a child may grow up speaking more than one language, if these languages are spoken in the home and in the neighbourhood. we call this multilingualism. A child speaks a language or languages much before (s)he starts going to school. To know a language then is first of all to be able to speak it as easily and naturally as a tree year old child does. Later on the child will learn to read and write in that language. In order to read and write in a language, one has to speak it. But it is possible to speak a language but not able to read or write in it. A baby does not speak until it is nine months old but it understands a few words at six months of age. It has been listening ever since it was born, and even a little before that. So the first strategy in speaking a language is to listen.

 

It is necessary for one to __________ the language before (s)he writes in that language.

A) sing B) spell
C) speak D) none of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) speak

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In the following question, a 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.
Heena said, "I bought a dress yesterday."

A) Heena said that she has bought a dress the day before. B) Heena said that she had bought a dress the day before.
C) Heena said that she has bought a dress the day before yesterday. D) Heena said that she had bought a dress the day before yesterday.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Heena said that she had bought a dress the day before.

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A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to “No improvement”.

After a hard days work, I just want to go home.

A) hard day's work  B) hard days' work 
C)  hard day work  D) No improvement 
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) hard day's work 

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