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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

I am awful ______ picking vegetables.

A) for B) at
C) of D) as
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) at

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

______________ reader can add to the list and to the possibilities of a new ethical and moral politics _________________ requires a Gandhian inventiveness of ritual and politics. What I wish to add is a ___________________. The rituals of apology and the question of justice, reconciliation and ethical repair are not easy. They require a rigour and an inventiveness _____________ ethical thinking which ___________________ new experiments with the idea of truth and healing in India.


What I wish to add is a ___________________.

A) fear B) panic
C) warn D) caveat
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) caveat

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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.

Sixth sense

A) An intuitive power of perception B) A strong power of sense
C) An ability to perceive when something will go wrong D) The false feeling that you know the truth
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) An intuitive power of perception

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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

 

But the war did not cease; though friend and foe alike were almost drowned in blood. It seemed as powerful as eternity, and in time Tony Vassall too went to battle and was killed. The country gave Patience a widow's pension, as well a touching inducement to marry again; she died of grief. Many people died in those days, it was not strange at all. Nathan and his wife got so rich that after the war they died of overeating, and their daughter Olive came into a vast fortune and a Trustee.

 

From this passage we learn that Tony Vassal was

 

A) Patience's husband B) a soldier's son
C) Nathan's relative D) very successful
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Patience's husband

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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

 


All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

 

Accordingly to the author ___________ enables him to project a vision of the future

 

A) man's present experience B) man's accumulated consciousness of the past
C) man's sympathetic nature D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) man's accumulated consciousness of the past

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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

 

During a depression even the affluent middle class struggles to _______ out a living.

 

A) make B) eke
C) pull D) stretch
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) eke

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

A) Emperor Ashoka B) have conquered Kalinga
C) before he embraced Buddhism. D) No error
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) have conquered Kalinga

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Error is in second part. Replace ‘have’ with ‘had’. Since two events are mentioned and both occurred in the past, the even that happened first will be expressed in past perfect tense. Hence ‘had conquered’ is the correct form.

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

Several countries ___________________ the world are now replacing the __________________ model of criminal justice partly _____________________ wholly with different models of restorative justice, _____________________ promising results in crime control. The process is more collaborative, consensual and inclusive, that is characteristic ____________________ indigenous systems of justice.

 

now replacing the __________________

 

A) opposing B) anti
C) against D) adversarial
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) adversarial

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