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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.


My tooth-brush is a thing that haunts me when I’m travelling, and ____________ my life a misery. I _____________ that I haven’t packed it, and wake up in a cold ________________, and get out of bed and hunt for it. And, in the morning, I pack it before I have used it, and have to unpack again to get it, and it is always the last thing I turn out of the bag; and _____________ I repack and forget it, and have to rush upstairs ___________ it at the last moment and carry it to the railway station, wrapped up in my pocket-handkerchief. Of course I had to turn every mortal thing out now, and, of course, I could not find it.


I _____________ that I haven’t packed it,

A) dream B) dreams
C) dreaming D) dreamer
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) dream

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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.

The demand of self-esteem is that never stand _______ for what you have the power to earn

A) abetting B) begging
C) caging D) daring
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) begging

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".


The greeting card (also reducing) the need to sit down and write loving messages to our dear ones.

 

A) has also reduce B) had also reduce
C) has also reduced   D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) has also reduced  

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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.

As the improvement in his situation was ______________, the doctor did not discharge him.

A) marginal B) tiny
C) microscopic D) negated
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) marginal

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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.


But what does this enthusiasm for voting actually _____________? One popular theory ____________ that poor people __________ because they are intimidated into doing so. Intimidation occurs for sure but why then, voters in places where there is no intimidation do so? Another theory is that people vote in return for _____________. But recent research across India _________ that those who spend the most do not always win elections and voters do not feel any obligation to vote for those handing out freebies. In fact, they often accept the goodies from allparties but vote for only one.


But recent research across India _________ that those who spend the most do not always win elections

A) show B) has shown
C) had shown D) showed
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) has shown

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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.

To beat a dead horse

 

A) To revive interest in a hopeless issue B) A cruel master will expect a slave to work even after his death
C) To extract everything from a resource till it fails D) Doing a cruel act
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) To revive interest in a hopeless issue

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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.

 

Irony. __________________word captures our response to the ongoing nationwide drought in more ways than one. We have woken _________ the reality of drought a full six months after the end of monsoon. After waking up, we focus ____________ the drinking water __________ in urban centres and not the multidimensional crisis of life and livelihood in _______________ hinterland.

 

After waking up, we focus ____________

 

A) on B) in
C) into D) upon
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) on

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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.

 

Although it has been felt necessary to devote much space to ________ attempt to find principles that may be said to be at the basis ________ the art of all nations, the executive side of the question has not been neglected. And it is hoped that the __________ method for the study of drawing from the two opposite points of view ofline and mass here advocated may be useful, and help students to avoid some of the _____________ that results from attempting simultaneously the study of these______________ qualities of form expression.

 

avoid some of the _____________ that results

 

A) confuse B) confusing
C) confused D) confusion
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) confusion

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