Questions

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.

While language as the medium ___________ thought may be compared to air as the medium of the sun's influence, in other _____________ it is like the skin of the body; a scurvy skin shows bad blood within, and a scurvy language shows inaccurate thought ___________ a confused mind. And as a disease once fixed on the skin reacts and poisons the blood in turn as it has first been poisoned by the blood, so careless use of language __________ indulged reacts on the mind to make it permanently and increasingly _____________, illogical, and inaccurate in its thinking.

increasingly _____________, illogical, and

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

Take the bull by the horns

The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

It seemed to them far easier to conceive

X-that the water had gone down, than
Y-that solid land had risen
Z-upward into its present position

In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word .

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

Grumpy

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 airline was unable to give us a reason for the ______________ departure delay.

In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.

The storm destroyed several huts in the village.

The term of office of the Vice-President of India is