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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.

In the world today we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health really means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine, and this includes many patients as well as many physicians, pay very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine they are ill. Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers, the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of television programmes and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet for the most part the only result is more people with imaginary illness. A healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health : he should be using health for work.


The passage suggests that

A) health is an end in itself B) health is a blessing
C) health is only a means to an end D) we should not talk about health
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) health is only a means to an end

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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 express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

Pinky said, "What a beautiful vase!"

A) Pinky exclaimed that it is a very beautiful vase. B) Pinky said that it is a very beautiful vase indeed.
C) Pinky exclaimed that it was a very beautiful vase. D) Pinky reported that it was an indeed a beautiful vase.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Pinky exclaimed that it was a very beautiful vase.

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Select the word with the correct spelling.

A) tidlers B) thistlees
C) pulchritude D) tenderred
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) pulchritude

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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.
dead ringer

A) a competition whose outcome is already decided (by unfair means) B) a candidate fraudulently substituted for another in a competition
C) a person who was in a situation to warn others is now missing D) a warning which comes too late, after the damage is done
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) a candidate fraudulently substituted for another in a competition

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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".

The Professor asked the intruder who was he and why was he in his lecture.

A) who he was and why he was B) who he was and why was he
C) who he had been and why he had been D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) who he was and why he was

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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 thing no longer in use

A) Obstacle B) Obsolete
C) Obsidian D) Obstruction
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Obsolete

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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.

We have seen that, when

X-think of it as losing its parts and shrivelling to a point
Y-occupy any portion of space, we need not
Z-we deny that a mental image can

A) ZXY B) YZX
C) YXZ D) ZYX
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) ZYX

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Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet.

You must accustom yourself with new ideas.

A) accustomed with B) accustom to
C) accustom yourself to D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) accustom yourself to

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Accustom is followed by ‘to’. So, the correct idiomatic expression will be ‘accustom yourself to’ or ‘get accustomed to’.

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