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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.

It was a somewhat

X-carried it off as
Y-trying ordeal, but we
Z-best as we could

A) YXZ B) XZY
C) XYZ D) ZYX
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) YXZ

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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.

 

My friend said to me, "I am not going to talk to you."

A) The friend has told me that he is not going to talk to me. B) The friend told me that he would not be talking to me.
C) The friend told me that he was not going to talk to me. D) The friend has told me that he is never going to talk with me.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) The friend told me that he was not going to talk to me.

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


We are ____ in a time of great and _____changes. The most obvious _____of the modern world is the _____development of science and technology. This has given man a deeper _____of nature.


We are ____ in a time of great

A) existing B) living
C) surviving D) alive
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) living

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In the following question, four words have been given out of which one word is incorrectly spelt. Select the incorrectly spelt word.

A) Assuage B) Aporism
C) Appease D) Atrocious
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Aporism

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

When something moves in a straight line.

A) quadrilineal B) octalineal
C) rectilineal D) trapilineal
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) rectilineal

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

 

Let Sumita help him.

A) Let them be helped by Sumita. B) Let him be helped by Sumita.
C) Let him helped by Sumita. D) He should help by Sumita.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Let him be helped by Sumita.

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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.


Instead of finding the root cause of_________ of Indians, the British government took to more ____________ measures. Under the Defense of India Act, it gave more power to the police to arrest persons to stop processions with ____________ movements and actions. The Act brought in the Central Legislative Assembly was defeated by one vote. Even then it was to be passed in the form of an ordinance in the "interest of the public." Bhagat Singh who was in hiding all this while, volunteered to throw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly where the meeting to pass the ordinance was being held. It was a carefully laid out _________, not to cause death or injury but to _____________ the attention of the government, that the modes of its suppression could no more be tolerated. It was decided that Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt would court arrest after throwing the bomb.


It was a carefully laid out _________

A) scam B) trick
C) trap D) plot
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) plot

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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.

 

an axe to grind

 

A) preparing for a fight B) to have a problem with something or someone
C) some important task to do D) one's skill should always be practiced or their edge becomes blunt
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) to have a problem with something or someone

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