Exams

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

If you come across new words, you should look (them up) in the dictionary.

Select the synonym of

haste

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

They are even poorer
P-failure will deprive
Q-them of jobs altogether
R-than farmers; and crop

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

As management we are accountable (to) the Board of Directors.

Find at what time between 8 and 9 o'clock will the hands of a clock be in the same straight line but not together ?

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, sand and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of a world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth wide in amazement; the tube would fall off!

When would there be a risk of the tube falling off?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

But understanding what constitutes such (a miracle diet), and making sure that patients get it, isn’t as straightforward as it seems.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

But while the defeat made

P-­as it was no longer in currency.
Q-­news, the issue on which
R-­it was based failed to resonate