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Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.

 

A) To drain water away from the tracks, railroad beds, like road beds, are designed in which there is usually a bed of rock and gravel resulting in fast drainage from the tracks. B) Railroad beds, like road beds, are designed in which there is usually a bed of rock and gravel that results in the fast drainage from the tracks.
C) A bed of rock and gravel, called the railroad bed, is designed similar to a road bed to drain water away from the tracks. D) Railroad beds, like road beds, are designed to drain water apart from the tracks, so there is usually a bed of rock and gravel resulting in fast drainage away from the tracks.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Railroad beds, like road beds, are designed to drain water apart from the tracks, so there is usually a bed of rock and gravel resulting in fast drainage away from the tracks.

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‘apart’ is incorrect after ‘to drain water’

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In the following questions, one part of the sentence may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and click the button corresponding to it. If the sentence is free from error, click the “No error” option.

A. He was not allowed

B. for the teacher

C. to read in a low voice

D. no error

A) A B) B
C) C D) D
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) B

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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.


Fraternity, then, was meant to complement civil rights, _______________ to destroy them. The _____________________ framers did not use this symbolic term for a court to come along 66 years _________________, and ______________________ it for the purposes of subordinating individual rights to some mythic notion of community harmony, entirely submerging the individual _______________ the society.


The _____________________ framers did not use this symbolic term

A) Constitutions' B) Constitution's
C) Constitutions D) Constitution
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Constitution's

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

 

Perpetual

 

A) Continual   B) Ceaseless  
C) Enduring   D) Transitory
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Transitory

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

 

Over egg the pudding

 

A) add unnecessary details to make something seem better or worse. B) fill the pudding excessively with egg.
C) add details in order to make something more exciting. D) add important details to the content of a story.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) add unnecessary details to make something seem better or worse.

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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.

 

Bite off more than you can chew

 

A) A voracious person who eats with big morsels. B) It is not good manners to hog food when you are in a social setting.
C) A commitment is a commitment irrespective of whether you can do it or not. D) Take on a commitment one cannot fulfil.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Take on a commitment one cannot fulfil.

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

 

Hackneyed

 

A) Tired B) Fresh
C) Uncommon   D) New
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Tired

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

 

Repugnance

 

 

A) Esteem   B) Respect
C) Aversion   D) Sympathy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Aversion  

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