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In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.
The population of Mumbai(A)/is greater than(B)/in any city in USA.(C)/No error(D)

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

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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.

______________ reader can add to the list and to the possibilities of a new ethical and moral politics _________________ requires a Gandhian inventiveness of ritual and politics. What I wish to add is a ___________________. The rituals of apology and the question of justice, reconciliation and ethical repair are not easy. They require a rigour and an inventiveness _____________ ethical thinking which ___________________ new experiments with the idea of truth and healing in India.


which ___________________ new experiments with the idea of truth and healing in India.

A) necessitate B) ask
C) take D) oblige
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) necessitate

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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.

 

Left to itself, then, attention _____________ obeys natural laws and follows the line of least resistance. _______________ far the larger portion of our attention is of this type. Thought often runs on hour after hour when we are neither conscious of effort _____________ struggle to compel us to cease thinking about this thing and begin thinking about _________. Indeed, it may be doubted ___________ this is not the case with some persons for days at a time, instead of hours. The things that present themselves to the mind are the things which occupy it; the character of the thought is determined by the character of our interests.

 

be doubted ___________ this is not the case

 

A) weather   B) wither  
C) wether   D) whether
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) whether

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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.

 

"Please give me something to eat. I am hungry" the beggar said to them.

A) The beggar requested them to give him something to eat and said that he was hungry. B) The beggar requested them to give him something to eat and said he was hungry.
C) The beggar while requesting them to give him something to eat and says he was hungry. D) The beggar while requesting them to give him something to eat and says he is hungry.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) The beggar requested them to give him something to eat and said that he was hungry.

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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.

 

Very simply, a checklist is a list of items required, things to be done or points to be considered, used as a reminder. This is clear. Is the _______________ implication equally clear? Perhaps not. A checklist is purely objective, no _______________ is involved. That means, if the checklist is framed as a set ______ questions, the answer to every question can only be a binary “Yes” _______ “No” and nothing in between; no shades of grey. Such objectivity is the very antithesis of the education system today, both in the way teaching happens and in the ____________ of the student.

 

question can only be a binary “Yes” _______ “No” and nothing in between;

A) and B) or
C) but D) also
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) or

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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.

 

The candidate said, "I had passed the entrance test but could not present myself for the interview round held last month."

A) The candidate said that he had passed the entrance test but could not be presenting himself for the interview round held the month before. B) The candidate said that he has passed the entrance test but could not present himself for the interview round that was held the month before.
C) The candidate said that he had passed the entrance test but could not present himself for the interview round that was held the month before. D) The candidate said that he has passed the entrance test but could not be presenting himself for the interview round held the month before.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) The candidate said that he had passed the entrance test but could not present himself for the interview round that was held the month before.

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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.

 

A century later, the philosophy community needs to take __________ the new challenge of moral deliberation on the most pressing issues of our difficult times. We have to revoke the suspension of ethics and morality ____________ our lives by initiating a dialogue on it. Foregrounding ethics, however, ___________ means undermining the epistemological or ontological questions that are inevitably there. One such beginning can be made by anchoring moral ________________ in fairness and justice —one founded on obligatory fairness towards the people and the planet, towards the earth and the environment, and above all justice towards one_________.

 

Foregrounding ethics, however, ___________ means undermining

 

A) nor B) no
C) never D) none
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) never

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

 

The battle (had been raging) for some time.

 

A) have been raging B) have been raged
C) had being raged D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) no improvement

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