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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.

 

backseat driver

A) A person who keeps giving advice to others for things that they are not responsible B) The one who is sitting in the back seat behaves like a boss
C) The real power lies in the hands of those who control the strings D) The puppet dances to the actions of the puppeteer
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) A person who keeps giving advice to others for things that they are not responsible

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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.


Modern medicine is primarily concerned with

A) promotion of good health B) people suffering from imaginary illness
C) people suffering from real illness D) increased efficiency in work
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) people suffering from imaginary illness

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

 

An achievement or something desired fail to be attained by someone

 

A) to elude B) to eschew
C) to shirk D) to devoid
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) to elude

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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.
I will keep your secret.

A) Keeping of your secret will be done by me. B) I will be keeping the secret of you.
C) Your secret would be kept by me. D) Your secret I will be keeping.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Your secret would be kept by me.

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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.
Chefs use these machines to mix the ingredients.

A) These machines are used by chefs to mix the ingredients. B) Using of these machines is done by chefs to mix the ingredients.
C) Chefs mix the ingredients using these machines. D) These machines had been used to mix the ingredients by chefs.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) These machines are used by chefs to mix the ingredients.

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A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.


I had seen this road many years ago when my parents moved to Mundakotukurussi, our ancestral village. However, in those early years, I hadn't begun exploring the countryside. I stored the unknown road in my head under 'One Day I Will'. Ten years ago, when I recovered from a herniated disc, it was to discover that I had a useless left leg. Though I managed to lose the limp, I hated not being able to stride around as I used to. I needed a challenge to tell myself that I wasn't going to buckle to a creature called sciatica. Thus the 'One Day I Will' arrived. "Where does the road by the medical shop lead to?" I asked my parents while visiting them next. "Chalavara," they said. "It's not an easy road to walk on," my father added. "There are too many ups and downs." Chalavara was a superior grade of a village as compared to Mundakotukurussi, with a high school, a fine library, ATMs and several shops. But it also has two approach roads. The one I had chosen was a narrow back road used by the locals and that settled it for me. I needed to know for myself I could walk a road that wasn't going to be easy. And the next day, I would get up and walk that road again.


Where did the forefathers of the writer live?

A) Chalavara B) Bengaluru
C) Mundakotukurussi D) Out of India
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Mundakotukurussi

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.
In Tamil nadu,
P-cows and bulls are worshipped and celebrated
Q-on Maattu Pongal,
R-and the finale is Jallikattu

A) QRP B) QPR
C) PRQ D) RPQ
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) QPR

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 In the following question, a word has been written in four different ways out of which only one is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

 

A) Surgent B) Sergant
C) Sergeant D) Sergent
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Sergeant

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