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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.

Zip your lip

A) Keep quiet about something. B) To talk fast.
C) To not think before speaking. D) The silence before a storm.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Keep quiet about something.

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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'.

 

Tanish has(A)/changed a lot(B)/since then.(C)/No error(D)

 

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

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Select the word with the correct spelling.

A) wrapping B) bargundy
C) streses D) stenchhes
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) wrapping

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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.

 

The professor told the class, "Ice floats on water".

 

A) The professor told the class that, that ice floats on water. B) The professor told the class ice floats on water.
C) The professor told the class that ice floats on water. D) The professor told the class how ice floats on water.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) The professor told the class that ice floats on water.

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Select the word with the correct spelling.

A) stamppede B) easemant
C) cul-de-sac D) ripostes
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) ripostes

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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

 

How can any ____________ person hope to know what thoughts transpire in so evil a mind?

 

A) rational B) sober
C) thinking D) negligent
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) rational

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

 

to cut up (food, especially meat) into very small pieces

 

A) to crumble B) to chop
C) to mince D)  to grind
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) to mince

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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

 

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

 

The author believes that man's greatest and distinguishing ability is

 

A) his ability to project the future B) his capacity to escape from his present experience
C) his consciousness of the past D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) his capacity to escape from his present experience

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