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In the following question, a sentence / a part of sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is required, choose "No Improvement" option.

 

Ram cooked a conspiracy to cheat Abdul.

A) cultivated B) hatched
C) fabricated D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) hatched

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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.

The wheels have come off

A) To use something so much that it wears out. B) Things start to fail or go wrong, especially after a period of success.
C) To do a shoddy job which is destined to fail. D) Make an excuse to avoid doing a task.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Things start to fail or go wrong, especially after a period of success.

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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.

 

Without habit, personality could not exist; for we could never do a thing twice alike, and ___________ would be a new person each succeeding moment. The acts which give us our own peculiar _____________ are our habitual acts--the little things that do themselves moment by moment without care or attention, and are the truest and best expression of our real selves. Probably _______ one of us could be very sure which arm he puts ________ the sleeve, or which foot he puts into the shoe, first; and yet each of us ____________ formed the habit long ago of doing these things in a certain way.

 

own peculiar _____________ are our habitual acts

 

 

A) individual B) individuals
C) individuality D) individualist
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) individuality

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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.

 


According to the author, all art is

 

A) a reflection of life. B) art
C) an escape D) an important sense.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) an escape

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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.

 

‘Do you have anything to tell me, little princess?' asked the king.

 

A) The king ask the little princess if she have anything to tell him. B) The king asked the little princess that if she had anything to tell him.
C) The king said to the little princess if she had anything to say to him. D) The king asked the little princess whether she had anything to tell him.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) The king asked the little princess whether she had anything to tell him.

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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.

 

Easy come, easy go

 

A) if you forcibly tie up a person in a relationship that person will run away B) no matter what, one should never lose temper
C) every task is easy for a talented person D) something acquired without effort may be lost without regret
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) something acquired without effort may be lost without regret

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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.

The ___________ my husband and I had was so loud it woke our children.

A) quarrel B) coral
C) moral D) laurel
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) quarrel

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In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

A) Conssensus B) Consenssus
C) Consensus D) Conssenssus
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Consensus

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