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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.

 

Many persons of good education unconsciously circumscribe themselves ___________ a small vocabulary. They have a knowledge of hundreds of desirable wordswhich they do not put _________ practical use in their speech or writing. Many, too, are conscious __________ a poverty of language, which engenders in them a senseof timidity and self-___________. The method used for building a large vocabulary has __________ been confined to the study of single words.

 

large vocabulary has __________ been confined

 

A) usual B) usuals
C) usually D) usualness
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) usually

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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.


Decisions that profoundly _________________ not only the present __________________ succeeding generations, should not be taken in a ______________, or through one­time referendums. This is basic political common ________________. But in a voter turnout of 72.2 per cent, 51.9 per cent decided that Britain should exit the European Union (EU). The ___________________ of the Brexit vote are painfully clear.

 

should not be taken in a ______________, or through one­time referendums.

 

A) speed B) rush
C) fast D) race
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) rush

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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.

 

Anita said, "I bought a phone yesterday".

 

A) Anita said she had bought a phone the day before. B) Anita said that she had bought a phone the day before.
C) Anita said she has bought a phone the day before. D) Anita said she has bought a phone yesterday.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Anita said that she had bought a phone the day before.

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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’.

Trend-analysts experts specializes (1)/ in predicting what will (2)/ be in and what will be out. (3)/ No error (4)

A) 1 B) 2
C) 3 D) 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 1

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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.


There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without pre-established harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and has done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.

 

What does the word 'Manifest' mean?

A) Display B) Hide
C) Shout D) Try
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Display

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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.

Most __________________ of all to the rambler on avian lore intent is the fact that there are many species and genera that are peculiar to the West, and ______________ new to him, keeping him constantly on the 'qui vive'. _____________ Colorado you will look in vain for the common blue jay, so abundant in all parts of the East; but you will be more _______________ compensated by the presence of seven other species _____________ the jay household.


presence of seven other species _____________ the jay household.

A) for B) to
C) of D) off
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) of

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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.

 

Living as _________ educated individual in a free society, I felt that we continue to unknowingly hold some biases that we develop _________ time. It requires many maturity updates to install in your psychological system, and at ___________ conscious efforts to develop a good sense of __________. I was small at that time, but with age and experience I absolutely _____________ and approved each and every word my uncle had said that day.

 

a good sense of __________. I was small

 

 

A) judge B) judgment
C) judgments D) judgemental  
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) judgment

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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.

 

They cooked the food and sent it to the orphanage.

A) The cooked food was sent to the orphanage by them. B) The food was cooked and sent to the orphanage by them.
C) The food was sent to the orphanage by them. D) The food was cooked and sent by them.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The food was cooked and sent to the orphanage by them.

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