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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.

 

circumscribe themselves ___________ a small vocabulary.

 

A) without B) within
C) withheld D) withdrew
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) within

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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.

 

I absolutely _____________ and approved each

 

 

A) understand B) understood
C) understandable D) understandably
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) understood

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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 Principal said to us, "Today you will get your diplomas."

A) The Principal told us that on that day we would be getting our diplomas. B) The Principal told us this on that day we would be getting our diplomas.
C) The Principal told us that on this day we would be getting our diplomas. D) The Principal told us this on that day we will be getting our diplomas.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) The Principal told us that on that day we would be getting our diplomas.

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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 wayfarer said to me, "Do you know the way to the Asiad village?"

 

A) The wayfarer asked me if I did know the way to the Asiad village. B) The wayfarer asked me if I knew the way to the Asiad village.
C) The wayfarer asked me if he knew the way to the Asiad village. D) The wayfarer asked me that if I knew the way to the Asiad village.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The wayfarer asked me if I knew the way to the Asiad village.

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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.

___________ it became difficult to empirically prove that children __________ better in private schools, the attack __________ a new weapon: per unit cost of learning outcomes. Most of the learning outcome researches almost _______________ fail to understand the entire ______________ of education in any depth and reduces it to learning of so­called 3Rs for economic purposes.


the attack __________ a new weapon

 

 

A) invents B) had invented
C) is inventing D) invented
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) invented

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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.


The woodpeckers of the West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East, and so are the flycatchers, the grosbeaks, the orioles, the tanagers, the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows. ____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles (the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, ______________ habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate.

____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles

A) Beside B) Next
C) Instead D) Near
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Instead

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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.


The preacher challenged hundreds of thousands of young people who gathered in a ___________ Polish meadow to reject being a "____________" who retreats into video games and computer screens and instead engage in social activism and politics to create a more just world. __________ his speech with ______________, the 79- year-old pope, despite a long day of public appearances, addressed his eager audience with enthusiasm yesterday on a warm summer night. Pope Francis spoke of a ______________ that comes from merely seeking convenience, from confusing happiness with a complacent way of life that could end up depriving people of the ability to determine their own fates.


__________ his speech with

A) Showering B) Endowing
C) Glorifying D) Peppering
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Peppering

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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.

While language as the medium ___________ thought may be compared to air as the medium of the sun's influence, in other _____________ it is like the skin of the body; a scurvy skin shows bad blood within, and a scurvy language shows inaccurate thought ___________ a confused mind. And as a disease once fixed on the skin reacts and poisons the blood in turn as it has first been poisoned by the blood, so careless use of language __________ indulged reacts on the mind to make it permanently and increasingly _____________, illogical, and inaccurate in its thinking.

increasingly _____________, illogical, and

A) carelessness B) carelessly
C) careless D) care less
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) careless

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