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

You bet

A) Contradicting someone B) Certainly
C) Gamble D) Letting others lead
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Certainly

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Humayun's Tomb was built by_____.

A) Humayun B) Hamida Banu Begum
C) Babur D) Akbar
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Hamida Banu Begum

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A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.

 

The beggar exclaimed, “will none of you help me?”

 

A) The beggar asked to help him. B) The beggar exclaimed whether none of them would help him.
C) The beggar exclaimed would none of them helped him. D) The beggar exclaimed whether they would help him.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The beggar exclaimed whether none of them would help him.

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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 show approval or praise by clapping.

 

A) To extol B) To eulogise
C) To applaud D) To hail
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) To applaud

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

 

Lack of civic-mindedness or of patriotism

 

A) Iconomachy B) Incivism
C) Shag D) Clergy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Incivism

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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.

 

In the same boat

 

A) When the option that you have is equally bad as the situation you are in. B) Life like the river throws the same challenges for all boats.
C) Be in the same difficult circumstances as others. D) Big and small boats suffer the same fate in a storm.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Be in the same difficult circumstances as others.

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

based on random choice or personal whim

A) auxiliary B) arbitrary
C) allegory D) ambulatory
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) arbitrary

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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.


Namita is from the state of Kerala. She has come to Dubai to serve as a governess for the only child of the Nairs. The Nairs are nice and gentle and Namita has no cause to complain. One day she overhears something that makes her jittery. Mr. Nair is not employed in an American company as she has been told. The nature of his business is illegal. She is shocked and wants to go back to her home town to her own people.

Gopal is from a very poor family. His family owns a very small piece of land that can hardly meet their food requirement. One day, Gopal gets a nice offer to work in the Emirates with a construction contractor. In order to meet the expenses on travelling, the family decides to sell their own land and send Gopal to the foreign country, to make money. On arrival, the contractor confiscates Gopal's passport and gives him a small place to live in with ten others like him. Gopal has little idea what he must do.


Namita and Gopal are in a similar situation, because they

A) love their families B) are happy with their situations
C) are from impoverished families D) are stranded in a foreign country
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) are stranded in a foreign country

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