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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.

 

He said, "How can a Zebra talk?''

A) He wondered how a Zebra talks. B) He questioned a Zebra talking.
C) He asked how a Zebra could talk. D) He was amazed how a Zebra can talk.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) He asked how a Zebra could talk.

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Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it.

Drug which causes people to sleep easily

A) Poppy B) Soporific
C) Beguile D) Pedant
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Soporific

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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.

 

I applied band-aid to the wound.

A) To my wound I applied my Band-aid by myself. B) Band-aid by myself would be applied to the wound.
C) Application of the Band-aid to the wound was done my me. D) Band-aid was applied by me to the wound.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Band-aid was applied by me to the wound.

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

 

Public disgrace arising from shameful conduct

 

A) Opprobrium B) Kudos
C) Plaudit D) Ovation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Opprobrium

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All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of cosmopolitanism. A city by definition is a space, as ________________ historians and sociologists have already told us, which ideally privileges and _________________ the unexpected encounter, and calls on its citizens to be able to respond humanely even to those _______________ are not linked to us in familial, ethnic, nationalist or caste ___________________.

 

ethnic, nationalist or caste ___________________.

 

A) partnerships B) alliances
C) clans D) affiliations
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) affiliations

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Choose the word that best defines the given phrase‘The identification of a disease by its symptoms’

A) Prescription B) Prognosis
C) Diagnosis D) Biopsy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Diagnosis

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Prescription is an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.
Prognosis is a forecast of the likely outcome of a situation.
Diagnosis is the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.
Biopsy is an examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the presence, cause, or extent of a disease.
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In each of the following question, find out which part has an error. I may spend

A) / this summer vacations B) / with one of my friends
C) / in the back water of Kerala D) No error
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) / this summer vacations

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Here ‘vacations’ should be singular as ‘vacation’.

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What, in modern history, is the Bay of pigs?

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It refers to the failed attack on Castro's Cuba launched by a group of exiles in April 1961

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