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SSC CGL 2018 Tier II — English Language and Comprehension — 13 September 2019

13 September 2019 · 3:00 PM–5:00 PM196 of the paper’s 200 questions1 per correct answer

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Questions from the Staff Selection Commission’s paper of 13 September 2019, 3:00 PM–5:00 PM. Each question’s answer is under it, hidden until you open it, and the full answer key is at the end. Take the paper as a timed practice test to be scored.

English Language and Comprehension

1. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. The ingredients must therefore be of the finest quality and in the right proportions. B. When you have them right and keep practicing you are sure to bake some of the yummiest cakes. C. Success in life is just like baking a cake that requires many things. D. Firstly, unless you have the right ingredients and recipe it is not going to work.
- (a) BCDA
- (b) CDAB
- (c) CABD
- (d) BADC
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Answer: (b)
2. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’In my lifetime, I have been greatly privileged to travel to some of the most wonderful places in the world.
- (a) only a few of
- (b) least of the
- (c) none of
- (d) No improvement.
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Answer: (d)
3. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. It requires continuous learning and sacrifices. B. To raise well behaved and responsible children one should be willing to invest a considerable amount of time, patience and energy. C. Instilling and inculcating good values in a child will go a long way in making him/her a good person and a better citizen. D. There is no doubt that parenting is among the most difficult and demanding tasks in the world.
- (a) DABC
- (b) BDCA
- (c) ABCD
- (d) ACBD
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Answer: (a)
4. Select the segment which has an error. Some of us are plan to go for a movie tonight.
- (a) Some of us
- (b) to go
- (c) are plan to go
- (d) for a movie
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Answer: (c)
5. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’Now that I having grow old , I often spend a lot of time thinking about my childhood.
- (a) had grown older
- (b) No improvement.
- (c) am growing older
- (d) has grown older
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Answer: (c)
6. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. Kapil said to his team, “If you don’t perform well in this match, you will not get a place in the team.”
- (a) Kapil warned to his team, if they don’t perform well in this match, they will not get a place in the team.
- (b) Kapil told to his team if you don’t perform well in this match, you will not get a place in the team.
- (c) Kapil warned his team that if they didn’t perform well in that match, they would not get a place in the team.
- (d) Kapil said to his team that if you don’t perform well in that match, you will not get a place in the team.
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Answer: (c)
7. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. Were all formalities completed by you?
- (a) Will you complete all formalities?
- (b) Have you been completing all formalities?
- (c) Did you complete all formalities?
- (d) Have you completed all formalities?
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Answer: (c)
8. Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to fill in the sentence. The residents of my colony ______ in trying to find out about the increasing number of car thefts.
- (a) pulled all the stops
- (b) hit the sack
- (c) beat about the bush
- (d) hit a purple patch
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Answer: (a)
9. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. One should leave office on time to maintain good work life balance.
- (a) Office is being left on time to maintain good work life balance.
- (b) Office should be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
- (c) Office will be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
- (d) Office has to be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
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Answer: (b)
10. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. She said to her friend, "Where did you go yesterday?"
- (a) She asked her friend where she had gone the day before.
- (b) She asked her friend where she was going yesterday.
- (c) She asked her friend where she went yesterday.
- (d) She asked her friend where had she gone the day before.
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Answer: (a)
11. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. All human beings must learn to live in ______ with nature.
- (a) pleasure
- (b) harmony
- (c) kindness
- (d) admiration
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Answer: (b)
12. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. They shifted the venue of the conference.
- (a) They are shifting the venue of the conference.
- (b) The venue of the conference was shifted.
- (c) The venue of the conference has been shifted.
- (d) They were shifting the venue of the conference.
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Answer: (b)
13. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. Father hugged me and said, “What a beautiful painting!”
- (a) Father hugs me and says that my painting was very beautiful.
- (b) Father hugged me and exclaimed that my painting was very beautiful.
- (c) Father hugged me and exclaimed I had made a very beautiful painting.
- (d) Father hugs me and exclaimed that my painting is very beautiful.
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Answer: (b)
14. Select the segment which has an error. Is she go to visit her parents in the evening?
- (a) her parents
- (b) to visit
- (c) Is she go
- (d) in the evening
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Answer: (c)
15. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. My grandmother believes that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is essential for health.
- (a) It is believed by my grandmother that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is essential for health.
- (b) It is being believed by my grandmother that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is essential for health..
- (c) It has been believed by my grandmother that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is essential for health.
- (d) It will have been believed by my grandmother that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is essential for health..
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Answer: (a)
16. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. We expect an important announcement regarding the foreign policy today.
- (a) An important announcement regarding the foreign policy was expected today.
- (b) An important announcement regarding the foreign policy is expected today.
- (c) We had been expected an important announcement regarding the foreign policy today.
- (d) An important announcement regarding the foreign policy will be expected today.
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Answer: (b)
17. Find a word that is the synonym of onerous
- (a) abundant
- (b) honourable
- (c) arduous
- (d) accessible
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Answer: (c)
18. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. Spoon the brownie batter into the prepared pan and bake for 30 to 40 minutes. B. Now beat in eggs and vanilla extract, and add cocoa and mix until well combined. C. To make chocolate chip brownies mix together melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar using a wooden spoon or hand mixer. D. Next, stir in flour and salt and mix until flour is incorporated, and then add some chocolate chips.
- (a) CABD
- (b) ADCB
- (c) CDBA
- (d) ACDB
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Answer: (c)
19. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’Shyamalan’s movie ‘The Sixth Sense’ starring Bruce Willis was a great success but doesn’t win all Academy Award as expected.
- (a) No improvement.
- (b) but didn’t win any
- (c) but did win most
- (d) although it won some
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Answer: (b)
20. Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to fill in the sentence. Radha is unable to continue working in this office. Hard work is ______ on her health.
- (a) making her meet both ends
- (b) taking a toll on
- (c) keeping an eye
- (d) blowing hot and cold
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Answer: (b)
21. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. The gym instructor exclaimed that her students’ performance was extremely poor.
- (a) The gym instructor said to her students, “How is your perfomance so poor?”
- (b) The gym instructor said to her students, “How poor their perfomance is!”
- (c) The gym instructor said to her students, “How poor your perfomance is!”
- (d) The gym instructor says to her students, “Your perfomance is poor."
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Answer: (c)
22. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. I said, “Mother please let me go out for a movie with my friends.”
- (a) I begged my mother to let me go out for a movie with my friends.
- (b) She is begging her mother to please let me go out for a movie with my friends.
- (c) I said to mother you please let me go out for a movie with my friends.
- (d) He requested his mother she may please let him go out for a movie with his friends.
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Answer: (a)
23. Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to fill in the sentence. The official found himself ______ when he could not explain his actions and all the members started attacking him with accusations of cheating.
- (a) wet behind the ears
- (b) on the same page
- (c) burning the midnight oil
- (d) in the eye of a storm
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Answer: (d)
24. Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to fill in the sentence. The government has decided to ______ GST on some items in order to help small traders.
- (a) steer clear of
- (b) wash away
- (c) crack down on
- (d) roll back
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Answer: (d)
25. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. “If the rains don’t stop we will have to move the animals to another place,”said the zoo official.
- (a) The zoo official said that if the rains are not stopping they would have to move the animals to another place.
- (b) The zoo official said that if the rains didn’t stop they would have to move the animals to another place.
- (c) The zoo official had been saying said that if the rains don’t stop they would have to move the animals to another place.
- (d) The zoo official will say that if the rains don’t stop they would have to move the animals to another place.
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Answer: (b)
26. Find a word that is the ANTONYM OFanimosity
- (a) bitterness
- (b) sarcasm
- (c) benevolence
- (d) contamination
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Answer: (c)
27. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A.This move is part of the government’s reform agenda for PSBs under Enhanced Access and Service Excellence Programme (EASE) 2.0. B. Banks have already agreed to keep branches operational for customers for uniform working hours in one location and this will be another step towards standardising operating hours. C. Under EASE a banker’s panel has recommended that every region adopt one of three six-hour time slots — 9 am to 3 pm, 10 am to 4 pm or 11 am to 5 pm. D. Public sector banks (PSBs) across the country will soon have standard operating hours as per a recent move.
- (a) BCDA
- (b) CDBA
- (c) DCBA
- (d) DACB
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Answer: (d)
PassageFor questions 28–37
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
Packing is one of those chores that seems ______ (1) simple but it’s a skill that most of humanity ______ (2).Even seasoned travellers end up carrying a ______ (3) array of stuff they don’t use.Heavy bags ______ (4) be back-breaking and frustrating. Packing ______ (5) is a test of planning skills and is indicative of one’s ability to ______ (6) one’s life. The simplest way to pack smart is to ______ (7) a medium- sized bag so you’re not tempted to ______ (8)more stuff at the last minute.The smart packer doesn’t ______ (9)what –if –I –need it-category of stuff, the singular reason junk lands in ______ (10) suitcase.
28. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.1
- (a) specially
- (b) cleverly
- (c) deceptively
- (d) deceitfully
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Answer: (c)
29. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.2
- (a) does have
- (b) do have
- (c) doesn’t have
- (d) don’t have
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Answer: (c)
30. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.3
- (a) mind boggling
- (b) bedazzling
- (c) illuminating
- (d) irritating
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Answer: (a)
31. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.4
- (a) should
- (b) mustn’t
- (c) can
- (d) will
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Answer: (c)
32. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.5
- (a) deliberately
- (b) randomly
- (c) strategically
- (d) complicatedly
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Answer: (c)
33. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.6
- (a) interpret
- (b) organise
- (c) reflect
- (d) detect
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Answer: (b)
34. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.7
- (a) go
- (b) invest
- (c) select
- (d) look
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Answer: (c)
35. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.8
- (a) squeeze in
- (b) spreading on
- (c) pushing in
- (d) putting on
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Answer: (a)
36. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.9
- (a) stay on
- (b) dwell on
- (c) think on
- (d) live on
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Answer: (b)
37. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.10
- (a) the
- (b) many
- (c) most
- (d) one
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Answer: (a)
38. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. Amar urged Amit to stop taking tranquillizers without consulting the doctor.
- (a) “Amit,please stop taking tranquillizers without consulting the doctor,” said Amar.
- (b) Amit said to Amar, "Please stop taking tranquillizers without consulting the doctor.”
- (c) Amar says to Amit,“ Please consult the doctor before taking tranquillizers.”
- (d) “Amit,please stop taking tranquillizers without consulting the doctor,”Amar was advising,
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Answer: (a)
40. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’Food and water are the two basic necessities that citizens should have accessing in .
- (a) No improvement.
- (b) access at
- (c) access to
- (d) access for
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Answer: (c)
PassageFor questions 41–45
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow-
Brain training is big business. From online websites to video games to mobile apps, it seems like there are plenty of ways to give your brain a bit of a boost. But does all this brain training really work? Can it increase your cognitive abilities or your IQ? According to a few recent studies, while these brain training tools might help sharpen your abilities to retain information, they won't necessarily increase your intelligence or improve your ability to reason and think abstractly.
The parent company of one of the most prominent "brain training" websites was recently fined for deceptive advertising. According to the complainant, the company suggested its games could reduce or delay cognitive impairment such as one might find in Alzheimer's patients, which is false.
So while there may be some benefits to brain training, don't expect miraculous results. Earlier studies have found no link between increased intelligence and brain training exercises.
Same is the case with standardized tests. Students today take a wide variety of standardized tests, from assessments throughout elementary school to evaluations required for college admission. While test preparation for such assessments can increase factual knowledge, one study suggests that this preparation does little to increase overall IQ.
Why is it so? While test preparation increases what psychologists refer to as crystallized intelligence, it does not increase what is known as fluid intelligence. Crystallized intelligence includes facts and information, while fluid intelligence involves the ability to think abstractly or logically.
In a study published in the journal Psychological Science, researchers looked at the IQ scores and test scores of approximately 1,400 eighth-grade students. While schoolwork helped increase the students' test scores, it had no effect on measures of fluid intelligence. The authors suggest that fluid intelligence is a much better indicator of abilities such as problemsolving ability, abstract thinking skills, memory capacity, and processing speed.
While the study found no indicator that test preparation improved IQ, that does not mean that this preparation has no value. Research clearly shows that having high scores on standardized tests is linked to having high scores on other important tests including Advanced Placement tests, the SAT etc.
41. In the passage, ‘give your brain a bit of a boost’ means to -
- (a) be able to play video games
- (b) sharpen it
- (c) increase its ability to grow stronger
- (d) increase its size
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Answer: (b)
42. What do brain training tools do?
- (a) Improve problem solving abilities
- (b) Sharpen the ability to think clearly
- (c) Increase intelligence
- (d) Enable you to retain information
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Answer: (d)
43. A brain training site was fined for-
- (a) making false claims
- (b) helping improve learning ability
- (c) causing Alzheimer’s disease
- (d) decreasing intelligence
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Answer: (a)
44. On comparing crystallized intelligence and fluid intelligence it is found that-
- (a) fluid intelligence is what gives a learner skills such as problem-solving and processing of information.
- (b) crystallized intelligence helps in making you think with a logical mind gives you better test scores.
- (c) students have better fluid intelligence and perform better because of schoolwork and standardized test.
- (d) crystallized intelligence is better because it helps you learn facts and information.
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Answer: (a)
45. From the passage one can arrive at the conclusion that both brain training and standardized tests -
- (a) sharpen logical thinking through intensive training.
- (b) make you more intelligent and get better results.
- (c) do not really increase overall IQ and mental abilities.
- (d) increase brain functioning and performance.
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Answer: (c)
46. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. The art teacher said, “I never tell my students what to draw. I tell them to imagine.”
- (a) The art teacher said that she never told her students what to draw. She told them to imagine.
- (b) The art teacher had said that she never told her students what to draw. She tells them to imagine.
- (c) The art teacher said that I never tell my students what to draw. I tell them to imagine.
- (d) The art teacher is saying that she never tells her students what to draw. She tells them to imagine.
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Answer: (a)
47. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. I owe a big debt of gratitude to my mentor, Ms. Pallavi Dutta.
- (a) A big debt of gratitude was owing by me to my mentor,Ms. Pallavi Dutta.
- (b) A big debt of gratitude is owed by me to my mentor, Ms Pallavi Dutta.
- (c) A big debt of gratitude will be owed by to my mentor, Ms. Pallavi Dutta.
- (d) A big debt of gratitude had been owed by me to my mentor,Ms. Pallavi Dutta.
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Answer: (b)
48. Select the segment which has an error. It was a really bad movie- a worse movie I’ve ever seen in my life.
- (a) was a really
- (b) I’ve ever seen
- (c) a worse
- (d) in my life
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Answer: (c)
49. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. I hope you are 100 percent fit by now.
- (a) It was being hoped by me that you are 100 percent fit by then.
- (b) It is hoped that you are 100 percent fit by now.
- (c) It is hoping you are 100 percent fit by now.
- (d) It will be hoped that you are 100 percent fit by then.
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Answer: (b)
50. Select the segment which has an error. It is estimated that most of the addict, a whopping 85%, in God’s own country Kerala, are below 25 years of age.
- (a) are below 25
- (b) It is estimated that
- (c) most of the addict
- (d) a whopping 85%
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51. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’Word by word reading lead to the development of another bad habit which is the habit of reading aloud.
- (a) leading to the developing
- (b) leads to the development
- (c) lead to develops
- (d) No improvement.
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Answer: (b)
52. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. My friends persuaded me that I should forgive him.
- (a) I am being persuaded by my friends that he should be forgiven.
- (b) I will be persuaded by my friends that he should be forgiven.
- (c) I was persuaded by my friends that he should be forgiven.
- (d) I will have been persuaded by my friends to forgive him.
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Answer: (c)
54. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. The RWA members said, “We want to see the audited accounts before we make more payments.”
- (a) The RWA members said that we want to see the audited accounts before we make more payments.
- (b) The RWA members said that they wanted to see the audited accounts before they made more payments.
- (c) The RWA members are saying that they want to see the audited accounts before they make more payments.
- (d) The RWA members said we wanted to see the audited accounts before we make more payments.
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Answer: (b)
55. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. The two little girls were playing a game of dice.
- (a) The two little girls had been playing a game of dice.
- (b) A game of dice was played by the two little girls.
- (c) A game of dice was being played by the two little girls.
- (d) The two little girls had played a game of dice.
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Answer: (c)
56. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. Making a show of being morally superior to others
- (a) sanctum
- (b) profligate
- (c) approving
- (d) sanctimonious
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Answer: (d)
57. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. “If I had the manual of the new T.V, I would have fixed it by now,” said Uma.
- (a) Uma said that if she had had the manual of the new T.V she would have fixed it by then.
- (b) Uma said that if she was having the manual of the new T.V she would have fixed it by now.
- (c) Uma said that if she will have the manual of the new T.V she would have fixed it by then.
- (d) Uma said that if she has the manual of the new T.V she will have fixed it by then.
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Answer: (a)
58. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. Such was his devotion that Kaali Ma appeared before him with a thousand heads and a thousand pairs of arms. B. Once, Tenali Raman wanted to visit the Kaali temple on the outskirts of the city and pray. C. It was quite dark by the time Tenali reached the temple, prostrated before the goddess, and with eyes closed started praying to Mother Kaali. D. Raman who was dazzled to see Mother Kaali in all her glory, looked at her from left to right and right to left and could not control his happiness.
- (a) CDAB
- (b) BCAD
- (c) DCBA
- (d) BACD
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Answer: (b)
59. Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to fill in the sentence. Many old projects are ______ with a change in company policies.
- (a) breaking the ice
- (b) beating around the bush
- (c) caught red handed
- (d) getting a new lease of life
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60. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. Though everything was on the up and up for Holzman, yet … something wasn't quite right. B. At 19, he enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America before heading to the West Coast to cook for such well-esteemed restaurants as Palladin, Napa and Aqua. C. He got a little fed up with the kitchen and started to feel that he wanted to do something different with it. D. Holzman, a well known chef, started his career at the age of 15 when the prodigy began cooking under Eric Ripert at the iconic New York restaurant, Le Bernadin.
- (a) DACB
- (b) ABCD
- (c) DBAC
- (d) ACBD
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Answer: (c)
61. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’My recent London trip was really special because I was being able to meet my nephew and his family after many years.
- (a) am unable to
- (b) has able to
- (c) no improvement
- (d) was able to meet
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Answer: (d)
62. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. The exact opposite
- (a) antithesis
- (b) aesthete
- (c) prosthesis
- (d) analogous
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Answer: (a)
63. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’I think you can have a piece of this cake but not all of it . I have to save some for my mother.
- (a) or not most of it
- (b) but never all of those
- (c) no improvement
- (d) but not some of that
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Answer: (c)
64. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. touching along the side or boundary
- (a) harmonious
- (b) inconspicuous
- (c) contiguous
- (d) unpretentious
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Answer: (c)
65. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. If your actions are ______ what you say, no one is going to believe you.
- (a) contrary for
- (b) contrary with
- (c) contrary to
- (d) contrary at
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Answer: (c)
66. Find a word that is the ANTONYM OFpiquant
- (a) pungent
- (b) bland
- (c) interesting
- (d) peppery
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Answer: (b)
67. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. The monsoons spur the trees to sprout new leaves.
- (a) Trees are spurred by the monsoons to sprout new leaves.
- (b) Trees were spurred to sprout new leaves by the monsoons.
- (c) The monsoons are spurring the trees to sprout new leaves.
- (d) The monsoons will have spurredthe trees to sprout new leaves.
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Answer: (a)
68. Select the segment which has an error. Aanya’s class teacher and her friends congratulates her warmly when she won the inter school debate and brought the trophy to the school.
- (a) congratulates her
- (b) when she won
- (c) and brought the trophy
- (d) and her friends
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Answer: (a)
69. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’I had no idea at first how difficult it was being track the identity of every tree in Delhi.
- (a) No improvement.
- (b) were to tracked
- (c) have been tracking
- (d) was to track
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Answer: (d)
70. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’My new office is in a first floor of the new office complex.
- (a) on the first floor
- (b) over first floor
- (c) at above floor
- (d) no improvement
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Answer: (a)
71. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’The books those I gave you is mine . Please don’t misplace them or lend them to someone else.
- (a) which I gives to you is mine
- (b) no improvement
- (c) that I gave you are mine
- (d) that I gave to you is my
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Answer: (c)
72. Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to fill in the sentence. Factory owners are protesting because they think that the government has ______ of plastic manufacturing companies by closing their factories in big cities.
- (a) separated the wheat from the chaff
- (b) been barking up the wrong tree
- (c) upset the applecart
- (d) made no bones
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Answer: (c)
73. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. one who studies human societies and their culture
- (a) pharmacologist
- (b) pathologist
- (c) astrobiologist
- (d) anthropologist
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Answer: (d)
74. Select the segment which has an error. Each film will be checked by a government-appointed censor board along public exhibition.
- (a) by a government-appointed censor board
- (b) each film
- (c) along public exhibition.
- (d) will be checked
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75. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. Mrs. Sethi said to her students, “Would you like to go outdoors for the yoga class?”
- (a) Mrs Sethi said to her students will you like to go outdoors for the yoga class?
- (b) Mrs Sethi told her students that would you like to go outdoors for the yoga class.
- (c) Mrs Sethi asked her students about their liking to go outdoors for the yoga class.
- (d) Mrs Sethi asked her students whether they would like to go outdoors for the yoga class.
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76. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’I am like very much Chinese food and have learnt to cook it.
- (a) no improvement
- (b) like very much Chinese food
- (c) like Chinese food very much
- (d) am liking very much Chinese food
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77. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. “I will be twenty five tomorrow”, said Vidushi.
- (a) Vidushi will say that she would be twenty five tomorrow.
- (b) Vidushi said that she would be twenty five the next day.
- (c) Vidushi had told that me she would be twenty five the next day.
- (d) Vidushi is saying that she will be twenty five by tomorrow.
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78. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. He said, “The last film I saw was such a violent one that I couldn’t sleep the whole night”.
- (a) He is saying the last film he saw was such a violent one that he couldn’t sleep the whole night.
- (b) He shall be saying that the last film he had been seeing was such a violent one that he couldn’t sleep the whole night.
- (c) He shall say that the last film he had seen was such a violent one that he couldn’t sleep the whole night.
- (d) He said that the last film he had seen was such a violent one that he couldn’t sleep the whole night.
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79. Select the segment which has an error. Their house aren’t very big but their garden is.
- (a) but their
- (b) garden is
- (c) aren’t very big
- (d) Their house
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80. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence.. Did the boys take permission to go out today?
- (a) Had the boys taken permission to go out today?
- (b) Has permission to going out today been taking by the boys?
- (c) Are the boys taking permission to go out today?
- (d) Was permission to go out today taken by the boys?
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81. Select the segment which has an error. The novel ‘Embers’ has a captivating plot and begins with a senior army officer preparing to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closer friend.
- (a) a man who was once
- (b) begins with
- (c) has a captivating plot
- (d) his closer friend
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82. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. He advised me to go abroad for higher studies the following year.
- (a) He said to me,"I go abroad for higher studies next year."
- (b) He said to me,"You should go abroad for higher studies next year."
- (c) He said to me,"Please go abroad for higher studies next year."
- (d) He told to me,"You should go abroad for higher studies the following year."
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83. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’The vicious cycle of poverty refers to the situation where those who are poor will trapped in poverty.
- (a) will remain trapped
- (b) would be trap
- (c) were trapping
- (d) No improvement.
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85. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. “Can you pay him in cash?” she said to me.
- (a) She asked me if I could pay him in cash.
- (b) She asked me if he could pay me in cash.
- (c) She asked him if I should pay him in cash.
- (d) She asked him if I can pay him in cash.
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86. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. The belief that events are predetermined and therefore cannot be changed
- (a) fatalism
- (b) autism
- (c) prism
- (d) chasm
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Answer: (a)
87. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. The act of compelling or forcing authority on others.
- (a) aspersion
- (b) volition
- (c) coercion
- (d) scion
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88. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. To be a good speaker you need to memorize these speeches.
- (a) To be a good speaker these speeches need to memorize by you.
- (b) These speeches will be memorized by you to be a good speaker.
- (c) To be a good speaker these speeches need to be memorized by you
- (d) To be a good speaker these speeches being memorized by you.
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89. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’My friend did not understand the story. She asked me for explain it her .
- (a) no improvement
- (b) to explain it to her
- (c) to explaining it for her.
- (d) can I explain that to her
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PassageFor questions 90–99
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow-
Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak at 8,848 metres, draws adventurers from all over. But the mountain on the Nepal-China border is fast becoming a dangerous place to visit even for the hardened mountaineer. The inherent risks were highlighted with a photograph by Nirmal Purja, a Gorkha ex-soldier. The image, which went viral and altered the manner in which people worldwide imagine what it is to scale Mt. Everest, showed a long queue awaiting a final tilt at the summit, with all the dangers such a wait holds. In the 2019 season, at least 11 climbers have died or gone missing, including four Indians. Experts have been calling for Nepal to restrict the number of permits. It awarded a record 381 for this spring each fetching $11,000 (climbing from the Tibet side is more expensive). On 22nd May, 200 climbers ascended the summit, a new record for a single day. Last year, 807 managed to reach the summit. In 2012, the United Nations estimated that there were more than 26,000 visitors to the Everest region, and this figure has grown manifold since then. Nepal officials argue that permits are not issued recklessly, and that jams such as this year’s near the summit are on account of spells of bad weather, which result in mountaineers being compelled to reach the summit within a narrow time frame. Waiting in sub-zero temperatures at rarefied altitude can be fatal--- this season’s deaths were mostly due to frostbite, exhaustion, dehydration and lack of oxygen.
This year’s drama has caught public imagination, as happened in 1996 when eight persons died in a single day amid an unexpected storm - events of and around that day were the subject of Jon Krakauer’s bestselling book ‘Into Thin Air’. The adventure industry that is built around the human desire to scale the peak has meant many amateurs take up the challenge, confident that support teams and specialized equipment will make up for their lack of adequate mountaineering experience. The fallout is that in case of a disaster not only are some of them unable to manage but they also hold up others, putting them in harm’s way. The commercial operations have led to the Everest being called the world’s highest garbage dump as many climbers discard non-critical gear, used oxygen cylinders, plastic bottles, cans, batteries, food wrappings, fecal matter and kitchen waste on the mountains. It is unlikely, however, that this season’s tragedies will deter future summiteers, as the hypnotic lure remains intact. But the authorities must learn from this year’s tragedies and work out an optimum number of climbers and strengthen safety measures.
90. What is the theme of this newspaper editorial? Select the most appropriate combination of factors given below. a. Overcrowding of Mount Everest on 22nd May, 2019. b. The urgent necessity to introduce and implement adequate safety measures to prevent man-made disasters. c. Not to treat the ascent of the highest peak as an adventure sport. d. Refuse permits to amateur climbers. e. Disallow tour operating companies from crowding the base-camp.
- (a) b & c
- (b) c & d
- (c) a & b
- (d) a & e
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Answer: (c)
91. Fill in the blank to complete the statement. In 2019 ______ people have lost their lives on Mt. Everest.
- (a) nine
- (b) eleven
- (c) eight
- (d) ten
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Answer: (b)
92. What image has Nirmal Purja’s viral photograph captured?
- (a) The accumulated garbage on the mountain slopes.
- (b) A long queue of climbers on the final stretch of a steep slope.
- (c) Exhausted mountaineers falling unconscious on the way up.
- (d) Dead bodies of mountaineers on the route of the highest peak.
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Answer: (b)
93. Why was the Nepal Government criticized recently?
- (a) For allowing too many tour operators at the Everest Base Camp Site.
- (b) For issuing 381permits to aspiring climbers.
- (c) For charging a hefty fee to issue a permit.
- (d) For not providing optimum facilities to the mountaineers.
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94. Why, according to the text, do most climbers prefer to climb the Everest from Nepal side?
- (a) International mountaineers are not allowed in Chinese territory.
- (b) Climbing the Everest from Nepal side is cheaper than the Tibet side.
- (c) Nepali people are keen to help the climbers because this is their only way to earn money.
- (d) Nepal provides better logistical support than India.
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Answer: (b)
95. Choose the factor, which was NOT responsible for the death of mountaineers in May, 2019.
- (a) Frost bite and exhaustion
- (b) Lack of food
- (c) Lack of oxygen
- (d) Dehydration
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Answer: (b)
96. If an amateur mountaineer is one who climbs mountains as a hobby, which word in the text, describes an experienced one.
- (a) ex-soldier climber
- (b) adventure climber
- (c) reckless mountaineer
- (d) hardened mountaineer
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Answer: (d)
97. How are amateur mountaineers a threat to others?
- (a) Amateurs, because of their inexperience and slow pace, are exposed to all kinds of hazards.
- (b) Amateurs hold up other mountaineers in case of unforeseen disasters because they are not self-reliant.
- (c) Amateurs need specialized equipment to make up for their inexperience.
- (d) Amateurs are dependent on their support teams and cannot manage anything on their own.
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98. Identify the INCORRECT OPTION. The Everest has become the ‘highest garbage dump’ as many climbers leave behind ______
- (a) spent oxygen tanks
- (b) empty food cans and bottles
- (c) protective clothing.
- (d) kitchen waste
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Answer: (c)
99. Select the INCORRECT Option. ‘Into Thin Air’ is _____
- (a) an incident that happened in 1999.
- (b) an account of the death of eight people in a single day.
- (c) based on an unexpected storm in the Himalayas.
- (d) a best- selling book.
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Answer: (a)
100. Identify the word that is misspelt.
- (a) definitely
- (b) chargable
- (c) accidentally
- (d) conscience
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Answer: (b)
101. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. Aanya said, “Even if it rains very hard I will not miss school tomorrow.”
- (a) Aanya said though it rains very hard she will not miss school the next day.
- (b) Aanya said that even if it rained very hard she would not miss school the next day.
- (c) Aanya says that even if it rains very hard she will not miss school tomorrow.
- (d) Aanya has said that if it rains very hard I will not miss school tomorrow.
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102. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. The salesgirl said, “Forgive me but this dress is already sold.”
- (a) The salesgirl begged forgiveness and regretted that that dress was already sold.
- (b) The salesgirl asked to be forgiven but this dress was already sold.
- (c) The salesgirl said to me to forgive her but this dress was sold.
- (d) The salesgirl said that she is sorry but this dress is already sold.
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Answer: (a)
103. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. The interviewer said, “Rajiv, I’m impressed with you."
- (a) The interviewer told to Rajiv that he is impressed with him.
- (b) The interviewer said to Rajiv that he had been impressed with you.
- (c) The interviewer says I am impressed with Rajiv.
- (d) The interviewer told Rajiv that he was impressed with him.
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104. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. There is a story about an ancient Indian sage who was called ugly names by a passerby. B. The sage then said, “Well then, I have not accepted your offering” and walked away. C. He finally asked the man, “If an offering is not accepted who does it belong to?” at which the man replied, “To the person who offered it.” D. The sage listened unperturbed till the man ran out of words.
- (a) CABD
- (b) ACDB
- (c) ADCB
- (d) DCBA
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105. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. Creating a relaxing bedroom environment is very important too, and this can be done using a calming, subtle fragrance.. B. It is possible to retrain your brain to have a sound sleep. C. This is possible if you make sure your room is undisturbed, quiet and dark. D. Start by regulating the times you go to bed and get up.
- (a) DACB
- (b) BDCA
- (c) BCAD
- (d) ADBC
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106. Select the segment which has an error. Doctors say that eating red meat is one of a lead cause of heart disease.
- (a) is one of a lead cause
- (b) of heart disease
- (c) Doctors say that
- (d) eating red meat
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Answer: (a)
107. Select the segment which has an error. Please don’t disturbs to me as I am reading a book.
- (a) disturbs to me
- (b) Please don’t
- (c) reading a book
- (d) as I am
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108. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’His large income was still insufficiently to meet the growing demands of his family.
- (a) was being yet insufficient
- (b) have been still insufficient
- (c) No improvement.
- (d) was still insufficient
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Answer: (d)
109. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. They are selling very good stationery here.
- (a) Very good stationery sells here.
- (b) Stationery selling has been very good here.
- (c) Stationery selling here is very good.
- (d) Very good stationery is being sold here.
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Answer: (d)
110. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea are working on ‘The Book of Gutsy women ‘.
- (a) ‘The Book of Gutsy Women,’is being worked upon by Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea.
- (b) ‘The Book of Gutsy Women’ would have been worked upon by Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea.
- (c) Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea were working upon ‘The Book of Gutsy Women.’
- (d) Hillary Clinton and Chelsea will have worked upon ‘The Book of Gutsy Women’.
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Answer: (a)
111. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’I’m thinking to buy a new car as my old one is giving me trouble.
- (a) thinking of buying
- (b) no improvement
- (c) thought to buy
- (d) thinks to buying
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Answer: (a)
112. Select the segment which has an error. Two American cities, witnessed shooting and resulting in mass fatalities over the weekend.
- (a) and resulting in mass fatalities
- (b) Two American cities
- (c) witnessed shooting
- (d) over the weekend
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Answer: (a)
113. Identify the word that is misspelt.
- (a) exhilaration
- (b) recalcitrant
- (c) idiosyncracy
- (d) conscientious
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Answer: (c)
114. Select the segment which has an error. Please go out and check if it is yet raining.
- (a) Please go out
- (b) if it is
- (c) and check
- (d) yet raining
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Answer: (d)
115. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. According to hair loss experts, excess DHT drastically increases collagen production in the hair follicle. B. Hair loss can be traced to an increase of internal Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and collagen production. C. Eventually, collagen blocks the pore completely causing a lack of necessary blood flow due to which your hair loses its sheen, thins down and finally you lose your hair completely. D. When too much collagen lines the interior of the follicle, it narrows the pores, decreases blood flow and slowly strangles your hair to death.
- (a) DABC
- (b) BDAC
- (c) BADC
- (d) DCAB
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116. Select the segment which has an error. Rescue officials was unable to find any survivors in the Californaia boat tragedy.
- (a) in the
- (b) was unable
- (c) Rescue officials
- (d) to find
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Answer: (b)
117. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. Now, that the real estate sector has got its own regulator, RERA, from May 1, 2017, things are expected to improve. B. For many of the homebuyers, across locations the delay has extended to almost six years or more. C. In the absence of a regulator and with no rules in place, the builder-buyer battle appeared one-sided. D. For the buyers of real estate properties the delay in possession of their homes has been the biggest concern.
- (a) DBCA
- (b) ABDC
- (c) DABC
- (d) BACD
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Answer: (a)
118. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. Consisting of many things or parts
- (a) singular
- (b) numeral
- (c) multitudinous
- (d) few
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119. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. So he told his son that for every careless act of his he would hammer a nail into a wooden pillar in their house, and for every positive act he would pull out one nail. B. The boy saw that the pillar was getting crowded with nails and realised his mistake. C. A father wanted to inculcate a sense of responsibility in his careless son. D. He resolved to change his behaviour and soon the nails started coming out, till there were none left.
- (a) BCDA
- (b) CABD
- (c) BACD
- (d) CDBA
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120. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. The mother said to her son, “You always do what you want. Do you always have to be so ______?
- (a) reasoning
- (b) stubborn
- (c) awkward
- (d) withdrawn
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121. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. Over the past week, the state has been pounded by intense rainfall, thus transforming the July deficit to surplus. B. A year after being ravaged by the worst floods in 100 years, Kerala is once again facing a deluge. C. The districts in Kerala’s north – in particular Kozhikode, Wayanad, and Malappuram –are among the worst affected where relief work is going on. D. The copious amounts of rainfall in the state have been both intense and consistent leading to many deaths besides rendering thousands homeless.
- (a) BADC
- (b) ABCD
- (c) DBCA
- (d) DBAC
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Answer: (a)
122. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. New ideas on marketing were brainstormed and all the members agreed to try them forthwith. B. Upon their return from anoff-site camp Ravi and Sunil decided to hold a meeting. C. As soon as everyone assembled, the meeting which lasted for four hours, began. D. Its purpose was to replace some of the old ways of marketing used by the company with new ones.
- (a) BCDA
- (b) CDBA
- (c) BDAC
- (d) ACBD
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Answer: (a)
123. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. The old lady said, “May God bless you and give you all you desire in life!”
- (a) The old lady said that God may bless you and give you all you desire in life.
- (b) The old lady said that God will bless me and give me all I desire in life.
- (c) The old lady wished that God would bless me and give me all I desired in life.
- (d) The old lady says that may God bless you and give you all you desire in life.
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Answer: (c)
124. Select the segment which has an error. Our most memorable meeting with Spielberg happened while we were at the Berlin Film Festival in 1977, where the film ‘Shatranj ke Khilari ‘were being screened as India’s official entry.
- (a) Our most memorable meeting
- (b) where the film
- (c) were being screened
- (d) while we were at
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Answer: (c)
125. Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to fill in the sentence. Rohit was ______ when he took important decisions without consulting the family.
- (a) in the same boat
- (b) told to fight his own battles himself
- (c) cutting the red tape
- (d) told to get a new lease of life
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126. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. diverse in character or event
- (a) heterogeneous
- (b) horrendous
- (c) homogenous
- (d) assiduous
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Answer: (a)
127. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. exercising a compelling charm
- (a) uninspiring
- (b) dismissive
- (c) charismatic
- (d) vapid
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128. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’It take me within 15 minutes to walk to the metro station from my house.
- (a) takes me going
- (b) takes me about
- (c) take me most of
- (d) no improvement
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Answer: (b)
129. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. ‘Let’s not go out today. It’s going to be a hot day,” he said to me.
- (a) He is suggesting that they shouldn’t go out today as it was going to be a hot day.
- (b) He suggested that we shouldn’t be going out that day as it is going to be a hot day.
- (c) He suggested that we shouldn’t go out that day as it was going to be a hot day.
- (d) He had suggested that they shouldn’t go out today as it was going to be a hot day.
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Answer: (c)
PassageFor questions 130–139
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow-
Parents all over Iceland’s capital Reykjavik embark on a two-hour evening walk around their neighbourhood every weekend, checking on youth hangouts as a 10 pm curfew approaches. The walk in Reykjavik is one step toward Iceland’s success into turning around a crisis in teenage drinking.
Focusing on local participation and promoting more music and sports options for students, the island nation in the North Atlantic has dried up a teenage culture of drinking and smoking. Icelandic teenagers now have one of the lowest rates of substance abuse in Europe.
The Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis, the institute pioneering the project for the past two decades, says it currently advises 100 communities in 23 countries, from Finland to Chile, on cutting teenage substance abuse. “The key to success is to create healthy communities and by that get healthy individuals, ” said Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, a sociology professor who founded t he Youth of Iceland programme, which now has rebranded as Planet Youth.
The secret, she says, is to keep young people busy and parents engaged without talking much about drugs or alcohol. That stands in sharp contrast to other anti-abuse programmes, which try to sway teenagers with school lectures and scary, disgusting ads showing smokers’ rotten lungs or eggs in a frying pan to represent an intoxicated brain.
“Telling teenagers not to use drugs can backlash and actually get them curious to try them,” Ms Sigfusdottir said. In 1999, when thousands of teenagers would gather in Reykjavik every weekend, surveys showed 56% of Icelandic 16-year-olds drank alcohol and about as many had tried smoking.
Years later, Iceland has the lowest rates for drinking and smoking among the 35 countries measured in the 2015 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs.
On average, 80% of European 16-year-olds have tasted alcohol at least once, compared with 35% in Iceland, the only country where more than half of those students completely abstains from alcohol.
Denmark, another wealthy Nordic country, has the highest rates of teenage drinking, along with Greece, Hungary and the Czech Republic, where 92% to 96% have consumed alcohol.
In the US, teen drinking is a significant health concern, because many US teenagers are driving cars and do not have access to good public transport like teenagers in Europe.
Reykjavik mayor Dagur B. Eggertsson said the Icelandic plan “is all about society giving better options” for teens than substance abuse. He believes the wide variety of opportunities that now keep students busy and inspired has dramatically altered the country’s youth culture.
Local municipalities like Reykjavik have invested in sport halls, music schools and youth centres.To make the programmes widely available, parents are offered a 500 US dollar annual voucher toward sports or music programmes for their children.
Researchers say the Planet Youth prevention model is evolving constantly because it is based on annual surveys to detect trends and measure policy effectiveness. By law, introduced when Icelandic police routinely dealt with alcohol-fuelled street gatherings, children under 12 are not allowed to be outside after 8pm without parents and those 13 to 16 not past 10pm.
“We tell the kids if they are out too late, polite and nice, and then they go home,” said Heidar Atlason, a veteran member of the patrol. Over Iceland’s harsh winter, one parent admits, evenings sometimes pass without running into any students.
130. Parents in Reykjavik take an evening walk at night in order to-
- (a) meet other parents to know and discuss how to control teenagers
- (b) keep a watch on teenagers to ensure they don’t get into the habit of drinking
- (c) remain fit and healthy by avoiding drinking at night
- (d) enjoy the evening stroll with other parents after dinner
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Answer: (b)
131. What is dramatic about the figures of teenage drinking in Iceland?
- (a) They’ve gone up by 36%
- (b) They’ve become the lowest in Europe
- (c) They’ve remained the same over the years
- (d) They’ve shot down by 96%
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Answer: (b)
132. The Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis does the work of-
- (a) showing teenagers anti-abuse programmes, which stop teenagers from drinking.
- (b) advising many countries on controlling use of drugs etc. by young adults
- (c) going around at night with patrolling groups in many European countries.
- (d) legally allowing children 12 years and more to remain outside their homes after 6 pm.
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Answer: (b)
133. Teenage drinking in many countries like Denmark, Greece, Hungary, etc has been reported as
- (a) the highest in the world.
- (b) the lowest in the world.
- (c) completely eradicated.
- (d) low compared to Iceland.
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Answer: (a)
134. "Cutting teenage substance abuse" refers to-
- (a) reducing consumption of drugs and alcohol among young adults.
- (b) teenagers who consume alcohol abusing their parents.
- (c) teenagers consuming hazardous substances such as alcohol and drugs.
- (d) parents shaming their young children for their bad habits.
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Answer: (a)
135. The programme Planet Youth was started by-
- (a) the local municipality of Reykjavik
- (b) The Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis
- (c) Inga Dora Sigfusdottir
- (d) Dagur B. Eggertsson
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Answer: (c)
136. Which of the following does not contribute to the success of Planet Youth programme?
- (a) Arranging opportunities for music, sports etc.
- (b) Arranging street gatherings of teenagers
- (c) Enacting laws against late night movement of teenagers
- (d) Ensuring parental control and influence
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137. From the passage one can conclude that
- (a) by showing smokers’ diseased lungs to teens, parents can influence them.
- (b) parents must pay for sports and other activities for their children.
- (c) strict punishment is needed as it acts as a deterrent.
- (d) bad habits can be checked by engaging teens in alternative activities.
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138. The word from the passage that means ‘change the image of an organisation or program’ is-
- (a) invest
- (b) abstain
- (c) embark
- (d) rebrand
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Answer: (d)
139. ‘Over Iceland’s harsh winter, one parent admits, evenings sometimes pass without running into any students.’ This means -
- (a) the programme is having the right impact on teenagers.
- (b) students are not bothered about the efforts made for them.
- (c) authorities are disappointed that the programme has failed.
- (d) parents are not motivated to get involved in the programme.
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Answer: (a)
140. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. "It's sort of cool to be on a ship but even more amazing is this Earth we live on," Williams remarked as she described life on a spaceship to eager kids. B. Williams, who is set to be one of the first to fly aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in November 2019, was introduced at the festival by former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino . C. On Sept. 22, 2018 NASA astronaut Sunita Williams — a veteran of two long-duration spaceflights — talked to families and space enthusiasts about space travel. D. She was speaking at the Intrepid Air, Sea & Space Museum during the recent Space & Science Festival.
- (a) CDBA
- (b) BCDA
- (c) CBDA
- (d) BACD
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Answer: (a)
141. Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to fill in the sentence. He tries to perform well but good projects done by him are______. He needs to put in extra effort.
- (a) few and far between
- (b) going with the flow
- (c) on edge
- (d) walking on air
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Answer: (a)
142. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’Would you like to speak in English or Hindi?
- (a) liking to speak
- (b) no improvement
- (c) liked speaking
- (d) like to speaking
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143. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. She started the Udaipur-based organisation Shikshantar to create a space for selfdirected learning called ‘unschooling’. B. It also organizes week-long camps where children involve themselves in local communities and interact with other kids who don’t attend school. C. Nidhi Jain has been an unschooling parent for over two decades. D. The organisation arranges everything from internships in filmmaking to cooking for unschooled kids.
- (a) ACDB
- (b) CBAD
- (c) DBAC
- (d) CADB
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144. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. Rashmi says, “My startup is doing very well.”
- (a) Rashmi says that her startup is doing very well.
- (b) Rashmi says that my startup is doing very well.
- (c) Rashmi said that her startup was doing very well.
- (d) Rashmi said that her startup is doing very well.
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145. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. “Don’t use your mobile while crossing the road,” I said to him.
- (a) I am advising him not to use his mobile while crossing the road.
- (b) I told him to not to use his mobile while crossing the road.
- (c) I said him not to use his mobile while crossing the road.
- (d) I advised him not to use his mobile while crossing the road.
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146. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. I regret the way I treated you.
- (a) I regret the way you were treated by me.
- (b) I regret the way you were being treated by me.
- (c) I regret the way I am treating you.
- (d) I regret the way you treated me.
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147. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. proceeding in a gradual way and secretly intending to cause harm
- (a) benevolent
- (b) insidious
- (c) malevolent
- (d) solvent
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149. Select the segment which has an error. Found in many parts of India, the frangipani tree is a small, low –branching tree which is especial used for several medicinal purposes.
- (a) a small, low –branching tree
- (b) Found in many parts
- (c) which is especial used
- (d) The frangipani tree is
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150. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. The ______ speech did not impress the audience as they could not really make out the focus of her discussion.
- (a) contagious
- (b) convoluted
- (c) concurrent
- (d) contaminated
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151. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. Some used cars may have been involved in accidents or salvaged and rebuilt. B. Before buying a used car it’s important to know everything there is to know about it. C. If the car engine is clean, it’s a good sign, but still ask for a test drive. D. It is therefore very important to examine the car’s engine for any fluid leaks.
- (a) DBCA
- (b) ACDB
- (c) BADC
- (d) CDBA
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Answer: (c)
PassageFor questions 152–156
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow-
Dust storms of May 2018, in Northern India, contributed to the deteriorating air quality in the region and the capital city of Delhi, with implications for human health, a study found. The high death toll from the severe dust storms that lashed the region was mainly attributed to the intense winds, which surprised even scientists and meteorologists. But apart from the immediate damage to life and property, drastic changes in air quality from the dust engulfing the region affected far more people with potential implications for human health, stated a team of researchers who analysed the impact of the spell of dust storms that struck the region that month. They reported increases in particulate matter, mainly in Delhi and urged for an early warning system.
Dust storms commonly occur in the Indo-Gangetic Plains – the fertile plains in northern India that stretch all the way to the East – from March to May, the pre-monsoon season. Westerly winds typically bring loose sand and soil particles, picked up from the Arabian Peninsula or the Thar Desert in North Western India, to the Indo-Gangetic Plains. The dust tends to worsen air quality over the Indo-Gangetic Plains, home to around 900 million people, which can have far-reaching effects on human health. While dust storms are a regular feature in the region, the May 2018 dust storms specifically had a death toll of about 100 people, with around 200 people injured.
“We are concerned that the dust impacts the health of people who get exposed,” said a senior professor. However, he also observed that scattered rains occurring soon after the dust storms tend to clean up the dust, improving air quality. During October-November, densely populated cities like Delhi and Kanpur in the Indo-Gangetic Plains are vulnerable to windborne long-range air pollution from crop residue burning in the North, and now this study “shows the effect of dust storms during the March-May time frame,” Sarkar pointed out. “This really puts the Indo-Gangetic valley in a unique spot in terms of it being targeted by these different hazardous conditions which are mostly outsourced from other areas.”
152. Dust storms in Delhi are a cause of concern as they-
- (a) challenge scientists.
- (b) cause strong winds.
- (c) are a health hazard.
- (d) affect Delhi alone.
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Answer: (c)
153. Dust storms are caused by-
- (a) Westerly winds.
- (b) winds from the South.
- (c) Easterly winds.
- (d) winds from the North.
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Answer: (a)
154. The notable fact about pollution in Oct to Nov is that ______
- (a) dust storms are a regular feature.
- (b) it is caused by the winds from Thar Desert.
- (c) it is caused by crop burning in North India.
- (d) Westerly winds bring loose sand and soil particles
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155. By saying, ‘This really puts the Indo-Gangetic valley in a unique spot’ the writer refers to the fact that-
- (a) the Indo- Gangetic valley receives its pollution from other areas or factors.
- (b) intense winds in the valley surprise even scientists and meteorologists.
- (c) the valley is affected by pollution caused by hazardous industries.
- (d) studies find that only the valley faces pollution all year round.
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Answer: (a)
156. Choose the correct sequence in which events take place -
- (a) Strong winds- poor air quality -dust storms- - death and disease
- (b) Strong winds- dust storms- poor air quality- death and disease
- (c) Dust storms- poor air quality- strong winds -death and disease
- (d) Dust storms - death and disease-strong winds- poor air quality
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157. Select the segment which has an error. Instead of helping her mother at the kitchen, Rekha was on her mobile talking to her friend.
- (a) talking to her friend
- (b) on her mobile
- (c) at the kitchen
- (d) of helping
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Answer: (c)
PassageFor questions 158–162
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
Uncertainty looms over the revival of Naini Lake, a waterbody in the middle of Model Town in North Delhi, due to ______ (1) in the opinions of residents and local bodies regarding its desilting and ______ (2). While the Corporation claimed that the lake ______ (3) for years and several attempts by them to initiate a drive to desilt it were halted because of lack of funds or ______ (4) from locals, residents alleged that it is ______ (5) fresh water lake and is free from silt, and only a water treatment plant will be enough to resolve the problem.
158. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.1
- (a) differences
- (b) objections
- (c) protests
- (d) feuds
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Answer: (a)
159. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.2
- (a) beautification
- (b) moderation
- (c) evacuation
- (d) resolution
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Answer: (a)
160. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.3
- (a) has desilted
- (b) is not to be desilted
- (c) hasn’t been desilted
- (d) is desilted
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Answer: (c)
161. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.4
- (a) assault
- (b) activation
- (c) resistance
- (d) applause
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Answer: (c)
162. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.5
- (a) some
- (b) the
- (c) a
- (d) any
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Answer: (c)
163. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. The commander said, “Keep marching till you reach the border."
- (a) The commander requested the men keep marching till they reach the border.
- (b) The commander said to his men they should keep marching till you reach the border.
- (c) The commander ordered his men to keep marching till they reached the border.
- (d) The commander said the men should keep marching till they reach the border.
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Answer: (c)
PassageFor questions 164–173
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
It’s a magical sight: Just as the light begins to vanish, thousands of tiny penguins waddle ______ (1) the surf on an island in south-eastern Australia, then ______ (2) the beach and along well-worn paths toward ______ (3) burrows. The “Penguin Parade” has been a major attraction since the 1920s, when tourists ______ (4) by torchlight to view the nightly ______ (5) the birds — the world’s smallest penguin breed, with adults ______ (6) 13 inches tall. For much of that time, the penguins lived ______ (7) the residents of a housing development, in tight proximity to cars and pets. The penguins’ numbers fell ______(8) But in 1985, the state government decided to buy ______ (9) piece of property on the Peninsula and return the land to the penguins. Today there are about 31,000 penguins ______ (10) on the peninsula, up from 12,000 in the 1980s.
164. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No. 1
- (a) stand off
- (b) far off
- (c) out of
- (d) passing off
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Answer: (c)
165. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No. 2
- (a) moves on
- (b) move up
- (c) moved to
- (d) move out
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Answer: (b)
166. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No. 3
- (a) their
- (b) this
- (c) those
- (d) these
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Answer: (a)
167. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No. 4
- (a) were leading
- (b) was lead
- (c) had led
- (d) were led
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Answer: (d)
168. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No. 5
- (a) shining of
- (b) arrival of
- (c) playing off
- (d) going of
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Answer: (b)
169. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No. 6
- (a) average
- (b) averaged
- (c) averaging
- (d) averages
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Answer: (c)
170. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No. 7
- (a) within
- (b) among
- (c) towards
- (d) between
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Answer: (b)
171. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No. 8
- (a) drastically
- (b) variously
- (c) clearly
- (d) numerously
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Answer: (a)
172. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No. 9
- (a) any
- (b) each
- (c) some
- (d) all
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Answer: (d)
173. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No. 10
- (a) proceeding
- (b) breeding
- (c) propelling
- (d) preparing
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Answer: (b)
174. Find a word that is the synonym of mercurial
- (a) predictable
- (b) interchangeable
- (c) permanent
- (d) volatile
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Answer: (d)
175. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’There was a time when it was fashionable to have a dainty dog, like as the poodles or any other tiny creature as a pet.
- (a) like as the poodle
- (b) such as a poodle
- (c) No improvement.
- (d) much like a poodles
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176. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. It was quite a ______ matter but was escalated due to the media coverage.
- (a) stingy
- (b) ghastly
- (c) trivial
- (d) humble
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177. Select the segment which has an error. Since a meeting drew to a close, I realized that people were not really listening to me.
- (a) drew to a close
- (b) Since a meeting
- (c) I realized
- (d) were not really
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178. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. "Why is everybody leaving so early today?" said the manager.
- (a) The manager asked why was everybody leaving so early that day.
- (b) The manager asked why everybody was leaving so early today.
- (c) The manager asked why everybody left so early that day.
- (d) The manager asked why everybody was leaving so early that day.
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179. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. “Reena, I’m surprised you want dinner as we had such a late lunch," said Rajat.
- (a) Rajat had been telling Reena that he was surprised that she wants dinner as they had had such a late lunch.
- (b) Rajat had told Reena that he was surprised that she had wanted dinner as they were having such a late lunch.
- (c) Rajat was saying to Reena that he was surprised that she was wanting dinner as they had been having such a late lunch.
- (d) Rajat told Reena that he was surprised that she wanted dinner as they had had such a late lunch.
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180. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. The teacher suggested that the PTM be postponed to the third Saturday of the month.
- (a) The teacher said, “Let’s postpone the PTM to the third Saturday of the month. “
- (b) The teacher suggested, “The PTM must be postponed to the third Saturday of the month.”
- (c) The teacher told, “The PTM will be postponed to the third Saturday of the month. “
- (d) The teacher said, “The PTM would be postponed to the third Saturday of the month.”
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Answer: (a)
181. Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. The airport helper said, “Should I fetch you a trolley?”
- (a) The helper had said he would be fetching me a trolley.
- (b) The airport helper said he will go to fetch me a trolley.
- (c) The airport helper asked me if he should fetch me a trolley.
- (d) The airport helper is asking me that he will fetch a trolley.
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182. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. It was called the ‘take ownership’ programme, and it worked. B. The programme was a huge success in reviving the corporate culture of the bank- and in reviving the bank’s stock price. C. My colleagues and I felt and behaved like owners, because we actually were. D. I once worked for a large bank that gave stock options to all of its employees.
- (a) CDBA
- (b) CABD
- (c) DACB
- (d) ADCB
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Answer: (c)
183. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. My art teacher asked me whether I had attended her classes.
- (a) I was asked by my art teacher whether I had attended her classes.
- (b) I was being asked by my art teacher whether I was attending her classes.
- (c) My art teacher asks me whether I attended her classes.
- (d) My art teacher was asking me whether I had attended her classes.
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Answer: (a)
184. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’The masses, though well intentioned, preferable to remain passive spectators.
- (a) No improvement.
- (b) prefers to remaining
- (c) prefer to remain
- (d) had preferred to remaining
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Answer: (c)
185. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. found everywhere
- (a) rare
- (b) scarce
- (c) unusual
- (d) omnipresent
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Answer: (d)
186. Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’Even if Uma is unable to make it, I can’t most definitely come.
- (a) shall most definitely
- (b) won’t definite
- (c) needn’t more definite
- (d) No improvement.
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Answer: (a)
187. Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to fill in the sentence. In trying to solve the crime, the detective found himself ______ Yet the mystery kept deepening.
- (a) beating the bush
- (b) letting his hair down
- (c) making room for others
- (d) beating his brains out
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188. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. How were they managing the school for one year without a Principal?
- (a) How was the school being managed for one year without a Principal?
- (b) How was the Principal managed for one year without a School?
- (c) How was the school managed for one year without a Principal?
- (d) How was the Principal being managed for one year without a School?
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189. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. My birthday was celebrated by my colleagues at the office today.
- (a) My colleagues will celebrate my birthday at the office today.
- (b) My colleagues have celebrated my birthday at the office today.
- (c) My colleagues are celebrateing my birthday at the office today.
- (d) My colleagues celebrated my birthday at the office today.
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Answer: (d)
190. Find a word that is the synonym of diminutive
- (a) expeditious
- (b) dangerous
- (c) petite
- (d) fallacious
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191. Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to fill in the sentence. When you ______ it is best to be patient and have faith in your inner strength.
- (a) call a spade a spade
- (b) remain on high alert
- (c) find yourself in troubled waters
- (d) keep someone at an arms length
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192. Given below are four jumbled sentences. . Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. Having cancer is often one of the most stressful experiences in a person's life. B. They also allow people to learn from others facing similar situations . C. The groups are gaining popularity these days as they allow volunteers to talk with those who are living with cancer. D. But these days there are support groups that help patients cope with the emotional aspects of cancer by providing an opportunity to share feelings and challenges they face with others.
- (a) ADCB
- (b) CBDA
- (c) DCBA
- (d) ACBD
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193. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. It is known by everyone that the tournament will be won by us.
- (a) It is known that the tournament is going to be won by us.
- (b) It is known to everyone that we are going to win the tournament.
- (c) Everyone knows that we will win the tournament.
- (d) Everyone knows that the tournament was won by us.
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194. Find a word that is the ANTONYM of pandemonium
- (a) uproar
- (b) turbulence
- (c) excitement
- (d) harmony
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195. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. Using his mother’s show-business contacts, Charlie became a professional entertainer in 1897. B. He spent his early childhood with his mother, the singer Hannah Hall, after she and his father separated. C. Even today Charlie is widely regarded as the greatest comic artist of the screen and one of the most important figures in motion-picture history. D. Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in London and named after his father, a British music-hall entertainer.
- (a) CABD
- (b) CBDA
- (c) DBAC
- (d) DABC
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196. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. a private conversation between two people
- (a) sermon
- (b) dialogue
- (c) tête-à-tête
- (d) monologue
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Answer: (c)
197. Identify the word that is misspelt.
- (a) millenium
- (b) hierarchy
- (c) questionnaire
- (d) liaison
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198. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. A. In the study, researchers found that kids who experienced their growth spurt late had lower than average bone density in young adulthood. B. Teens who hit puberty late may end up with weaker bones, a new study finds. C. However, they continue to have lower bone strength even after they finish growing and may be at greater risk for osteoporosis in adulthood. D. These later maturing teens do catch up with early maturing teens in terms of bone strength.
- (a) BCDA
- (b) ADCB
- (c) BADC
- (d) ACDB
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199. Select the segment which has an error. It is be said that in 2019 the Indian Stock Market will fall drastically and we can expect that fall very soon.
- (a) that in 2019
- (b) we can expect
- (c) the Indian Stock Market will fall
- (d) It is be said
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200. Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given sentence. An interesting discussion is being held on environmental degradation.
- (a) They will be holding an interesting discussion on environmental degradation.
- (b) They are holding an interesting discussion on environmental degradation.
- (c) An interesting discussion had been held on environmental degradation.
- (d) An interesting discussion is to be held on environmental degradation.
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Q 180: (a)
Q 181: (c)
Q 182: (c)
Q 183: (a)
Q 184: (c)
Q 185: (d)
Q 186: (a)
Q 187: (d)
Q 188: (a)
Q 189: (d)
Q 190: (c)
Q 191: (c)
Q 192: (a)
Q 193: (c)
Q 194: (d)
Q 195: (c)
Q 196: (c)
Q 197: (a)
Q 198: (c)
Q 199: (d)
Q 200: (b)