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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

The news has always ____________ predicated on informing the consumer. It speaks of — apart from the day’s most ____________ upheavals — the best and the worst that _____________ has managed to accomplish each day. This includes the medal-winners, the laureates, the record-breakers, the deal-makers _________the criminals, the villains, the corrupt. The news regales us ________ the highlights, a reel of the most provoking ones that made it into a window of a half-an-hour.

 

the deal-makers _________ the criminals,

 

 

A) if B) but
C) also D) and
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) and

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

 

Abutting

 

A) Touching   B) Far  
C) Bordering   D) Joining
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Far  

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

 

Back to square one

 

A) Remembering one's past makes one humble B) To be back to where one started, with no progress having been made
C) To become friends once again with a person with whom you had a fight D) To apologize for one's past actions
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) To be back to where one started, with no progress having been made

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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

 

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

 

The author believes that man's greatest and distinguishing ability is

 

A) his ability to project the future B) his capacity to escape from his present experience
C) his consciousness of the past D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) his capacity to escape from his present experience

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

Several countries ___________________ the world are now replacing the __________________ model of criminal justice partly _____________________ wholly with different models of restorative justice, _____________________ promising results in crime control. The process is more collaborative, consensual and inclusive, that is characteristic ____________________ indigenous systems of justice.

 

model of criminal justice partly _____________________

 

A) or B) nor
C) and D) but
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) or

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

 

Throw the towel in

 

A) To challenge someone B) To stop a bad situation from getting worse
C) To quit in defeat D) To offer a signal of peace
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) To quit in defeat

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In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

 

Seldom we have been(A)/treated in such(B)/a rude manner.(C)/No error(D)

 

A) A B) B
C) C D) D
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) A

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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

In a clearing that started a few feet away was a small __________ of cattle.

 

A) herd B) flock
C) colony D) drove
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) herd

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