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 In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

 

That game (were interrupted) by the rains, it resumed an hour after, when the rains stopped.

 

A) are interrupted B) was interrupt
C) was interrupted D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) was interrupted

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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 thefour alternatives.


One who has witnessed a debate ______ argument between two men _____________ strong intellectually, one of whom is a trained logician and the other lacking this advantage, will never forget the impression produced _________ him by the unequal struggle. The conflict is like that of a ____________ wrestler, untrained in the little tricks and turns of the science, in the various principles of applying force in a certain way at a certain time, at a certain place, with a __________ and experienced wrestler.


certain place, with a __________ and experienced wrestler

 

A) trained B) train
C) training   D) trains
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) trained

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

 

the action of making amends for a wrong one has done

 

A) reparation B) extortion
C) reclamation D) retrieval
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) reparation

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

 

"I don't know the way. Do you?" Vipul asked.

 

A) Vipul said he didn't know the way and asked her if she did. B) Vipul said he didn't knew the way and asked her if she did.
C) Vipul said he didn't knew the way and asked her whether she did. D) Vipul said that he didn't know the way and asked her if she did.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Vipul said he didn't know the way and asked her if she did.

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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 question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

 

Jyoti said to her sister, "The RBI is India's central bank".

 

A) Jyoti told her sister the RBI was India's central bank. B) Jyoti told her sister that the RBI was India's central bank.
C) Jyoti told her sister that the RBI is India's central bank. D) Jyoti told her sister the RBI is India's central bank.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Jyoti told her sister that the RBI is India's central bank.

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

 

They teased and (to joke) with the patient and didn't stop till they elicited a favourable response from her.

 

A) joke B) joking
C) joked D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) joked

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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.


___________ being an intangible idea, the nation is quite real because it is a shared idea. _______________ of nationhood are important for this sharing to be reliably reproduced, which is why we have familiar _____________ to memory like maps, flags, or the figure of Mother India. National symbols are extremely powerful ________________ they connect to compressed reservoirs of intense _________________.


National symbols are extremely powerful ________________

 

A) since B) because
C) so D) thereof
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) because

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