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

 


In short, to write a good letter you must approach the job in the lightest and most casual way. You must be personal, not abstract. You must not say, 'This is too small a thing to put down'. You must say, 'This is just the sort of small thing we talk about at home. If I tell them this they will see me, as it were they'll hear my voice, they'll know what I'm talking about'. That is the purpose of a letter. Carlyle had the trick to perfection. He is writing from Scotsbrig to his brother Alec in Canada and he begins talking about his mother. Good old Mother, he says, 'she is even now sitting at my back, trying at another table to write you a small word with her own hand; the first time she has tried such a thing for a year past. It is Saturday night, after dark; we are in the east room in a hard, dry evening with a bright fire to our two selves; Jenny and her Barns are 'scouring up things' in the other end of the house; and below stairs the winter operations of the farm go on, in a subdued tone; you can conceive the scene! How simple it is and yet how perfect. Can not you see Alec reading it in his far-off home and his eyes moistening at the picture of his old mother sitting and writing her last message to him on earth?

 


Abstract' in the passage means

 

A) a summary B) not paying attention
C) concrete D) not having a physical reality
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) not having a physical reality

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

 


In short, to write a good letter you must approach the job in the lightest and most casual way. You must be personal, not abstract. You must not say, 'This is too small a thing to put down'. You must say, 'This is just the sort of small thing we talk about at home. If I tell them this they will see me, as it were they'll hear my voice, they'll know what I'm talking about'. That is the purpose of a letter. Carlyle had the trick to perfection. He is writing from Scotsbrig to his brother Alec in Canada and he begins talking about his mother. Good old Mother, he says, 'she is even now sitting at my back, trying at another table to write you a small word with her own hand; the first time she has tried such a thing for a year past. It is Saturday night, after dark; we are in the east room in a hard, dry evening with a bright fire to our two selves; Jenny and her Barns are 'scouring up things' in the other end of the house; and below stairs the winter operations of the farm go on, in a subdued tone; you can conceive the scene! How simple it is and yet how perfect. Can not you see Alec reading it in his far-off home and his eyes moistening at the picture of his old mother sitting and writing her last message to him on earth?

 

Carlyle's mother was ________.

 

A) a regular letter writer B) not confident at letter writing
C) always eager to write letters to Alec D) old and enjoyed writing letters
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) not confident at letter writing

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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.

 

How can any ____________ person hope to know what thoughts transpire in so evil a mind?

 

A) rational B) sober
C) thinking D) negligent
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) rational

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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'.


Reeta is a spiritually-centred person(A)/who loves every being(B)/she comes in contact with.(C)/No error(D)

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

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

 

Regard with great respect

 

A) Insolence   B) Venerate  
C) Flippancy   D) Coarseness
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Venerate  

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__________ is the 2016 Oscar Winner for Best Actor.

A) Leonardo DiCaprio B) Bryan Cranston
C) Matt Damon D) Michael Fassbender
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Leonardo DiCaprio

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The first Indian to win Booker Prize is

A) Jhumpa Lahiri B) Arundhati Roy
C) Siddhartha Mukherjee D) Gobind Beharilal
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Arundhati Roy

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Arrange the following words as per order in the dictionary and choose the one that comes first: 1. Temple 2 Tenant 3. Terminate 4. Temperature

A) Temple B) Tenant
C) Terminate D) Temperature
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Temperature

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