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A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to "No improvement".

The rays of the sun that is setting glimmer like golden threads.

A) the sunset glimmers B) the set sun glimmering
C) the setting sun glimmer D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) the setting sun glimmer

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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 second strategy proposed __________________ the committee was institutional reform of police processes, including investigation of crimes, professionalization and ________________ of court systems with induction of technology _____________ limiting appeal procedures to the _________________ required. It is here the committee ___________________ to bring in a bigger and responsible role to victims of crime in the whole proceedings.


professionalization and ________________ of court systems

A) rationalising B) rationalisation
C) rationally D) rational
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) rationalisation

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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 woodpeckers of the West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East, and so are the flycatchers, the grosbeaks, the orioles, the tanagers, the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows. ____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles (the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, ______________ habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate.

____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles

A) Beside B) Next
C) Instead D) Near
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Instead

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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.

curiosity killed the cat

 

A) a person who constantly keeps asking questions is avoided by everybody B) everybody has a fatal weakness
C) being inquisitive about other people's affairs may get you into trouble D) everyone feels like killing a nagging person
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) being inquisitive about other people's affairs may get you into trouble

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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.

 

Many persons of good education unconsciously circumscribe themselves ___________ a small vocabulary. They have a knowledge of hundreds of desirable wordswhich they do not put _________ practical use in their speech or writing. Many, too, are conscious __________ a poverty of language, which engenders in them a senseof timidity and self-___________. The method used for building a large vocabulary has __________ been confined to the study of single words.

 

timidity and self-___________. The method used

 

A) depreciate B) depreciated
C) depreciates D) depreciation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) depreciation

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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.

Birds of a feather flock together

 

A) even a small similarity is enough to become friends and stay together B) there is always more safety in a crowd
C) people with the same tastes and interests will be found together D) people with bad intentions always form a gang
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) people with the same tastes and interests will be found together

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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.

 

Characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons

 

A) Hedonistic B) Decadent
C) Effete D) Ascetic
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Ascetic

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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.

 

The power of silence is its ability to mediate the ______.

 

A) excitable B) irreconcilable
C) excusable D) fashionable
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) irreconcilable

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