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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, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.   

 

Snaky

 

A) Clever   B) Mild  
C) Sinuous   D) Wild
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Sinuous  

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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.

 


According to the author, all art is

 

A) a reflection of life. B) art
C) an escape D) an important sense.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) an escape

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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.

People may see, and hear, and feel all their lives without ____________ learning the nature of things they see. But reason is the mind's eye, and enables us to see why things are, and when and how events may be made to happen ___________ not to happen. The logician endeavours to ____________ exactly what this reason is which makes the power of men. We all, as I have said, must reason well or ill, but logic is the science of reasoning and enables us to distinguish ______________ the good reasoning which leads to truth, and the bad reasoning which every day betrays people into error _________ misfortune.

 

made to happen ___________ not to happen. 

 

A) or B) but
C) so D) at
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) or

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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.

People may see, and hear, and feel all their lives without ____________ learning the nature of things they see. But reason is the mind's eye, and enables us to see why things are, and when and how events may be made to happen ___________ not to happen. The logician endeavours to ____________ exactly what this reason is which makes the power of men. We all, as I have said, must reason well or ill, but logic is the science of reasoning and enables us to distinguish ______________ the good reasoning which leads to truth, and the bad reasoning which every day betrays people into error _________ misfortune.

 

us to distinguish ______________ the good reasoning 

 

A) in B) within
C) between D) amidst
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) between

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A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.

 

“German is easy to teach”, she said.

 

A) She says German is easy. B) She told us that German was easy to teach.
C) She informed German was easy to teach. D) She said that German was easy to teach.  
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) She said that German was easy to teach.  

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In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

 

A) anotate   B) annotate  
C) annottate D) anottate
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) annotate  

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

A) Emperor Ashoka B) have conquered Kalinga
C) before he embraced Buddhism. D) No error
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) have conquered Kalinga

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Error is in second part. Replace ‘have’ with ‘had’. Since two events are mentioned and both occurred in the past, the even that happened first will be expressed in past perfect tense. Hence ‘had conquered’ is the correct form.

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