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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

 

To know language is to be able to speak it; even a child who does not yet attend school can speak his or her language. In order to speak a language it is important to listen to it and to read a few pages in it everyday. A child picks up language and learns to talk just as (s)he learns to walk. Walking and talking comes naturally to a child as it grows. In our country, a child may grow up speaking more than one language, if these languages are spoken in the home and in the neighbourhood. we call this multilingualism. A child speaks a language or languages much before (s)he starts going to school. To know a language then is first of all to be able to speak it as easily and naturally as a tree year old child does. Later on the child will learn to read and write in that language. In order to read and write in a language, one has to speak it. But it is possible to speak a language but not able to read or write in it. A baby does not speak until it is nine months old but it understands a few words at six months of age. It has been listening ever since it was born, and even a little before that. So the first strategy in speaking a language is to listen.

 

A child has been __________ ever since it was born

A) speaking B) reading
C) walking D) listening
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) listening

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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'.

It was obviously for everyone (A)/that grandfather was (B)/hiding something from all of us.(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.

Private companies do not produce new varieties and inputs ______ as a result of their own research.

A) sincerely B) purportedly
C) entirely D) abjectly
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) entirely

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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.

 

Perpetual

 

A) Continual   B) Ceaseless  
C) Enduring   D) Transitory
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Transitory

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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

to cry wolf

 

A) to keep complaining over small issues B) to raise a false alarm
C) to act as if one feels sorry for the other person D) to report to a higher authority the mistakes committed by others
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) to raise a false alarm

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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".

I have always (baffle) by the unique melange of languages and dialects that India is home to.

 

 

A) being baffled B) been baffled
C) baffling D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) been baffled

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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 (has rented) the premises for fifteen rupees a month, a princely sum, considering that milk was fifty paisa a litre.

 

A) had rented B) had rent
C) had renting D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) had rented

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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.

 

Demure

 

A) Strong B) Shy
C) Backward D) Afraid
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Strong

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