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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.

Zip your lip

A) Keep quiet about something. B) To talk fast.
C) To not think before speaking. D) The silence before a storm
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Keep quiet about something.

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1 1962
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Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it.

Lack of skill

A) Inertness B) Insistence
C) Ineptness D) Insolence
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Ineptness

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What is the full form of DNA?

A) Diribo nucleic acid B) Di nucleic acid
C) Dual nitrogen acid D) Deoxyribonucleic acid
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Deoxyribonucleic acid

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In the following questions, 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.

Education is for life, not merely for a livelihood. As long as we are unmindful of this _____, the _____ of our educational curriculum as well as that of our _____ and students is likely to remain _____. It is not enough for a society to have experts. It needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and _____.

As long as we are unmindful of this _____,

A) measure B) resource
C) story D) truth
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) truth

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Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet.

From the last five days it has been raining torrentially.

A) Since the last B) for the last 
C) Since last D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Since the last

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From is used to denote a point of time. The preposition ‘since’ should be used here as five days is a period of time and the event started at the beginning of those five days.

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The first BRICS Summit, after the inclusion of South Africa, was held at 

A) Brasilia B) Sanya
C) Yekaterinburg D) Durban
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Sanya

Explanation:

The Summit at Sanya will mark the admission of South Africa to the group, which will extend the geographic representation of the mechanism in a moment when the financial system reform is sought worldwide, as well as agreater democratization of global governance in general.On 14 April 2011, 3rd BRICS (Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa) Summit is to be held in the Chinese city of Sanya, alongside the President of China, Hu Jintao, the President of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, and the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma. The previous Summits were held in Yekaterinburg (June 2009) and Brasília (April 2010)

 

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2 1962
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Four words are given, out of which only one word is spelt correctly. Choose the correctly spelt word and click the button corresponding to it.

A) Serendipty B) Serendipity
C) Serndipity D) Sernidipity
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Serendipity

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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.

Neha has been crying _____ morning.

A) from B) of
C) since D) till
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) since

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