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


The action of repeating something aloud from memory.

A) paraphrase B) rendition
C) erudition D) recitation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) recitation

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1 1986
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In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is incorrectly spelt. Select the incorrectly spelt word.

A) Colonel B) Hypocracy
C) Offence D) Strength
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Hypocracy

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0 1986
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In the following question the 1st and the last part of the sentence/passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence/ passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence/passage and find out which of the four combinations is correct.

 

1. There was nobody in the market at that time of the night.
P. Added to that it had been raining incessantly.
Q. The night was darker than usual.
R. All shops were closed.
S. The atmosphere was heavy.
6. The stars disappeared from the sky and it made the night heavier.

 

A) PQRS B) QPRS
C) SRPQ D) RQPS
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) QPRS

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0 1986
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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.

 

apple of my eye

 

A) every thing looks enticing to a hungry person B) a very pleasant thing to watch
C) someone that one cherishes above all others D) the ugliest child is still pretty for a mother
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) someone that one cherishes above all others

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0 1986
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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".

Navinder and his wife departed for London by Air India yesterday.

A) to B)  towards
C) toward D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) No improvement

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0 1986
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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.

The remains of something that has been badly damaged

A) Pristine B) Immaculate
C) Wreckage D) Sterile
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Wreckage

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0 1986
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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.
Recede

A) Ebb B) Fade
C) Extend D) Wane
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Extend

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0 1985
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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.


Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second­hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his next­door neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective.


A learned man, as described in the passage,

A) cares about men and things B) does not care about men and things
C) cares about the shapes of objects. D) cares about his neighbours
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) does not care about men and things

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0 1984