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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 warning bells __________several times before anyone realized the danger.

A) were ringing B) had rung
C) had rang D) would have rung
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) had rung

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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.

 

Excuse my French

 

A) Used to apologize for swearing. B) Said when one cannot speak the language of the other person correctly.
C) Used to make a flimsy excuse. D) Used when you give up easily.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Used to apologize for swearing.

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without pre-established harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and has done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.

 

Which of the following does the author appear to highlight in this essay?

A) Being contented with the status quo B) Knowing oneself better
C) Working hard and sincerely D) Waiting for better opportunities
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Working hard and sincerely

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

 

A place where animals are slaughtered for consumption as food.

A) Reservoir B) Abattoir
C) Memoir D) Peignoir
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Abattoir

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A sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence inPassive/Active Voice.

Lily was making a fort.

A) Lily made a fort. B) A fort was being made by Lily.
C) A fort made by Lily. D) A fort got made by Lily.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) A fort was being made by Lily.

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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".

This book is adopted to the needs of beginners.

A) adapted to B) adapted for
C) adopted for D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) adapted to

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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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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

Vicky said, "Please say nothing about this."

 

A) Vicky asked her to not to say anything about this. B) Vicky asked her that she should not to say anything about that.
C) Vicky asked her to say nothing about that. D) Vicky asked her that she say nothing about that.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Vicky asked her to say nothing about that.

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