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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.

 

A brain and nervous system that are poorly developed or insufficiently nourished means low grade of ______________ in our mental processes, just as a poorly constructed or wrongly adjusted motor means loss of power in applying the electric current to its work. We will, __________, look upon the mind and the brain as counterparts of ___________ other, each performing activities which correspond to activities in the other, ________ inextricably bound together at least so far as this life is concerned, and each getting its _______________ by its union with the other. This view will lend interest to a brief study of the brain and nervous system.

 

nourished means low grade of ______________ in our mental processes

 

A) efficiently B) efficiencies
C) efficiency D) efficient
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) efficiency

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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.

The generation gap is another of those characteristic features that set Homo sapiens apart from other animals. It is ______ if ever the most intelligent of apes ever blamed its juniors for their ______ ways! Over the years people have tried to analyse it, explain it, understand it, even ignore it, but it remains, ready to ______ each generation as it tries to ______ its own ______ about life and living.

juniors for their ______ ways!

A) blizzard B) wayward
C) motivated D) pointed
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) wayward

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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

 

The man who is perpetually hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither. The man who resolves, but suffers his resolution to be changed by the first counter-suggestion of a friend, - who fluctuates from opinion to opinion, from plan to plan, and veers like a weather-cock to every point of the compass, with every breath of caprice that blows-can never accomplish anything great or useful. Instead of being progressive in any thing, he will be at best stationary, and more probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who first consults wisely, then resolves firmly, and then executes his purpose with flexible perseverance, undismayed by those petty difficulties which daunt a weaker spirit that can advance to eminence in any line. Take your course wisely, but firmly; and having taken it, hold upon it with heroic resolution, and the Alps and Pyrenees will sink before you.

 

What will the man who sticks to his resolve and executes it advance to?

A) Wisdom B) Progress
C) Eminence D) Resolution
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Eminence

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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.

 

In cahoots with

 

A) A marriage made in heaven.   B) A group of criminals.
C) With lot of determination.   D) In an alliance or partnership with.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) In an alliance or partnership with.

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.

I could not find the book.

A) I myself can not find the book. B) The book could not be found by me.
C) By me the book can not be found. D) Finding of the book could not be done by me.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The book could not be found by me.

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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.


Fraternity, then, was meant to complement civil rights, _______________ to destroy them. The _____________________ framers did not use this symbolic term for a court to come along 66 years _________________, and ______________________ it for the purposes of subordinating individual rights to some mythic notion of community harmony, entirely submerging the individual _______________ the society.


entirely submerging the individual _______________ the society.

A) on B) onto
C) upon D) within
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) within

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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.


The second strategy proposed __________________ the committee was institutional reform of police processes, including investigation of crimes, professionalization and ________________ of court systems with induction of technology _____________ limiting appeal procedures to the _________________ required. It is here the committee ___________________ to bring in a bigger and responsible role to victims of crime in the whole proceedings.


It is here the committee ___________________ to bring in a bigger

 

A) bought B) brought
C) caught D) sought
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) sought

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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'.
The Directors are(A)/now inquiring(B)/in the cause of the fire.(C)/No error(D)

A) A B) B
C) C D) D
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) C

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