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In the following question, a sentence / a part of sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is required, choose "No Improvement" option.

 

Ram cooked a conspiracy to cheat Abdul.

A) cultivated B) hatched
C) fabricated D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) hatched

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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.

Blessing in disguise

 

A) Good fortune always follows bad; that is the way of fate. B) An apparent misfortune that eventually has good results.
C) If a curse makes one stronger than it is a blessing. D) A life of hardship does wonders for a person's character.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) An apparent misfortune that eventually has good results.

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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.

 

India is a country that loves decentralisation and it covers almost every ________________. I will focus ________________ the subject of tyranny. For example, look _______________ our police stations. We ____________________ a Hobbesian sovereign ruling over us. In political ___________________, one has what is called the concept of sovereignty which is discussed in Hobbesian terms.

 

In political ___________________, one has what is called the concept of sovereignty which is discussed in Hobbesian terms.

 

A) aesthetics B) metaphysics
C) outlook D) philosophy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) philosophy

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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.

 

Widespread liberalization of the economic ________________ regime was long overdue in 1991, and has played a positive role since, but its impact has ________________ its course and the policy has recognisable ___________________. Liberalization cannot address all aspects of the man­made environment and now climate change ________________ to change everything forever. We do not have another quarter century to deal ___________ these imperatives.

 

now climate change ________________ to change everything forever.

 

A) were threatening B) threatens
C) threatened D) are threatening
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) threatens

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

A) neolethic B) neolithic
C) neolithick D) neolethick
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) neolithic

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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.

Good reading ______ the sense of liberal educated mind.

A) beliefs B) leads
C) reflects D) starts
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) reflects

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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.


And then, a few glorious minutes ______________, it was time to reluctantly head ashore. ____________ time, the strokes were more fluid, the movements more relaxed. I turned back one last time ____________ hello to a clown fish, the reason why I came to the Andamans. As I watched, it played hide-and-seek _________ a sea anemone, before frisking away. Suddenly, I realised a kinship with the blue waters ___________ the Bay of Bengal.


kinship with the blue waters ___________ the Bay of Bengal.

A) for B) from
C) to D) of
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) of

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In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.


War and Peace, an epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, was_____ published as Voyna i mir in 1865-69. This ____study of early 19th century Russian society, noted for its _____of realistic detail and variety of psychological______is generally regarded as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace is_____concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families, the members of which are _____against the_____background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon. The_____ of war, however, is____to the story of family existence which involves Tolstoy's optimistic belief in the life-asserting ______of human existence.

 

War and Peace an epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, was _____ published as Voyna i mir in 1865-69.

A) basically B) wilfully
C) originally D) faithfully
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) originally

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