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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 survey provided the company with a wide __________ of feedback on its products.

A) spectrum B) option
C) choices D) colours
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) spectrum

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

 

Gilbert de Lafayette's father and grandfather and great-grandfather (have all been) brave and noble men.

 

A) has all been B) has all being
C) have all being D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) no improvement

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

 

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

 

Aristotle argues that poetry is

 

A) valuable B) an escape
C) an art D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) valuable

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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.

 

Violence takes a heavy toll and affects public life ______. High or low, known or unknown, rich or poor, popular or unpopular, no one is safe or secure today. It
appears that one can harm anybody at any time and at ______. A mad and sad rat race is on to make money and ______ power at any cost and by any means. The
result is that no political party or group can now ______ into claim to total innocence in so far as ______ of violence against innocent person for personal or political
gains is concerned. Violent demonstrations, rallies, hartals have become the order of the day.

 

Violence takes a heavy toll and affects public life ______.

 

A) adversely B) moderately
C) relatively D) ultimately
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) adversely

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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 expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

 

Preeti said to her friend, "I am like my mother."

 

A) Preeti told her friend that she was like her mother. B) Preeti told her friend that I was like her mother.
C) Preeti tells her friend that she is like her mother. D) Preeti tells her friend that that she was like her mother.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Preeti told her friend that she was like her mother.

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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) loopholes B) lupholes
C) looppholes D) luppholes
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) loopholes

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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.

 

To take the cake

A) To have something unexpectedly good to eat B) To get a lovely gift
C) To grab the prize before others D) To to be especially good; outstanding
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) To to be especially good; outstanding

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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.

 

If there is a subject of really ______________ interest and utility, it is the art of writing and speaking one's own language ___________. It is the basis of culture, as we all know; but it is infinitely more _________ that, it is the basis of business. ___________ salesman can sell anything unless he can explain the merits of his goods in effective language, or can write ___________ advertisement equally effective, or present his ideas, and the facts, in a letter.

 

one's own language ___________. It is the basis

 

A) effective B) effectiveness
C) effectivity D) effectively
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) effectively

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