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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.

Give somebody a ring

A) Propose marriage B) Inform about the death of a loved one
C) Call someone on the telephone D) Trap somebody in a difficult relationship
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Call someone on the telephone

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The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

The space in front of the large

X-hut was empty, but
Y-placed several stools
Z-before it were

A) XYZ B) XZY
C) ZYX D) ZXY
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) XZY

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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.

Not able to produce children

A) Gravid B) Hebetic
C) Fecund D) Sterile
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Sterile

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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.

 

Several countries ___________________ the world are now replacing the __________________ model of criminal justice partly _____________________ wholly with different models of restorative justice, _____________________ promising results in crime control. The process is more collaborative, consensual and inclusive, that is characteristic ____________________ indigenous systems of justice.

 

Several countries ___________________ the world

 

A) cross B) across
C) beyond D) over
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) across

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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.

 


We have rich cultural _____ . Its roots go into _____. Ours has never been a closed ______. It has _______ just like a tree, ______ to external ______ but holding its roots _______. But one wonders today whether it will be able to hold its _____. The ______ of our cultural heritage has come under the _____ of western culture.

 


It has _______ just like a tree,

 

A) grown B) risen
C) expanded D) branched
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) grown

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In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.

Make both ends meet

A) Live within means B) Achieve a solution
C) Live among people D) End of the road
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Live within means

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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.

Job performance is ______ by a number of factors. Motivation alone does not lead to increased performance. Ability and technology moderates the relationship between motivation and performance. The higher the levels of ability and motivation the ______ the level of performance will be. However, increasing motivation beyond an ______ level tends to ______ a dysfunctional result because it is ______ by an increased level of anxiety.

However, increasing motivation beyond an ______ level

A) certain B) desired
C) increased D) optimal
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) optimal

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

 


In short, to write a good letter you must approach the job in the lightest and most casual way. You must be personal, not abstract. You must not say, 'This is too small a thing to put down'. You must say, 'This is just the sort of small thing we talk about at home. If I tell them this they will see me, as it were they'll hear my voice, they'll know what I'm talking about'. That is the purpose of a letter. Carlyle had the trick to perfection. He is writing from Scotsbrig to his brother Alec in Canada and he begins talking about his mother. Good old Mother, he says, 'she is even now sitting at my back, trying at another table to write you a small word with her own hand; the first time she has tried such a thing for a year past. It is Saturday night, after dark; we are in the east room in a hard, dry evening with a bright fire to our two selves; Jenny and her Barns are 'scouring up things' in the other end of the house; and below stairs the winter operations of the farm go on, in a subdued tone; you can conceive the scene! How simple it is and yet how perfect. Can not you see Alec reading it in his far-off home and his eyes moistening at the picture of his old mother sitting and writing her last message to him on earth?

 

'Scouring up things' means ________.

 

A) cleaning pans with a small ball of wire or plastic B) to search a place thoroughly in order to find something
C) to put something in liquid for a time so that it becomes completely wet D) writing something quickly and carelessly
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) to search a place thoroughly in order to find something

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