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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.

I am awful ______ picking vegetables.

A) for B) at
C) of D) as
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) at

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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 course of the development of different life-forms heredity—which, in plain English, is unconscious memory generated in the first life-form and ______________ through all the different species—is the sole factor in the ____________ of the parent properties; while adaptation to surrounding conditions and circumstances, natural selection in the struggle _____________ existence, and partner selection in the struggle of the males for ____________ are the principal factors in the differentiation of species.

 

sole factor in the ____________ of the parent properties

 

A) preserve B) preservable
C) preservation D) preserving
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) preservation

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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 way criminal justice is designed and administered today _______________ serves any of the purposes for which it is set up: towards securing life and property. It does not ________________ criminals because of the delay and uncertainties involved in its processes and ridiculously ineffective punishments it imposes ____________________ those few who get convicted. It provides wide discretion to the police and the prosecution, __________________ the system vulnerable to corruption and manipulation and endangering basic ____________________ of innocent citizens.


__________________ the system vulnerable to corruption and manipulation

 

A) to render B) rendering
C) rendered D) render
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) rendering

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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.
He had kept up his training regimen for a month.

A) Keeping up the training regimen had been done by him for a month. B) For a month he has had been keeping his training regimen.
C) He is training and this has been kept for a month. D) His training regimen had been kept up by him for a month.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) His training regimen had been kept up by him for a month.

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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 rain stopped, the concert had to be suspended.

A) Until B) Unless
C) Till D) while
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Until

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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.

 

Lila said to her mother, "I can choose to dress the way I want to."

A) Lila told to her mother that she can choose to dress the way she wants to. B) Lila told to her mother that she will be choosing to dress the way she wanted to.
C) Lila told to her mother that she can be choosing to dress the way she wants to. D) Lila told to her mother that she could choose to dress the way she wanted to.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Lila told to her mother that she could choose to dress the way she wanted to.

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

 

General pardon for offences against the state

A) sanctify B) amnesty
C) gratuity D) red-tapism
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) amnesty

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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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