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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.

 

Aunt said to mother, "I will be in Surat on Friday."

 

A) Aunt told mother that she will be in Surat on Friday. B) Aunt told mother she would be in Surat on Friday.
C) Aunt told mother she will be in Surat on Friday. D) Aunt told mother that she would be in Surat on Friday.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Aunt told mother that she would be in Surat on Friday.

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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 express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

 

The emperor was impressed with the singer and asked, ‘What can I do for you?'

 

A) The emperor impressed with the singer and asked that what he could do for him. B) The emperor was impressed with the singer and asked what he could do for him.
C) The emperor impressed with the singer asked what could be done for him. D) The emperor was impressed with the singer and asked what could be done for him.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The emperor was impressed with the singer and asked what he could do for him.

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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.

 

All Greek to me

 

A) The new person in a group gets the most attention B) Learning a new language is very difficult
C) Saying that one does not understand something that is said or written D) Everything is new when one is in a new country
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Saying that one does not understand something that is said or written

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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.

 

All this suggests the intimate relations which exist between history, politics, and sociology. The ____________ thing, however, is not the identities but the distinctions.For, however much the _____________ disciplines may, in practice, overlap, it is necessary ________ the sake of clear thinking to have their limits defined. As far _______sociology and history are concerned the differences may be summed up in a word. __________ history and sociology are concerned with the life of man as man.

 

up in a word. __________ history and

 

A) Two B) Both
C) Twice D) Pair
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Both

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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.

 

We often feel, in such an environment, that our social sphere _____________ around us. We can see, in quantitative values — the number of likes, re-posts, shares — the interest garnered by anything created by us. This makes social interaction slightly more ___________, when we start to think of it in number terms. It becomes easier to see it in visual terms, rather ________ emotive cues. And _____________ that happens we are motivated to reveal only those parts of ____________ that we know will trigger a considerable quantitative response.

 

social sphere _____________ around us.

 

A) revolves B) revolve
C) revolving D)  revolution
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) revolves

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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.

 

The writer advises us to be ______.

A) wise, firm and resolute. B) weak, firm and resolute.
C) happy, firm and resolute. D) flexible, happy and resolute.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) wise, firm and resolute.

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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.

 

is infinitely more _________ that, it is the basis

 

A) then B) such
C) so D) than
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) than

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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'.

She reached to (1)/ station barely (2)/ on time. (3)/ No error (4)

A) 1 B) 2
C) 3 D) 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 1

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