English Quiz For NIACL AO Mains
Directions (1-5): In each of the following questions four words are given in bold. Which of the following words must replace each other so that the sentence becomes contextually correct and meaningful. If the sentence is correct as it is, choose option (e) as your answer
Q1. The rather (1) ignited move by a member of Thailand’s royal (2)family to announce a bid for the office of Prime Minister has (3) unusual greater interest in the country’s (4)general election.
Q2. There (1)needs to be a (2)official infrastructure for (3)robust statistics so that governments do not (4)suppress inconvenient truths
Q3. Statistics often deal with (1)complicated reality and (2)require thoughtful analysis (3)instead of the bare bones reporting (4)contained in typical government reports.
Q4. The (1)claims in Business Standard on February 3 (2)based on the leaked PLFS report (3)headline that more than half the population is (4)out of labour force.
Q5. Understaffed and (1)underfunded statistical services (2)undertake possibly have sufficient domain expertise to (3)cannot substantively informed (4)analyses in all the areas for which statistical data are required.
Directions (6-10): In the questions given below a sentence is given with two blanks in each. Corresponding to each question two columns are given with three words in each column. Which combination of words from the two columns will perfectly fit into the blanks to make the sentence contextually correct and meaningful.
Q6. A better way of building a ---------------------- data infrastructure may be to ensure that each major data collection activity is ----------------------- by an analytical component led by domain experts, recruited from diverse sources, including academia.
Q7. By studying the faecal samples of over 100 --------------------- people from Madhya Pradesh and Kerala, researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal have --------------------- the Indian gut microbiome and have created a gene catalogue.
Q8. Researchers from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala have -------------------- a native roadside plant that can take up lead from the soil and thus help in ---------------------- the metal from the environment.
Q9. Spectrophotometric studies have ------------------ increased levels of many enzymes that are known to ----------------- tolerance in plants.
Q10. The birds use leaves and plant stems to ------------------- an array of utensils they then wield to ----------------- for bugs in the ground or prise prey out of deadwood.
Q11. In the questions given below five words are given in which four of them have a similar meaning and one word is the antonym for the other four words. Choose the word, opposite in meaning to the other four, as your answer.
Q12. In the questions given below five words are given in which four of them have a similar meaning and one word is the antonym for the other four words. Choose the word, opposite in meaning to the other four, as your answer.
Q13. In the questions given below five words are given in which four of them have a similar meaning and one word is the antonym for the other four words. Choose the word, opposite in meaning to the other four, as your answer.
Q14. In the questions given below five words are given in which four of them have a similar meaning and one word is the antonym for the other four words. Choose the word, opposite in meaning to the other four, as your answer.
Q15. In the questions given below five words are given in which four of them have a similar meaning and one word is the antonym for the other four words. Choose the word, opposite in meaning to the other four, as your answer.
