Directions (1-5): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
There is a considerable amount of research about the factors
that make a company innovate. So is it possible to create an environment (1) to innovation? This is a
particularly pertinent (2)
for India today. Massive problems in health, education, etc (3) be solved using a
conventional approach but (4)
creative and innovative solutions that can ensure radical change and (5).
Q1. (a) boost (b)
conductive
(c) incentive (d) functioning
(e) inducement
Q2. (a) objective (b)
controversy
(c) doubt (d) question
(e) inference
Q3. (a) cannot (b)
possibly
(c) should (d) never
(e) must
Q4. (a) necessary (b)
apply
(c) need (d) consider
(e) require
Q5. (a) quantity (b)
incentive
(c) increase (d) chaos
(e) growth
Directions (6-10): In each of these questions, there are two
blanks indicating that something has been omitted. There are five alternatives
given. Choose the one that best fits the meaning of the sentence or sentences
as a whole.
Q6.
He did not pay any ___________ to my advice which I had given only in
his ________.
(a) heed, interest
(b) money, favour
(c) attention, confidence
(d) charges, consultation
(e)
fees, presence
Q7. To _____________ any tensions in the minds of
the employees and investors alike the company has promised to consider job cuts
as a last ______.
(a) erase, effort
(b) rid, hurdle
(c) overcome, decision
(d) address, phase
(e)
ease, resort
Q8. If we wish to ___________ democracy,
we must ___________ fat to our constitutional norms.
(a) engage, stick
(b) rule, access
(c) absorb, work
(d) maintain, hold
(e)
govern, cling
Q9. Mass education system __________ lot
of __________ on teaching and very little on learning.
(a) claims,
regard
(b) teaches, elements
(c) lays, stress
(d) finds, shortcomings
(e)
holds, power
Q10. When they _______ that the
commodities were very ___________ , they gave up the idea to buy them for want
of adequate money.
(a) saw, good
(b) realized, cheap
(c) noticed, attractive
(d) heard, novel
(e)
found, expensive
Directions (11-15): In each of the following sentences, a part
of the sentence has been given in bold. Below are given alternatives to the highlighted
part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. Wherever
no improvement is needed, choose ‘No correction required’ or ‘No improvement’
as the answer.
Q11. The
most important quality a chief executive candidate should have a noble character.
(a) must have a
(b) should have to be
(c) should be
(d) should have is a
(e) No correction required
Q12. Despite
considerable achievements in other areas, humans still cannot control weather
and probably never be able to do so.
(a) probably not be able
(b) perhaps be never have ability
(c) probably will never be able
(d) probably never be enabled
(e) No correction required
Q13. They
have made a futile attempt of suppressing the truth and suggest falsehood.
(a) for suggestion falsehood
(b) after suggesting falsity
(c) and suggesting falsehood
(d) in suggestion of falsehood
(e) No correction required
Q14. Because
his work as a painter requires that he
use product containing strong chemicals, he has developed skin allergy.
(a) required to use
(b) requires that he should use
(c) required that he uses
(d) requires that he uses
(e) No correction required
Q15. From
time to time, there have been reports
of how children had tried to imitate their favourite hero and landed in
trouble.
(a) has been report
(b) were reports
(c) often reported
(d) had been reported
(e) No correction required
SOLUTIONS:
S1. Ans.(b)
S2. Ans.(d)
S3. Ans.(a)
S4. Ans.(c)
S5. Ans.(e)
S6. Ans.(a)
S7. Ans.(e)
S8. Ans.(d)
S9. Ans.(c)
S10. Ans.(e)
S11.
Ans. (d)
Sol.
Without an ‘is’ after ‘have’, the phrase, ‘The most important quality’ is left
dangling: there is nothing to connect it to the rest of the sentence.
S12. Ans. (c)
Sol.
There are two clauses joined by ‘and’:
(i)
human beings still cannot control weather;
(ii)
(Human beings) probably (will) never be able to do so. As the verb ‘cannot
control’ cannot be common to both clauses, a suitable verb has to be
inserted–that is ‘will’.
S13. Ans. (c)
Sol.
The use of the continuous verb ‘suppressing’ necessitates ‘suggesting’, or
else, the two verbs will not agree in tense (the sentence conveys that ‘They
have made a futile attempt of suppressing the truth’ and ‘They have made a
futile attempt of suggesting falsehood’).
S14. Ans. (e)
Sol.
No correction required.
S15. Ans. (b)
Sol.
Use of the ‘past perfect’ necessitates a past tense–‘there were reports’. See
this sentence: ‘From time to time, there have been reports of how children have
tried to imitate their favourite hero and landed in trouble.’
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