Directions (1-5): In each of the following questions, five
options are given and you have to choose the one which is grammatically
correct. If all the options are grammatically incorrect then choose option (e)
as your choice.
issues of improved quality of teaching in the college was high in his list of
priorities.
the college were high in his list of priorities.
the college were high in his list of priorities.
issues of improved qualities of teaching at the college were high in his list
of priorities.
fever since ten days and his condition has been deteriorating.
deteriorating.
deteriorating.
deteriorated.
point is reached where the candidates take out their gloves and started
slugging with bare fists.
out their gloves and start slugging with bare fists.
out their gloves and start slugging with bare fists.
take out their gloves and start slugging with bare fists.
their decline, took stock of the situation, and realized where the deficiencies
of the ancient creed lied and how it should be met.
and realized where the deficiencies of the ancient creed lay and how it should
be met.
and realized where the deficiencies of the ancient creed lay and how they
should be met.
and realized where the deficiencies of the ancient creed lay and how they
should be met.
observing this when we were surprised by about a dozen of the old birds jumping
in the most unsafe and funny manner towards the sea.
dozen of the old birds jumping at the most unsafe and funny manner towards the
sea.
of the old birds jumping in the most unsafe and funny manner towards the sea.
dozen of the old birds jumping in the most unsafe and funny manner towards the
sea.
Directions (6-10): In each of the following
questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing
and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices
given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically
complete and sound).
Q6. Twenty years after the Asian
financial crisis, South Korea seems to have learned its lesson, having taken
great pains to strengthen its economic resilience. But now the country is
confronting a new set of internal and external risks, which may foreshadow
another economic crisis—or worse. In July 1997, a currency crisis that struck
Thailand quickly spread to neighbouring economies.
___________________________________.
many believed that it would be spared.
for assistance, and launched painful structural reforms.
head before responding.
better than most.
Q7. A project proposal and a draft model
concessionaire agreement (MCA), drawn up by NITI Aayog and the Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) in June this year advocates adopting the PPP
model in healthcare and health delivery services. The framework for such a
partnership is outlined in a project which goes out of its way to accommodate
and facilitate private players in the healthcare system in the name of
augmenting select healthcare services for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in
tier 2 and tier 3 cities, which, as is commonly known, already have better
infrastructure compared with smaller mofussil towns and cities.
______________________.
formulations have been arrived at are equally revealing.
selected private partners in the form of a PPP for the treatment of NCDs.
short-listed for the project in tier 2 and tier 3 cities are expected to have
not less than 250 functional beds.
PPPs to address the “growing burden of NCDs”, NITI Aayog’s project aims to
“improve access to quality screening”.
national health policy document that critical gaps in healthcare would be
filled by the private sector.
Q8. The Indian Army chief, Gen.
BipinRawat, in a speech delivered in the first week of September, once again
talked of a “two front war”, pitting India simultaneously against China and
Pakistan. “We have to be prepared. In our context, therefore, warfare lies
within the realms of reality,” he said in the speech just a day after Modi and
Xi had a cordial meeting. _______________________________. But the Army chief
again painted China as an “adversary” who was busy nibbling away at Indian
territory.
about its road-building project in Doklam in the month of May but India
preferred to send its troops to the part of the Doklam plateau to which the
claimant is Bhutan.
to salvage the situation.
bilateral ties.
(e)The Chinese side would have put
forward their other complaints during the meeting between Xi and Modi.
Q9. ACH flight that takes off from India
to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has in it many Indian workers
hoping to fulfil a dream: to make a decent living for themselves and their
families.Tens of thousands of workers in the prime of their youth from across
India make a beeline for jobs in West Asia.
___________________________________________________.In 2016, 5.07 lakh workers
landed in countries in West Asia; in 2015 the number was almost 7.6 lakh. The
ECR stamp means that the labourer is legal, but thousands more end up on
tourist visas and work in the 18 West Asian countries.
is legal, but thousands more end up on tourist visas and work in the 18 West
Asian countries.
die and others are tortured.
most workers from outside the region.
fishermen in the GCC countries.
clearance required (ECR) route to reach these destinations.
Q10. In a democracy, governments change.
Parties contest and lose elections. Governments must change. Policies also
change according to the need of the moment. All that is usual. There is no
quarrel with that. It happens in every country. ________________________.This
government does not realise that we have been a pluralist society and polity,
greatly enriched by other lifestyles, respectful of different streams of being
an Indian. Today, we are told that we must become a Hindu Rashtra. It is
fundamentally different from what we have always stood up for.
they are able to amend the Constitution.
consequences.
S1. Ans. (c)
Sol. Sentence (c) is correct.
In Sentence (a), in place of ‘was’, ‘were’
will be used as the subject of the sentence‘the issues’ is in plural form.
In sentence (b), ‘indicated’ is used in
place of ‘indicates’ as the second half of the sentence is in past tense.
S2. Ans. (b)
Sol. Sentence (b) is correct.
In Sentence (a), ‘for’ is the correct
use instead of ‘since’ as ‘for’ is used with Period of Time.
In sentence (c), ‘has’ will be used in
place of ‘have’ as ‘has’ is used for singular subject.
In sentence (d), the use of
‘deteriorated’ is wrong as the sentence is in present perfect continuous tense.
Hence ‘deteriorating’ is the correct word.
S3. Ans. (c)
Sol. Sentence (c) is correct.
In sentence (a), ‘start’ will be used in
place of ‘started’ as the use of tense is wrong.
In sentence (b), the use of ‘in which’
is wrong as the preposition depends on the verb that takes a preposition.
In Sentence (d), the use of ‘at which’
is wrong as after the verb ‘reach’, prepositions ‘to’ or ‘at’ is not used.
S4. Ans. (d)
Sol. Sentence (d) is correct.
In sentence (a), the use of ‘lied’ is
wrong as its meaning is not correct for making the sentence meaningful.
In sentence (b), the use of ‘it’ is
wrong as ‘it’ is used for asingular subject or object.
In sentence (c), the use of ‘take’ is
wrong as the sentence talks about the past.
S5. Ans. (a)
Sol. Sentence (a) is correct.
Sentence (c) is wrong as the sentence
starting with ‘scarcely, hardly, rarely, seldom’, ‘auxiliary verb + subject’ is
used. Hence ‘had we’ is used in place of ‘we had’.
In sentence (b), the use of preposition
‘at’ is wrong.
In sentence (d), the use of ‘are’ is incorrect.
S6. Ans. (a)
Sol. The paragraph talks about South
Korea overcome with Asian financial crisis twenty years before and now facing
internal and external risks resulting to economic crisis. The sentence before
the blank tells about the crisis spreading to neighbouring economies from
Thailand. Hence the blank must be filled by the sentence related to the above
sentence. After reading all the sentences, we can easily infer that sentence
(a) is going correctly with the paragraph as it talks about the crisis which
will not impact South Korea right away. All other sentences are irrelevant.
Hence option (a) is the right choice.
S7. Ans. (b)
Sol. The paragraph here talks about the
project highlighting adoption of the Public private partnership (PPP) in
healthcare services for non- communicable diseases. Hence the blank must be
filled by the sentence talking about the agreement between the two ( public and
private partnership). Hence we find that only sentence (b) is going in harmony
with the paragraph as it talks about the concessionaire agreement between State
governments and selected private partners. Hence option (b) is the right
choice.
S8. Ans. (d)
Sol. The paragraph is giving the
statement of Indian Army chief, Gen. BipinRawat, which was given a day after
Modi and Xi cordial meet. The sentence before the blank talks about the meeting
of Modi and Xi while sentence after the blank talks about China as rival by
Army chief. Hence the blank must be filled by the sentence which states the
relation between India and China. Going through all the sentences, we find that
sentence (d) goes in agreement with the paragraph talking about the establishment
of bilateral ties between the two nations by the two leaders. Hence option (d)
is the correct choice.
S9. Ans. (e)
Sol. The paragraph revolves around the
theme of migration of youth from India to West Asia for jobs. The sentence
before the blank is telling about the approximate number of workers leaving
India while sentence after the blank talks about the exact statistics of number
of workers in the year 2016. Hence the blank must be filled by the sentence
related to these two arguments. After reading all the sentences, we find that
sentence (e) is correct as it tells about the statistics of the number of
workers who took the emigration clearance to reach West Asia. Hence option (e)
is the right choice.
S10. Ans. (b)
Sol. Here, while reading the paragraph,
we can identify the theme which is the change of government and its policies
that happens in every country. The sentence before the blank talks about the
usual change of government and its policies while sentence after the blank
talks about realizing the pluralist society and polity in which we are living
in. Hence the blank must be filled by the sentence related to same theme. After
reading all the sentences, we can easily point out that sentence (b) is making
the paragraph complete, talking about the changing fundamental of India. Hence
option (b) is the correct choice.
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