Directions (1-5): Which of the words/phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should
replace the words/phrases given in bold in the following sentences to make it
meaningful and grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and
‘No correction is required’, mark (e) as the answer.
Q1. Mr. Trump’s threat of unilateral
action against Pyongyang in the event that China fails to restrain in North Korea may partly echo the mood in Washington
after the recent missile strikes in Syria. If the Chinese government belief Pyongyang’s growing nuclear
capability with concern, as it affirms
to, then it must do much to use its influence
effectively.
(a) control, convictions, contradict,
clout
(b) actuate, opinions, declares,
influence
(c) curb, ignores, acknowledges,
advantage
(d) rein, views, professes, leverage
(e) No improvement required
Q2. Merely stressing the need for a
peaceful fortitude to the conflict
is not enough. Japan, Washington’s important regional associate, would view with no less dismay any potential threat to stability in its neighbourhood.
American air strikes in Syria last week have raised very valid interests about their legitimacy under
international law.
(a) determination, friend, fear, malices
(b) hesitation, confederate, dread,
affairs
(c) resolution, ally, consternation,
concerns
(d) perseverance, foe, dread, worries
(e) No improvement required
Q3. Syria has to be treated as an
immediate precedence, and in a way
that excels the narrow geopolitical
interests of regional and global controls.
There must be a coordinated attempt
to bring the war to an end, and to hold the perpetrators of war crimes
accountable for their barbarism. Only then can Syria be rebuilt.
(a) antecedence, fails, influences,
exertion
(b) priority, transcends, powers, effort
(c) advantage, exceeds, ability, apathy
(d) subservience, transgresses,
capacity, struggle
(e) No improvement required
Q4. We live in a very complex world in
which the media is at the forefront of public interest. Social media, yet another unruly horse, with its stretch, impacts the lives of millions.
Populism is at its height. The taste
of civilised discourse have vanished. Economic interests sometimes drive public
discourse. News is occasionally mitigated.
(a) discourse, outreach, contours,
motivated
(b) talk, back, forms, driven
(c) shear, exceed, outlines, encouraged
(d) discussion, outwit, delineates,
languorous
(e) No improvement required
Q5. For the court to be completely isolated from this environment is not
easy. Most of us tend to be swayed
by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why
they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering
decisions, which cause unintended
consequences.
(a) separated, ambiguous, depicting,
produce
(b) integrated, influenced, executing,
induce
(c) detached, controlled, convicting,
make
(d) divided, persuaded, executing,
effect
(e) No improvement required
Directions (6-10): The sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly
sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter.
From among the five choices given below each question, choose the most logical
order of sentences that construct a coherent paragraph.
Q6. (A) India, with several millennia of
history, boasts of a diverse and rich built heritage.
(B)Even those structures considered to
be of national/state or local importance in India and protected as such remain
under threat from urban pressures, neglect, vandalism and, worse, demolition,
only for the value of the land they stand upon.
(C)Yet, less than 15,000 monuments and
heritage structures are legally protected in India—a fraction of the 600,000
protected in the UK.
(D)This poor state of preservation of a
large part of our national heritage is a result of the inability of those
entrusted with their care and management to unlock the economic potential of
these sites and demonstrate that conservation efforts can lead to meeting
development objectives in a more sustainable manner.
(E)Each region of our subcontinent
boasts of monumental buildings and remarkable archaeology.
(a)AEDCB
(b)AECBD
(c)BDCAE
(d)ADBCE
(e)BCEAD
Q7. (A)The PSL will have 12 city-named
teams, with nine players each.
(B)However, unlike cricket, football,
badminton or even kabaddi, the card game remains on the fringes, still fighting
perceptions that prevent it from being considered a mind sport—like chess—and
keenly trying to break free of its associations with gambling.
(C)For 108 players—and many other
stakeholders—May 2017 will be a significant “coming out of the shadows” month.
(D)The Poker Sports League (PSL), a
first of its kind in India, will follow in the footsteps of many other sports
in the country that have received a leg-up since a league brought them into the
limelight and made them the subject of dinner-table conversations.
(E)The online qualifiers will end on 23
April on the gaming website Adda52.com, while the live qualifiers ended on
Saturday.
(F)Besides a captain/mentor, a team will
have two professional players, two members who get through the live qualifiers,
two members who get through the online qualifiers and two wild card entries.
(a)DBCAFE
(b)DABCEF
(c)CABEFD
(d)DFEACB
(e)CDBAFE
Q8. (A)The report of the expert
committee formed to incorporate Telugu culture and history in the design of
Amaravati, the planned capital city of Andhra Pradesh, is expected to be out
soon.
(B)The Parakala Prabhakar-led committee
aims to develop Amaravati into the best city of the century.
(C)This is not the first occasion when a
grand new city is being built in India or elsewhere.
(D)From the Gujarat International
Finance Tec-City (GIFT) in India to Songdo in South Korea, numerous masterplans
are at different stages of completion.
(E)But there is a crucial policy
question that often gets neglected: Is developing a new city necessarily a better
option than expanding and improving existing cities?
(a)DBCEA
(b)BDACE
(c)ABCDE
(d)BCDAE
(e)AEDCB
Q9. (A)Their strategies mostly revolved
around guiding one’s hard-earned income to appropriate savings destinations.
(B)Investors with the goal of providing
good education to their children are advised to invest in a certain product
while those with the aggressive goal of owing a luxury car are advised to
invest in a different type of investment product.
(C)This was done by linking the future
life goals of investors to a particular investment product.
(D)Over the years, governments,
financial institutions and investment advisers have taken many initiatives to
inculcate a saving habit among individuals.
(E)The financial services industry took
learnings from behavioural sciences to motivate individuals to invest in
various savings instruments.
(F)Financial products with varying
levels of returns, liquidity, tax benefits, etc., have been developed to
attract investments from individuals.
(a)DAFECB
(b)EDCBAF
(c)BEDCAF
(d)DBCEAF
(e)EACFDB
Q10. (A)Over the same period employment
in the organised, non-agricultural sector, defined to include all units with 10
or more workers if using power and 20 or more workers if not using power, rose
from 28.8 million to 47.7 million, whereas employment in the unorganised sector
rose from 185.4 million to 209.6 million.
(B)Even in 2011-12, as much as 86 per
cent of workers in the private sector and 50 per cent in the public sector were
in units that could be designated as unorganised based on employment size.
(C)In absolute terms there were more who
joined the unorganised sector’s workforce than the number who entered the
organised sector between the two years.
(D)That is organised sector employment
stood at 6.3 per cent and 10.1 per cent respectively of total employment in
2004-05 and 2011-12.
(E)Between 2004-05 and 2011-12, total
employment in the country rose from 457.9 million to 472.4 million.
(a)EBDAC
(b)EDCAB
(c)EADCB
(d)EBDCA
(e)ECBDA
Directions (11-15): In each of the following questions, five options are given and you have
to choose the one which has some or any grammatical error in it. In the
questions where the fifth option is “all are correct” and all the given four
options are correct choose option (e) as your choice.
Q11. (a) To the cultured Hindus it is an
object of the deepest reverence.
(b) Cultured modern history, like
Nature, would refuse to proceed per saltum.
(c) This young lady is more beautiful
but not so cultured as her youngest sister.
(d) In any real sense of the word, they
are neither educated nor cultured.
(e) Miss Burkham was the acme of all
that was cultured and elegant.
Q12. (a) Rajan abided by all the rules
which were explained to him before the programme.
(b) Rules are accepted from custom and enforced by authority and force.
(c) It contained the rules that govern the use of the Reading Room.
(d) The rules were taken up and adopted with scarcely a single
objection.
(e) All are correct.
Q13. (a) They were kindly requested to
attend the seminar in which lectures on the evils of communalism were to be
delivered.
(b) Age had steeped him deep in black
wisdom, not weakened his powers of evil.
(c) There shall then be no corruption, which is the only evil thing
about the body.
(d) Its evil effects are to be found by turning to those who fail to
get entrance to it.
(e) It is not conversion of evil men that must be aimed at, but their
control.
Q14. (a) Crosbie, to whom all this was not repeated, would have preferred a
wedding in the country.
(b) She was to have married my brother
but she had been killed in a plane crash a month before the wedding date.
(c) On the wedding day, the bride and bridegroom are seated on two
planks placed on the dais.
(d) Maria came, and, thanks to the holiday spirit of a wedding week,
for a long day.
(e) All are correct.
Q15. (a) There was a shrinking from the economic hardships that war would
entail.
(b) As he straightened, he realized that he was the object of an
intense scrutiny.
(c) I could not see your object, but I was sure you had a motive.
(d) I object to war not because it
drains economy but that it seems inhuman.
(e) In all English-speaking countries marriage
is an object of pathos.
SOLUTIONS:
S1. Ans. (d)
Sol. Leverage means power.
Actuate means to make operate.
Profess means claim, announce.
S2. Ans. (c)
Sol. Consternation means a feeling of anxiety or dismay, typically at
something unexpected.
Confederate means supporter.
Malice means ill will.
S3. Ans. (b)
Sol. Subservience means willingness to obey others.
Apathy means lack of interest.
S4. Ans. (a)
Sol. Outwit means deceive by greater ingenuity.
Languorous means certain kind of mood.
Contours means bounding the shape or form of something.
S5. Ans. (e)
Sol. Ambiguous means not clear or decided.
Swayed means control or influence.
S6. Ans. (b)
Sol. A must be the first sentence as it
talks about India’s diverse and rich built heritage. E should follow A as it
explains further what is mentioned in sentence A. B-D makes a combination and D
should be the concluding sentence of the paragraph. Hence AECBD is the correct
sequence to form a meaning paragraph.
S7. Ans. (e)
Sol. The paragraph is about the Poker
Sports League (PSL) and hence it can be easily connected with one another. C
must be the first sentence as it gives the inside view of the next statement. D
should follow C and B should follow D. A-F makes a combination as they define
the rules of the game. Hence among the given options, only (e) makes the
perfect sequence to form the meaningful paragraph.
S8. Ans. (c)
Sol. A must be the first sentence as it
talks about the planned capital city of Andhra Pradesh i.e. Amravati. B-C makes
a combination and E must be the concluding sentence as it ends with the most
obvious question. Hence ABCDE is the correct sequence to form a coherent
paragraph.
S9. Ans. (a)
Sol. D must be the first sentence as it
talks about the initiatives taken by financial institutions and financial
advisers towards inculcating a saving habit. A must follow D and E-C makes a
combination. B must be the concluding sentence. Hence DAFECB is the correct
sequence to form a coherent paragraph.
S10. Ans. (c)
Sol. The paragraph reveals the
statistical figures of employment and unemployment in the country. A must
follow E as it talks about the same period as mentioned in the sentence E. A-D makes
a combination. Similarly C-B makes another combination as both the sentences
can be connected with the two sectors i.e. public and private, they are talking
about. Hence EADCB is the correct sequence to form a coherent paragraph.
S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. Use ‘than’ after ‘more beautiful’
as the sentence is in Comparative and Positive Degree. The given sentence means
– This young lady is better than
(her youngest sister) but (this young lady is) not so cultured as her
youngest sister = This young lady is better
than but not so cultured as her youngest sister.
S12. Ans. (e)
Sol. All the given sentences are
grammatically correct.
S13. Ans. (a)
Sol. Remove ‘kindly’ from the sentence
as the use of “kindly/Please” in
Active voice is stated as “you are
requested” in the Passive form. As the sentence is in Passive voice, remove
‘Kindly’ to make it grammatically correct.
e.g. Please/Kindly shut the door. [Active]
You are requested to shut the door. [Passive]
S14. Ans. (b)
Sol. Replace ‘was to’ by ‘would’ as in
this sentence the desire of the past is not fulfilled. For such desires, we
generally use “Subject +
would/could/might/should + have + V3” with the main Clause.
S15. Ans. (d)
Sol. Replace ‘that’ by ‘because’ as
‘because’ is used after ‘not’ in the
sentence, hence ‘but’ will also be
followed by ‘because’.
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