Directions (1-5): In each of the following questions,
various sentences are given and you have
to choose the one which has some or any grammatical error
in it. In the questions where option (e) is all are correct and all the
sentences are grammatically correct choose option (e) as the correct choice.
Q1. (a) You must
acknowledge that I have done you a great service.
(b) The chief idea of every common type of traveller is to see as many objects
of interest as possibly could.
(c) No doubt I could have had her, and I saw my own stupidity later, but what I
wanted was not a woman’s person, it was love, it was the ideal.
(d) Without knowing how or why, I found myself on the banks of the Seine.
(e) I had a girl neighbour; a little work-girl, no doubt, who possessed the
true Parisian charm: a little head and with light curly hair.
Q2. (a) Shams
felt totally numb, and closed his eyes for a while, as if he were under the
spell of the place.
(b) On the way Raj felt his heart was thumping fast, as if something unusual
was about to happen.
(c) Being a well known physicist, he was invited to deliver a lecture of laser
technology.
(d) After settling down in the valley, he had adjusted to his new life by
accepting the title of shepherd, something that he had never thought of doing
before his forced immigration.
(e) Akram was sitting under a tree in
the pasture near to the camps.
Q3. (a) The
area he was growing up in was impoverished, basically a slum, and the constant,
unrelenting poverty not only stunted his body, it suffocated his soul.
(b) With the passing of time, he was slowly becoming immune to the upset, and
able to filter out the raised voices.
(c) The only thing that made his life worth living was the park near the
school.
(d) Today, the cost of living is such higher that many people find it difficult
to keep their hearts beating.
(e) He was staring at the flowers, they were in full bloom, a welcome sign of
the spell cast by spring.
Q4. (a) Swati
has such a fine memory that she can recollect anything what happened many years
ago.
(b) It couldn’t have been written by Shyam because that kind of dress was not
worn till his death.
(c) One day, on his way back from school after a particularly arduous day, he
suddenly decided to follow one of the colourful butterflies, to see where it
went and find out where they lived.
(d) Priyamvada was unhappy to hear the news of her son’s failing in the final
examination.
(e) It was a refuge from the piles of rubbish, the filth, the polluted air, the
clamor of vehicles, the stench of poor drainage and the appalling news of bomb
blasts and terrorist attacks.
Q5. (a) Near
the old Banyan tree, he saw something moving in the grass.
(b) She was very fond of her own daughter, but she could not so much as look at
her step-daughter without shuddering.
(c) Avinash and his friend were walking towards the station when they met his
common friend.
(d) One day – it was in the middle of January – Holena felt a longing for the
scent of violets.
(e) As the tears rolled down his cheeks, he placed its small broken body
inside, and covered it, stroking the earth into a small mound.
Directions (6-10): Five statements are given
below, labelled a, b, c, d and e. Among these, four statements are in logical
order and form a coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the option
that does not fit into the theme of the paragraph.
Q6. (a) While
fostering these changes is one part of being a “living document”, discarding
the waste is the other critical part.
(b) The constituent assembly was emphatic in ensuring that future generations
do not suffer from the absolutism of the old men from the 1950s.
(c) India’s Constitution, in its 68 years of existence, has been heralded as a
“living document”.
(d) With more than 100 amendments, India has the longest Constitution in the
world.
(e) Since our “living” Constitution came into force on 26 November, it makes
good sense to declare it the National Repeal Law Day.
Q7. (a) For
example, Crocin is a branded generic whose active ingredient is paracetamol.
(b) Generic medicines are affordable versions of the drug, introduced after a
company loses patent over a medicine.
(c) Cheaper generics are one of the important factors for reducing healthcare
cost.
(d) A study by the Indian Journal Of Pharmacology in 2011 revealed that the
price to the retailer for the branded product of cetirizine was 11 times the
price of branded generics by the same company—the price of the generic was
Rs2.24 per strip of 10 tablets and that of the branded medicine, Rs27.16.
(e) These medicines are sold either by their salt-name or by a brand (called
branded generics).
Q8. (a) It is
essential, before undertaking bold economic and social reforms, to understand
the structures of the complex system.
(b) What may be good for the long-term may be very painful in the short-term.
(c) What may improve one part of the economy may harm another part severely.
(d) leaders and policy-makers must venture outside the walls and seek many
views.
(e) Economies and societies are very complex systems composed of diverse
forces.
Q9. (a) The
growth potential through urbanization is huge, given that India is one of the
most densely populated countries in the world.
(b) The 100 smart cities programme is an effort to address this gap.
(c) As policymakers launch new programmes to make India more competitive,
accelerate growth and create jobs, cities will play a key role in this structural
transformation.
(d) Two key structural traits of city competitiveness are its physical and
human infrastructure.
(e) India is still at an early stage in this transformation, given that it is a
lot less urbanized for its stage of development.
Q10. (a) The
Narendra Modi government has appointed a committee headed by Arbind Modi to
review the Income Tax Act of 1961.
(b) This is a welcome move, and comes in the wake of the—admittedly rocky—transition
to a new indirect tax regime with the introduction of the goods and services
tax (GST).
(c) The existing direct tax law is riddled with problems.
(d) The second round of the great Indian tax overhaul has been flagged off.
(e) A new direct tax system could help lower GST rates in the future.
Directions (11-13): In each of the following sentence there are
three blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five options and each option
consists of three words which can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence to
make the sentence grammatically correct.
Q11. With
inflation-targeting as its main _______ — the consensus position that was
articulated when the RBI Act was amended in May 2016 was that “price stability
is a _________ precondition to sustainable growth” — the Monetary Policy
Committee (MPC) has opted yet again to keep interest rates ___________.
(a)
confirmation, primary, modified
(b) uphold, assured, unrelieved
(c) mandate, necessary, unchanged
(d) support, radical, stabile
(e) consent,
inherent, endured
Q12.
Ultimately, though, the central bank has once again ________ a word of
circumspection to fiscal authorities: taken together, the farm loan waivers
________ by some States, the partial reduction of excise duty and VAT on
petroleum products and the GST rate cuts could ________ in fiscal slippage with
accompanying consequences for price stability.
(a) inflicted,
provided, neglect
(b) proffered, implemented, result
(c) imposed, generated, occur
(d) expected, assembled, transpire
(e) intended, managed, appear
Q13. Our recent victory in the hotly contested
election to the International Court of Justice seems to have lifted our _______
as a nation. We are justifiably proud of our success and of the skill and
________ with which our diplomacy was ___________.
(a) conceit,
sobriety, dissipated
(b) caprice, timidity, eliminated
(c) propensity, valuation, dispensed
(d) spirits, determination, deployed
(e) nature, judgment, mobilized
Directions
(14-15): In the question given below few sentences are given which
grammatically correct and meaningful. Connect them by the word given above the
statements in the best possible way without changing the intended meaning.
Choose your answer accordingly from the options to form a correct, coherent
sentence.
Q14.
NEVERTHELESS
A. Ankara continues to defiantly say it doesn’t need EU
money or membership.
B. It is trying to
develop ties with individual EU members, which seems to represent a search for
another kind of relationship with Europe.
C. Turkey-EU ties
are currently marked by mutual resentments and appear to be going nowhere.
D. It claims that
it doesn’t need EU membership, Ankara refuses to end this bid unilaterally.
(a)Only A-B
(b)Only B-C
(c)Only A-D
(d)Both A-B and A-D
(e)None
Q15.
WHEREAS
(A) BJP has been routed in these elections having managed
to win mere 18.7% of all seats
(B) The opposition, especially independent candidates,
have walked away with flying colours.
(C) If Independents were a party they would have got a
thumping majority in these elections.
(D) Out of 16 Mayoral positions they have captured 14 and
that is the end of their success story.
(a) only C-D
(b) only A-B
(c) Only D-A
(d) only B-C
(e) none
S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. Sentence
(b) is incorrect. ‘he can’ should be used in place of ‘could’ as the sentence
is in present tense.
S2. Ans. (c)
Sol. In
sentence (c), the use of preposition ‘of’ is wrong as it is used before any
cause, source or relation not before any object.
S3. Ans. (d)
Sol. In
sentence (d), ‘so high’ will be used in place of ‘such higher’ as ‘so+
adjective (positive) + that’ is used.
Ex. She is so
bold that she can talk to anybody.
S4. Ans. (a)
Sol. Sentence
(a) is incorrect as the use of ‘what’ is wrong here. ‘that’ should be used in place of ‘what’ as
‘that’ is used in the form of relative pronoun after ‘anything, nothing’.
Ex. I can give
you anything that you want.
S5. Ans. (c)
Sol. Sentence
(c) is Incorrect. ‘their’ will be used in place of ‘his’ before ‘common friend’
as the subject of the sentence is plural.
S6. Ans. (e)
Sol. The theme
of the sentences revolves around the amendments in Indian Constitution, which
is the longest constitution in the world and indicated here as a living
document. Going with this theme, we can conclude that sentences cbda form a coherent paragraph.
Sentence (e) that talks about making 26 November as National Repeal Law Day, is
not going correctly with the theme.
Hence sentence
(e) is the right choice.
S7. Ans. (c)
Sol. Sentences bead forms a coherent paragraph talking
about the introduction of generic medicines, that are more affordable than the
branded medicine whereas sentence (c) talks about the health care cost making
it unrelated to the other sentences. Hence sentence (c) is the correct choice.
S8. Ans. (d)
Sol. As we go
through the sentences, we can infer that sentences eabc form a coherent paragraph talking about the things to be taken
into concern while taking bold economic and social reforms but sentence (d) is
about what leaders and policy makers must do, which fails to connect with other
sentences.
S9. Ans. (d)
Sol. Going
through the sentences, we can infer that the sentences ceab form a coherent paragraph that discusses about the efforts to
urbanize the cities that can make India more competitive. Sentence (d) is about
structural traits of city competitiveness making it unrelated to the other
sentences. Hence sentence (d) is the correct choice.
S10. Ans. (c)
Sol. Sentences dabe form a coherent paragraph talking
about appointment of a committee for overhauling the Indian tax and its use
while sentence (c) talks about the problems with existing direct law making it
different from the other sentences. Hence sentence (c) is the correct choice.
S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. ‘mandate,
necessary, unchanged’ is the correct set of words making the sentence
meaningful.
S12. Ans. (b)
Sol.
‘proffered, implemented, result’ is the correct set of words making the sentence
meaningful.
Proffered means
hold out or put forward (something) to someone for acceptance.
Inflicted means
cause (something unpleasant or painful) to be suffered by someone or something.
S13. Ans. (d)
Sol. ‘spirits,
determination, deployed’ is the correct use.
S14. Ans.(a)
Sol. “nevertheless” means “however” connects statement A
and statement B in the most appropriate manner.
Ankara continues to defiantly say it doesn’t need EU
money or membership; nevertheless, it is trying to develop ties with individual
EU members, which seems to represent a search for another kind of relationship
with Europe.
S15. Ans.(b)
Sol. “Whereas” is used while taking a fact into
consideration.
BJP has been routed in these elections having managed to
win mere 18.7% of all seats whereas the opposition, especially independent
candidates, have walked away with flying colours.
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