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. U.S. President Donald
Trump quashed decades of policy on
Wednesday and supported Jerusalem as
the capital of Israel, despite warnings from around the world that the message will further drive a wedge
between Israel and the Palestinians.
(a)Nullified, Acknowledged,
Motion.
(b)Vetoed, Grant, Signal.
(c)Withdrew, Admit,
Indication.
(d) Reversed, Recognized,
Gesture
(e)No Error.
Q2. An Indian Army UAV that submerged into the Chinese side of the
border was on a regular training mission and lost contact with ground control
due to technical problem, the Ministry of Defence said in New Delhi in a
statement. It also claimed that “as per standard treaty, the Indian border security personnel immediately alerted
their Chinese peers to locate the
UAV”.
(a) Crashed, Protocol,
Counterparts
(b)Hit, Agreement, Friends.
(c)Struck, Pact, Personnel.
(d)Rammed, Concord,
Equivalents.
(e)No Error.
Q3. Mr. Divan has pressed for
dates in the first or second week of January, immediately after Christmas
holidays. He suggested that the
government should promise that no intimidating
steps would be taken by the government or its agencies against Aadhaar holders
till the court takes a final decision on the power of the Aadhaar scheme.
(a) Wanted, Unwanted,
Rationaity.
(b) Requested, Violent, Logic.
(c) Submitted, Coercive,
Validity
(d) Concented, Bullying,
Authority.
(e) No Error.
Q4. Ask any Indian millenarian what their parents had to
say about buying a house and you’re likely to hear the same things. From
philosophical answers like your own roof over your head and a small garden in
the balcony to retire in, to the sentimental
ones like hosting their children’s million pre-wedding functions or simply
keeping Sharmaji’s comforting
comments at bay.
(a) Chiliad, Exaggerate, Sympathetic.
(b) Millennium, Extravagant,
Complimentary.
(c) Millenary, Sensational,
Encouraging.
(d) Millennial, Melodramatic,
Snide
(e)No Error.
Q5. The Centre had announced a
2.11 lakh crore recapitalisation plan for PSU banks, of which ₹1.35 lakh
crore would be raised through recapitalisation bonds. Vibrate under the pressure of poor asset quality over the last
three years, these banks have seen their capital dissolve. Apart from making allocation
for bad loans, the lenders would need capital to meet the Basel-III norms and
to support their business growth.
(a)Totter, Crumble, Donating.
(b) Reeling, erode, Provisions.
(c)Shuddering, Weather,
Assistance.
(d)Palpitating, Weaken,
Concessions.
(e)No Error.
Direction (6-9): Rearrange the following
sentences to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions that
follow.
Q6. If Sentence
(B), “U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel, despite warnings at home and abroad, will worsen the
Israel-Palestine conflict.” is the first sentence, what is the order of other
sentences after rearrangement?
(A) Israel
built its seat of power in West Jerusalem decades ago and occupied the East
during the 1967 war, and later annexed it.
(B) U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel, despite warnings at home and abroad, will worsen the
Israel-Palestine conflict.
(C) By breaking with this consensus, Mr. Trump has in effect endorsed the
Israeli claims to East Jerusalem.
(D) Palestinians insist that East Jerusalem should be the capital of their
future state.
(E) Even though there is a Congressional resolution in the U.S. urging
Washington to relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, previous
American Presidents avoided doing so given the legal, ethical and political
implications of the issue, besides their commitment to a negotiated two-state
settlement.
(F) Jerusalem,
which houses holy places of all three Abrahamic religions and is claimed by
both Israelis and Palestinians, is at the very heart of the dispute.
(a) AEFCD
(b) FADEC
(c) DAEFC
(d) AFDCE
(e) DCFEA
Q7. If Sentence
(A), “India acquired its first submarine, the INS Kalvari, on December 8, 1967,
six years after the Navy acquired its first aircraft carrier in 1961.” is the
first sentence, what is the order of other sentences after rearrangement?
(A) India
acquired its first submarine, the INS Kalvari, on December 8, 1967, six years
after the Navy acquired its first aircraft carrier in 1961.
(B) This level of professional accomplishment in the underwater domain has been
realised against many odds and much of this has been possible due to the
dedication and rigorous professionalism of the human resource that lies at the
core of the submarine arm, from its formative years to where it is now poised.
(C) Concurrently, the Navy is also invested in building conventional boats in
India through partnership programmes with foreign suppliers.
(D) Thus it is appropriate that the President’s Colours will be presented to
the dolphin arm on Friday in Visakhapatnam.
(E) For the record, India is the first country in the world to move straight to
designing and building an SSBN, without moving up the scale from conventional
boats and then SSNs.
(F) In the intervening decades, the nation and its Navy have graduated to
designing and indigenously building SSBNs — the INS Arihant.
(a) BEFCD
(b) FBDEC
(c) DBEFC
(d) FCEBD
(e) DCFEB
Q8. If sentence
(B), “Please understand this, we haven’t time to make this change gradually.”
is the last sentence of the paragraph, then which of the following sentences
does not fit into the paragraph formed after rearranging other sentences?
(A) And that
has been going on; people have said you must change, you must act, you must
change your mind, your heart, you must be something totally different.
(B) Please understand this, we haven’t time to make this change gradually.
(C) And we have
reached a point when we have no time at all.
(D) This has been preached for thousands of years by men who were serious, very
earnest, as well as by charlatans who were out to exploit people.
(E) Everybody is responsible for war because we are human beings and we have
created wars; that’s part of our life.
(F) For man to
change radically, fundamentally, there must be a mutation in the very brain
cells of his mind.
(a) A
(b) E
(c) F
(d) D
(e) C
Q9. If sentence
(D), “In the July-September quarter consumption expenditure grew 6.5%, the
weakest growth rate recorded in eight quarters.” is the last sentence of the
paragraph, then which of the following sentences does not fit into the
paragraph formed after rearranging other sentences?
(A) Rural wage
growth has weakened which, in turn, dragged down the overall growth in private
consumption expenditure.
(B) The slowdown in rural wage growth is linked to the difficulty experienced
in construction and manufacturing sectors.
(C) Expectedly, RBI’s fifth monetary policy for the financial year left key
interest rate unchanged at 6%.
(D) In the July-September quarter consumption expenditure grew 6.5%, the
weakest growth rate recorded in eight quarters.
(E) But of more significance was the story coming out of the agricultural
sector, the source of livelihood for close to half the population.
(F) Its analysis showed that the central bank expects inflation rate to rise a
tad over the next few months.
(a) E
(b) F
(c) B
(d) A
(e) D
Directions (10-14): In the passage given below there are blanks which can be filled with
four of the five options given below without altering the meaning of the
statement. Choose the most inappropriate word in each case which does not fit
into the provided blank as your answer.
The government’s __________ (10) to establish a National Medical
Commission (NMC) to replace the Medical Council of India (MCI) has come at the
most appropriate juncture for the ____________ (11) medical education and health sector. It comes at the end of a long
process of ___________, (12) both
inside and outside Parliament as well as courts in the past few years.
MCI has the ____________ (13) distinction of being the only
regulatory body to have been ____________ (14)
as a “den of corruption” by a high court, a “big source of
corruption” by a health minister and “corruption-ridden” by a
parliamentary panel.
Q10. (a) decision
(b) resolution
(c) verdict
(d) judgement
(e) alternative
Q11. (a) ailing
(b) poor
(c) growing
(d) failing
(e) deteriorating
Q12. (a) ignorance
(b) deliberation
(c) contemplation
(d) cogitation
(e) cerebration
Q13. (a) dubious
(b) doubtful
(c) questionable
(d) uncertain
(e) determined
Q14. (a) dubbed
(b) combined
(c) quoted
(d) called
(e) named
Directions (15): The following statements have two blanks which can be filled with the
options given below without altering the meaning of the sentence. Choose the
set of words which does not complete the sentence meaningfully as your answer.
Q15. The Commission estimates that
unregulated betting annually ________________
about Rs 13,000 crore of black money which is channelised into a range of __________________ activities, even
terrorism.
(a)produces, venial
(b)initiates, felonious
(c)generates, illegal
(d)creates, contraband
(e)induces, non licet
SOLUTIONS:
S1. Ans.(d)
Sol. Option (d) is the correct
choice.
Quashed means reject as
invalid, especially by legal procedure.
Vetoed means to refuse to
accept or allow.
S2. Ans.(a)
Sol.
Counterparts means a person or
thing that corresponds to or has the same function as another person or thing
in a different place or situation.
Rammed means roughly force
(something) into place.
Concord means an agreement or harmony
between people or groups.
S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. Coercive means relating to
or using force or threats.
S4. Ans.(d)
Sol. Millennial means a person
reaching young adulthood in the early 21st century.
Extravagant means lacking
restraint in spending money or using resources.
Chiliad means a thousand
years; a millennium.
S5. Ans.(b)
Sol. Reeling means lose one’s balance and stagger
or lurch violently.
Palpitating means (of the
heart) beat rapidly, strongly, or irregularly.
Totter means move in a feeble
or unsteady way.
S6. Ans.(b)
Sol. As mentioned in the
question, if sentence (B) is the first sentence then the correct order of other
sentences after rearrangement FADEC.
S7. Ans.(d)
Sol. As mentioned in the
question, if sentence (A) is the first sentence then the correct order of other
sentences after rearrangement FCEBD.
S8. Ans. (b)
Sol. As
mentioned in the question, sentence (B) “Please understand this, we haven’t
time to make this change gradually” is the last sentence of the paragraph.
Going through the sentences, we can conclude that sentences FADC form a
coherent paragraph talking about the man to change, who have no time today for
make the change in himself while sentence (E) talks about human beings creating
wars making it unrelated to the other sentences.
S9. Ans. (C)
Sol. As
mentioned in the question, sentence (D), “In the July-September quarter
consumption expenditure grew 6.5%, the weakest growth rate recorded in eight
quarters.” is the last sentence of the paragraph. Sentences CFEA form a
coherent paragraph talking about the analysis of keeping the interest rate
unchanged, that expects inflation rate to rise, unease of farming, weakening of
rural wage growth. Sentence (B) talks about reason behind slowdown in rural
wage growth, which fails to connect with other sentences. Hence option (c) is
the right choice.
S10. Ans. (e)
Sol. Option (e) is the correct choice as
all other options fit aptly in the given blank.
Verdict means a decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case
or an inquest.
S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. Option (c) is the correct choice.
All the other options are describing the poor condition of medical education
and health sector which go with the theme of the paragraph.
Ailing means in poor health.
S12. Ans. (a)
Sol. Option (a) is the correct choice.
Cogitation means the action of thinking deeply about something
Cerebration means thinking
Deliberation long and careful consideration or discussion
Contemplation means the action of looking thoughtfully at something for a long
time.
S13. Ans. (e)
Sol. Option (e) is the correct choice.
All other options are almost synonymous.
Dubious means hesitating or doubting.
S14. Ans. (b)
Sol. Option (b) is the correct choice.
Other options fit into the sentence perfectly without altering its intended
meaning.
Quoted means “to name at”
S15. Ans. (a)
Sol. Among the given options, the set of
words given in option (a) gives no proper meaning to the sentence. The set of
words “produces, venial” doesn’t fit
into the context of the meaning of the sentence.
Other combinations are almost synonymous
to one another and give a similar and contextual meaning to the sentence.
Venial means (of a fault or offence) slight and pardonable.
Felonious means relating to or involved in crime.
Contraband means imported or exported illegally, either in defiance of a
total ban or without payment of duty.
Induce means bring about or give rise to.
Non licet means not lawful.
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