Directions (1-10): In the following
passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a
number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and
fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningfully complete.
Illiterate and weak-minded people all over the
world often are a (1) to superstitions. Their lives are ruled by
them and they base their actions on the various superstitious (2). Superstitious
people can be called backward. They tend to (3) every (4)
irrationally. They (5) a happening illogically and (6)
their actions on the (7) of these beliefs. Although most people
know that superstitions are based on (8) and are nowhere close to
the truth, but (9) a few people are (10) guided by
superstitions.
Q1. (a) plunder
(b) prey
(c) hunt
(d) predator
(e) suffering
Q2. (a) laws
(b) custom
(c) beliefs
(d) thinking
(e) rules
Q3. (a) interpret
(b) interfere
(c) interpose
(d) mediate
(e) meditate
Q4. (a) ideals
(b) imagination
(c) invention
(d) discovery
(e) phenomenon
Q5. (a) assist
(b) assess
(c) ascribe
(d) support
(e) manipulate
Q6. (a) drive
(b) restrict
(c) impose
(d) guide
(e) expose
Q7. (a) hypothesis
(b) fundamental
(c) ideology
(d) basis
(e) conception
Q8. (a) imagination
(b) delusion
(c) empathy
(d) fear
(e) logic
Q9. (a) quit
(b) why
(c) quite
(d) simply
(e) never
Q10. (a) somehow
(b) unusually
(c) uptil
(d) yet
(e) still
Directions
(11-15): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical
or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the
sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’, the
answer is (e). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)
Q11. (a) All of the defendants are accused of
involved /(b) in the killings of intellectuals, political opponents and
secularists /(c) in the brutal war /(d) of independence in 1971. /(e) No error
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q12. (a) The essence of Jhumpa Lahiri’s work lies /(b)
in the conflicted inner life of her characters, /(c) their trials and
tribulations around difficult lives choices, and their perpetual struggles /(d) to negotiate their emotions vis-à-vis a
hostile universe. /(e) No error
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q13. (a) Despite so much global concern and
international support, /(b) satisfactory recovery of tiger population /(c)
still elude us /(d) in all the tiger-range countries. /(e) No error
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q14. (a) If one wants to use the film medium for
social and political causes, /(b) the film-maker has to be adapt in the
language of cinema, /(c) like a soldier who has to be a master /(d) of his
weapons to survive on the battlefront.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q15. (a) A new compound developed at the Tokyo
Institute of Technology /(b) shows highly unusual conducting properties /(c)
this could be used /(d) in future electronic components. /(e) No error
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
SOLUTIONS:
S1. Ans.(b)
S2. Ans.(c)
S3. Ans.(a)
S4. Ans.(e)
S5. Ans.(b)
S6. Ans.(d)
S7. Ans.(d)
S8. Ans.(a)
S9. Ans.(c)
S10. Ans.(e)
S11. Ans.(a)
Sol. Replace ‘involved’ with ‘being involved’
S12. Ans.(e)
Sol. No error
S13. Ans.(c)
Sol. Replace ‘elude’ with ‘eludes’
S14. Ans.(b)
Sol. Replace ‘adapt’ with ‘adept’
S15. Ans.(c)
Sol. Replace ‘this’ with ‘that’
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