Directions (1-5): 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 constructs a coherent paragraph.
Q1.
(A)The shift in approach in relation to Beijing is quite telling — Mr. Trump
had called Beijing a currency manipulator until the other day.
(B)Washington’s
recent trade dialogue with Beijing, and its decision not to walk away from the
North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) indicate a stunning about-turn of
Mr. Trump’s stance on specific bilateral agreements.
(C)However,
it should be seen as signalling a welcome caution to eschew conflict after the
shrill pre-election rhetoric and the string of executive orders after the
inauguration.
(D)Conversely,
his administration struck an agreement with the Chinese last week on market
access in specific areas, even though there is, according to commentators, no
guarantee of a reversal of the trade imbalance.
(a)BDAC
(b)BCAD
(c)ABDC
(d)ADBC
(e)BADC
Q2.
(A)Its objective is to reduce hunger to zero by 2030.
(B)Released
every year by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Concern
Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, GHI highlights the successes and failures in
reduction of hunger and provides insights into the sociological and economic
reasons for the blight.
(C)It
is designed to calibrate and track hunger on the basis of global, national, and
regional parameters.
(D)The
Global Hunger Index (GHI) is an extremely important tool for the measurement of
hunger in 118 countries.
(E)By
bringing forth the multifarious nuances of hunger into public discourse, GHI
strives to raise awareness and understanding of regional and national
differences.
(a)DAEBC
(b)DBCAE
(c)DABCE
(d)DBCAE
(e)DCBEA
Q3.
(A)Cantillon effect explains how changes in the supply of money in an economy
can affect the prices of different goods in different proportions.
(B)Cantillon
proposed the idea to argue that the differential effect of changes in the money
supply on prices leads to booms and busts in the economy.
(C)This
is because the real purchasing power of individuals is not affected uniformly
by the changes in money supply.
(D)The
theory was proposed by Richard Cantillon, an Irish-French economist, as a
counter to John Locke’s crude quantity theory of money — which saw prices of
all goods being affected proportionately by changes in money supply
(a)ACDB
(b)ABCD
(c)BDAC
(d)ADBC
(e)ACBD
Q4. (A)Because of its salty taste, we cannot
drink it or otherwise make use of it.
(B)This
entire process, known as the hydrological cycle, takes place on a global scale.
(C)Nature
has gathered this water in the seas and the oceans, at least 3.5 per cent of
this seawater contains salt, which acts as a preservative.
(D)But
by the workings of the laws of nature, the water in the oceans and seas rises
up into the atmosphere as water vapour, being separated in this way from the
salt content.
(E)Two
elements which are individually gaseous in nature,combine to produce liquid
water.
(F)This
water vapour then collects together to form clouds, which bring rain.
(G)Rainwater
is fresh water that we can put to use for our various daily needs.
(a)CDGBAFE
(b)GEADCFB
(c)ECADFGB
(d)EDCAGFB
(e)GBDFECA
Q5.
(A)The election in the United Kingdom is primarily a trick of Theresa May to
get a massive mandate to keep the extreme Eurosceptics in her party in check
and to be assured of support of her countrymen during her difficult Brexit
negotiations with the other 27 members of the European Union.
(B)Last
year Europe was shocked by the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump in
the United States.
(C)The
German election is turning out to be the standard contest between the
centre-right Christian Democrats and the centre-left Socialists, with the
neo-fascist xenophobic AfD (Alternative for Germany) in total disarray.
(D)It
is the uncertainty of the Brexit negotiations that is the talking point there.
(E)The
forthcoming election in Britain caused barely a ripple in Europe.
(a)ABDEC
(b)CABED
(c)CADEB
(d)ADBEC
(e)ACEDB
Directions
(6-10): 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 meaningful and grammatically
correct.
Q6. As
Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels through Sri Lanka for the UN Vesak Day
celebrations, he will speak and hear much about the teachings of the world’s
greatest ____________, Gautama Buddha. He is also certain to be mindful of Sri
Lanka’s _______________with war, victory, militarism, the challenges of
conflict resolution, and getting to peace and______________.
(a)
peaceful, ignorance, settlement
(b) antagonistic, undergo, agreement
(c) nonviolent, encounter, estrangement
(d) pacifist, experience, reconciliation
(e) conciliatory, unfamiliarity, harmony
Q7.
Most Tamil parents wanted their children to study and become civil servants,
and even in the worst of times, _____________many difficulties to ensure that
their sons and daughters attended school. ___________Tamil parents sat on
dharna outside militant camps where their children had been________________.
(a)
undergo, Ecstatic, recruited
(b) underwent, wailing, conscripted
(c) ignored, lamenting, levied
(d) experienced, mourning, discharged
(e) abided by, cheering, allocated
Q8.
Rivers, it seems, have gone out of the lives of large numbers of people in
India, in cities surely. They do become part of public_________________, but
only as items of disputes between riparian states, or as beneficiaries — or
victims — of large projects or when they go into _______________and cause
havoc, sometimes even when they run dry. But the river as a part of people’s
day-to-day experiences is________________ a matter of public conversation.
(a)
ignorance, deluge, hardly
(b) speech, shortage, seldom
(c) discourse, spate, rarely
(d) sermon, paucity, scracely
(e) talk, inundation, frequently
Q9. The
Ganga is one such sorry ____________ of garbage. Over the three decades, much
money has gone into cleaning this cesspool: More than Rs 1,800 crore under the
Ganga Action Plan in its various avatars. The current government
________________ to spend more than 10 times this amount: Rs 20,000 crore over
five years on the Namami Gange Project. But the project that took off last year
is ________________on its predecessor in very few respects.
(a)
holder, aspires, weakening
(b) receptacle, intends, improvement
(c) container, expects, deterioration
(d) chest, ignore, progress
(e) repository, neglect, enhancement
Q10.
The policy to implement legislation for the ______________of generic drugs by
doctors is a good move, no doubt. But the _______________shown by the
government in bringing this measure is odd and populist. It is extremely
important to reduce the ________________of health-related costs on common
people.
(a)
prescription, haste, burden
(b) medication, delay, load
(c) recipe, hurry, comfort
(d) interdiction, bustle, strain
(e) avoidance, alacrity, trouble
Directions
(11-15): In each of the following
questions, there are two phrases/group of words marked in bold which are either
grammatically incorrect or not in formation with the correct sentence
structure. Choose the best alternative among the four options given below each
question to replace these two phrases to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically
correct. In case both the phrases are correct, choose (e) i.e. ‘No correction
required’ as your answer.
Q11.
The challenge will likely be more stubborn over
the circumstances in the ongoing
Fourth Industrial Revolution that has
already fundamentally changed the way people live, work and connect to each
other by eliminating physical boundaries and overcoming technology limitations.
(a)given
the circumstances, which has already changed fundamentally
(b)after
the circumstances like, which is changing fundamentally
(c)under
the circumstances of, that is already fundamentally changing
(d)considering
circumstance of, that has been fundamentally changing
(e) No
correction required.
Q12. One
might argue that the figures of job loss in ASEAN, which comprises only ten Asian countries, are not sufficiently
persuasive and representative to prove that developing Asian countries would probably be more negatively
affected by Revolution 4.0.
(a)comprising
of, will probably be more
(b)consisting,
could be probably more
(c)which
comprised of, may probably be more
(d)that
consist of, are probably more
(e) No
correction required.
Q13.
The unhealthy “development” is actually a realistic reflection on how society is dividing so that
everyone’s bona fides are now suspect, and members of minority communities are
constantly in requirement of re-prove their national credentials.
(a)how
society has been divided, required to
(b)how
society has divided, requiring to
(c)how
society could be divided, require to
(d)how
society is being divided, required of
(e) No
correction required.
Q14. In
a remarkable give-and-take, that has hitherto been in short supply,
international creditors could agree to
disburse Euro 7.5 billion in emergency loans to enable the country honour matured debt repayments.
(a)are
agreed to disburse, honouring matured
(b)have
agreed to disburse, to honour maturing
(c)had
agreed in disbursing, of honouring matured
(d)agreed
to disburse, to honour matured
(e) No
correction required
Q15. We
have been sufficiently alerted about what the future may hold, but thus far we have been unable to step out from the
path to disaster that has been mapped
out for us.
(a)might
hold, that had been mapped out
(b)can
hold, what is being mapped out
(c)will
hold, which have been mapped out
(d)would
hold, that is mapped out
(e) No
correction required.
S1.
Ans. (b)
Sol. B
must be the first sentence and it should be followed by C as both the sentences
can well be connected with each other. A-D makes a combination. Hence BCAD is
the correct sequence to form a meaningful paragraph
S2.
Ans. (e)
Sol. D,
being the first sentence of the paragraph must be followed by C as it further
explains the motto of GHI (Global Hunger Index). B-E forms a combination and A
makes the perfect conclusion citing the main objective. Hence DCBEA is the
correct sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
S3.
Ans. (a)
Sol. A
must be the first sentence as it explains the meaning of Cantillon effect. It
is to be followed by C as it brings out the reason for the explanation of
sentence A. D-B forms a combination. Hence ACDB is the correct sequence to form
a meaningful paragraph.
S4.
Ans. (c)
Sol. E
must be the first sentence as it starts the process of hydrological cycle.
C-A-D forms a combination describing the presence of seawater and its
importance in the complete process. B sums up the paragraph quite evidently.
Hence ECADFGB is the correct sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
S5.
Ans. (b)
Sol. C
must be the first sentence of the paragraph as it talks about the German
election. It should be followed by A. B should A as A-B forms a combination as
both talk about the relevance of Brexit negotiations in the UK election. E-D
makes another combination forming the last two sentences of the paragraph so
formed. Hence CABED is the correct sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
S6.
Ans. (d)
Sol. Antagonistic means unsympathetic.
Estrangement means
disaffection.
Conciliatory means pacific
or peaceful.
S7.
Ans. (b)
Sol. Conscripted means recruited.
S8.
Ans. (c)
Sol. Spate means a sudden flood in a river.
Paucity means present
in small amount.
S9.
Ans. (b)
Sol. Receptacle means container that is used
to put or keep the things in.
S10.
Ans. (a)
Sol. Interdiction means action of
prohibiting something.
Alacrity means
eagerness.
Haste means
excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry.
S11.
Ans. (c)
Sol.
“under the circumstances of, that is already fundamentally changing” makes the
sentence grammatically correct. The phrase “under the circumstances” means “given the difficult nature of the
situation”.
S12.
Ans. (e)
Sol.
The given sentence does not require any correction. It is grammatically
correct.
S13.
Ans. (a)
Sol.
“how society has been divided, required to” is the correct usage to make the
sentence grammatically correct. It is to be noted that the sentence is in
passive form, that’s why “has been
divided” is the correct usage.
S14. Ans. (b)
Sol.
“have agreed to disburse, to honour maturing” is the correct usage as the
sentence is in Present tense. Also, “to
honour maturing debt repayments” makes the sentence meaningful.
S15.
Ans. (e)
Sol.
The given sentence is grammatically correct.
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