Directions (1-6): Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which one sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Q1. You may soon be able to fold up your iPad and even wash it without causing it any damage. Researchers have come closer to developing new gen-next washable and foldable e-devices with zero pixel borders, thanks to the development of an electrofluidic imaging film. The device will require low power to operate since it will charge via sunlight and ambient room light. The devices using electrofluidic imaging film will be so “tough” and only use wireless connection ports, such that you can ______________, the researchers claimed.
(a) Made as a simple film that you laminate
(b) Takes us one step closer to brighter, colour
(c) Leave it in the rain without being damaged
(d) Combine high function and high colour without
(e) None of these
Q2. A few days ago, an appeal to save perhaps the country’s first Sanskrit newspaper Sudharma ________________ went viral on social media. The appeal had limited impact — it led to donations of only about Rs 2 lakh, which is not enough to buy a colour printer needed to print 3,000 copies of the paper. So, with no advertisers or patronage, the entirely Sanskrit newspaper based in Mysore is barely able to sustain itself today. “It is only through printing posters, wedding cards, etc. that we get the money to run Sudharma,” said Jayalakshmi, 48, who runs it along with her husband GV Sampath.
(a) From closing for lack of financial support
(b) Shutting down slowly because there is
(c) Kept running by people committed to keeping
(d) A lot of noise around promoting Sanskrit
(e) None of these
Q3. In India, there’s only one version of the Voyage available –the WiFi + 3G and without any special offers. In the US, Amazon offers some Kindle devices with ‘special offers’. This means that the device is slightly cheaper -subsidised by advertising, which the company places on the screen each time you power on. Since there’s only this top-of-the-line version, it is fairly expensive. But on the upside, 3G is always free. You can download books anywhere -the 3G works in over 100 countries. And you never pay anything for it. Some of the other awesome features remain: all books _______________.
(a) Saves the last read page, bookmarks, annotations
(b) Pretty darn perfect after seven refinements
(c) Remain backed up in the cloud with unlimited storage
(d) You’re doing yourself a disservice by not getting
(e) None of these
Q4. Spend time on self-improvement while you travel to your work; increase productivity. One can crib about it or feel frustrated or tired, but long travel time to office has become a reality especially in metros. Is there a way to make this travel a little less tiring and perhaps a bit more productive or enjoyable? While it’s fun to listen to your favourite music as you travel to work, the commute could be well utilised on things for self-improvement and upgrade. Unfortunately, for those who self-drive a two-wheeler there are no concrete solutions ____________________just to stay safe in the crazy traffic. Those driving a four wheeler do have a few options, beyond merely tuning in to one of the radio channels.
(a) As one of the easiest activity that can
(b) With some adaptation of pranayama
(c) For leisure or for self-improvement
(d) As full attention is needed all the time
(e) None of these
Q5. Text messages have often been cited as being a pain in the neck, but even the Trai’s yeoman service towards alleviating this misery by finally activating the Do Not Call registry and restricting outgoing SMSes to 100 a day will clearly not have any effect on the medical affliction called ‘text neck’. If people bend over their mobile phones and tablets for extended periods of time — not deleting spam property offer any longer perhaps, but maybe reading e-papers or surfing on 3G — the likelihood of necks reversing their natural curve increases. Necks are always been under pressure, if not from the average 4.5 kg human head permanently bearing down on them, then ______________ there like age-defining tree-rings.
(a) The rondure of a swan’s looks graceful only on
(b) From the wattles and wrinkles that seem to settle
(c) Are already in the danger zone on the issue of
(d) Over-exposure to personal electronics and appliances
(e) None of these
Q6. In the morning, Jatin Kumar prepares for the entrance test for admission in the country’s best business schools at a coaching institute in Delhi. In the evening, the 22-year-old engineering graduate from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh spends hours in a cybercafe near his hostel in South Delhi. ______________ or update his Orkut profile, though he is fond of both. He is there to, well, prepare for the Common Admission Test (CAT) of the Indian Institutes of Management, which has to be taken on a computer for the first time this year.
(a) Have started reading online text via
(b) Not to catch up with his chat friends
(c) Spending hours on the internet as part
(d) For one of the most competitive entrance
(e) None of these
Directions (7-12): In the sentences given below, four words have been highlighted and placed in a sentence. Identify the correct sequence of the words in the sentence. Also, one of the given words will need to be replaced. Identify the correct sequence and the correct replacement and mark that option as your answer.
Q7. With Covid-19 cases advantages (A), India’s apex medical body is sampling (B) the random intensifying (C) of people who display flu-like increasing (D).
(a) BDAC; C- Intensified
(b) DCBA; D- Symptoms
(c) BACD; A- Beneficial
(d) CADB; A- Outbreak
(e) No interchange required
Q8. Days after receiving depending (A) for not flak (B) its refund policy beyond China, Italy and South Korea, Airbnb Inc announced (C) a full refund policy for reservations (D).
(a) BDAC; C- Declared
(b) DCBA; D- Reserving
(c) BACD; A- Extending
(d) CADB; A- Beguiled
(e) No interchange required
Q9. One of the first hunt (A) that most people do when they things (B) a smartphone or a tablet is Use (C) around for free applications to purchase (D) on them.
(a) BDAC; C- Install
(b) DCBA; D- Buy
(c) BACD; A- Look
(d) CADB; A- Wander
(e) No interchange required
Q10. In the hurled (A) days of the dotcom bubble, online businesses advertisements (B) in every street corner with the idea of heady (C) revenues from deriving (D).
(a) BDAC; C- Heavy
(b) DCBA; D- Generation
(c) BACD; A- Beginning
(d) CADB; A- Started
(e) No interchange required
Q11. For a man who knows the however (A)of the advertising world pulse (B) than most, WPP Chief Sir Martin Sorrell was probably (C) painfully slow to hop on to the digital bandwagon (D).
(a) BDAC; C- Surely
(b) DCBA; D- Bandage
(c) BACD; A- Better
(d) CADB; A- Probable
(e) No interchange required
Q12. Industry serious (A) say the Internet industry in India as well as the advertisers who matured (B) it have patronise (C), leaving room for only sports (D) players to succeed.
(a) BDAC; C- Patronizing
(b) DCBA; D- Players
(c) BACD; A- Sentimental
(d) CADB; A- Totally
(e) No interchange required
Directions (13-15): Read each of the following sentences to find out if there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of this part is your answer. If there is no error in the statement, then mark option (e) as your answer choice.
Q13. The latest plans offered (A) /under this pack ranges (B)/from the lowest recharge of (C)/₹199 to the highest recharge of ₹2,199 (D)./No error .
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q14. Telecom major Reliance Jio (A) /on Wednesday announced (B) /tariff hikes that come into (C)/ effect from today midnight (D)/No error .
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q15. From the fear of job loss to the concern of (A) /getting delayed salaries or a lower salary hike (B)/, there’s quite a bit to worry about for an average (C) /salaried individual in the wake of the currently slowdown(D) /No error .
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Solutions:
S1. Ans. (c)
Sol. “Leave it in the rain without being damaged” completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S2. Ans. (a)
Sol. “From closing for lack of financial support” completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S3. Ans. (c)
Sol. “Remain backed up in the cloud with unlimited storage” completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S4. Ans. (d)
Sol. “As full attention is needed all the time” completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.
S5. Ans. (b)
Sol. “From the wattles and wrinkles that seem to settle” completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S6. Ans. (b)
Sol. “Not to catch up with his chat friends” completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S7. Ans. (b)
Sol. The correct rearrangement of the highlighted words would be DCBA. Also, “Advantages” is incorrect in context of the given statement and needs to be replaced with “Symptoms”. Hence, option (b) is the most suitable answer choice.
S8. Ans. (c)
Sol. The correct rearrangement of the highlighted words would be BACD. Also, “Depending” is incorrect in context of the given statement and needs to be replaced with “Extending”. Hence, option (c) is the most suitable answer choice.
S9. Ans. (a)
Sol. The correct rearrangement of the highlighted words would be BDAC. Also, “Use” is incorrect in context of the given statement and needs to be replaced with “Install”. Hence, option (a) is the most suitable answer choice.
S10. Ans. (d)
Sol. The correct rearrangement of the highlighted words would be CADB. Also, “Hurled” is incorrect in context of the given statement and needs to be replaced with “Started”. Hence, option (d) is the most suitable answer choice.
S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. The correct rearrangement of the highlighted words would be BACD. Also, “However” is incorrect in context of the given statement and needs to be replaced with “Better”. Hence, option (c) is the most suitable answer choice.
S12. Ans. (b)
Sol. The correct rearrangement of the highlighted words would be DCBA. Also, “Sports” is incorrect in context of the given statement and needs to be replaced with “Players”. Hence, option (b) is the most suitable answer choice.
S13. Ans. (b)
Sol. In the second part of the sentence, the word ‘ranges’ will be replaced by the word “range”. All other parts of the sentence are correct. Hence option (b) will be the correct answer.
S14. Ans. (c)
Sol.
In the third part of the sentence, the word “come” will be replaced by the word “came”. All other parts of the sentence are correct. Hence option (c) will be the correct answer.
S15. Ans. (d)
Sol.
In the last part of the sentence, the word “currently” will be replaced by the word “current”. All other parts of the sentence are correct. Hence option (d) will be the correct answer.
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