English Language Quiz For LIC AAO/ADO Prelims 2023 -6th February

Directions (1-10): In the question given below few sentences are given which are grammatically correct and meaningful. Connect them by the word given above the statements in the best possible way without changing the intended meaning. Choose the best possible combination as your answer accordingly from the options to form a correct, coherent sentence.

Q1. ALTHOUGH
(A) I spend much of lunch surreptitiously looking up on my phone for translations for “once upon a time” and “total eclipse of the heart”.
(B) According to the language app on my phone, I am 61% fluent in Italian, but it doesn’t feel that way when I am dispatched to book a table in a mountaintop restaurant.
(C) Sitting on a lift on a bright, cold morning, I look below at all the people carving elegant turns through last night’s new-fallen snow, and I think: idiots
(D) It is against the rules to use your phone at lunch.

(a) C-B
(b) D-A
(c) C-D
(d) B-D
(e) Both B-A and C-D

Q2. NOTWITHSTANDING
(A) Australia’s central bank chief Philip Lowe reinforced that a return of rapid wage growth remains a distant prospect despite strengthening business investment and a hiring bonanza.
(B) The governor kept interest rates unchanged at 1.5 percent on Tuesday, as expected.
(C) The Reserve Bank of Australia has opted to be a steadying influence on the economy, keeping rates at a record-low for 18 months to encourage firms to expand and take on new employees, a strategy that’s paying some dividends.
(D) Interest rates were unchanged by the governor as with the improving labor market, wage growth remains low.

(a) only B-D
(b) only A-C
(c) Only C-D
(d) Only A-D
(e) Both B-D and C-D

Q3. AS MUCH AS
(A) Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him complete control over his films.
(B) Chaplin was scouted for the film industry and began appearing in 1914 for Keystone Studios.
(C) Charlie Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who become known for his shooting in the era of silent films.
(D) Charlie Chaplin became famous for his shooting for almost fifty times the amount of film footage necessary in order to satisfy his artistic vision.

(a) only A-B
(b) Only B-C
(c) Only C-D
(d) Both A-B and C-D
(e) Both B-C and A-D

Q4. RATHER THAN
(A) David Vincent Akins who was convicted last week of four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child opted to let a judge render his punishment.
(B) Akins was arrested in 2016 after his former landlord reported finding child pornography on his computer.
(C) David Vincent Akins who is 38-year-old adjudged for sexual assault of a child decided not to be judged by a jury.
(D) A Texas man was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences after being convicted of filming the rape of a 3-month-old child.

(a) only A-B
(b) Only A-C
(c) Only A-D
(d) Only B-D
(e) Only C-D

Q5. HOWEVER
(A) India and Pakistan have not played a full bilateral series since 2007-08.
(B) Pakistan toured India for a short limited-overs series in 2012-13.
(C) Kohli has played Pakistan in 12 one-day internationals and maintains a healthy average of 45.90 scoring 459 with the help of two centuries and a fifty.
(D) MS Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Gautam Gambhir and Dinesh Karthik are only other active players to have played in or against Pakistan in Test cricket.

(a) Only A-B
(b) Only B-C
(c) Only C-D
(d) Only A-D
(e) Both A-B and C-D

Q6. WHILE
(A) Such dreadful attacks and its aftermath would not derail our eventual arrival.
(B) As long as these states were to share a currency, a military, provide for interstate trade, and have a single foreign policy, they could retain the economic advantages of being a large nation.
(C) The states can maximise individual liberty and self-determination after the becoming self-sufficient in fields of agriculture and defence.
(D) These attacks would quite possibly delay our eventual arrival at the next golden age.

(a) A-B
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-D
(e) Both A-D and B-C

Q7. UNLESS
(A) Cameron is considered a giant of early photography and the album contains some of her best-known photographs.
(B) An extraordinary album of photographs by the Victorian pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron will leave the UK.
(C) Other photographs include ones of Tennyson, the playwright and poet Henry Taylor, Cameron’s niece and the mother of Virginia Woolf, Julia Jackson, and a melancholic young boy called Dèjatch Alámayou
(D) A buyer at UK with £3.7m for the album of photographs by the Victorian pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron may help to keep the album in UK itself.

(a) A-B
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) B-D
(e) Both A-D and B-C

Q8. EVEN THOUGH
(A) Trial judge Michael Cozens, who had also considered a conditional discharge, had focused on Josie’s daily marijuana use when sentencing her.
(B) Josie’s daily marijuana use was not an issue raised by either the Crown or defence.
(C) In his decision released Jan. 16, Veale wrote that Cozens had “erred” in his sentencing when Cozens compared Josie’s case to one where the offender had pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana.
(D) An Old Crow woman has successfully appealed her sentence for a 2016 assault after a Yukon Supreme Court judge found she was unfairly penalized for her unrelated marijuana consumption.

(a) A-B
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) B-D
(e) Both A-D and B-C

Q9. WHEREUPON
(A) The smith laments that all his property is of no value now that his watchman is slain.
(B) Henry Smith was just two years old when his father died.
(C) The young hero offers to guard smith’s domains until a whelp of the hound has grown.
(D) After the death of henry’s father his mother left Ireland for England.

(a) A-B
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) B-D
(e) Both A-C and B-D

Q10. AS SOON AS
(A) The semi-public company Petrobras has promised to start paying dividends to shareholders again.
(B) Petrobras also settled taxes owed for vessel leasing contracts totaling $538.5 million, according to Reuters.
(C) Silva shrugged off any concerns about the country’s next leadership, arguing Petrobras is focused on its business plan.
(D) Petrobras will gain profits this year after being hit by several scandals in recent years.

(a) A-B
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-D
(e) Both A-D and B-C

Directions (11-15): In the following questions, a set of two statements are provided, which is followed by five connectors. Choose the most suitable connector to connect the two statements to form a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence.

Q11. (i)China just finished its first EPR reactor.
(ii) It was five years late and about double the budget.
(a) and
(b) yet to
(c) but
(d) lest
(e) even

Q12. (i) President Trump periodically disparages an ally,
(ii) US strategy will inevitably expand its alliances in the coming years.
(a) even
(b) or
(c) but
(d) lest
(e) even if

Q13.(i) It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read
(ii) What I read becomes the very substance and texture of my mind.
(a) because
(b) once
(c) and
(d) if
(e) so that

Q14. (i) It is best to carry your medicines and valuables on the airplane with you.
(ii) Your checked bags may get lost and you lose important items.
(a) lest
(b) once
(c) and
(d) if
(e) so that

Q15. (i) Emily did start playing the piano before she could speak.
(ii) Emily’s mother taught her to compose music at a very early age.
(a) Either…or
(b) Not only…but also
(c) Neither…nor
(d) Whether…or
(e) However

Solutions

S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. Option (b) is the correct choice. Statements (D) and (A) can be joined together using the conjunction “although” which means in spite of the fact that; even though. Sometimes it can also be used interchangeably with however; but. Statements (D) and (A) can be put together using although “Although it is against the rules to use your phone, I spend much of lunch surreptitiously looking up on my phone for translations for “once upon a time” and “total eclipse of the heart””. All the other combinations of the statements fail to be connected using “although”.

S2. Ans. (a)
Sol. Option (a) is the correct choice. Statements (B) and (D) can be joined together using the conjunction “notwithstanding” which means nevertheless; or in spite of this. The sentence formed using the given conjunction is “The governor kept interest rates unchanged at 1.5 percent on Tuesday, notwithstanding the improving labor market, wage growth remains low.” However, Statements (A) and (C) are separate statements which can’t be connected with any of the given statements.

S3. Ans. (c)
Sol. Option (c) is the correct choice. Statements (C) and (D) can be linked together using the phrasal conjunction “as much as”. “As much as” is a phrasal conjunction used for comparison of uncountable objects; it can also be used in place of “even though”. The sentence thus formed is “Charlie Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who became known for his shooting as much as fifty times the amount of film footage necessary in order to satisfy his artistic vision.” Other given statements couldn’t be joined together using “as much as” as there are no two similar objects for comparison.

S4. Ans. (b)
Sol. Option (b) is the correct choice. Statements (A) and (C) can be joined to form a coherent sentence using the conjunction “rather than”. “Rather than” is a phrasal conjunction used with the infinitive form of a verb to indicate negation as a contrary choice or wish. The sentence thus formed combining statements (A) and (C) is “David Vincent Akins the 38-year old who was convicted last week of four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child opted to let a judge rather than a jury render his punishment.” Other statements are additional information on the David Vincent’s case but they can’t be connected with each other using the given conjunction.

S5. Ans. (a)
Sol. Option (a) is the correct choice. Statements (A) and (B) can be joined together using the conjunction “however”. ‘However’ is an adverb, which is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or group of words. The adverb however has several different useful purposes in a sentence, as it can join ideas together, to include an aside, or to mean ‘in whatever manner’. Thus, the sentence then formed using statements (A) and (B) is “Since 2007-08 India and Pakistan have not played a full bilateral series however Pakistan toured India for a short limited-overs series in 2012-13.” The other statements fail to form a sentence together using “however”.

S6. Ans. (d)
Sol. Statements (A) and (D) can be joined together to form a coherent sentence. Conjunction “while” is used to denote a same period of time; it is also sometimes used to show a contrast between the two clauses or phrases of a sentences. Here, “while” is used to show an ongoing activity at the same period of time. The sentence thus formed using the conjunction “while” is “while such an attack and its aftermath would not derail our eventual arrival at the next golden age, it quite possibly would delay it.” However, the other two statements i.e., statements (B) and (C) describe about the similar topic but they cannot be adjoined together using the given conjunction. Hence, option (d) is the correct choice.

S7. Ans. (d)
Sol. Option (d) is the correct choice. Only statements (B) and (D) can be adjoined together using the conjunction “unless”. “Unless” is used to express except if (used to introduce the case in which a statement being made is not true or valid). Statement (B) is giving a situation which can be supported by a condition which is provided in statement (D). Thus, the sentence formed using the conjunction is “An extraordinary album of photographs by the Victorian pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron will leave the UK unless a buyer with £3.7m can be found.” Hence, as the sentence formed using statements (B) and (D) is coherent and apprehensible, thus making option (d) the most suitable choice of answer.

S8. Ans. (a)
Sol. Option (a) is the correct choice. Statements (A) and (B) can be joined together using the conjunction “even though”. “even though” is used to express despite the fact that. Therefore, the sentence thus formed is “Trial judge Michael Cozens, who had also considered a conditional discharge, had focused on Josie’s daily marijuana use when sentencing her, even though it was not an issue raised by either the Crown or defence.”

S9. Ans. (e)
Sol. Option (e) is the correct choice. Statements (A) and (C) and Statements (B) and (D) can be joined together to form coherent sentences using the conjunction “whereupon”. “whereupon” is a phrasal conjunction which means immediately after which. Thus, the sentence formed using statements (A) and (C) is “The smith laments that all his property is of no value now that his watchman is slain, whereupon the young hero offers to guard his domains until a whelp of the hound has grown.” While using statements (B) and (D) the sentence thus formed is “Henry Smith was just two years old when his father died, whereupon the death of henry’s father his mother left Ireland for England.” Hence option (e) becomes the most suitable choice of answer.

S10. Ans. (d)
Sol. Option (d) is the correct choice. Statements (A) and (D) can form a single sentence using the conjunction “As soon as”. As soon as is almost always followed immediately by a noun or adjective. It is used to express a situation when something occurs immediately after the other thing. Thus, the sentence formed with the statements (A) and (D) is “The semi-public company Petrobras has promised to start paying dividends to shareholders again, as soon as it returns to profit after being hit by several scandals in recent years.” Hence, with the above rationale, option (d) becomes the most suitable choice.

S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. “But” is used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned. Thus among the given connectors, only ‘but’ logically connects the two statements forming a comprehensive sentence. The sentence formed is “China just finished its first EPR reactor but it was five years late and about double the budget.” All the other connectors fail to join the statements coherently. Hence, option (c) is the most suitable answer choice.

S12. Ans. (e)
Sol. “Even if” means despite the possibility that; no matter whether. Thus among the given connectors, only ‘even if’ logically connects the two statements forming a comprehensive sentence. The sentence formed is “Even if President Trump periodically disparages an ally, US strategy will inevitably expand its alliances in the coming years.” All the other connectors fail to join the statements coherently. Hence, option (e) is the most suitable answer choice.

S13. Ans. (a)
Sol. “Because” means for the reason that; since. Thus among the given connectors, only ‘because’ logically connects the two statements forming a comprehensive sentence. The sentence formed is “It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and texture of my mind.” All the other connectors fail to join the statements coherently. Hence, option (a) is the most suitable answer choice.

S14. Ans. (a)
Sol. “Lest” means in order to prevent any possibility that something will happen. Thus among the given connectors, only ‘lest logically connects the two statements forming a comprehensive sentence. The sentence formed is “It is best to carry your medicines and valuables on the airplane with you, lest your checked bags get lost and you lose important items.” All the other connectors fail to join the statements coherently. Hence, option (a) is the most suitable answer choice.

S15. Ans. (b)
Sol. When using not only . . . but also in a sentence, parallelism should be the goal. It means that the words following both parts of this correlative conjunction. However, to add emphasis, we can use not only at the beginning of a clause. When we do this, we invert the subject and the verb. The sentence formed is “Not only did Emily start playing the piano before she could speak, but her mother taught her to compose music at a very early age.” All the other connectors fail to join the statements coherently. Hence, option (b) is the most suitable answer choice.