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English Language Quiz For SBI Clerk Prelims 2021- 20th June

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Directions
(1-10):
In the passage given below there are
blanks which are numbered from 1 to 10. They are to be filled with the options
given below the passage against each of the respective numbers. Find out the
appropriate word in each case which can most suitably complete the sentence
without altering its meaning. If none of the words given in options fits in,
mark ‘None of these’ as your answer choice.

 

Q1. By ordering an increase of the
existing Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification rate from one
to five random Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) per Assembly constituency or
segment, the Supreme Court has sought to reassure those (1)……………… about the integrity of counting by means of EVMs. By (2)……………….. the verification to five
machines instead of the 125-odd machines per constituency that the Opposition’s
demand for a 50% VVPAT count would have amounted to, the apex court has enabled
the Election Commission of India to (3)……………….
the results on the counting day itself. The higher figure, which will increase
the overall number of EVMs to be counted to close to 20,000 machines, should
reasonably address the very remote possibility of ‘insider fraud’. It will also
verify a higher sample of EVMs in the smaller States and bring the sample
within reasonable confidence levels to discount chances of EVM-(4)………………… . In any case, the VVPAT
slip verification is more of a (5)…………………….
to voters that the EVM is indeed foolproof, over and above the technical and
administrative safeguards that are already in place to prevent any tampering.
This should effectively blunt criticism that has, unnecessarily, brought the
electoral process into doubt. The fact that some of the Opposition parties
moved away from their (6)…………………
demand for a return to paper ballots in their petition to a plea for a higher
VVPAT count has also helped yield this reasoned proposition from the Supreme
Court.

  For
the ECI, the key technical issue with EVMs and VVPATs is not really in regard
to tampering but to machine (7)……………….
. While the parliamentary by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the
Assembly election in Karnataka last year had registered (8)…………….. machine replacement rates (20% and 4%, respectively),
these were brought down to less than 2% in later elections held in the winter months.
The ECI made technical fixes to the VVPAT to make them more (9)……………. during use across the
country, and it should be well-prepared to handle any glitches during the
seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The availability of replacement machines and
the ability to (10)……………… them
quickly in case of a failure of VVPATs are essential to avoid disruptions. In
the past couple of years, the doubts raised about EVMs by parties and the new
constraints encountered in the electoral process due to hastened VVPAT implementation
have bogged down the ECI and narrowed the discourse regarding electoral
reforms.

(a) suspicion

(b) sceptical

(c) regulate

(d) irregular

(e) harshly

 

Q2. By ordering an increase of the
existing Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification rate from one
to five random Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) per Assembly constituency or
segment, the Supreme Court has sought to reassure those (1)……………… about the integrity of counting by means of EVMs. By (2)……………….. the verification to five
machines instead of the 125-odd machines per constituency that the Opposition’s
demand for a 50% VVPAT count would have amounted to, the apex court has enabled
the Election Commission of India to (3)……………….
the results on the counting day itself. The higher figure, which will increase
the overall number of EVMs to be counted to close to 20,000 machines, should
reasonably address the very remote possibility of ‘insider fraud’. It will also
verify a higher sample of EVMs in the smaller States and bring the sample
within reasonable confidence levels to discount chances of EVM-(4)………………… . In any case, the VVPAT
slip verification is more of a (5)…………………….
to voters that the EVM is indeed foolproof, over and above the technical and
administrative safeguards that are already in place to prevent any tampering.
This should effectively blunt criticism that has, unnecessarily, brought the
electoral process into doubt. The fact that some of the Opposition parties
moved away from their (6)…………………
demand for a return to paper ballots in their petition to a plea for a higher
VVPAT count has also helped yield this reasoned proposition from the Supreme
Court.

 For
the ECI, the key technical issue with EVMs and VVPATs is not really in regard
to tampering but to machine (7)……………….
. While the parliamentary by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the
Assembly election in Karnataka last year had registered (8)…………….. machine replacement rates (20% and 4%, respectively),
these were brought down to less than 2% in later elections held in the winter
months. The ECI made technical fixes to the VVPAT to make them more (9)……………. during use across the
country, and it should be well-prepared to handle any glitches during the
seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The availability of replacement machines and
the ability to (10)……………… them
quickly in case of a failure of VVPATs are essential to avoid disruptions. In
the past couple of years, the doubts raised about EVMs by parties and the new
constraints encountered in the electoral process due to hastened VVPAT
implementation have bogged down the ECI and narrowed the discourse regarding
electoral reforms.

(a) extending

(b) highlight

(c) incur

(d) limiting

(e) bolstered

 

Q3. By ordering an increase of the
existing Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification rate from one
to five random Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) per Assembly constituency or
segment, the Supreme Court has sought to reassure those (1)……………… about the integrity of counting by means of EVMs. By (2)……………….. the verification to five
machines instead of the 125-odd machines per constituency that the Opposition’s
demand for a 50% VVPAT count would have amounted to, the apex court has enabled
the Election Commission of India to (3)……………….
the results on the counting day itself. The higher figure, which will increase
the overall number of EVMs to be counted to close to 20,000 machines, should
reasonably address the very remote possibility of ‘insider fraud’. It will also
verify a higher sample of EVMs in the smaller States and bring the sample
within reasonable confidence levels to discount chances of EVM-(4)………………… . In any case, the VVPAT
slip verification is more of a (5)…………………….
to voters that the EVM is indeed foolproof, over and above the technical and
administrative safeguards that are already in place to prevent any tampering.
This should effectively blunt criticism that has, unnecessarily, brought the
electoral process into doubt. The fact that some of the Opposition parties
moved away from their (6)…………………
demand for a return to paper ballots in their petition to a plea for a higher
VVPAT count has also helped yield this reasoned proposition from the Supreme
Court.

 For
the ECI, the key technical issue with EVMs and VVPATs is not really in regard
to tampering but to machine (7)……………….
. While the parliamentary by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the Assembly
election in Karnataka last year had registered (8)…………….. machine replacement rates (20% and 4%, respectively),
these were brought down to less than 2% in later elections held in the winter
months. The ECI made technical fixes to the VVPAT to make them more (9)……………. during use across the
country, and it should be well-prepared to handle any glitches during the
seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The availability of replacement machines and
the ability to (10)……………… them
quickly in case of a failure of VVPATs are essential to avoid disruptions. In
the past couple of years, the doubts raised about EVMs by parties and the new
constraints encountered in the electoral process due to hastened VVPAT
implementation have bogged down the ECI and narrowed the discourse regarding
electoral reforms.

(a) presentation

(b) manipulative

(c) declare

(d) arraign

(e) relate

 

Q4. By ordering an increase of the
existing Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification rate from one
to five random Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) per Assembly constituency or
segment, the Supreme Court has sought to reassure those (1)……………… about the integrity of counting by means of EVMs. By (2)……………….. the verification to five
machines instead of the 125-odd machines per constituency that the Opposition’s
demand for a 50% VVPAT count would have amounted to, the apex court has enabled
the Election Commission of India to (3)……………….
the results on the counting day itself. The higher figure, which will increase
the overall number of EVMs to be counted to close to 20,000 machines, should
reasonably address the very remote possibility of ‘insider fraud’. It will also
verify a higher sample of EVMs in the smaller States and bring the sample
within reasonable confidence levels to discount chances of EVM-(4)………………… . In any case, the VVPAT
slip verification is more of a (5)…………………….
to voters that the EVM is indeed foolproof, over and above the technical and
administrative safeguards that are already in place to prevent any tampering.
This should effectively blunt criticism that has, unnecessarily, brought the
electoral process into doubt. The fact that some of the Opposition parties
moved away from their (6)…………………
demand for a return to paper ballots in their petition to a plea for a higher
VVPAT count has also helped yield this reasoned proposition from the Supreme
Court.

 For
the ECI, the key technical issue with EVMs and VVPATs is not really in regard to
tampering but to machine (7)……………….
. While the parliamentary by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the
Assembly election in Karnataka last year had registered (8)…………….. machine replacement rates (20% and 4%, respectively),
these were brought down to less than 2% in later elections held in the winter
months. The ECI made technical fixes to the VVPAT to make them more (9)……………. during use across the
country, and it should be well-prepared to handle any glitches during the
seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The availability of replacement machines and
the ability to (10)……………… them
quickly in case of a failure of VVPATs are essential to avoid disruptions. In
the past couple of years, the doubts raised about EVMs by parties and the new
constraints encountered in the electoral process due to hastened VVPAT
implementation have bogged down the ECI and narrowed the discourse regarding
electoral reforms.

(a) tampering

(b) damaged

(c) interfere

(d) release

(e) Both (a) and
(b)

 

Q5.  By ordering an increase of the existing Voter-Verifiable Paper
Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification rate from one to five random Electronic Voting
Machines (EVMs) per Assembly constituency or segment, the Supreme Court has
sought to reassure those (1)………………
about the integrity of counting by means of EVMs. By (2)……………….. the verification to five machines instead of the
125-odd machines per constituency that the Opposition’s demand for a 50% VVPAT
count would have amounted to, the apex court has enabled the Election
Commission of India to (3)……………….
the results on the counting day itself. The higher figure, which will increase
the overall number of EVMs to be counted to close to 20,000 machines, should
reasonably address the very remote possibility of ‘insider fraud’. It will also
verify a higher sample of EVMs in the smaller States and bring the sample
within reasonable confidence levels to discount chances of EVM-(4)………………… . In any case, the VVPAT
slip verification is more of a (5)…………………….
to voters that the EVM is indeed foolproof, over and above the technical and
administrative safeguards that are already in place to prevent any tampering.
This should effectively blunt criticism that has, unnecessarily, brought the
electoral process into doubt. The fact that some of the Opposition parties
moved away from their (6)…………………
demand for a return to paper ballots in their petition to a plea for a higher
VVPAT count has also helped yield this reasoned proposition from the Supreme
Court.

 For
the ECI, the key technical issue with EVMs and VVPATs is not really in regard
to tampering but to machine (7)……………….
. While the parliamentary by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the
Assembly election in Karnataka last year had registered (8)…………….. machine replacement rates (20% and 4%, respectively),
these were brought down to less than 2% in later elections held in the winter
months. The ECI made technical fixes to the VVPAT to make them more (9)……………. during use across the
country, and it should be well-prepared to handle any glitches during the
seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The availability of replacement machines and
the ability to (10)……………… them
quickly in case of a failure of VVPATs are essential to avoid disruptions. In
the past couple of years, the doubts raised about EVMs by parties and the new
constraints encountered in the electoral process due to hastened VVPAT
implementation have bogged down the ECI and narrowed the discourse regarding
electoral reforms.

(a) captivating

(b) custody

(c) incompatible

(d) reassurance

(e) cheering

 

Q6.  By ordering an increase of the existing Voter-Verifiable Paper
Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification rate from one to five random Electronic Voting
Machines (EVMs) per Assembly constituency or segment, the Supreme Court has
sought to reassure those (1)………………
about the integrity of counting by means of EVMs. By (2)……………….. the verification to five machines instead of the
125-odd machines per constituency that the Opposition’s demand for a 50% VVPAT
count would have amounted to, the apex court has enabled the Election
Commission of India to (3)……………….
the results on the counting day itself. The higher figure, which will increase
the overall number of EVMs to be counted to close to 20,000 machines, should
reasonably address the very remote possibility of ‘insider fraud’. It will also
verify a higher sample of EVMs in the smaller States and bring the sample
within reasonable confidence levels to discount chances of EVM-(4)………………… . In any case, the VVPAT
slip verification is more of a (5)…………………….
to voters that the EVM is indeed foolproof, over and above the technical and
administrative safeguards that are already in place to prevent any tampering.
This should effectively blunt criticism that has, unnecessarily, brought the
electoral process into doubt. The fact that some of the Opposition parties
moved away from their (6)…………………
demand for a return to paper ballots in their petition to a plea for a higher
VVPAT count has also helped yield this reasoned proposition from the Supreme
Court.

 For
the ECI, the key technical issue with EVMs and VVPATs is not really in regard
to tampering but to machine (7)……………….
. While the parliamentary by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the
Assembly election in Karnataka last year had registered (8)…………….. machine replacement rates (20% and 4%, respectively),
these were brought down to less than 2% in later elections held in the winter
months. The ECI made technical fixes to the VVPAT to make them more (9)……………. during use across the
country, and it should be well-prepared to handle any glitches during the
seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The availability of replacement machines and
the ability to (10)……………… them
quickly in case of a failure of VVPATs are essential to avoid disruptions. In
the past couple of years, the doubts raised about EVMs by parties and the new
constraints encountered in the electoral process due to hastened VVPAT
implementation have bogged down the ECI and narrowed the discourse regarding
electoral reforms.

(a) clarity

(b) defect

(c) weaken

(d) untenable

(e) tarnish

 

Q7. By ordering an increase of the
existing Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification rate from one
to five random Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) per Assembly constituency or
segment, the Supreme Court has sought to reassure those (1)……………… about the integrity of counting by means of EVMs. By (2)……………….. the verification to five
machines instead of the 125-odd machines per constituency that the Opposition’s
demand for a 50% VVPAT count would have amounted to, the apex court has enabled
the Election Commission of India to (3)……………….
the results on the counting day itself. The higher figure, which will increase
the overall number of EVMs to be counted to close to 20,000 machines, should
reasonably address the very remote possibility of ‘insider fraud’. It will also
verify a higher sample of EVMs in the smaller States and bring the sample
within reasonable confidence levels to discount chances of EVM-(4)………………… . In any case, the VVPAT
slip verification is more of a (5)…………………….
to voters that the EVM is indeed foolproof, over and above the technical and
administrative safeguards that are already in place to prevent any tampering.
This should effectively blunt criticism that has, unnecessarily, brought the
electoral process into doubt. The fact that some of the Opposition parties
moved away from their (6)…………………
demand for a return to paper ballots in their petition to a plea for a higher
VVPAT count has also helped yield this reasoned proposition from the Supreme
Court.

 For
the ECI, the key technical issue with EVMs and VVPATs is not really in regard
to tampering but to machine (7)……………….
. While the parliamentary by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the
Assembly election in Karnataka last year had registered (8)…………….. machine replacement rates (20% and 4%, respectively),
these were brought down to less than 2% in later elections held in the winter
months. The ECI made technical fixes to the VVPAT to make them more (9)……………. during use across the
country, and it should be well-prepared to handle any glitches during the
seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The availability of replacement machines and
the ability to (10)……………… them
quickly in case of a failure of VVPATs are essential to avoid disruptions. In
the past couple of years, the doubts raised about EVMs by parties and the new
constraints encountered in the electoral process due to hastened VVPAT
implementation have bogged down the ECI and narrowed the discourse regarding
electoral reforms. 

(a) chaos

(b) abase

(c) glitches

(d) repaired

(e) hinder

 

Q8. By ordering an increase of the
existing Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification rate from one
to five random Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) per Assembly constituency or
segment, the Supreme Court has sought to reassure those (1)……………… about the integrity of counting by means of EVMs. By (2)……………….. the verification to five
machines instead of the 125-odd machines per constituency that the Opposition’s
demand for a 50% VVPAT count would have amounted to, the apex court has enabled
the Election Commission of India to (3)……………….
the results on the counting day itself. The higher figure, which will increase
the overall number of EVMs to be counted to close to 20,000 machines, should
reasonably address the very remote possibility of ‘insider fraud’. It will also
verify a higher sample of EVMs in the smaller States and bring the sample
within reasonable confidence levels to discount chances of EVM-(4)………………… . In any case, the VVPAT
slip verification is more of a (5)…………………….
to voters that the EVM is indeed foolproof, over and above the technical and
administrative safeguards that are already in place to prevent any tampering.
This should effectively blunt criticism that has, unnecessarily, brought the
electoral process into doubt. The fact that some of the Opposition parties
moved away from their (6)…………………
demand for a return to paper ballots in their petition to a plea for a higher
VVPAT count has also helped yield this reasoned proposition from the Supreme
Court.

 For
the ECI, the key technical issue with EVMs and VVPATs is not really in regard
to tampering but to machine (7)……………….
. While the parliamentary by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the
Assembly election in Karnataka last year had registered (8)…………….. machine replacement rates (20% and 4%, respectively),
these were brought down to less than 2% in later elections held in the winter
months. The ECI made technical fixes to the VVPAT to make them more (9)……………. during use across the
country, and it should be well-prepared to handle any glitches during the
seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The availability of replacement machines and
the ability to (10)……………… them
quickly in case of a failure of VVPATs are essential to avoid disruptions. In
the past couple of years, the doubts raised about EVMs by parties and the new
constraints encountered in the electoral process due to hastened VVPAT
implementation have bogged down the ECI and narrowed the discourse regarding
electoral reforms.

(a) remarkably

(b) uncommonly

(c) odious

(d) significant

(e) majorly

 

Q9. By ordering an increase of the
existing Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification rate from one
to five random Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) per Assembly constituency or
segment, the Supreme Court has sought to reassure those (1)……………… about the integrity of counting by means of EVMs. By (2)……………….. the verification to five
machines instead of the 125-odd machines per constituency that the Opposition’s
demand for a 50% VVPAT count would have amounted to, the apex court has enabled
the Election Commission of India to (3)……………….
the results on the counting day itself. The higher figure, which will increase
the overall number of EVMs to be counted to close to 20,000 machines, should
reasonably address the very remote possibility of ‘insider fraud’. It will also
verify a higher sample of EVMs in the smaller States and bring the sample
within reasonable confidence levels to discount chances of EVM-(4)………………… . In any case, the VVPAT
slip verification is more of a (5)…………………….
to voters that the EVM is indeed foolproof, over and above the technical and
administrative safeguards that are already in place to prevent any tampering.
This should effectively blunt criticism that has, unnecessarily, brought the
electoral process into doubt. The fact that some of the Opposition parties
moved away from their (6)…………………
demand for a return to paper ballots in their petition to a plea for a higher
VVPAT count has also helped yield this reasoned proposition from the Supreme
Court.

 For
the ECI, the key technical issue with EVMs and VVPATs is not really in regard
to tampering but to machine (7)……………….
. While the parliamentary by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the
Assembly election in Karnataka last year had registered (8)…………….. machine replacement rates (20% and 4%, respectively),
these were brought down to less than 2% in later elections held in the winter
months. The ECI made technical fixes to the VVPAT to make them more (9)……………. during use across the
country, and it should be well-prepared to handle any glitches during the
seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The availability of replacement machines and
the ability to (10)……………… them
quickly in case of a failure of VVPATs are essential to avoid disruptions. In
the past couple of years, the doubts raised about EVMs by parties and the new
constraints encountered in the electoral process due to hastened VVPAT
implementation have bogged down the ECI and narrowed the discourse regarding
electoral reforms.

(a) resilient

(b) vulnerable

(c) adapt

(d) fragile

(e) sensitive

 

Q10. By ordering an increase of the
existing Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification rate from one
to five random Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) per Assembly constituency or
segment, the Supreme Court has sought to reassure those (1)……………… about the integrity of counting by means of EVMs. By (2)……………….. the verification to five
machines instead of the 125-odd machines per constituency that the Opposition’s
demand for a 50% VVPAT count would have amounted to, the apex court has enabled
the Election Commission of India to (3)……………….
the results on the counting day itself. The higher figure, which will increase
the overall number of EVMs to be counted to close to 20,000 machines, should
reasonably address the very remote possibility of ‘insider fraud’. It will also
verify a higher sample of EVMs in the smaller States and bring the sample
within reasonable confidence levels to discount chances of EVM-(4)………………… . In any case, the VVPAT
slip verification is more of a (5)…………………….
to voters that the EVM is indeed foolproof, over and above the technical and
administrative safeguards that are already in place to prevent any tampering.
This should effectively blunt criticism that has, unnecessarily, brought the
electoral process into doubt. The fact that some of the Opposition parties
moved away from their (6)…………………
demand for a return to paper ballots in their petition to a plea for a higher
VVPAT count has also helped yield this reasoned proposition from the Supreme
Court.

 For
the ECI, the key technical issue with EVMs and VVPATs is not really in regard
to tampering but to machine (7)……………….
. While the parliamentary by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the
Assembly election in Karnataka last year had registered (8)…………….. machine replacement rates (20% and 4%, respectively),
these were brought down to less than 2% in later elections held in the winter
months. The ECI made technical fixes to the VVPAT to make them more (9)……………. during use across the
country, and it should be well-prepared to handle any glitches during the
seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The availability of replacement machines and
the ability to (10)……………… them
quickly in case of a failure of VVPATs are essential to avoid disruptions. In
the past couple of years, the doubts raised about EVMs by parties and the new
constraints encountered in the electoral process due to hastened VVPAT
implementation have bogged down the ECI and narrowed the discourse regarding
electoral reforms.

(a) establishing

(b) extension

(c) deploy

(d) employment

(e) Both (b) and
(c)

 

Directions
(11-15):
In the following questions two columns are
given containing three sentences/phrases each. In first column,
sentences/phrases are A, B and C and in the second column the sentences/phrases
are D, E and F. A sentence/phrase from the first column may or may not connect
with another sentence/phrase from the second column to make a grammatically and
contextually correct sentence. Each question has five options, four of which
display the sequence(s) in which the sentences/phrases can be joined to form a
grammatically and contextually correct sentence. If none of the options given
forms a correct sentence after combination or none of them connects, mark (e),
i.e. “None of the above” as your answer.

 

Q11.

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(a) (B-D)

(b) Both (A-F) and (B-D)

(c) (A-F)

(d) (A-F), (C-D) and (B-E)

(e) None of the Above

 

Q12.

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 (a) (B-D)

(b) (C-E) and (B-D)

(c) Both (C-E) and (A-F)

(d) (A-E)

(e) None of the Above

 

Q13.

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(a) (A-F)

(b) (C-E) and (A-F)

(c) (B-E)

(d) (B-E) and (A-F)

(e) None of the Above

 

Q14.

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(a) (A-E)

(b) Both (C-F) and (A-D)

(c) (B-E)

(d) (B-D), (A-F) and (C-E) 

(e) None of the Above

 

15.

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(a) (A-E)

(b) (C-F) and (A-E)

(c) (C-D)

(d) Both (B-E) and (C-D)

(e) None of the Above

 

                                            

Solutions:

 

 

S1. Ans.(b)

Sol. Sceptical: not easily convinced;
having doubts or reservations.

 

S2. Ans.(d)

Sol. ‘Limiting’ will be used here as the
number of machines has been reduced from 125 to 5 per constituency.

 

S3. Ans.(c)

Sol. ‘Declare’ is grammatically and
contextually correct.

 

S4. Ans.(a)

Sol. Tamper: interfere with (something) in
order to cause damage or make unauthorized alterations.

 

S5. Ans.(d)

Sol. Reassurance: the action of removing
someone’s doubts or fears.

 

S6. Ans.(d)

Sol. Untenable: (especially of a position
or view) not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.

 

S7. Ans.(c)

Sol. Glitches: a sudden, usually temporary
malfunction or fault of equipment.

 

S8. Ans.(d)

Sol. Significant: sufficiently great or
important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy.

 

S9. Ans.(a)

Sol. Resilient: able to withstand or
recover quickly from difficult conditions.

 

S10. Ans.(c)

Sol. Deploy: bring into effective action.

 

S11. Ans.(d)

Sol. (A-F), (C-D) and (B-E) form
grammatically correct and meaningful sentences.

 

S12. Ans.(c)

Sol. Both (C-E) and (A-F) form grammatically
correct and meaningful sentences.

 

S13. Ans.(b)

Sol. (C-E) and (A-F) form grammatically
correct and meaningful sentences. In B-D, ‘representation’ should have been
used in placve of ‘represent’.

 

S14. Ans.(d)

Sol. (B-D), (A-F) and (C-E) form grammatically
correct and meaningful sentences.

 

S15. Ans.(b)

Sol. (C-F) and (A-E) form grammatically
correct and meaningful sentences.