TOPIC: Miscellaneous
Directions (1-5): In each of the
following questions four words are given of which two are most nearly the same
or opposite in meaning. Find the two words which are most nearly the same or
opposite in meaning and find the number of the correct letter combination.
Q1.
(A) Slack
(B)
Confusing
(C)
Strenuous
(D)
Light
(a)
B-C
(b)
A-D
(c)
B-D
(d)
A-C
(e)
C-D
Q2.
(A) Harmony
(B)
Accord
(C)
Concord
(D)
Melody
(a)
B-C
(b)
A-D
(c)
B-D
(d)
A-C
(e)
C-D
Q3.
(A) Enthralling
(B)
Respecting
(C)
Projecting
(D)
Alluring
(a)
A-B
(b)
B-C
(c)
C-D
(d)
A-D
(e)
B-D
Q4.
(A) Swoop
(B)
Perturb
(C)
Plump
(D)
Boil
(a)
A-D
(b)
B-C
(c)
A-C
(d)
B-D
(e)
C-D
Q5.
(A) Concise
(B)
Elegant
(C)
Indifferent
(D)
Indecorous
(a)
B-C
(b)
A-C
(c)
A-B
(d)
C-D
(e)
B-D
Directions (6-10): 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.
Q6.
A. It is important to emphasize that young children truly do need acceptance
from significant adults in their formative years.
B.
However, if a child grows up to feel that he cannot think or act without first
securing the permission of a parent then the neurotic seeds of self doubt are
planted early.
C.
Self-reliance can be taught in the crib.
D.
But approval should not be contingent upon being proper, nor should a child
have to get a parent’s sanction for everything he says, thinks, feels or does.
E.
In order to encourage freedom from the need for approval in an adult, it is
helpful to give the child an abundance of approval from the very beginning.
(a)
ABCDE
(b)
ADCBE
(c)
CDEAB
(d)
EABCD
(e)
ACDEB
Q7.
A. Nearly all of each generation are brought up in homes where the income is
too small to provide for the luxury of knowledge.
B.
The minority acquires education, and has small families; the majority has no
time for education and has large families.
C.
Hence the perennial futility of political liberalism; the propaganda of
intelligence cannot keep pace with the propagation of the ignorant.
D.
We hardly realize what pranks the birth rate plays with our theories and our
arguments.
E.
Voltaire preferred monarchy to democracy, on the ground that in a monarchy it
was only necessary to educate one man; in a democracy you must educate
millions, and the grave digger gets them all before you can educate ten percent
of them.
(a)
ABDCE
(b)
DCEBA
(c)
EDABC
(d)
EDCBA
(e)
ECDBA
Q8.
A. The state replaces spontaneous society and the corporation replaces the
small dealer.
B.
The aggregation of people in cities breaks down neighbourhood morality as a
source of spontaneous order.
C.
Every egoistic impulse is free in the protecting anonymity of the crowd.
D.
The developing complexity of life has bound us into a highly integrated whole,
and has taken from us that independence of parts which once was possible when
each family was economically a self-sufficient sovereignty.
E.
Where natural order is still powerful, as in simple rural communities, little
law is necessary; where natural order is weak, as in sprawling cities,
legislation grows.
(a)
DECBA
(b)
EDCBA
(c)
BCEAD
(d)
EBADC
(e)
DBCAE
Q9.
A. So money is beautiful rather than useful to the miser.
B.
Obviously beauty, as distinguished from use, is bound up with a certain
keenness of satisfaction that reflects the intensity of desire.
C.
Ugliness lowers our vitality, and disturbs our digestion and our nerves; it may
produce nausea, or make poets call for a revolution.
D.
Hence the beauty of light, and rhythm, and a gentle touch.
E.
anything takes on beauty, if it stimulates and invigorates the organism.
(a)
EADCB
(b)
CDEBA
(c)
DCBEA
(d)
BAEDC
(e)
CBDAE
Q10.
A. The beautiful, then, is in its lowest stages the sensory aspect of that
which satisfies a strong desire.
B.
Anything that meets a fundamental need of our natures has in it certain
aesthetic possibilities.
C.
At bottom it differs from the useful only in the intensity of our need.
D.
To the author who has struggled for years to find the way into print, his first
published page will seem to him a thing of compelling beauty, but to a farmer
or an artisan who has healthier ambitions than to write books, the same page
may be only bit of waste to wipe his razor on.
E.
A plateful of food is beautiful to a starving man as a pretty girl to a young
Romeo; let the young Romeo be starved, and his aesthetic sense will be dulled
even to the loveliest nymph; he will consider her only as something good to
eat.
(a)
ABCED
(b)
BEDAC
(c)
ACDBE
(d)
EDCBA
(e)
EBDCA
Directions (11-15): In each of the
following questions five sentences are given which are on the same theme.
Decide which sentence is the most preferable with respect to grammar, meaning
and usage, suitable for a formal letter or report or any formal writing in
English and mark the number of that sentence as your answer.
Q11.
(a) Our school would have won the match if only we would have concentrated.
(b)
Our school had won the match if only we would have concentrated.
(c)
Our school would have won the match if only we had concentrated.
(d)
Our school would have won the match if only we have concentrated.
(e)
Our school would win the match if only we have concentrated.
Q12.
(a) Having missed the train which I usually catch and had to travel on the
next.
(b)
I missed the train which I usually caught and had to travel on the next.
(c)
The train which I usually catch being missed I have to travel on the next.
(d)
As the train which is my usual was missing I had to travel on the next.
(e)
I missed not only the train which I usually catch but I had to travel on the
next.
Q13.
(a) Since he wasn’t rich by any means, he never turned away anyone who needed
help.
(b)
He wasn’t rich by any means, but he never turned away anyone who needed help.
(c)
Being not rich by any means, he never turned away anyone who needed a help.
(d)
He wasn’t rich by any means, although he never turned down anyone who needed
help.
(e)
Since he lacked needed money, he never turned down anyone who needed help.
Q14.
(a) The teaching staff had taken the lectures regularly had they known that the
Principle would know about it.
(b)
The teaching staff must take their lectures regularly when are asked by the
Principle.
(c)
The teaching staff would have taken lectures regularly had they known that the
Principal would know about it.
(d)
The principle reprimanded his teaching staff for not taking lectures regularly.
(e)
Many irregularities were found in their lectures by the Principle and he could
not be disregarded them.
Q15.
(a) Since the committee lacked needed power it could not deliver expected
results.
(b)
The committee was useless because there was no needed power to it.
(c)
Since committee did not have needed power it has not deliver useful results.
(d)
Being that the committee lacked needed power, it could not delivered expected
results.
(e)
Since the committee lacked needed power it would not have deliver expected
results.
SOLUTIONS:
S1.
Ans. (e)
Sol.
Strenuous means requiring or using
great effort or exertion. Hence ‘strenuous’
and ‘light’ are opposite in
meanings.
Slack means not taut or held
tightly in position; loose.
S2.
Ans. (d)
Sol.
Concord means agreement or harmony
between people or groups. Hence ‘harmony’
and ‘concord’ are similar in
meanings.
S3.
Ans. (d)
Sol.
Enthralling means capturing and
holding one’s attention; fascinating. Hence ‘enthralling’ and ‘alluring’
are similar in meanings.
S4.
Ans. (d)
Sol.
Perturb means make (someone) anxious
or unsettled. Hence ‘perturb’ and ‘boil’ are similar in meanings.
S5.
Ans. (e)
Sol.
Indecorous means not in keeping with
good taste and propriety; improper. Hence ‘elegant’
and ‘indecorous’ are opposite in
meanings.
S6.
Ans. (d)
Sol.
EA or AE should come at the beginning (approval) from the very beginning, in
formative years.
S7.
Ans. (d)
Sol.
E should be the first sentence followed by D and BA make combination (problem
of majority) .
S8.
Ans. (a)
Sol.
BA make combination (stimulates and invigorates.)
S9.
Ans. (d)
Sol.
ED make combination (stimulates and invigorates).
S10.
Ans. (b)
Sol.
BE make combination (fundamental need, food to a starving man). A cannot be the
first sentence because of ‘then’.
S12.
Ans. (b)
Sol.
Past structure
S13.
Ans. (b)
S14.
Ans. (c)
Sol.
Past conditional
S15.
Ans. (a)
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