TOPIC: Practice set
Directions (1-10): In the given passage there are blanks, each of which has been
numbered. Against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank
appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.
Confidence in the global economy is (1) improving, as evidenced by the
bullish behaviour of financial markets and by increasingly positive comments
from companies and policy makers over the past few weeks. While economists have
generally argued in (2) of a robust
recovery, both in the world economy and in financial markets, it is when
investors get (3) bullish that the
pessimistic case deserves more (4).
Many of them believe that the current improvement in global conditions is just
a blip and that the world faces years, if not decades, of “secular
stagnation.” How (5) should we
take these foreboding statements? The good news is that there is not much (6) of secular stagnation in global
statistics. For the world economy as a whole, “new normal” since 2008
has not, in fact, been very (7) from
the pre-crisis period. The average growth of the global economy, from 1988 to
2007, was 3.6 per cent according to the IMF’s Economic Outlook database. Its
latest forecast for this year is the same — 3.6 per cent — although the IMF
Managing Director hinted at a modest (8)
this week. At first sight, this continuity from the pre-crisis decades seems (9) to square with the slowdown in
economic activity in all major economies since 2008. The IMF expects only 2.2
per cent growth this year in developed countries compared with an average of
2.8 per cent during the two decades before the crisis. In the emerging
economies, meanwhile, growth is (I0)
at 4.8 per cent this year, slightly below the 4.9 per cent of the pre-crisis
decades.
Q1. (a) heavily (b) steadily (c)
tremendously (d) highly (e) regularly
Q2. (a) approval (b) favour (c)
account (d) side (e) grace
Q3. (a) together (b) wild (c) slight (d) uniformly (e) distributive
Q4.(a) weight (b) meaning (c)
attraction (d) notice (e) attention
Q5. (a) easily (b) seriously (c)
badly (d)
simply (e) much
Q6. (a) evidence (b) example (c)
sample (d) clue (e) information
Q7. (a) similar (b) distinctive (c)
distinct (d)
different (e) identical
Q8. (a) reduce (b) crash (c)
subside (d) flop (e) decline
Q9. (a) hard (b) default (c)
difficult (d) hit (e) roughly
Q10.(a) highlighted (b) depicted (c) projected (d)
progressed (e) assumed
Directions: (11-15): Which of the phrases given a after the sentence should replace the
word/phrase given in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If
the sentence is correct as it is given and no correction is required, select
‘No correction required’ as the answer.
Q11.Rich mineral resources and the government present willing to build
infrastructure will attract plenty of foreign investment.
(a) government willingly present
(b) government presence is willing
(c) government is present but willing
(d) present government’s willingness
(e) No correction required
Q12.One of
the city’s advantages including a good education system, attractive quality of life and a good
transport system which can cope with its rising population.
(a) One of the city’s advantages include
(b) Some of the city’s advantages
include
(c) The city has advantages included
(d) Many of the city’s advantages are
included
(e) No correction required
Q13.Regulators in America have plans to increase the amount of capital that its
eight largest banks can hold and banks will have until 2018 to comply.
(a) increased the amount (b) increase in the amounts
(c) which increases the amount (d) by increasing amounts
(e) No correction required
Q14. If we revise the school curriculum,
colleges will not only get more quality
of students but companies will also get skilled employees.
(a) most quality students (b) good quality of the student
(c) students of best qualities (d) better quality students
(e) No correction required
Q15. By running small dairy farms and selling
milk to factories, the women of the village takes care the needs of
their families.
(a) woman of the village caring for (b) woman of a village will care
(c) women of the village take care of (d) village women taking care of
(e) No correction required
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S1. Ans.(b)
S2. Ans.(b)
S3. Ans.(d)
S4. Ans.(e)
S5. Ans.(b)
S6. Ans.(a)
S7. Ans.(d)
S8. Ans.(e)
S9. Ans.(a)
S10. Ans.(c)
S11. Ans.(d)
Sol.
Replace ‘government present willing’ with ‘present government’s
willingness’
S12. Ans.(b)
Sol.
Replace ‘One of the city’s advantages including’ with ‘Some of the
city’s advantages include’
S13. Ans.(e)
Sol.
No correction required.
S14. Ans.(d)
Sol.
Replace ‘more quality of students’ with ‘better quality students’
S15. Ans.(c)
Sol.
Replace ‘the women of the village takes care’ with ‘women of the village
take care of’
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