TOPIC: Practice set
Directions
(1-8): In each of the following questions, a statement is given with two
blanks. Followed by two columns, Column (A) contains words that might fill in
the first blank and Column (B) contains words that might fill in the second
blank. Choose among the options, the right pair of words that can fill in the
blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually
meaningful. If none of the options could fill in the blanks, mark your answer,
“None of the above; (e)”.
Q1. In Somalia America
carried out air strikes against al-Shabaab jihadists ______________ of planting a car bomb on the ___________________ of Mogadishu that killed at least 80 people.
Column (A)
(1) laid
(2) suspected
(3) concealed
Column (B)
(4) downfall
(5) outskirts
(6) reflected
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q2. Binyamin
Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, said he would ask parliament to grant
him __________________ from _________________ in three corruption cases.
Column (A)
(1) immunity
(2) case
(3) freedom
Column (B)
(4) prosecution
(5) prison
(6) wanting
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q3. The country doesn’t
seem to have recovered from the __________________ caused by demonetisation and
GST; and it has found the ________________ to be halting.
Column (A)
(1) attack
(2) aloof
(3) convulsions
Column (B)
(4) view
(5) unworthy
(6) recovery
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q4. PAKISTAN closed
India’s Consulate General in Karachi in 1994, ________________ because of public anger in the country following
the __________________ of the Babri
Masjid in Ayodhya.
Column (A)
(1) ostensibly
(2) uncharitable
(3) obstructing
Column (B)
(4) destruction
(5) devaluation
(6) substantial
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q5. THE
grotesque Nirbhaya gangrape-murder case of December 2012 gets a closure with
the four death row convicts having _________________
the legal remedies in the seven-year trial and been finally sentenced to _________________ on January 22.
Column (A)
(1) damage
(2) exhausted
(3) reborn
Column (B)
(4) distort
(5) execution
(6) dubious
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q6. The
Pentagon’s ____________________ suggested there were no American casualties and
only _________________ damage in the attacks.
Column (A)
(1) assessments
(2) inevitable
(3) figures
Column (B)
(4) minimal
(5) unworthy
(6) past
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (b) & (c)
(e) None of the above
Q7. The international
community should now push for a diplomatic _______________
of the crisis and find ways to _____________
the nuclear deal which could bring long-term peace to the Gulf.
Column (A)
(1) contract
(2) cooperation
(3) settlement
Column (B)
(4) revisit
(5) spoil
(6) revive
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q8. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has ________________ a ₹ 2,700-crore master
plan to ________________ top
infrastructure that will house its young Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC).
Column (A)
(1) proposed
(2) seen
(3) chosen
Column (B)
(4) create
(5) obvious
(6) facility
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Directions (9-15):
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic
error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number
of that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’, the answer is option (e).
(Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)
Q9. The boy was trembling (A)/ with anger when she
drowned (B)/ all his books (C)/ and articles. (D)/ No error. (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q10. When asked, he (A)/ took tea (B)/ and said that
it (C)/ tasted sweetly. (D)/ No error. (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q11. Don’t talk to (A)/ him, he always (B)/remains in temper (C)/ these
days. (D)/ No error (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q12. People in Darwin (A)/ had become so accustomed to
cyclone warnings (B)/ that few of them paid any attention to the radio warnings
(C)/ which began this morning. (D)/ No error (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q13. Brahmaputra is (A)/ one of the longest rivers (B)/
that originate (C)/ in the Himalayas. (D)/ No error (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q14. The trees in the forest (A)/ must be properly
counted and numbered (B)/ and proper entries should be made (C)/ in the
register. (D) / No error. (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q15. These type of books (A)/ are certainly helpful to
the students (B)/ preparing for the banking (C)/ service examinations. (D)/ No
error. (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Solutions:
S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. The words ‘suspected’ and ‘outskirts’ can fill
in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and
contextually meaningful. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S2. Ans. (a)
Sol. The words
‘immunity’ and ‘prosecution’ can fill in the blanks consecutively
to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence,
option (a) is the right answer choice.
S3. Ans. (c)
Sol. The words ‘convulsions’ and ‘recovery’can fill in
the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually
meaningful. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
Convulsion means –‘a
sudden, violent, irregular movement of the body’
S4. Ans. (a)
Sol. The words ‘ostensibly’ and ‘destruction’ can fill in
the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and
contextually meaningful. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S5. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘exhausted ‘and
‘execution’ can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence
grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (b) is the
right answer choice.
S6. Ans. (a)
Sol. The words
‘assessments’ and ‘minimal’ can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the
sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (a)
is the right answer choice.
S7. Ans. (c)
Sol. The words ‘settlement’
and
‘revive’ can fill in the blanks consecutively to make
the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option
(c) is the right answer choice.
S8. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘proposed ‘and
‘create’ can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence
grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (a) is the
right answer choice.
S9. Ans. (e)
Sol. There is no error in the given statement.
S10. Ans. (d)
Sol. Replace ‘sweetly’ by ‘sweet’ as “taste, feel,
seem, appear, look, smell, remain, etc.” are ‘Copula Verbs’ or Linking Verbs
which take Adjective and not Adverb.
e.g. She tastes sweet [Adjective].
A rose smells sweet [Adjective].
She looks beautiful [Adjective].
She looks suspiciously [Adverb] at
him.
S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. In place of ‘in temper’, use ‘in a temper’ which
is idiomatic.
S12. Ans. (e)
Sol. Sentence is grammatically correct.
S13. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘Brahmaputra’ is the name of a river. Hence ‘The’
will be used before ‘Brahmaputra’.
S14. Ans. (e)
Sol. Sentence is grammatically correct.
S15. Ans. (a)
Sol. Use ‘types’ in place of ‘type’ because after
demonstrative adjectives like these/ those/ certain/ other etc. noun is always
in plural number.
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