FCI Phase 1 English Quiz 2022 : 27th September – Miscellaneous

TOPIC: Miscellaneous

Directions (1-5): Find out the error, if any. If there is no error, the answer is (e), i.e. No error. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)

Q1. The number of students ( 1)/ from India in the US (2)/ have dropped for the (3)/ second successive year. (4)/ No error (5)
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) 5

Q2. Ravindra Jadeja became (1)/ one of the few Indian player (2)/ to have scored two triple centuries (3)/ in first class cricket. (4)/ No error (5)
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) 5

Q3. I bade him (1)/ to submit all the important documents (2)/ before he left (3)/ for the meeting. (4)/ No error (5).
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) 5

Q4. District police arrested (1)/a gang of notorious robbers, (2)/who were planning to strike at (3)/a house in the vicinity. (4)/No error(5)
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) 5

Q5. The court acquitted him from the charges (1)/ of robbery dismissing the evidences as “unworthy of credence”(2)/ but held him guilty (3)/ of carrying stolen items. (4)/ No error (e)
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) 5

Directions (6-15): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

(6) a country needs money for a development project, what can it do? It can (7) to the World Bank or Asian Development Bank for aid. A country with a foreign currency problem can ask the International Monetary Fund for (8). However, (9) there is no way out for a country which has shortage of food. The country cannot (10) import the food if it is rare like pulses which are grown only by a few countries. In such cases the problem is more (11).
This situation has led experts to suggest the (12) of establishing a World Agricultural Bank. The food situation today is serious since production is not keeping (13) with demand. The World Agricultural Bank can therefore be established by member-countries who have to (14) both capital as well as surplus food to the Bank. The stocks would form a corpus which would be used to assist members in (15) of distress.

Q6.
(a) Though
(b) Supposed
(c) Unless
(d) That
(e) When

Q7.
(a) appeals
(b) go
(c) approached
(d) solicit
(e) requests

Q8.
(a) backing
(b) helping
(c) solution
(d) assistants
(e) relieve

Q9.
(a) simple
(b) during
(c) fact
(d) presently
(e) while

Q10.
(a) attempt
(b) yet
(c) even
(d) try
(e) start

Q11.
(a) address
(b) acute
(c) declined
(d) achievable
(e) prohibited

Q12.
(a) object
(b) implementation
(c) knowledge
(d) advice
(e) idea

Q13.
(a) up
(b) ahead
(c) paced
(d) lines
(e) tuned

Q14.
(a) demand
(b) share
(c) benefit
(d) contribute
(e) fund

Q15.
(a) controls
(b) combats
(c) times
(d) needs
(e) areas

Solutions

S1. Ans. (c)
Sol. Replace ‘have’ with ‘has’.

S2. Ans. (b)
Sol. Use ‘players’ in place of ‘player’

S3. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘bade’ takes ‘plain infinitive’ (V1) after it and not ‘infinitive’ (to + infinitive). So, change ‘to submit’ into ‘submit’.

S4.Ans.(c)
Sol. Remove ‘at’ from the expression. With ‘at’ the meaning comes as ‘to’ attack someone.

S5.Ans.(a)
Sol. Replace ‘from’ with ‘of’

S6.Ans.(e)
S7.Ans.(b)
S8.Ans.(a)
S9.Ans.(d)
S10.Ans.(c)
S11.Ans.(b)
S12.Ans.(e)
S13.Ans.(a)
S14.Ans.(d)
S15.Ans.(c)