1. The dowry will soon be a thing of the past in our country. (disagree)
(1) No. It cannot
(2) No. It won’t
(3) No. It does not
(4) No. It has not
Answer: (2) No. It won’t
2. It injures the girl’s self-respect, puts her family to great financial strain and debases the man’s
attitude towards his wife. (agree)
(1) Yes. It does
(2) Yes. It is
(3) Yes. It has
(4) Yes. It cannot
Answer: (1) Yes. It does
3. What about parents, politicians and officials ? Should they also behave properly ? (agree)
(1) No. They cannot
(2) Yes. They can
(3) Yes. They must
(4) Yes. They should
Answer: (4) Yes. They should
Directions : Each of the question from 4-7 has four sentences in the form of four options. You have to identify the most appropriate sentence out of them and mark the corresponding answer in your answer sheet.
4. (1) He is gifted with a talent for painting.
(2) He is gifted in a talent for painting.
(3) He is gifted for a talent for painting.
(4) He is gifted under a talent for painting.
Answer: (1) He is gifted with a talent for painting.
5. (1) He is worthy of our reverence and esteem.
(2) He is worthy in our reverence and esteem.
(3) He is worthy upon our reverence and esteem.
(4) He is worthy for our reverence and esteem.
Answer: (1) He is worthy of our reverence and esteem.
6. (1) Neither the Principal or the Lecturer were present at the meeting.
(2) Neither the Principal nor the Lecturers were present at the meeting.
(3) Neither the Principal nor the Lecturers was present at the meeting.
(4) Neither the Principal nor the Lecturers have present at the meeting.
Answer: (2) Neither the Principal nor the Lecturers were present at the meeting.
7. (1) You must learn to adapt yourself to changing circumstances.
(2) You must learn to adopt yourself to changing circumstances.
(3) You must learn to adept yourself to changing circumstances.
(4) You must learn to adapt himself to changing circumstances.
Answer: (1) You must learn to adapt yourself to changing circumstances.
Directions : For Question Nos. 8-11, choose the word which is an antonym of the given word and mark the appropriate answer in your answer sheet.
8. Wax
(1) Wane
(2) Wear
(3) Whine
(4) Wean
Answer: (1) Wane
9. Plebeian
(1) Aristocratic
(2) Uncultivated
(3) Ordinary
(4) Impoverished
Answer: (1) Aristocratic
10. Hackneyed
(1) Prosaic
(2) Humdrum
(3) Laconic
(4) Imaginative
Answer: (4) Imaginative
11. Obliterate
(1) Formulate
(2) Annihilate
(3) Expunge
(4) Delete
Answer: (1) Formulate
Directions : For Question Nos. 12-15, choose the most appropriate meaning for the underlined idioms and phrases in the sentence and mark the correct answer in your answer sheet.
12. The belief in witchcraft is losing ground
(1) Less acceptable or less powerful
(2) Lost earth
(3) Loss is on the ground
(4) Witchcraft has gone to the bottom
Answer: (1) Less acceptable or less powerful
13. The controversy is likely to create bad blood between the two communities.
(1) ill – feeling
(2) impure blood
(3) bad genetic factors
(4) black blood
Answer: (1) ill – feeling
14. He is not a great lawyer but he has the gift of the gab
(1) gift of the cab
(2) talent for speaking
(3) got gift from the cab driver
(4) gift of rules
Answer: (2) talent for speaking
15. This is more than flesh and blood can endure.
(1) Solid and Liquid
(2) Whole body
(3) Flesh as well as blood
(4) Human nature
Answer:
Directions : For Question Nos. 16-19, choose the answer which is nearest in the meaning (synonym) for the underlined word and mark the appropriate answer in your answer sheet.
16. Some of our leaders carry themselves with great panache.
(1) Snobbishness
(2) Style
(3) Arrogance
(4) Wisdom
Answer: (2) Style
17. You ought to be aware of the ramification of your speech.
(1) Matter
(2) Strength
(3) Consequence
(4) Value
Answer: (3) Consequence
18. His singing had a soporific effect on the audience.
(1) Soothing
(2) Painful
(3) Agonising
(4) Inducing drowsiness
Answer: (4) Inducing drowsiness
19. It was suggested that residents in the vicinity should eschew meat
during the festival.
(1) Accept
(2) Reject
(3) Serve
(4) Abstain from
Answer: (4) Abstain from
Directions : For the Question Nos. 20-23, read the following passage and mark the correct answer for the questions given below in your answer sheet. Traditional body signage seems largely to have disappeared. Well, many of the old symbols and names are still around, of course, but they are part of the commercial range of options. Seeing someone in a Harvard or Oxford sweatshirt or a kilt or a military tie now communicates nothing at all significant about that person’s life other than the personal choice of a particular consumer. Religious signs are still evocative, to be sure, but are far less common than they used to be. Why should this be ? I suspect one reason may be that we have lost a sense of significant connection to the various things indicated by such signs. Proclaiming our high school or university or our athletic team or our community has a much lower priority now-a-days, in part because we live such rapidly changing lives in a society marked by constant motion that the stability essential to confer significance on such signs has largely gone. But we still must attach ourselves to something. Lacking the conviction that the traditional things matter, we turn to the last resort of the modern world : the market. Here there is a vast array of options, all equally meaningless in terms of traditional values, all equally important in identifying the one thing left to us for declaring our identity publicly, our fashion sense and disposable income. The market naturally manipulates the labels, making sure we keep purchasing what will most quickly declare us excellent consumers. If this year a Chicago Bulls jacket or Air Jordan shoes are so popular that we are prepared to spend our way into a trendy identity, then next year there will be something else.
20. The main purpose of the passage is to
(1) Discuss basketball’s importance in today’s fashions
(2) Relate the tribal history of tattoos
(3) Help the reader discover his or her own true identity
(4) Discuss commercialism’s powerful influence upon personal identity
Answer: (4) Discuss commercialism’s powerful influence upon personal identity
21. What does the author mean by the commercial range of options ?
(1) The variety of commercials on television and radio
(2) The numerous products available to today’s consumer
(3) The ability to shop on the Internet
(4) Technology’s impact upon the world
Answer: (2) The numerous products available to today’s consumer
22. The author would agree with all the following statements EXCEPT :
(1) A person wearing a New York Yankees baseball hat is not necessarily a fan of the team or a resident of New York.
(2) Pride in our school or community is not as strong today as it was years ago.
(3) In today’s society, being trendy is more important than keeping tradition.
(4) You can tell a lot about somebody by what they are wearing.
Answer: (4) You can tell a lot about somebody by what they are wearing.
23. Which statement best simplifies the author’s point of view of today’s society ?
(1) Times have changed.
(2) People’s lives today are very similar to those of a generation ago.
(3) Fashion is very important in today’s world.
(4) People today don’t have proper nutrition.
Answer: (1) Times have changed.
Directions : For Question Nos. 24-26, read the following passage and mark the correct answer for the questions given below in your answer sheet. Competencies are probably most closely related to abilities. However, in our craft, the term ability normally means either able to do or a special talent; while competencies relate more to expertise and experience. Competencies can be thought of as the state or quality of being well qualified to perform a task. A person gains a competency through education, training, experience, or natural abilities. While there are many definitions of competency, most of them have two common elements : that competency is an observable and measurable knowledge, and that the knowledge and skills must distinguish between superior performers and other performers. Since, its initial conception, attitudes, traits or personalities have also played a major role in competencies, even though they are not normally thought of as being observable and measurable.
24. Identify the aspect that has not played a major role in competencies.
(1) Attitudes
(2) Personalities
(3) Traits
(4) Dearth
Answer: (1) Times have changed.
25. How is competency gained ?
1. Through natural abilities
2. Education
3. Training
4. Illiteracy
(1) 1 and 4
(2) 2 and 4
(3) 1, 2 and 4
(4) 1, 2 and 3
Answer: (4) 1, 2 and 3
26. Which among the following is a measurable element of competency ?
(1) Attitude
(2) Traits
(3) Knowledge
(4) Personalities
Answer: (3) Knowledge
Directions : For questions 27 to 31 read the sentences given below, choose the appropriate answer and mark it in your answer sheet
27. The father said, “my son is gifted with remarkable imagination” and his writing reveals that he has an old head on young shoulders. What does the underlined part mean ?
(1) Having old head on young body.
(2) To be much wiser than one’s age.
(3) To think more and do less.
(4) To be engrossed in the poetry.
Answer: (2) To be much wiser than one’s age.
28. Before the game started, coach told the players to gird up their loins for the contest ahead. By underlined part what did he mean ?
(1) It is essential to win.
(2) Prepare yourself mentally for the contest.
(3) You should not loose hope.
(4) Game is important, not victory or defeat.
Answer: (2) Prepare yourself mentally for the contest.
29. In Los Angeles, waiters trying to become famous actors are a dime a dozen. What does the underlined part mean ?
(1) Very costly.
(2) Mostly unavailable when required.
(3) So abundant or common as to hold little or no value.
(4) Very hard working.
Answer: (3) So abundant or common as to hold little or no value.
30. When Harish’s parents stopped giving him money to pay his bills and told him to get a job, it was bitter pill for him to swallow. What does the underlined part mean ?
(1) He was not well but didn’t want medicine.
(2) He was very imaginative.
(3) He was in an unwanted and unpleasant situation which he was forced to accept.
(4) He took control of his situation.
Answer: (3) He was in an unwanted and unpleasant situation which he was forced to accept.
31. I think I bit off more than I could chew when I agreed to prepare food for all the family members.
What does the underlined part mean ?
(1) Feeling stuffed with food.
(2) Not willing to cook food for the family.
(3) Trying to do more than capable of doing.
(4) Wanted to prepare good food for all family members.
Answer: (3) Trying to do more than capable of doing.
Directions (Q. Nos. 32-35) : The questions are designed to test your knowledge of English Vocabulary. Choose the correct word from the options given below and shade/blacken it on the answer sheet.
32. A collection of poems is known as
(1) Anthology
(2) Almanac
(3) Arsenal
(4) Cavalry
Answer: (1) Anthology
33. The act of speaking disrespectfully about sacred things is known as :
(1) Grandiloquence
(2) Blasphemy
(3) Magniloquence
(4) Rhetoric
Answer: (2) Blasphemy
34. Someone or something incapable of being corrected
(1) Inevitable
(2) Illegible
(3) Incorrigible
(4) Insolvent
Answer: (3) Incorrigible
35. A person who is indifferent to pleasure and pain and has control over his emotions.
(1) Truant
(2) Stoic
(3) Teetotaller
(4) Somnambulist
Answer: (2) Stoic
(1) No. It cannot
(2) No. It won’t
(3) No. It does not
(4) No. It has not
Answer: (2) No. It won’t
2. It injures the girl’s self-respect, puts her family to great financial strain and debases the man’s
attitude towards his wife. (agree)
(1) Yes. It does
(2) Yes. It is
(3) Yes. It has
(4) Yes. It cannot
Answer: (1) Yes. It does
3. What about parents, politicians and officials ? Should they also behave properly ? (agree)
(1) No. They cannot
(2) Yes. They can
(3) Yes. They must
(4) Yes. They should
Answer: (4) Yes. They should
Directions : Each of the question from 4-7 has four sentences in the form of four options. You have to identify the most appropriate sentence out of them and mark the corresponding answer in your answer sheet.
4. (1) He is gifted with a talent for painting.
(2) He is gifted in a talent for painting.
(3) He is gifted for a talent for painting.
(4) He is gifted under a talent for painting.
Answer: (1) He is gifted with a talent for painting.
5. (1) He is worthy of our reverence and esteem.
(2) He is worthy in our reverence and esteem.
(3) He is worthy upon our reverence and esteem.
(4) He is worthy for our reverence and esteem.
Answer: (1) He is worthy of our reverence and esteem.
6. (1) Neither the Principal or the Lecturer were present at the meeting.
(2) Neither the Principal nor the Lecturers were present at the meeting.
(3) Neither the Principal nor the Lecturers was present at the meeting.
(4) Neither the Principal nor the Lecturers have present at the meeting.
Answer: (2) Neither the Principal nor the Lecturers were present at the meeting.
(2) You must learn to adopt yourself to changing circumstances.
(3) You must learn to adept yourself to changing circumstances.
(4) You must learn to adapt himself to changing circumstances.
Answer: (1) You must learn to adapt yourself to changing circumstances.
8. Wax
(1) Wane
(2) Wear
(3) Whine
(4) Wean
Answer: (1) Wane
9. Plebeian
(1) Aristocratic
(2) Uncultivated
(3) Ordinary
(4) Impoverished
Answer: (1) Aristocratic
10. Hackneyed
(1) Prosaic
(2) Humdrum
(3) Laconic
(4) Imaginative
Answer: (4) Imaginative
11. Obliterate
(1) Formulate
(2) Annihilate
(3) Expunge
(4) Delete
Answer: (1) Formulate
Directions : For Question Nos. 12-15, choose the most appropriate meaning for the underlined idioms and phrases in the sentence and mark the correct answer in your answer sheet.
12. The belief in witchcraft is losing ground
(1) Less acceptable or less powerful
(2) Lost earth
(3) Loss is on the ground
(4) Witchcraft has gone to the bottom
Answer: (1) Less acceptable or less powerful
13. The controversy is likely to create bad blood between the two communities.
(1) ill – feeling
(2) impure blood
(3) bad genetic factors
(4) black blood
Answer: (1) ill – feeling
14. He is not a great lawyer but he has the gift of the gab
(1) gift of the cab
(2) talent for speaking
(3) got gift from the cab driver
(4) gift of rules
Answer: (2) talent for speaking
15. This is more than flesh and blood can endure.
(1) Solid and Liquid
(2) Whole body
(3) Flesh as well as blood
(4) Human nature
Answer:
Directions : For Question Nos. 16-19, choose the answer which is nearest in the meaning (synonym) for the underlined word and mark the appropriate answer in your answer sheet.
16. Some of our leaders carry themselves with great panache.
(1) Snobbishness
(2) Style
(3) Arrogance
(4) Wisdom
Answer: (2) Style
17. You ought to be aware of the ramification of your speech.
(1) Matter
(2) Strength
(3) Consequence
(4) Value
Answer: (3) Consequence
18. His singing had a soporific effect on the audience.
(1) Soothing
(2) Painful
(3) Agonising
(4) Inducing drowsiness
Answer: (4) Inducing drowsiness
19. It was suggested that residents in the vicinity should eschew meat
during the festival.
(1) Accept
(2) Reject
(3) Serve
(4) Abstain from
Answer: (4) Abstain from
Directions : For the Question Nos. 20-23, read the following passage and mark the correct answer for the questions given below in your answer sheet. Traditional body signage seems largely to have disappeared. Well, many of the old symbols and names are still around, of course, but they are part of the commercial range of options. Seeing someone in a Harvard or Oxford sweatshirt or a kilt or a military tie now communicates nothing at all significant about that person’s life other than the personal choice of a particular consumer. Religious signs are still evocative, to be sure, but are far less common than they used to be. Why should this be ? I suspect one reason may be that we have lost a sense of significant connection to the various things indicated by such signs. Proclaiming our high school or university or our athletic team or our community has a much lower priority now-a-days, in part because we live such rapidly changing lives in a society marked by constant motion that the stability essential to confer significance on such signs has largely gone. But we still must attach ourselves to something. Lacking the conviction that the traditional things matter, we turn to the last resort of the modern world : the market. Here there is a vast array of options, all equally meaningless in terms of traditional values, all equally important in identifying the one thing left to us for declaring our identity publicly, our fashion sense and disposable income. The market naturally manipulates the labels, making sure we keep purchasing what will most quickly declare us excellent consumers. If this year a Chicago Bulls jacket or Air Jordan shoes are so popular that we are prepared to spend our way into a trendy identity, then next year there will be something else.
20. The main purpose of the passage is to
(1) Discuss basketball’s importance in today’s fashions
(2) Relate the tribal history of tattoos
(3) Help the reader discover his or her own true identity
(4) Discuss commercialism’s powerful influence upon personal identity
Answer: (4) Discuss commercialism’s powerful influence upon personal identity
(1) The variety of commercials on television and radio
(2) The numerous products available to today’s consumer
(3) The ability to shop on the Internet
(4) Technology’s impact upon the world
Answer: (2) The numerous products available to today’s consumer
22. The author would agree with all the following statements EXCEPT :
(1) A person wearing a New York Yankees baseball hat is not necessarily a fan of the team or a resident of New York.
(2) Pride in our school or community is not as strong today as it was years ago.
(3) In today’s society, being trendy is more important than keeping tradition.
(4) You can tell a lot about somebody by what they are wearing.
Answer: (4) You can tell a lot about somebody by what they are wearing.
23. Which statement best simplifies the author’s point of view of today’s society ?
(1) Times have changed.
(2) People’s lives today are very similar to those of a generation ago.
(3) Fashion is very important in today’s world.
(4) People today don’t have proper nutrition.
Answer: (1) Times have changed.
24. Identify the aspect that has not played a major role in competencies.
(1) Attitudes
(2) Personalities
(3) Traits
(4) Dearth
Answer: (1) Times have changed.
25. How is competency gained ?
1. Through natural abilities
2. Education
3. Training
4. Illiteracy
(1) 1 and 4
(2) 2 and 4
(3) 1, 2 and 4
(4) 1, 2 and 3
Answer: (4) 1, 2 and 3
26. Which among the following is a measurable element of competency ?
(1) Attitude
(2) Traits
(3) Knowledge
(4) Personalities
Answer: (3) Knowledge
Directions : For questions 27 to 31 read the sentences given below, choose the appropriate answer and mark it in your answer sheet
27. The father said, “my son is gifted with remarkable imagination” and his writing reveals that he has an old head on young shoulders. What does the underlined part mean ?
(1) Having old head on young body.
(2) To be much wiser than one’s age.
(3) To think more and do less.
(4) To be engrossed in the poetry.
Answer: (2) To be much wiser than one’s age.
28. Before the game started, coach told the players to gird up their loins for the contest ahead. By underlined part what did he mean ?
(1) It is essential to win.
(2) Prepare yourself mentally for the contest.
(3) You should not loose hope.
(4) Game is important, not victory or defeat.
Answer: (2) Prepare yourself mentally for the contest.
(1) Very costly.
(2) Mostly unavailable when required.
(3) So abundant or common as to hold little or no value.
(4) Very hard working.
Answer: (3) So abundant or common as to hold little or no value.
30. When Harish’s parents stopped giving him money to pay his bills and told him to get a job, it was bitter pill for him to swallow. What does the underlined part mean ?
(1) He was not well but didn’t want medicine.
(2) He was very imaginative.
(3) He was in an unwanted and unpleasant situation which he was forced to accept.
(4) He took control of his situation.
Answer: (3) He was in an unwanted and unpleasant situation which he was forced to accept.
31. I think I bit off more than I could chew when I agreed to prepare food for all the family members.
What does the underlined part mean ?
(1) Feeling stuffed with food.
(2) Not willing to cook food for the family.
(3) Trying to do more than capable of doing.
(4) Wanted to prepare good food for all family members.
Answer: (3) Trying to do more than capable of doing.
Directions (Q. Nos. 32-35) : The questions are designed to test your knowledge of English Vocabulary. Choose the correct word from the options given below and shade/blacken it on the answer sheet.
32. A collection of poems is known as
(1) Anthology
(2) Almanac
(3) Arsenal
(4) Cavalry
Answer: (1) Anthology
33. The act of speaking disrespectfully about sacred things is known as :
(1) Grandiloquence
(2) Blasphemy
(3) Magniloquence
(4) Rhetoric
Answer: (2) Blasphemy
34. Someone or something incapable of being corrected
(1) Inevitable
(2) Illegible
(3) Incorrigible
(4) Insolvent
Answer: (3) Incorrigible
35. A person who is indifferent to pleasure and pain and has control over his emotions.
(1) Truant
(2) Stoic
(3) Teetotaller
(4) Somnambulist
Answer: (2) Stoic
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