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- Question
Four words are given, out of which only one word is spelt correctly. Choose the correctly spelt word and click the button corresponding to it.
Options- A. Tranquility
- B. Tranquillity
- C. Trankquility
- D. Trankwility
- Correct Answer
- Tranquillity
- 1. In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word .
Options- A. arogance
- B. arroganse
- C. aroganse
- D. arrogance Discuss
- 2. The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph. Cars were owned by A-only a privileged few and B-my class of society was C-as yet untouched by it
Options- A. ABC
- B. CBA
- C. CAB
- D. BCA Discuss
- 3. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence. A military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force
Options- A. Junta
- B. Suffrage
- C. Emancipation
- D. Egalitarianism Discuss
- 4. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase. Zip your lip
Options- A. Keep quiet about something.
- B. To talk fast.
- C. To not think before speaking.
- D. The silence before a storm Discuss
- 5. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it. Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at secondhand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his nextdoor neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective. The given passage implies that
Options- A. knowledge of the learned is exclusive to them
- B. a learned man cannot deliver lectures
- C. a learned man is not interested in Calmuc Tartars
- D. a learned man is not aware of the optics and the rules of perspective Discuss
- 6. In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it. Smell a rat
Options- A. Suspect something wrong
- B. Smell a burned rat
- C. Smell a rotten rat
- D. Smell something right Discuss
- 7. A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it. Man's attitude to various animals changed many times in the course of centuries. From indifference or practicality, he went on to adoration and deification, and then to hatred. Ancient Egyptians, for example, highly appreciated the cat's ability to destroy rodents. The cat was much superior in this respect to the grasssnakes and weasels they had kept in their houses before. These proved unable to cope with hordes of rats which invaded Egypt from Asia. So the cat, a very useful animal, was ranked as a sacred animal and one of the most important animals, too. The goddess of the Moon, fertility and childbirth, Bast herself was portrayed by the Egyptians as a woman with a cat's head. Sumptuous temples were built to this goddess, where cats were kept in luxury and fed the choicest of foods. They had their own priests and votaries, more numerous as a matter of fact than any other sacred animal could boast. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the festival in the city of Bubastis, which had a temple dedicated to cats, was attended by as many as 700 thousand, who brought their offerings to the goddess in the shape of figurines of her made of gold, silver and bronze and adorned with precious stones. Hordes of rats invaded Egypt. They came from _____ .
Options- A. Europe
- B. Asia
- C. Asia Minor
- D. Africa Discuss
- 8. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it. Reporters and city officials gathered at a Chicago railroad station one afternoon in 1953. The person they were meeting was the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner. A few minutes after the train came to a stop, a giant of a man - six feet four inches - with bushy hair and a large moustache stepped out from the train. Cameras flashed. City officials approached him with hands outstretched. Various people began telling him how honoured they were to meet him. The man politely thanked them and then, looking over their heads, asked if he could be excused for a moment. He quickly walked through the crowd until he reached the side of an elderly black woman who was struggling with two large suitcases. He picked up the bags with a smile, escorted the woman to a bus. After helping her aboard, he wished her a safe journey. As he returned to the greeting party he apologized, "Sorry to have kept you waiting." Not many whites would have done what he did. The man was Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the famous missionary doctor who had spent his life helping the poor in Africa. In response to Dr. Schweitzer's action, one member of the reception committee said with great admiration to the reporter standing next to him, "That's the first time I ever saw a sermon walking." Dr. Albert preferred to let his actions _____ .
Options- A. speak louder than his words
- B. be admired
- C. be advertised
- D. be written about Discuss
- 9. In the following questions, one part of the sentence may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and click the button corresponding to it. If the sentence is free from error, click the "No error" option. On being called, (A) / all of us (B) / entered into the room. (C) / No Error (D)
Options- A. A
- B. B
- C. C
- D. D Discuss
- 10. In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice. The painter painted the entire bungalow.
Options- A. The entire bungalow is painted by the painter.
- B. Painting of the entire bungalow was done by the painter.
- C. The entire bungalow was painted by the painter.
- D. Painting of the entire bungalow is done by the painter. Discuss
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Correct Answer: arrogance
Correct Answer: ABC
Correct Answer: Junta
Correct Answer: Keep quiet about something.
Correct Answer: knowledge of the learned is exclusive to them
Correct Answer: Suspect something wrong
Correct Answer: Asia
Correct Answer: speak louder than his words
Correct Answer: C
Correct Answer: The entire bungalow is painted by the painter.
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