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  • Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. The communities of ants are sometimes very large, (numbered) even upto 500 individuals: and it is a lesson to us that no one has ever yet seen quarrel between any two ants belonging to the same community.


  • Options
  • A. number
  • B. numerous
  • C. numbering
  • D. No improvement

  • Correct Answer
  • numbering 

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    • 1. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. The feminist criticism (has become) a political discourse; a critical and theoretical practice committed to the struggle against patriarchy and sexism.

    • Options
    • A. have becoming
    • B. has became
    • C. became
    • D. No improvement
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    • 2. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In the eighteenth century, Japan's feudal overlords, from the shogun to the humblest samurai, found themselves (on) financial stress.

    • Options
    • A. of
    • B. for
    • C. under
    • D. No improvement
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    • 3. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the free enterprise system is the (much) efficient economic system.

    • Options
    • A. most
    • B. many
    • C. mere
    • D. No improvement
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    • 4. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. Our biological knowledge of even some of the commonest animals is (embarrassed) slight and it is here that zoos can be of inestimable value in amassing information.

    • Options
    • A. embarrass
    • B. embarrassingly
    • C. embarrassing
    • D. No improvement
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    • 5. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. The student of human history can draw on many more natural experiments (than) just comparisons among the five inhabited continents.

    • Options
    • A. to
    • B. of
    • C. for
    • D. no improvement
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    • 6. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. Higher crude oil prices have doubtlessly provided a significant fiscal boost in the past several months, although any (flair on) going forward can lead to a price spiral that would have other untoward consequences as well.

    • Options
    • A. flair in
    • B. flare at
    • C. flare up
    • D. No improvement
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    • 7. In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech. The teacher said to the students, "Work hard now if you wish to have a better future."

    • Options
    • A. The teacher advised the students to work hard then if they wished to have a better future.
    • B. The teacher advised the students to work hard now if they wished to have a better future.
    • C. The teacher advised the students to work hard then if they wish to have a better future.
    • D. The teacher advised the students to work hard now if they wish to have a better future.
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    • 8. In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech. "Do you have anything to tell me, my angel?" said her mother.

    • Options
    • A. Her mother asked if she has anything to tell her.
    • B. Her mother asked if she had anything to tell me.
    • C. Her mother asked if she had anything to tell her.
    • D. Her mother asked if she has anything to tell me.
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    • 9. In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech. ?Bring me my spectacles,? said grandfather to me.

    • Options
    • A. Grandfather ordered me and brought him his spectacles.
    • B. Grandfather ordered me to have brought to him his spectacles.
    • C. Grandfather ordered me to bring him his spectacles.
    • D. Grandfather ordered myself to bring his spectacles to where he was.
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    • 10. In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech. They said, ?We pray everyday.?

    • Options
    • A. They said that they have been praying every day.
    • B. They said that they pray every day.
    • C. They said that they prayed every day.
    • D. They said that we prayed every day.
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