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  • Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.


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  • A. To drain water away from the tracks, railroad beds, like road beds, are designed in which there is usually a bed of rock and gravel resulting in fast drainage from the tracks.
  • B. Railroad beds, like road beds, are designed in which there is usually a bed of rock and gravel that results in the fast drainage from the tracks.
  • C. A bed of rock and gravel, called the railroad bed, is designed similar to a road bed to drain water away from the tracks.
  • D. Railroad beds, like road beds, are designed to drain water apart from the tracks, so there is usually a bed of rock and gravel resulting in fast drainage away from the tracks.

  • Correct Answer
  • Railroad beds, like road beds, are designed to drain water apart from the tracks, so there is usually a bed of rock and gravel resulting in fast drainage away from the tracks. 

    Explanation

    ?apart? is incorrect after ?to drain water?

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    • 1. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.

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    • A. Many Japanese cities had extensive tram systems until the 1960s, when increased motorization started to make some lines disappear.
    • B. Increased motorization started to make some lines disappear after the1960s until when many Japanese cities had extensive tram systems.
    • C. When increased motorization started to make lines disappear, many Japanese cities have extensive tram systems until the 1960s.
    • D. Until the 1960s, when increased motorization started to make some lines disappear, many Japanese cities had extensive tram systems.
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    • 2. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.

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    • A. Archaeological research in Sarasota documents more than ten thousand years of seasonal occupation by native people.
    • B. More than ten thousand years of seasonal occupation by native people have been documented in the archaeological research in Sarasota.
    • C. Sarasota?s archaeological research has recorded more than ten thousand years of seasonal occupation by native people.
    • D. The seasonality in native people has been documented in Sarasota?s archaeological research.
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    • 3. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.

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    • A. Racing for the bus, her bag flew open and all the documents were lost.
    • B. As she raced for the bus, her bag flew open making the documents lost.
    • C. Racing for the bus, her bag flung open and all the documents were lost.
    • D. The documents were lost, when racing for the bus, her bag flung open.
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    • 4. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.

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    • A. The Trump administration is intensifying its effort to crack down the so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal immigration authorities.
    • B. Efforts were intensified by the Trump administration to crack down the sanctuary cities that refused to comply with federal immigration authorities.
    • C. The so-called sanctuary cities that refused to abide by the federal immigration authorities will be cracked down by the intensified efforts of the Trump administration.
    • D. Federal immigration authorities must be complied into by sanctuary cities if the efforts of the Trump Administration must be intensified.
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    • 5. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.

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    • A. Dark web transactions were initially carried out using legally state-issued currencies.
    • B. The initial dark web transactions were carried out by legal state-issues currencies.
    • C. The legal state-issued currencies were used to initially carry in the transactions between the dark webs.
    • D. Legal state-issued currencies were initially used to carrying out dark web transactions.
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    • 6. A shopkeeper mixed two verities of rice at Rs. 40/kg and Rs.60/kg in the ratio 3: 2 and sold the mixture at 10% profit. Find the price per kg at which he sold the mixture?

    • Options
    • A. Rs. 56
    • B. Rs. 58.8
    • C. Rs. 54
    • D. Rs. 52.8
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    • 7. The speed of a boat when travelling downstream is 32 km/h, whereas when travelling upstream it is 28 km/h. What is the speed of the boat in still water?

    • Options
    • A. 27 km/h
    • B. 29 km/h
    • C. 31 km/h
    • D. Cannot be determined
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    • 8. In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'. Their luggages which were(A)/kept at the station's(B)/ restroom's lockers, were later retrieved.(C)/No error(D)

    • Options
    • A. A
    • B. B
    • C. C
    • D. D
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    • 9. In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option. The warning bells __________several times before anyone realized the danger.

    • Options
    • A. were ringing
    • B. had rung
    • C. had rang
    • D. would have rung
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    • 10. Select the antonym of sacred

    • Options
    • A. pious
    • B. hallowed
    • C. divine
    • D. profane
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