Directions (1-5) following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some of the sentences have errors and some of the sentences have errors and some have none. find out which part of a sentence has an error. the number of that part is your answer. your answer is (4) i.e.. no error.
1..he is university professor
1. but of his threesons
2. neither has any merit
3. no error.
2. after knowing truth
1.they took the right decision
2. in the matter
3. no error
3. it is time you
1. decide on your next
2. course of action
3. no error
4. he who has suffered most
1. for the cause.
2. let him speak.
3. no error.
5. a cup of coffee
1. is an excelent complement
2. to smoked salmon
3 no error
Directions (6- 10) sentences are given with blans to to be filled in with an appropriate word (S). four alternatives are suggested for each question. choose the correct alternative out of the four.
6. the hotel was not too expensive.
1. was it.?
2. was not it ?
3. is it?
4. is not it ?
7. like humans, zoo animals must have a dentist....... their teeth.
1. fill
2. filled
3. filling
4. to be filled
8. it was very kind of you to do the washing up. but you ... it.
1.did not have to do
2. hadnot to do
3. might not have done
4. must have done
9. he went.......... sea lone.
1. in
2. to
3. into
4. on
10. the....... of our civilization from an agricultural society to todays complex industrial world was accompanied by war.
1. adjustment
2. migration
3. route
4. metamorphosis
Directions (11- 15) : in the following questions choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
11. florid
1. weak
2. pale.
3. monotonours
4. ugly
12. verity
1. sancuty
2. reverence
3. false hood
4. rarely
13. perspicuity
1. vagueness
2. dullness
3. unfairness
14. fervent 4. unwillingness
1. inexcilable
2. enduring
3. dispassionate
4. subdued
15. meandering
1. sliding
2. sloping
3. strained
4. straight
Directions (16- 20) : following questions out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresse the meaning of the given word.
16. luxuriant
1. luxury- loving
2. lovely
3. rich
4. abundant
17. cantankerous
1. cancerous
2. ferocious
3. quarrelsome
4. fissiparous
18. onus
1. sadness
2. happiness
3. responsibility
4. criticism
19. derision
1. humiliation
2. embarrasment
3. riducule
4. condemnation
20. trite
1. commonplace
2. clever
3. brief
4. impudent
Directions (21- 25) in the following questions a part of the sentences is bold part at 1, 2, 3 which may improve the sentence choose the correct alternative. incase no improvement is needed. your answer is 4.
21.obviously he is not cutup to be a good teacher.
1. cut up
2. cut in
3. cut for
4. no improvement
22. power got with money is the most craved for today
1. sought after
2. wished for
3. welcomed for
4. no improvement
23. the brown shirt want washin
1. has to wash
2. is in need of a wash
3. welcomed for
4. no improvement
24. you are asked to copy this letter word by word.
1 word for word
2 word with word
3. word to word
4. no improvement
25. the weak man is a slave to his sensuous pleasures.
1. sensory
2. sensual
3. secondary
4. no improvement
26. an underhand device resorted to in order to justify miscpmdict
1. subterfuge
2. manoeuve
3. stratagem
4. complicity
27. impossible to describe
1. miraculous
2. ineable
3. stupendous
4. appalling
28. one who eriticlses popular beliefs which he thinks is mistaken or unwise
1. philistine
2. iconoclast
3.imposter
4. cannibal
29. detaining and confining someone
1. interruption
2. detaing and confining someone
1. interuption
2. ineterrogation
3. interment
4. intermemt
30. science of the races of mankind
1. cenealogy
2. epistemology
3. ethnology
4. sociology
Directions 31-35: in the following questions, groups of four words are given in each group, one word is correctly spelt. find the corectly spelt word.
31. 1. collaborate 2. comemorate 3. colate 4. choclate
32. 1. circulteous 2. clalvoyant 3. chiveley 4. cavelcade
33. 1. severety 2. sovereignity 3. superiorty 4. serenity
34. 1. cummulative 2. comemmorative 3. accummulative 4. accommodative
35. 1. benidiction 2. besmerch 3. beeficient 4. benevolence
Directions 36-40 in the following questions, the 1st and the last sentences of the passage are numbered 1 and 6. the rest of the passage is split into four parts are not given in their proper order. read the sentence and find out which of the four combinations is correct. then find the correct answers.
36. p1 education in india had a glorious begining. p but after the british rule, it faced many changes q it went on for centuries with the same glory. r english as the medium of insiruction had a very great response. s one of the changes was the introduction of english as the medium of unstruction 6. as the britishers left we had a complexityi of opinions regarding english
1. pqrs
2. qpsr
3. pqsr
4. srpq
37. 1. it is easy to criticize the people at the helm. for the slow progress in every field. p. we are well award that the intellectuals are leaving our country for better employment opportunities q . then question remains unanswered because our country cannot show opportunities to the intellectuals. r. then, what about their obligation to the motherland> s. first, we should ask ourselves as to what is happening to the motherland? s. first, we should ask ourseives as to what is happening to the young intellectuals in india. 6. this situation of brain drain leads to a verfetyi of problems.
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2. qprs
3. prsq
4. qrps
38. 1. it is the responsibility of parents to teach the young (moral values in life) p. many chilldren take advantage of their parents busy schedule q. this results in childrens ignorance of social values. r. the reason behind it is that parents are quite busy nowdays. s. nowadays parents spend very meagretime with children. 6. as such, the sociey is going away from the value system.
1. srpq
2. pqrs
3. sqrp
4. spqr
39. 1. the man who does his duty without any selfish desire for fruit may be called a sanyasi as well as yogi. p. the man who has achieved much evenness of temper will be serene, because his mere thoughts are changed with the strength o action q. he would practise yoga, i..e.. evenness of temper, and cannot but perform action r. the root of the matter is that one should not allow his mind to first from object of desire to another and from that to a third. s . but he who abstains from action altogether is only an kller. 6. a yogi is one who is not attached to his objects of senseor to action and whose mind has ceased to roam restlessy
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2. rqps
3. qrsp
4. prsq
40. 1. this was an important day for al at took. p. it was a cold day, but alatook would be warm. q. for the first time he was going to hunt seals alone. r. first he put on his fur lined jacket. s. then he put on mittens and boots of dcerskin to protect his hands and feet from the cold. 6. finally he picked up the gun he had cleaned so carefully the day before.
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2. qprs
3. prsq
4. qrps
41. they have made a film based on this novel 1. a film was based this novel and made. 2. a film have been made based on this novel 3. a film based on this novel has been made 4. a film has been based and made on this novel 42. the people couldnt move me to the hospital and the doctor operated on me at home
1. i could not be moved to the hospital and was operated on at home by the doctor.
2. i could not be moved to the hospital and i had to be open ated on at home.
3. i could not be moved to the hospital and i was operated at home by the doctor.
4. i couldnot be moved to the hospital by the people and operated on at home.
43. why did he deprive you of the membership?
1 why you were deprived of the membership?
2. why were you deprived of his member ship by him?
3. why was he deprived of his membership
4. why were you deprived of your membership by him
