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No one is ______about Rahul; he inspires either uncritical adulation or profound _____in those who work for him.
(a) neutral…antipathy
(b) infuriated…aversion
(c) enthusiastic…veneration
(d) apprehensive…consternation
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Chinese giant Haier has experienced more than one situation in the past where the relationship with the appointed customer has broken down _________ due to _________ differences.
(a) completely, essential
(b) irretrievably, irreconcilable
(c) irreparably, contradictory
(d) irreversibly, opposite
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After _________ successfully on Germany’s comedy circuit over a five year period, the actor relocated to the U.S. and became an able _________ at one of the famous studios.
(a) prevailing, fixture
(b) reigning, manager
(c) lampooning, comedian
(d) lampooning, manager
4
Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in
the most appropriate way.
Sports psychologists have found that losing does indeed make fans unhappy, just as winning brings joy. While little work has been done to assess the durability of these emotions, they can be quite powerful - one survey, for example, found that West Germans professed themselves more pleased with the national economy and their own jobs after their national soccer team won a game at the 1982 World Cup.
But what is particularly striking is the almost comical extent to which fans appropriate the successes
and failures of their team.____________________________________
(a) Along with their mothers they see their accomplishments rise and fall with the fortunes of the team
(b) Accomplishments of their team are seen as fulfillment of personal goals of the stage moms.
(c) Like a stadium full of stage moms, they see the accomplishments of their team as reflections of themselves
(d) Winning teams are always accompanied by their moms to help accomplish the desired goals.
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The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor’s name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women- the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar- who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic
and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost. ________________________________
(a) Yet the womenfolk continue to lament their sorrows in a manner which would put most to shame.
(b) Yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow’s outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez’s magical realism.
(c) Yet the sufferings of the descendants are not quenched in this Saga of Magical Realism.
(d) A ghastly theme for a magical realism story.
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Each question consists of three to five sentences on a topic. Some parts are grammatically incorrect or inappropriate. Select the option that indicates the grammatically correct and appropriate part(s).
A. Russia makes some good equipments, such as air-defence systems.
B. The infusion of money helps it exercise its atrophied military muscles.
C. A growing proportion of soldiers are volunteers (known as kontraktniki), who is more
disciplined than much-abused conscripts.
D. The slow move to smaller, all-professional army in place of the million-strong,
E. largely conscript force is made more urgent by Russia’s demographic decline.
(a) A and B
(b) A, C and D
(c) B and E
(d) C and E
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A. Opponents of Mr. Samak, including the protesters who have been occupying his office for the past
B. fortnight, will see this, the latest in a string of rulings against
C. him and his allies, as vindicating their demands for his resignation.
D. However, his supporters will just as predictably see it as a further example of a conspiracy
E. by Bangkok’s royalist establishment to bring down the elected government with all means possible.
(a) B, C and D
(b) A, B and C
(c) A, B, C and D
(d) All of the above
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In each question, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/
paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. The most important part of the Analytical Engine was undoubtedly the mechanical method of carrying the tens.
B. The difficulty did not consist so much in the more or less complexity of the contrivance as in the reduction of the time required affecting the carriage.
C. At last I came to the conclusion that I had exhausted the principle of successive carriage.
D. On this I laboured incessantly, each succeeding improvement advancing me a step or two.
E. Twenty or thirty different plans and modifications had been drawn.
(a) CBDE (b) BECD (c) DBEC (d) ECDB
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A. The Vedic hymns are probably the earliest important religious documents of the human race.
B. Often the favours sought are of the nature of material blessings, such as long life, vigorous offspring, cattle and horses, gold, etc.
C. The hymns of the Rig Veda, on the other hand, are often praises of various deities, who are frequently mere personifications of the different powers of nature.
D. The prayers in these hymns are praises of the greatness and power, the mysterious nature, and the exploits of these deities, as well as prayers for various favours.
E. The Atharva Veda contains among other things descriptions of charms for securing harmony and influence in an assembly etc.
(a) ECDB (b) CEBD (c) DBCE (d) BDCE
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A. By the turn of the century it did not seem extraordinary that managers should manage by walking about.
B. The outside world filtered through via a secretary who, traditionally, sat like a guard dog in front of their (usually closed) office door.
C. But in the 1950s many white-collar managers turned their offices into fortresses from which they rarely emerged.
D. The technologies of mobile communications made it so much easier for them to both walk about and stay in touch at the same time.
E. Edicts were sent out to the blue-collar workforce whom they rarely met face-to-face.
(a) CBDE (b) BCDE (c) DCEB (d) DBCE
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Given below are five sentences labelled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. The word failure, it seems, is not good for building self-esteem in school children.
B Liz Beattie, a 37-year old veteran primary-level instructor, proposed that the word failure should be banned from classrooms and replaced with the more appealing phrase deferred success so as not to discourage students from continuing efforts to achieve.
C. Although the motion ultimately experienced its own “deferred success,” it was not without supporters among the 35,000-member teacher’s association.
D. One Wesley Paxton, a member of the PAT Council, expressed his enthusiastic agreement, saying: “It’s time we made the word ‘fail’ redundant and replaced it with ‘please do a bit more’.”
E. In the summer of 2005, a British school teacher proposed a rather controversial motion to her union, the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT).
(a) ADBCE (b) BACDE (c) EBCDA (d) CEDAB
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