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1
Four sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C and D. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. A Welsh boy named Billy Williams turns 13 and begins his wretched life as a coal miner.
B. King George V is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
C. A lot happens on the first page of Ken Follett’s “Fall of Giants.”
D. And Mr. Follett, who was once a Welsh boy himself but grew up to become his generation’s most vaunted writer of colorless historical epics, kicks off a whopping new trilogy.
(a) ADCB (b) ABCD (c) CBAD (d) CDAB
2
Four sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. We’re still a closely divided nation; it’s just that we’re angrier about it.
B. One of the oddities of the current moment is that the country wants a radical change in government but not a radical change in policy.
C. On the other hand, they have not changed their fundamental views on the issues.
D. There has been some shift to the right over the past two years, but the policy landscape looks mostly the way it did over the last few decades.
E. On the one hand, voters are completely disgusted with Washington.
(a) BECDA (b) AECDB (c) DECBA (d) ECBAD
3
The word given below has been used in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
Close
(a) That comment hit close to home and made him uncomfortable.
(b) The police managed to close in to the suspect in a few days.
(c) The bank was forced to close down during the depression.
(d) The workers decided to close ranks and confront the manager.
4
Given below is a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Descartes predicated the assumption that man consists of two separate identities, body and mind, linked during life but profoundly different in kind. He claimed that since the mind is a direct expression of god its nature couldn’t be understood by science.
(a) Ideas on mind/body dualism originate at least as far back as Zarathushtra.
(b) Consequently, in order for the intellect to have access to any kind of knowledge with regard to any aspect of the universe, it must necessarily be a non-physical, immaterial entity itself.
(c) Aristotle revised the theory of forms so as to eliminate the idea of their independent existence from concrete, particular entities.
(d) In contrast, he taught that the body is a machine whose structure and operations fall within the province of human knowledge.
5
Given below is a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Observant viewers of Sunday night’s 82nd Academy Awards broadcast might have noticed something even more surprising than The Hurt Locker’s near sweep of awards. For the first time since 1988, winners were back. Rather than the politically correct, nonjudgmental phrase that has been foisted on presenters for more than two decades — “And the Oscar goes to ...” — presenters this year introduced each winner with the blunt, old-fashioned but perfectly accurate phrase “And the winner is ...”
(a) Why the switch? No one at the Motion Picture Academy would give any explanation.
(b) Officials acknowledged that it was a decision made by producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman, with an O.K. from the Academy.
(c) Whether the new format will stay is a decision for the producers who are in charge next year.
(d) The benefit of the earlier format was twofold: it plugged the award continuously, and it didn’t make losers feel any worse than they already did.
6
Given below is a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Terrorist attacks appall us because of the loss of life, but even more because the killing is deliberate. In London, traffic kills more people than bombs. But we are outraged by what the bombings express. The bombers want us – any of us – dead, or at least are prepared to kill us to make a political point.
(a) It is this that arouses the resentful backlash.
(b) In the climate created, anybody would have found retaliation imperative.
(c) Each killing is defended as retaliation for the last.
(d) Had it not been for terrorist attacks, the common man would never have learnt to care for the death of his fellow countrymen!
7
In the question, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.
A. Last June I shared a cab with Grayson Perry, one of Britain’s best-known artist.
B. He had just returned from the Basel art fair, where he had been struck by something.
C. “Everything is now happening all at once,” he told me with a roll of the eyes.
D. At the fair, there is no longer a ruling style or taste, no common agreement on what is avant-garde and what is retrograde.
(a) A and C (b) Only A (c) B and C (d) A and D
8
In the question, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.
A. In a second twin study, Dr Arvey asked to what extent leaders are born, and to what extent they are made.
B. Inborn leadership traits certainly do exist, but upbringing, he found, matters too.
C. The influence of genes on leadership potential is weakest in boys brought up in rich, supportive families and strongest in those raised up in harsher circumstances.
D. The quip that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton thus seem to have some truth.
(a) A and B (b) B and D (c) C and D (d) Only D
1
Four sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C and D. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. A Welsh boy named Billy Williams turns 13 and begins his wretched life as a coal miner.
B. King George V is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
C. A lot happens on the first page of Ken Follett’s “Fall of Giants.”
D. And Mr. Follett, who was once a Welsh boy himself but grew up to become his generation’s most vaunted writer of colorless historical epics, kicks off a whopping new trilogy.
(a) ADCB (b) ABCD (c) CBAD (d) CDAB
2
Four sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. We’re still a closely divided nation; it’s just that we’re angrier about it.
B. One of the oddities of the current moment is that the country wants a radical change in government but not a radical change in policy.
C. On the other hand, they have not changed their fundamental views on the issues.
D. There has been some shift to the right over the past two years, but the policy landscape looks mostly the way it did over the last few decades.
E. On the one hand, voters are completely disgusted with Washington.
(a) BECDA (b) AECDB (c) DECBA (d) ECBAD
3
The word given below has been used in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
Close
(a) That comment hit close to home and made him uncomfortable.
(b) The police managed to close in to the suspect in a few days.
(c) The bank was forced to close down during the depression.
(d) The workers decided to close ranks and confront the manager.
4
Given below is a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Descartes predicated the assumption that man consists of two separate identities, body and mind, linked during life but profoundly different in kind. He claimed that since the mind is a direct expression of god its nature couldn’t be understood by science.
(a) Ideas on mind/body dualism originate at least as far back as Zarathushtra.
(b) Consequently, in order for the intellect to have access to any kind of knowledge with regard to any aspect of the universe, it must necessarily be a non-physical, immaterial entity itself.
(c) Aristotle revised the theory of forms so as to eliminate the idea of their independent existence from concrete, particular entities.
(d) In contrast, he taught that the body is a machine whose structure and operations fall within the province of human knowledge.
5
Given below is a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Observant viewers of Sunday night’s 82nd Academy Awards broadcast might have noticed something even more surprising than The Hurt Locker’s near sweep of awards. For the first time since 1988, winners were back. Rather than the politically correct, nonjudgmental phrase that has been foisted on presenters for more than two decades — “And the Oscar goes to ...” — presenters this year introduced each winner with the blunt, old-fashioned but perfectly accurate phrase “And the winner is ...”
(a) Why the switch? No one at the Motion Picture Academy would give any explanation.
(b) Officials acknowledged that it was a decision made by producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman, with an O.K. from the Academy.
(c) Whether the new format will stay is a decision for the producers who are in charge next year.
(d) The benefit of the earlier format was twofold: it plugged the award continuously, and it didn’t make losers feel any worse than they already did.
6
Given below is a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Terrorist attacks appall us because of the loss of life, but even more because the killing is deliberate. In London, traffic kills more people than bombs. But we are outraged by what the bombings express. The bombers want us – any of us – dead, or at least are prepared to kill us to make a political point.
(a) It is this that arouses the resentful backlash.
(b) In the climate created, anybody would have found retaliation imperative.
(c) Each killing is defended as retaliation for the last.
(d) Had it not been for terrorist attacks, the common man would never have learnt to care for the death of his fellow countrymen!
7
In the question, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.
A. Last June I shared a cab with Grayson Perry, one of Britain’s best-known artist.
B. He had just returned from the Basel art fair, where he had been struck by something.
C. “Everything is now happening all at once,” he told me with a roll of the eyes.
D. At the fair, there is no longer a ruling style or taste, no common agreement on what is avant-garde and what is retrograde.
(a) A and C (b) Only A (c) B and C (d) A and D
8
In the question, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.
A. In a second twin study, Dr Arvey asked to what extent leaders are born, and to what extent they are made.
B. Inborn leadership traits certainly do exist, but upbringing, he found, matters too.
C. The influence of genes on leadership potential is weakest in boys brought up in rich, supportive families and strongest in those raised up in harsher circumstances.
D. The quip that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton thus seem to have some truth.
(a) A and B (b) B and D (c) C and D (d) Only D
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