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1
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.
Give
(a) We were afraid that the rickety bed would give under the weight of ten people.
(b) These leather trousers may be fashionable but they have no give.
(c) The politician promised to give the ground on the issue of reforms after his discussion with the party chief.
(d) During cross-examination the lawyers forced Mani to give himself away.
2
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.
Bring
(a) Bolivar ultimately failed to bring off a military coup.
(b) The cab was expected to bring in a lot of money as rent every month.
(c) In lackluster form, the team was expected to bring out the rear in the competition.
(d) To bring about a revolution, the mindset of the entire nation needs to be changed.
3
A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
For a start, Soma is a very one-dimensional euphoriant. It gives rise to only a shallow, unempathetic and intellectually uninteresting well-being. It doesn’t catalyse any mystical epiphanies, intellectual breakthroughs or life-defining insights. It doesn’t in any way promote personal growth. Instead, Soma provides a mindless, inauthentic “imbecile happiness” - a vacuous escapism, which makes people comfortable with their lack of freedom.
(a) As a drug Soma, is quite unique in the sense that, it induces a stupor that insulates one from
the otherwise inescapable miseries of life.
(b) Soma is a narcotic that raises “a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and the users’ minds.”
(c) In short, Soma, as a perfect pleasure drug, overwhelms one‘s senses and induces bouts of
energy.
(d) Like all other narcotics, it is likely to induce hallucinations and cause more harm than good.
4
A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
The goal of Linden Lab is to create a user-defined Metaverse-like “Virtual World” in which users or “residents” can interact, play and participate in other activities. However, Second Life is much more than a 3D virtual world for entertainment. Linden Lab sees itself as being in the business of hosting and facilitating “consumer experience” innovation. Second Life offers diverse types of experiences to its residents.
(a) There are a number of in-world business and user-groups founded specifically for the virtual
World.
(b) In short, Second Life is a massive experiment in collaborative experience innovation.
(c) These experiences are not created by Linden Lab; they are created collaboratively by the residents through individual creativity and interactions.
(d) The role of Linden Labs is to provide the context and the tools for residents to create those
experiences.
5
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows.
News Reporter: There are rumours that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will reshuffle his cabinet in the next few days. But, all the previous reshuffles took place only after a high level meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Mrs. Sonia Gandhi. No such meeting has occurred or is planned. Therefore, the rumours are false.
Which of the following most clearly states the logical flaw in the argument?
(a) The news reporter has mistakenly considered the mandatory condition as a sufficient condition and has based his/her conclusion on that.
(b) The news reporter, instead of providing adequate support to his conclusion, concludes on the basis of popular perception.
(c) The news reporter assumes if one event leads to another, then if the first does not take place it would mean that the second event would also not happen.
(d) The news reporter takes for granted that a high level meeting between the PM and the UPA
chairperson is a desirable precursor of any cabinet reshuffle.
6
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows.
Our moral system holds that speaking the truth is praise worthy only when a person chooses to
speak the truth despite there being significant incentives for telling lies. However, our moral system also holds that speaking the truth is praiseworthy even if it is done out of habit.
Which of the following, if true, does the most to reconcile the apparent conflict in the moral system mentioned above?
(a) People who speak the truth withstand the temptation of speaking the lie because of the praise they are likely to receive.
(b) People who habitually speak the truth have acquired this habit by resisting the temptation to tell lies for years.
(c) The moral system gives direct and indirect incentives to train people to speak the truth.
(d) People prefer to speak the truth because they want to portray themselves as moral individuals.
7
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. Even to suggest, in the recent climate, that an artwork might be good because it is pleasurable, as opposed to cognitively, morally or politically beneficial, is to court derision.
B. Much of the discourse about beauty since the Eighteenth century had deployed a notion of the ‘aesthetic’, and so that notion in particular came in for criticism.
C. The twentieth century has not been kind to the notions of beauty or the aesthetic.
D. This disdain for the aesthetic may have roots in a broader cultural Puritanism, which fears the
connection between the aesthetic and pleasure.
(a) BCAD
(b) BDAC
(c) BDCA
(d) ABCD
8
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. Race laws touched every aspect of social life, including a prohibition of marriage between nonwhites and whites, and the sanctioning of “white-only” jobs.
B. In 1950, the Population Registration Act required that all South Africans be racially classified
into one of three categories: white, black (African), or colored (of mixed descent).
C. The colored category included major subgroups of Indians and Asians.
D. With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized.
(a) DBCA
(b) ADBC
(c) DABC
(d) BCDA
9
Given below is a pair of capitalized words followed by four pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best describes the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalized pair.
PAEAN : PRAISE
(a) Lullaby : Sleep
(b) Mercenary : Money
(c) Dirge : Mourning
(d) Injunction : Compliment
10
Given below is a pair of capitalized words followed by four pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best describes the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalized pair.
PIQUE : RESENTMENT
(a) Pedant : Learning
(b) Approbation : Approval
(c) Cheat : Sophistry
(d) Tedium : Boorish
11
Given below is a sentence, part or all of which, is BRACKETED. Beneath the sentence are four ways of phrasing the BRACKETED part. The first of these repeats the original; the other three are different. Choose the option that produces the most effective sentence; this answer should be clear and exact, without awkwardness, ambiguity, redundancy, or grammatical error. The question tests correctness and effectiveness of expression.
At the top of the game,( Federer was appealing because he was an artist, Nadal was a magnetic, brilliant, glowering presence; Djokovic was going to be the guy who made the jokes. )
(a) Federer was appealing because he was an artist, Nadal was a magnetic, brilliant, glowering
presence; Djokovic was going to be the guy who made the jokes.
(b) Federer was appealing because he was an artist; Nadal, a magnetic, brilliant, glowering presence; and Djokovic, very humourous.
(c) Federer was appealing because he was an artist, Nadal was a magnetic, brilliant, glowering
presence and Djokovic was going to be the guy who made the jokes.
(d) Federer was appealing because he was an artist; Nadal was a magnetic, brilliant, glowering
presence; Djokovic was going to be the guy who made the jokes.
12
Given below is a sentence, part or all of which, is BRACKETED. Beneath the sentence are four ways of phrasing the BRACKETED part. The first of these repeats the original; the other three are different. Choose the option that produces the most effective sentence; this answer should be clear and exact, without awkwardness, ambiguity, redundancy, or grammatical error. The question tests correctness and effectiveness of expression.
I have no doubt that Sri Lankan Tamils — including many with no connections whatever to the Tigers
— (continue to suffer repression by Sri Lankan officials, despite of the deadly civil war between the two sides having ended last year.)
(a) continue to suffer repression by Sri Lankan officials, despite of the deadly civil war between the two sides having ended last year.
(b) continue to suffer repression by Sri Lankan officials, even though the deadly civil war between the two sides ended last year.
(c) continue to suffer repression through Sri Lankan officials, although the deadly civil war between the two sides ended last year.
(d) continue to suffer repression by Sri Lankan officials, inspite of the deadly civil war between the two sides ended last year.
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