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1
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.
In 1898 the British Egyptologists James Quibell and Frederick Green uncovered a slab of greenish grey slate-like stone in the ruins of an early temple at the Upper Egyptian site of Hierakonpolis. This was not a find, which, like Tutankhamun’s tomb 24 years later, would bring the world’s journalists racing to the scene, but its discoverers were almost immediately aware of its importance. Like the Rosetta stone, this carved slab – the Narmer Palette – would have powerful repercussions for the study of ancient Egypt, spreading far beyond its immediate significance at Hierakonpolis.
(a) For the next century or so, this object would be variously interpreted by Egyptologists attempting to solve numerous different problems.
(b) No single object can necessarily typify an entire culture.
(c) The surviving artefacts from the Nile Valley are so iconic and so rich in information that they can act as microcosms of certain aspects of ancient Egyptian culture as a whole.
(d) On the front, there is a depiction of intertwined long-necked lions (‘serpopards’) held on leashes by two bearded men.
2
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.
Tragedy is a precious word. We use it to confer dignity and value on violence, catastrophe, agony, and bereavement. ‘Tragedy’ claims that this death is exceptional. Yet these supposedly special fatalities are in our ears and eyes every day, on the roads, in the skies, out there in foreign lands and right here at home, the latest bad news.
(a) Do our conceptions of tragedy have any real connection with those of the ancient Greeks, with whom it originated two and half thousand years ago as the description of a particular kind of drama?
(b) How did tragedy migrate from the Greeks to Shakespeare and Racine, from drama to other art forms, from fiction to real events?
(c) What needs has the idea of tragedy served, and to what use and abuse has it been put?
(d) Is the word now bandied around so freely that it has lost all meaning?
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.
The film Gladiator opens with an epic battle in the forests of Germany. On one side are the Romans, in disciplined units with uniform equipment. They wait in full view, in silence, and prepare their relatively high-technology weapons. Their watchwords are ‘strength and honour’. As orders are issued from a set hierarchy of command, they shoot as one, and advance in line. In combat they help each other, and display courage. On the other side are the barbarians. They have no units, and, clad in furs, no uniformity.
(a) The Greeks, in contrast, are spearmen.
(b) It is important to ask where this concept of a ‘Western Way of War’ originated, why it was
constructed, and why maintained.
(c) Initially they conceal their force in the woods. Surging backwards and forwards, each man
clashes his weapons on his shield, and utters wild shouts.
(d) The Romans are portrayed as practicing what is often described as the ‘Western Way of War’, where the aim is an open, decisive battle, which will be won by courage instilled in part by discipline.
4
Five sentences are given below, labelled 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 one.
A. Classical music, by contrast, encodes maturity and, by extension, the demands of responsibility to family and to society.
B. The meaning of the commercial emerges out of this odd juxtaposition of the music you see and the music you hear.
C. What the commercial is saying (though not in so many words, of course) is that you can begin responsible financial planning without selling out on your youth, freedom, and spontaneity.
D. Rock stands for youth, freedom, being true to yourself; in a word, authenticity.
E. Through music, the commercial accomplishes a kind of conjuring trick, combining both sets of values and in this way selling the advertiser’s message (you need to start planning for your old age now) to a segment of society that might be expected to be resistant to it.
(a) BDAEC
(b) EDABC
(c) ECBDA
(d) BECDA
5
Five sentences are given below, labelled 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 one.
A. The chief modern challenge to myth has come not from ethics but from science.
B. Where Plato bemoans myths for presenting the gods as practitioners of immoral behaviour,
modern critics dismiss myth for explaining the world unscientifically.
C. It was above all the Stoics who defended myth against this charge by reinterpreting it allegorically.
D. In the West the challenge to myth goes back at least to Plato, who rejected Homeric myth on,
especially, ethical grounds.
E. Here myth is assumed to explain how gods control the physical world rather than, as for Plato, how they behave among themselves.
(a) ABCDE
(b) AEDCB
(c) DCAEB
(d) BDCAE
6
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.
SEE
(a) I don’t see fit to allow her to come here.
(b) He said he would see about getting the license plates.
(c) Will you please see for my plants while I’m away?
(d) We decided to see it out, even if it meant another year.
7
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.
RUB
(a) They did not hesitate to rub in the fact that we lost by seven goals.
(b) It is an elite club where the rich and famous rub shoulders with one another.
(c) His enthusiasm is so infectious that some of it rubs up on others.
(d) Your knowledge is rusty– better rub it up a bit.
8
Each sentence has a pair of words. From the given words, select the most appropriate words (A or B) to form correct sentences. The sentences are followed by options that indicate the words, which may be selected to correctly complete the set of sentences. From the options given, choose the most appropriate one.
She seems to be the more dominating partner. Whenever they argue, the husband seems to be
supplicating (A) / duplicating (B).
The smell of asafoetida is a quintessential (A) / quixotic (B) part of Indian cooking.
We got accustomed to the distant cackle (A) / crackle (B) of machine –gunfire.
The cine star’s supporters crammed (A) / cramped (B) the streets.
(a) BABA (b) BBBB (c) AABA (d) AAAA
9
Each sentence has a pair of words. From the given words, select the most appropriate words (A or B) to form correct sentences. The sentences are followed by options that indicate the words, which may be selected to correctly complete the set of sentences. From the options given, choose the most appropriate one.
The government is assessing (A) / accessing (B) every aspect of the situation.
The doctor councilled (A) / counseled (B) her to avoid lifting heavy objects.
She has a flair (A) / flare (B) for painting.
The speaker struck a chord (A) /cord (B) with his audience.
(a) ABAA (b) ABAB (c) AAAB (d) BBAA
10
There are two gaps in the sentence given below. From the pairs of words given, choose the one that fills the gaps most appropriately.
At the moment, security agencies are getting _____ printouts of chat messages within four to five hours of their requirements with RIM, a home ministry source said, adding that once it gets ________ access, it could track chat messages on a real-time basis.
(a) secure, exhaustive
(b) complete, inclusive
(c) computer, secure
(d) manual, automated
11
There are two gaps in the sentence given below. From the pairs of words given, choose the one that fills the gaps most appropriately.
He later said that his organization was in ________discussions with the Indian government and he remains optimistic that a positive outcome can be achieved but _________it will not alter the security architecture of its corporate offering.
(a) serious, announced
(b) constructive, reasserted
(c) advanced, stated
(d) preliminary, justified
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