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1. Reading Comprehension
Passage 1
The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. The public has become all too aware of the term “bubble” to describe an asset that is irrationally and artificially overvalued and cannot be sustained. The dot-com bubble burst by 2000. More recently the overextended housing market collapsed, helping to trigger a credit meltdown. The stock market has declined more than 30 percent in the past year, as companies once considered flagship investments have withered in value. Is it possible that higher education might be the next bubble to burst? Some early warnings suggest that it could be. With tuition fees, and room and board at dozens of colleges now reaching $50,000 a year, the ability to sustain private higher education for all questionable. According to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, over the past 25 years, average college tuition and fees have risen by 440 percent — more than four times the rate of inflation and almost twice the rate of medical care. Consumers who have questioned whether it is worth spending $1,000 a square foot for a home are now asking whether it is worth spending $1,000 a week to send their kids to college. There is a growing sense among the public that higher education might be overpriced and under-delivering. In such a climate, it is not surprising that applications to some community colleges and other public institutions have risen by as much as 40 percent. Those institutions, particularly community colleges, will become a more-aractive option for a larger swath of the college bound. Taking the first two years of college while living at home has been an aractive option since the 1920s, but it is now poised to grow significantly.
1. It can be inferred that the author mentions incidents regarding the term ‘bubble’ in order to:
(i) to describe an asset that is irrationally and artificially overvalued and cannot be sustained.
(ii) to depict the public awareness about overrated and untenable qualities of a product.
(iii) to expose the decline in the stock markets.
(iv) to caution us about the extraordinary trends in higher education.
(v) to portray that higher education is going out of reach of the common man.
2. Which of the following title best fits the passage?
(i) Higher Education : common man’s angst.
(ii) Higher Education : the Next Bubble to Burst.
(iii) Higher Education : going out of reach.
(iv) Higher Education : a need for reform.
(v) Higher Education : in doldrums.
3. Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage?
(i) Average college tuition and fees have risen astronomically.
(ii) The public is of the opinion that higher education might be overpriced and under-delivering.
(iii) Applications to public institutions have risen drastically.
(iv) The number of enrollments in higher education will decline.
(v) In an effort to secure students some institutions are reviewing their tuition fees.
4. This passage is most likely an extract from which of the following?
(i) An article in a journal on economics.
(ii) A book on Higher Education.
(iii) A dissertation on the theory of Education
(iv) An essay on of the current state of Higher Education.
(v) A newspaper article on the state of higher education.
Answers
1. (iv) The term bubble is used to highlight the alarming trends in higher education which are like the dotcom bubble and will not be able to sustain the artificial rise and may similarly burst.
2. (ii) Option (ii) is the best answer as it captures the main idea of the passage all the others are perfunctory or trite in nature.
3. (v) All the options except (v) are mentioned in the passage, (v) can be inferred because the private institutes are beginning to wonder about enrollments.
4. (i) Option (i) is correct as an article in an economics based journal as it takes in the economics of the situation
Passage 2
The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. This past summer, Alaska’s Republican governor, Mike Dunleavy, announced a draconian plan to slash appropriations for the university system by 41 percent. Defending the decision, he repeated a phrase that increasingly accompanies budget cuts: that the university couldn’t continue being “all things for all people.” Dunleavy, who insisted that the state’s deficit be closed without raising taxes, argued that Alaska must “turn the university into a smaller, leaner, but still very positive, productive university in the Northern Hemisphere.” Pete Buigieg has made a similar notion the center of his opposition to universal free college in the 2020 Democratic primary. “Americans who have a college degree earn more than Americans who don’t,” Buigieg said. “As a progressive, I have a hard time geing my head around the idea of a majority who earn less because they didn’t go to college subsidising a minority who earn more because they did.” Buigieg has continued to hammer the point that universality equals upward redistribution. Lis Smith, a senior adviser for his campaign, tweeted, “If you think that a worker who didn’t go to college should pay for college for a CEO’s kid, then @PeteBuigieg isn’t your candidate.” These statements capture a bipartisan sea change in the way Americans think about higher education. Universities can’t be “all things to all people,” hence they should focus on what politicians determine to be their most ‘productive’ activities. Governments not only cannot but should not provide higher education to everyone: People who can afford to invest in their own future should pay for themselves, and only those who really need it should receive help. We shouldn’t force ‘poor’ Americans to pay for ‘rich’ college students — even though broader-based funding of public higher education overwhelmingly and disproportionately helps the poor.
1. According to the passage appropriations were carried out to:
(i) Augment the University functions.
(ii) Make budget cuts.
(iii) Make the University leaner.
(iv) Do away with free education for all.
2. According to the passage, the new trend in education is all about:
(i) People who can afford to invest in their own future should pay for themselves.
(ii) Universities can be “all things to all people.”
(iii) Poor Americans should pay for rich college students.
(iv) Funding of public higher education should help only the privileged.
3. What, according to the passage, is the meaning of the phrase ‘sea change’?
(i) a complete change
(ii) a partial modification
(iii) a change in the water bodies
(iv) a change brought in by the sea
4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
(i) Colleges and Politics
(ii) How College Became a Commodity
(iii) Economy and Students
(iv) The role of professors in funding
Answers
1. (iv) The passage states “that the university couldn’t continue being “all things for all people” which makes Option (iv) the correct answer.
2. (i) The passage strongly discusses the new trend in education which is about people paying for their education if they could afford it.
3. (i) The phrase ‘sea change’ means a complete change.
4. (ii) How College Became a Commodity
Passage 3
The passage given below is followed by a set of five questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) was created in the early 1990s as a component of the Uruguay Round negotiation. However, it could have been negotiated as part of the Tokyo Round of the 1970s, since that negotiation was an aempt at a‘ constitutional reform’ of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Or it could have been put off to the future, as the US government wanted. What factors led to the creation of the WTO in the early 1990s? One factor was the paern of multilateral bargaining that developed late in the Uruguay Round. Like all complex international agreements, the WTO was a product of a series of trade-offs between principal actors and groups. For the United States, which did not want a new organisation, the dispute selement part of the WTO package achieved its long-standing goal of a more effective and more legal dispute selement system. For the Europeans, who by the 1990s had come to view GATT dispute selement less in political terms and more as a regime of legal obligations, the WTO package was acceptable as a means to discipline the resort to unilateral measures by the United States. Countries like Canada and other middle and smaller trading partners were aracted by the expansion of a rules-based system and by the symbolic value of a trade organisation, both of which inherently support the weak against the strong. The developing countries were aracted due to the provisions banning unilateral measures. Finally, and perhaps most important, many countries at the Uruguay Round came to put a higher priority on the export gains than on the import losses that the negotiation would produce, and they came to associate the WTO and a rules-based system with those gains. This reasoning replicated in many countries, was contained in U.S. Ambassador, Kantor’s defense of the WTO, and it amounted to a recognition that international trade and its benefits cannot be enjoyed unless trading nations accept the discipline of a negotiated rules-based environment. A second factor in the creation of the WTO was pressure from lawyers and the legal process. The dispute selement system of the WTO was seen as a victory of legalists over pragmatists but he maer went deeper than that. The GATT, and the WTO, are contract organisations based on rules, and it is inevitable that an organisation created to further rules will in turn be influenced by the legal process. Legal development can be defined as promotion of the technical legal values of consistency, clarity (or, certainty) and effectiveness; these are values that those responsible for administering any legal system will seek to maximize. As it played out in the WTO, consistency meant integrating under one roof the whole lot of separate agreements signed under GATT auspices; clarity meant removing ambiguities about the powers of contracting parties to make certain decisions or to undertake waivers; and effectiveness meant eliminating exceptions arising out of grandfather-rights and resolving defects in dispute selement procedures and institutional provisions. The momentum of legal development has occurred in other institutions besides the GATT, most notably in the European Union(EU). Over the past two decades, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has consistently rendered decisions that have expanded incrementally the EU’s internal market, in which the doctrine of‘ mutual recognition’ handed down in the case Cassis de Dijon was a key turning point. The Court is now widely recognized as a major player in European integration, even though arguably sucha strong role was not originally envisaged in the Treaty of Rome,which initiated the current European Union. One means the Court used to expand integration was the ‘teleological method of interpretation’ whereby the actions of member states were evaluated against ‘the accomplishment of the most elementary community goals set forth in the Preamble to the [Rome] treaty.
1. As per the passage why WTO could not come into being in 1970s?
(i) The US government did not like it.
(ii) Important players did not find it in their best interest to do so.
(iii) Lawyers did not work for the dispute selement system.
(iv) The Tokyo round negotiations was an aempt at constitutional reform.
(v) None of these is correct
2. Which of these is the most likely reason for the nations to accept WTO package?
(i) It had the means to prevent the US from taking unilateral measures.
(ii) They recognized the need for a rule-based environment to protect the benefits of increased trade.
(iii) It seles disputes more legally and more effectively.
(iv) Its rule-based system leads to export gains.
(v) None of these is correct
3. WTO promoted the technical legal values partly through:
(i) integrating under one roof the agreements signed under GATT.
(ii) rules that create their own incentive for fulfilment
(iii) grandfather-rights exceptions and defects in dispute selement procedures.
(iv) ambiguities about the powers of contracting parties to make certain decisions.
(v) none of these is correct
4. In paragraph 4 what is suggested about the method of interpretation of the European Court of Justice:
(i) current policies needed to be consistent with stated goals.
(ii) contracting party trade practices needed to be consistent with stated rules.
(iii) enunciation of the most elementary community goals needed to be emphasized.
(iv) actions of member states needed to be evaluated against the stated community goals
(v) none of these is correct
5. As per paragraph 4 the importance of Cassis de Dijon is that it:
(i) gave a new impetus to the momentum of legal development at the European Court of Justice.
(ii) resulted in a decision that expanded incrementally the EU’s internal market.
(iii) strengthened the role of the Court more than envisaged in the Treaty of Rome.
(iv) led to a doctrine that was a key turning point in European integration.
(v) none of these is correct
Answers
1. (ii) It can be clearly seen in the passage, from the second paragraph onwards, that the different countries/groups had their motives behind the creation of the WTO in the 1990’s. The most probable reason that the WTO did not get formed earlier could be that these motives were not being fulfilled.
2. (ii) All the different countries who agreed to the idea of the WTO in the Uruguay Round negotiation must have seen something in it that benefited them. The second paragraph shows that one of the biggest motivations for these countries was the introduction of the rules based environment. Thus, option (b) seems to be the best choice.
3. (i) According to the passage, the WTO promoted the three technical legal values in three different ways. Out of these three, only one has been clearly outlined in option(a). Through option (a), WTO was seen as upholding consistency. This is the best option and the only correct one.
4. (iv) Option (iv) is a smart answer choice and the correct one too because it speaks of the ECJ’s (European Court of Justice) role in the official formation of the European Union was that of evaluating the member states’actions.
5. (iv) While mentioning the various prominent decisions which the ECJ made, the fourth paragraph specifically points out the impact of Cassis de Dijon. It played a pivotal role in the formation of a doctrine which led to the EU’s integration. This is what option (d) refers to, and hence is our answer.
2. Verbal Ability.
Passage 1
1. Direction: In the given passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each, four words are suggested, one of which fits the blanks appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, intended to provide for an _(1)_ to consolidate and amend the law relating to reorganization and insolvency resolution, has given rise to a new breed — for the insolvency professional, who holds the key to insolvency resolution. The World Bank’s ‘Doing Business Report’ states that the resolution time for corporate insolvency in India is 4.3 years, at a cost of about 9% cost of the estate, resulting in the recovery of 25.7 cents to every dollar due to a creditor in a corporate _(2)_. It is in this backdrop that the code and the profession it will spawn, assume significance. The insolvency professional will step in during the 180-day calm period in an insolvency resolution process; he will be entrusted with the task of monitoring and managing the maers of the enterprise and will have to ensure its protection from _(3)_ of economic value. During this period, the professional secures the assets from asset-stripping and forms a creditor commiee, which will determine if the enterprise should be _(4)_ or liquidated. The Code also requires insolvency professionals to be enlisted with an Insolvency Professional Agency (IPA), an entity that would be regulated by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India. The IPA will perform the regulatory function by laying down detailed standards and codes of conduct along with the executive function by monitoring, inspecting and investigating insolvency professionals, including _(5)_ of information on their performance with a view to prevent their misconduct; and the quasijudicial function of taking _(6)_ action against erring professionals. As the IPAs have to regulate insolvency professionals, it would make sense if they are formed as not-for- profit companies under the Companies Act, 2013, more so when the Code _(7)_ multiple IPAs. This would enable delineation of the functions of IPAs without real or _(8)_ conflict of interest, so that insolvency professionals perform their role with the desired levels of professionalism. The intended purpose to _(9)_ competition among IPAs to aract and retain talent and making them accountable to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India would also be beer _(10)_ by this structure.
1. Mark the correct option for blank _(1)_.
(a) revocation
(b) enactment
(c) invalidation
(d) annulment
Ans. (b) enactment
2. Mark the correct option for blank _(2)_.
(a) inconsistency
(b) insolvency
(c) solvency
(d) consistency
Ans. (b) insolvency
3. Mark the correct option for blank _(3)_.
(a) construction
(b) rebuilding
(c) strengthening
(d) erosion
Ans. (d) erosion
4. Mark the correct option for blank _(4)_.
(a) fluctuated
(b) suppressed
(c) scaered
(d) revived
Ans. (d) revived
5. Mark the correct option for blank _(5)_.
(a) preceded
(b) prohibiting
(c) gathering
(d) protect
Ans.(c) gathering
6. Mark the correct option for blank _(6)_.
(a) disciplinary
(b) paining
(c) punishment
(d) explicit
Ans. (a) disciplinary
7. Mark the correct option for blank _(7)_.
(a) curtains
(b) scorns
(c) disdains
(d) envisages
Ans. (d) envisages
8. Mark the correct option for blank _(8)_.
(a) sling
(b) perceived
(c) heave
(d) receive
Ans. (b) perceived
9. Mark the correct option for blank _(9)_.
(a) diffuse
(b) infuse
(c) inject
(d) conjoin
Ans. (b) infuse
10. Mark the correct option for blank _(10)_.
(a) availed
(b) applied
(c) presented
(d) served
Ans. (d) served
2. Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks which have been numbered, and after the blank is given a word which could be the probable answer. If it is the required word for the blank, then choose option (d) as your answer, if not, then, against each number four words are suggested, one of which fits the blanks appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case and mark it as your answer.
A payday loan is a small, short-term __(1)__ (secured) loan, “regardless of whether repayment of loans is linked to a borrower’s payday or not.” The loans are also sometimes referred to as ‘cash advances’, though that term can also refer to cash provided against a prearranged line of credit such as a credit card. Payday advance loans __(2)__ (base) on the consumer having previous payroll and employment records. Legislation regarding payday loans __(3)__ (waivers) widely between different countries, and in federal systems, between different states or provinces. To prevent __(4)__ (usury), some jurisdictions __(5)__ (widen) the annual percentage rate (APR) that any lender, including payday lenders, can charge. Some jurisdictions outlaw payday lending entirely, and some have very few__(6)__(belief) on payday lenders. In the United States, the rates of these loans used to be __(7)__(curbed) in most states by the Uniform Small Loan Laws (USLL), with 36–40% APR generally the norm. There are many different ways to __(8)__ (sum up) annual percentage rate of a loan. Depending on which method is used, the rate calculated may differ dramatically; e.g., for a $15 charge on a $100 14-day payday loan, it could be (from the borrower’s perspective) anywhere from 391% to 3,733%. Although some have noted that these loans appear to carry __(9)__( minimal) risk to the lender, it has been shown that these loans carry no more long term risk for the __(10)__ (borrower) than other forms of credit. These studies seem to be confirmed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings of at least one lender, who notes a charge-off rate of 3.2%.
1. Mark the correct option for blank _(1)_.
(a) unsecured
(b) entrusted
(c) extended
(d) Given option is correct
Ans. (a) unsecured
2. Mark the correct option for blank _(2)_.
(a) dependent
(b) vary
(c) rely
(d) Given option is correct
Ans. (c) rely
3. Mark the correct option for blank _(3)_.
(a) fluctuates
(b) varies
(c) extends
(d) Given option is correct
Ans. (b) varies
4. Mark the correct option for blank _(4)_.
(a) equity
(b) default
(c) perjury
(d) Given option is correct
Ans. (d) Given option is correct
5. Mark the correct option for blank _(5)_.
(a) limit
(b) diminish
(c) level
(d) Given option is correct
Ans. (a) limit
6. Mark the correct option for blank _(6)_.
(a) credit
(b) restrictions
(c) liability
(d) Given option is correct
Ans. (b) restrictions
7. Mark the correct option for blank _(7)_.
(a) restricted
(b) pardoned
(c) waived
(d) Given option is correct
Ans. (a) restricted
8. Mark the correct option for blank _(8)_.
(a) deduct
(b) pay
(c) calculate
(d) Given option is correct
Ans. (c) calculate
9. Mark the correct option for blank _(9)_.
(a) substantial
(b) nominal
(c) myriad
(d) Given option is correct
Ans. (a) substantial
10. Mark the correct option for blank _(10)_.
(a) agency
(b) lender
(c) government
(d) bank
Ans. (b) lender
3. Direction: In the following passage, , some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Now-a-days, under the …(1)… system of education, however good it may be, when a young man comes out of the university, there seems to be this …(2)… in him that the higher the standard of living raises, the less should a man work. Thus, mathematically, the higher the standard of living, according to this misconceived notion, the less the …(3)… Ultimately, what should be the highest standard of living then …(4)… work! This leads to an unhealthy ... (5)...among the workers. A typist who types over twenty leers a day asks his …(6)… how many leers he had typed that day. The laer …(7)… ‘fifteen’. The former thinks, “Tomorrow I should type only fifteen or even …(8)… This tendency is quite …(9)… and may ultimately lead to ...(10)… Even one’s family life may be affected adversely due to such tendency.
1.
(a) current
(b) defunct
(c) archaic
(d) evolved
Ans. (a) current
2.
(a) apprehension
(b) misconception
(c) awareness
(d) distress
Ans. (b) misconception
3.
(a) wages
(b) solace
(c) work
(d) time
Ans. (c) work
4.
(a) least
(b) most
(c) enough
(d) no
Ans. (d) no
5.
(a) ambition
(b) debate
(c) hindrance
(d) bierness
Ans. (a) ambition
6.
(a) customer
(b) boss
(c) worker
(d) associate
Ans. (b) boss
7.
(a) recommends
(b) recall
(c) replies
(d) kind
Ans. (c) replies
8.
(a) everthing
(b) less
(c) extra
(d) hardly any
Ans. (b) less
9.
(a) discouraging
(b) optimistic
(c) cozy
(d) none of these
Ans. (a) discouraging
10.
(a) fecklessness
(b) progress
(c) evil
(d) denial
Ans. (a) fecklessness
3. Rearranging the Parts
Direction: In each question below, there is a sentence with jumbled up parts. Rearrange these parts which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce a grammatically correct and coherent sentence.
1. It is beer…..
P. to keep the refrigerator
Q. in a well-ventilated space
R. and S. not
T. in a closed cavity
(a) SPQRT
(b) PQRST
(c) PTRSQ
(d) QRTSP
Ans. (b) PQRST
2. Moisture and humidity…….
P. helps to
Q. retain
R. the freshness of fruits and vegetables
S. in a refrigerator
(a) QSPR
(b) PQRS
(c) SQPR
(d) SRPQ
Ans. (b) PQRS
3. If you require assistance…..
P. promptly and politely
Q. ask for customer service associates
R. to help our customers
S. who have instructions
(a) SQPR
(b) QPSR
(c) QSRP
(d) SQRP
Ans. (c) QSRP
4. People ….
P. at his clinic
Q. went to him
R. of all status
S. for medicine and treatment
(a) QPRS
(b) RPQS
(c) RQSP
(d) QRPS
Ans. (c) RQSP
5. Lile…..
P. that she had been helped
Q. stood by in all tough times
R. did she realise
S. by a friend whom she had
(a) RPSQ
(b) RSQP
(c) QSRP
(d) QSPR
Ans. (a) RPSQ
6. The majestic sandalwood bed…..
P. belongs to a royal family
Q. which is very well maintained
R. that is now impoverished
S. but not without some pride
(a) RSPQ
(b) SPRQ
(c) SQRP
(d) QPRS
Ans. (d) QPRS
7. Towards early morning…..
P. so that the sky was lighted with
Q. and the clouds drifted away
R. the rain stopped
S. incredible moonlight
(a) SRQP
(b) SQPR
(c) RQPS
(d) SPQR
Ans. (c) RQPS
8. The parents…..
P. when they were in France
Q. to their three children
R. for seven years
S. could not teach Hindi
(a) SRPQ
(b) PRSQ
(c) SQPR
(d) PQRS
Ans. (c) SQPR
9. I can….
P. hear the spokesperson all right
Q. I could see her
R. but I wish
S. as she lashes out at the opposition party
(a) PRSQ
(b) PQRS
(c) PQSR
(d) PRQS
Ans. (d) PRQS
10. The effectiveness of a show….
P. the needs of the audience
Q. is judged by
R. and by its relation to
S. its theme
(a) PSQR
(b) QRPS
(c) PQRS
(d) QSRP
Ans. (d) QSRP
4. Choosing the Correct Word
1. Shakespeare, a (n) _______ writer, entertained audiences by writing many tragic and comic plays.
(a) obstinate
(b) dutiful
(c) prolific
(d) generic
Ans. (c) Prolific (adj) means abundantly creative.
2. I had the _______ experience of siing next to an over-talkative passenger on my flight home from Brussels.
(a) satisfactor
(b) commendable
(c) galling
(d) acceptable
Ans. (c) Galling (adj) means irritating, annoying, or exasperating.
3. Prince Phillip had to choose: marry the woman he loved and _______ his right to the throne, or marry Lady Fiona and inherit the crown.
(a) reprimand
(b) upbraid
(c) abdicate
(d) extol
Ans. (c) To abdicate (v) means to formally relinquish or surrender power, office, or responsibility.
4. If you will not do your work of your own _______ , I have no choice but to penalize you if it is not done on time.
(a) predilection
(b) coercion
(c) infusion
(d) volition
Ans. (d) Volition (n) means accord; an act or exercise of will.
5. After siing in the sink for several days, the dirty, foodencrusted dishes became _______ .
(a) malodorous
(b) imposing
(c) perforated
(d) emphatic
Ans. (a) Malodorous (adj) means having a foul-smelling odor.
6. Rekha soon discovered the source of the ______ smell in the room: a week-old tuna sandwich that one of the children had hidden in the closet.
(a) quaint
(b) clandestine
(c) laconic
(d) fetid
Ans.(d) Fetid (adj) means having a foul or offensive odor, putrid.
7. After making _______ remarks to the President, the reporter was not invited to return to the White House pressroom.
(a) hospitable
(b) enterprising
(c) chivalrous
(d) irreverent
Ans. (d) Irreverent (adj) means lacking respect or seriousness; not reverent.
8. With her _______ eyesight, Resham spoed a trio of deer on the hillside and she reduced the speed of her car.
(a) inferior
(b) keen
(c) impressionable
(d) conspiratorial
Ans. (b) Keen (adj) means being extremely sensitive or responsive; having strength of perception.
9. With a(n) _______ grin, the boy quickly slipped the candy into his pocket without his mother’s knowledge.
(a) nefarious
(b) stereotypical
(c) sentimental
(d) impartial
Ans. (b) Nefarious (adj) means wicked, vicious, or evil.
10. Her ______ display of tears at work did not impress her new boss, who felt she should try to control her emotions.
(a) maudlin
(b) meritorious
(c) precarious
(d) schematic
Ans. (a) Maudlin (adj) means excessively and weakly sentimental or tearfully emotional.
11. Nitin argued, “If you know about a crime but don’t report it, you are _______ in that crime because you allowed it to happen.”
(a) acquied
(b) steadfast
(c) complicit
(d) nullified
Ans. (d) Complicit(adj) means participating in or associated with a questionable act or a crim(e)
12. The authorities, fearing a _______ of their power, called for a military state in the hopes of restoring order.
(a) subversion
(b) predilection
(c) infusion
(d) inversion
Ans. (a) Subversion (n) means an overthrow, as from the foundation.
13. The story’s bier antagonist felt such great _______ for all of the other characters that as a result, his life was very lonely and he died alone.
(a) insurgence
(b) malevolence
(c) reciprocation
(d) declamation
Ans. (b) Malevolence (n) means ill will or malice toward others; hate.
14. It is difficult to believe that charging 20% on an outstanding credit card balance isn’t _______ !
(a) bankruptcy
(b) usury
(c) kleptomania
(d) flagrancy
Ans. (b) Usury (n) is the lending of money at exorbitant interest rates.
15. The _______ weather paerns of the tropical island meant tourists had to carry both umbrellas and sunglasses.
(a) impertinent
(b) preeminent
(c) illustrative
(d) kaleidoscopic
Ans. (d) Kaleidoscopic (adj) means continually changing or quickly shifting.
5. Synonyms and Antonyms
Directions : Pick out the nearest correct meaning or synonym of the words given below:
1. ADVICE
(a) council
(b) counsel
(c) practice
(d) proposal
Answers (b) counsel
2. MISERABLE
(a) object
(b) obstruct
(c) dejected
(d) abstract
Answers (c) dejected
3. QUOTE
(a) sight
(b) sigh
(c) sue
(d) cite
Answers (d) cite
4. HARMONY
(a) cemetery
(b) ceremony
(c) symmetry
(d) hierarchy
Answers (c) symmetry
5. UNLAWFUL
(a) elicit
(b) draw
(c) litigation
(d) illicit
Answers (d) illicit
6. HAUGHTY
(a) imperial
(b) arrogant
(c) adamant
(d) empire
Answers (b) arrogant
7. WISE
(a) momentous
(b) pragmatic
(c) judicious
(d) delay
Answers (c) judicious
8. LOQUACIOUS
(a) victorian
(b) bombastic
(c) verbose
(d) ambiguous
Answers (c) verbose
9. COURAGEOUS
(a) fickle
(b) insipid
(c) timorous
(d) fearless
Answers (d) fearless
10. WATCHFULNESS
(a) supervision
(b) custody
(c) superintendence
(d) vigilance
Answers (d) vigilance
11. ATTACHMENT
(a) affinity
(b) influence
(c) causation
(d) appendage
Answers (d) appendage
12. WEARY
(a) sad
(b) fatigued
(c) sentimental
(d) emotional
Answers (b) fatigued
13. BEQUEST
(a) parsimony
(b) matrimony
(c) heritace
(d) patrimony
Answers (c) heritace
14. GULLIBLE
(a) credible
(b) believable
(c) credulous
(d) fallible
Answers (c) credulous
15. BRAVERY
(a) onslaught
(b) arrogant
(c) fortitude
(d) nepotism
Answers (c) fortitude
6. Vocabulary.
Active and Passive Voice
1. I am playing cricket.
(a) Cricket had been being played be me.
(b) Cricket is being played by me.
(c) Cricket was being played be me.
(d) Cricket has been played be me.
Answers (b) Cricket is being played by me.
2. He played many games.
(a) Many games was played by him.
(b) Many games were not played by him.
(c) Many games had been played by him.
(d) Many games were played by him.
Answers (d) Many games were played by him.
3. He had already passed the examination.
(a) The examination was already passed by him.
(b) The examination had already been passed by him.
(c) The examination had already passed by him.
(d) The examination has already been passed by him.
Answers (b) The examination had already been passed by him.
4. A child likes toys.
(a) Toys have liked by a child.
(b) Toys liked by a child.
(c) Toys are liked by a child.
(d) Toys is liked by a child.
Answers (c) Toys are liked by a child.
5. She is eating mangoes.
(a) Mangoes are eating by her
(b) Mangoes is being eaten by her.
(c) Mangoes are being eaten by her.
(d) Mangoes was being eaten by her.
Answers (c) Mangoes are being eaten by her.
6. We are playing chess?
(a) Chess had being played by us.
(b) Chess has being played by us.
(c) Chess was being played by us.
(d) Chess is being played by us.
Answers (d) Chess is being played by us.
7. Suganya can help me.
(a) I can be helped by Suganya.
(b) Suganya could be helped.
(c) I can be help by Suganya.
(d) I could be helped by Suganya.
Answers (a) I can be helped by Suganya.
8. I ate a mango.
(a) A mango was eaten by me.
(b) A mango had eaten by me.
(c) A mango was ate by me.
(d) A mango is eaten by me.
Answers (a) A mango was eaten by me.
9. My father will advise you.
(a) You will have been advised by your father.
(b) You will be advised by my father.
(c) You shall advised by your father.
(d) You will advised by your father.
Answers (b) You will be advised by my father.
10. Did she write a story?
(a) Was a story wrote by her?
(b) Was a story wrien by her?
(c) Did a story wrien by her?
(d) Does a story wrien by her?
Answers (b) Was a story wrien by her?
11. I was taking coffee.
(a) Coffee is being taken by me.
(b) Coffee was taken by me.
(c) Coffee was being taken by me.
(d) Coffee has been taken by me.
Answers (c) Coffee was being taken by me.
12. Who saw the thief?
(a) Who has seen the thief?
(b) By whom was the thief seen?
(c) By whom was the thief been seen?
(d) By whom has the thief been seen?
Answers (b) By whom was the thief seen?
13. Does he help the poor?
(a) Were the poor helped by him?
(b) The poor was helped by him?
(c) Are the poor helped by him?
(d) Is the poor helped by him?
Answers (c) Are the poor helped by him?
14. She wrote some leers.
(a) Some leers had wrien by her.
(b) Some leers have wrien by her.
(c) Some leers were wrien by her.
(d) Some leers are wrien by her.
Answers (c) Some leers were wrien by her.
15. My mother loves me.
(a) I had loved by my mother.
(b) I have loved by my mother.
(c) I am loved by my mother.
(d) I was loved by my mother.
Answers (c) I am loved by my mother.
7. Parts of Speech
Select the correct option that identifies the noun in the sentence.
1. It will take all of your energy and will to be able to walk again.
(a) Take
(b) Energy
(c) All
(d) Your
Answers (b) Energy
2. The works of many great poets have been placed on reserve.
(a) Great
(b) Many
(c) Poets
(d) Placed
Answers (c) Poets
3. The Brooklyn Bridge was opened in 1883.
(a) Bridge
(b) Was
(c) In
(d) Opened
Answers (a) Bridge
4. Sparta and Athens were enemies during the Peloponnesian War.
(a) And
(b) Were
(c) During
(d) War
Answers (d) War
5. Joe, have you met your new boss?
(a) Have
(b) Met
(c) New
(d) Boss
Answers (d) Boss
6. Sue’s parents tried living in the north, but they could not adapt to the cold.
(a) North
(b) Living
(c) Tried
(d) Adapt
Answers (a) North
7. Mastering basic mathematics is an important goal for younger students.
(a) Mastering
(b) Students
(c) Important
(d) Younger
Answers (b) Students
8. To seize a foreign embassy and its inhabitants is flagrant disregard for diplomatic neutrality.
(a) Embassy
(b) Seize
(c) Its
(d) Flagrant
Answers (a) Embassy
9. The Trojans’ rash decision to accept the wooden horse led to their destruction.
(a) Their
(b) Led
(c) Destruction
(d) Accept
Answers (c) Destruction
10. Does wood sink in water?
(a) sink
(b) wood
(c) does
(d) water
Answers (c) Destruction
11. My mother wears gold jewellery.
(a) wears
(b) jewellery
(c) mother
(d) gold
Answers (d) gold
12. The crowd was on the main street.
(a) crowd
(b) main
(c) on
(d) street
Answers (a) crowd
13. They gazed across the valley.
(a) across
(b) gazed
(c) they
(d) valley
Answers (d) valley
14. Honesty is the best policy.
(a) best
(b) Honesty
(c) policy
(d) the
Answers (d) the
15. Why do you tell a lie?
(a) tell
(b) lie
(c) you
(d) why
Answers (d) why
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