Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension Test

Question 1
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Given below idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Choose whichever is the most appropriate meaning and mark your answer.

Open a Pandora's box

A
To do something that causes a lot of new problems that you did not expect

B
To do something out of compulsion

C
To do something beyond expectation

D
To do something out of the box, that causes awards and ceremonies for you

Question 2
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Given below idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Choose whichever is the most appropriate meaning and mark your answer.

Palsy-walsy friends

A
Good friends

B
Friends who help each other in difficult suituations

C
Friends by choice, and not by chance

D
Unfriendly

Question 3
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Given below idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Choose whichever is the most appropriate meaning and mark your answer.

Pull your socks up

A
To get well - dressed for the occasion

B
Improve your work or behaviour

C
To speak in an honest way without hesitation

D
To be in control of an organization, often secretly

Question 4
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Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

A. Mahatma Gandhi got a doctor to volunteer his services for six months.

B. Health conditions in Champaran were miserable.

C. The doctor gave quinine to malaria patients and the ointment with castor oil to those with skin eruptions.

D. Only three medicines were available- castor oil, quinine and sulphur ointment.

A
BADC

B
BCDA

C
ACBD

D
CDAB

Question 5
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Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

A. “Wow! That’s fantastic news,” said his family and friends.

B. He had gone to Kolkata for the inter-state swimming championship.

C. Irfan was a swimming champ.

D. “He won golds in 100 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly and relay,” informed his coach.

A
CDAB

B
CBAD

C
CABD

D
CBDA

Question 6
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Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

A. The other was on the side table near the window.

B. When I returned, I was shocked to see one set lying on the floor.

C. I was gone for more than an hour.

D. I had not completed reading the proofs so I left them on my desk.

A
CBDA

B
DCBA

C
DBAC

D
CDAB

Question 7
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A word is spelled in four different ways. You are to identify the one which is correct. Choose the alternative bearing the correct spelling from the given options.

A
Accommodate

B
Acomodate

C
Accomdate

D
Acomodait

Question 8
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Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select ‘No improvement’.

I will not go to the party lest you will promise to accompany me.

A
until you should

B
if you will

C
No improvement

D
unless you

Question 9
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Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select ‘No improvement’.

I am really looking forward to meet you.

A
No improvement

B
to be meeting you

C
to have met you

D
to meeting you

Question 10
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Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select ‘No improvement’.

We are coping the problems with the best of our ability.

A
No improvement

B
coping with the problems to

C
coping the problems at

D
coping in the problems by

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Verbal Ability ...

Question 1

To do something that causes a lot of new problems that you did not expect

To do something out of compulsion

To do something beyond expectation

To do something out of the box, that causes awards and ceremonies for you

Question 2

Good friends

Friends who help each other in difficult suituations

Friends by choice, and not by chance

Unfriendly

Question 3

To get well - dressed for the occasion

Improve your work or behaviour

To speak in an honest way without hesitation

To be in control of an organization, often secretly

Question 4

BADC

BCDA

ACBD

CDAB

Question 5

CDAB

CBAD

CABD

CBDA

Question 6

CBDA

DCBA

DBAC

CDAB

Question 7

Accommodate

Acomodate

Accomdate

Acomodait

Question 8

until you should

if you will

No improvement

unless you

Question 9

No improvement

to be meeting you

to have met you

to meeting you

Question 10

No improvement

coping with the problems to

coping the problems at

coping in the problems by

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