General Test - 43

Here Preposition 'By' is suitable for the sentence because work is done by someone.

So the sentence is "The speech given by the chief guest was liked by one and all".

To go from one side of any line, river, bridge to the other side, the preposition 'over' is used.

So the sentence is "To reach the market, go over the bridge and her left".

The meaning of the given idiom 'High on the hog' is 'to live in great comfort with a lot of money'. 

• Examples, 
  • They've been living high on the hog ever since David won the lottery.
  • We aren’t as wealthy as the Jones’ to live so high on the hog.
• Therefore, according to the explanation and examples that are given above, option (C) is the correct answer.

The meaning of the given idiom 'to pick holes' is 'To make an effort to find flaws or negative aspects in something through excessive analysis or criticism.' 

• It means to make an effort to find the weak points in something.
• Examples, 
  • Critics picked holes in his performance, but fans seemed to love it.
  • It’s easy for him to pick holes in my explanation.
• Therefore, according to the explanation and examples that are given above, option (C) is the correct answer.

The meaning of the given idiom 'run out of steam' is 'To lose one's energy, motivation, or enthusiasm to continue doing something.' 

• It means to lose a feeling of energetic interest in a particular subject or activity and stop doing it.
• Examples, 
  • After spending hours working on this project, I'm running out of steam.
  • Toward the end of the lecture, he seemed to run out of steam.
• According to the explanation and examples that are given above, option (B) is the correct answer.

The correct sentence would be: 

My father never did have an opportunity to go to a University.

In the above-given sentence, the error is related to adverb placement.

An adverb must come before the auxiliary verb in a sentence. For Example: I never was a fan of hers.

​The structure of the sentence is incorrect.

Thus, 'did never' will be replaced by 'never did'.

The correct answer is: 

"Some people like to watch television all day."

With the preposition 'to' we use the base form of the verb i.e., watch. 'Likes' can be used with pronouns like he or she. For eg- He likes to play.

The error is under errors in subject-verb agreement.

Since the subject of the sentence is 'list' and not 'candidates', the verb which follows should be in the singular form.

We should write 'was' in place of 'were' in the present case.

The correct sentence is: 

"The list of candidates to be called for the interview was put up on the board."

The meaning of the word 'Hierarchy' is- "a system or organization that has many levels from the lowest to the highest".

Synonym- ranking, grading, ladder, social structure.

Antonym- unordered, unranked.

Hierarchy is a Noun.

If the word-groups mentioned in the above options are arranged according to the dictionary, then the correct arrangement of the words-group mentioned in option (D) will be- Exaggerate, Exasperate, Excise, Exciting, Exodus.

Arranging the given unscrambled sentence in the form of a meaningful sentence will give the permutation series quoted in option (B)- D/C/B/F/E/A.

Hence the meaningful sentence will be-

People living in cities consider malls to be a one-stop place for entertainment =DCBFEA.

As we see here, that the sentence is talking about proving guilty of someone, an evidence has to be proved first to proceed further, therefore sentence will start will 'R'. Only one option is starting with R.

The correct rearranged sequence is “The lawyer has not produced any credible evidence to prove the criminal guilty.”

According to the given,

S1 sentence indicates that the smoke started rising up, now after the smoke the flames come up when it's a fire break out somewhere. Therefore, sentence S will start. After S sentence R will take place, as everyone is now realizing that the fire is on board now. Followed by sentences Q and P. Thus, making the sequence SRQP.

• Sentence D is the sentence that establishes the subject matter. Hence, it'll be the first sentence after rearrangement.
• Sentence A gives details about transferring the message to the subject 'my mother' which is provided in Sentence D. Hence, A follows D.
• Sentence C is the logical successor of Sentence A as it talks about the reaction from the subject 'my mother', mentioned in Sentence A.
• Sentence B follows Sentence C as it helps to provide a conclusion to the paragraph.

Arranged paragraph:Someone informed me that the storm was coming.So, I asked my mother to calm down.She shook her head, smiled, and said that she had already heard about it.After having a look at her, I was finally relieved

Kumar said that he was unwell.

While changing the narration of anassertive sentence, we need to follow the given steps-

• The conjunction ‘that’ should be used in place of a comma (,) and inverted commas (“ ”).
• 'Said' remainsunchanged.
• Thesimple present tense(am) is changed into thesimple past tense(was).
• Thefirst-person(I) is changed into thethird-person(he) i.e.subjectof thereporting verb. (Kumar)