Q1. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
We appreciate your resourcefulness in effectively handling (considerable difficult) exercises.
(a) considerable difficulty
(b) considerably difficult
(c) considered difficulty
(d) No improvement
Q2. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase in bold.
It will be wise on your part to let the bygones be bygones.
(a) plan for one’s future
(b) forgive past offences
(c) recollect the past
(d) anxious about future
Q3. Select the antonym of Outlandish
(a) droll
(b) kinky
(c) common
(d) grotesque
Q4. In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
By this time, he will have received my letter.
(a) The letter; by this time, has been delivered to him.
(b) By this time the letter has been received by him.
(c) By this time my letter will have been received by him.
(d) By this time the letter has reached him.
Q5. Select the word with the incorrect spelling.
(a) Indefinite
(b) Courteous
(c) Advartise
(d) Periphery
Q6. Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.
A. Mr. Trump’s immigration policies have disrupted the reforms.
B. and Spanish-speaking voters while attracting working-class white voters in the heartland.
C. He has reshaped the Republican Party by alienating many business-minded.
D. Engineered by Republican Presidents Reagan and Bush and Democrats Clinton and Obama.
(a) CBDA
(b) ADCB
(c) DABC
(d) CDAB
Q7. Select the word with the correct spelling.
(a) arobics
(b) chosers
(c) batered
(d) eternity
Q8. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.
To take back, withdraw or renounce
(a) Repent
(b) Retrace
(c) Refuse
(d) Recant
Q9. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase in bold.
Blow the whistle on
(a) To report someone’s wrongdoing to someone else
(b) To bore someone
(c) To pass and be forgotten
(d) To whistle
Q10. Select the synonym of Gaudy
(a) modest
(b) showy
(c) refined
(d) sophisticated
Solutions:
S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Difficult’ is an adjective which should be qualified by an adverb. But ‘considerable’ is also an adjective which should be replaced with adverb “considerably”. Thus option (b) is correct.
S2. Ans. (b)
Sol. Let the bygones be bygones means forgive someone for something he or she did in the past.
S3. Ans. (c)
Sol. Outlandish means looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar and common means occurring, found, or done often; prevalent.
S4. Ans. (c)
S5. Ans. (c)
Sol. Advertise – publicize information about (a vacancy).
S6. Ans. (b)
S7. Ans. (d)
Sol. Eternity means infinite or unending time.
S8. Ans. (d)
Sol. Repent –feel or express sincere regret or remorse about one’s wrongdoing or sin.
Retrace –go back over (the same route that one has just taken)
Refuse –indicate or show that one is not willing to do something
S9. Ans. (a)
Sol. To blow the whistle on someone means to report someone’s wrongdoing to someone (such as the police) who can stop the wrongdoing.
S10. Ans. (b)
Sol. Gaudy means extravagantly bright or showy, typically to be tasteless.
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