SAMPLE QUESTIONS VERBAL ABILITY No.

. Of Questions : 10 Questions Topic : Antonyms Each question gives a word followed by four answer options. From the choices, choose the most suitable antonym (word opposite in meaning to given word) for the main word and mark that choice as your answer 1. a. b. c. d. Virulent Unhappy hard Clean Benign

Answer :D 2. a. b. c. d. Callous emaciated unhealthy corpulent Careful

Answer : D Topic : Synonym Each question gives a word followed by four answer options. From the choices, choose the most suitable synonym (word which means the same) for the main word and mark that choice as your answer 3. a. b. c. d. Pretence feigning factiousness fiendishness fastidiousness

Answer : A 4. a. b. c. Embezzle misappropriate balance Remunerate

d. Clear Answer : A Topic : Vocabulary Each sentence that follows has a section marked in bold followed by four answer options. From the choices that follow, choose the option that most appropriately replaces the section marked in bold and select that as your answer. 5. As its reputation for making acquisitions of important masterpieces has grown, the museum has increasingly turned down gifts of lesser known paintings they would in the past have accepted gratefully a. they would in the past have accepted gratefully b. they would have accepted gratefully in the past c. it would in the past have accepted gratefully d. that previously would have been accepted in the past Answer : C 6. With less than thirty thousand rupees in advance ticket sales and fewer acceptances by guest-speakers than expected, the one day symposium on Art was cancelled because for lack of interest a. Less than thirty thousand rupees in advance ticket sales and fewer b. Fewer than thirty thousand rupees in advance tickets sales and less c. Less than thirty thousand rupees in advance ticket sales and as few d. Lesser than thirty thousand rupees in advance ticket sales and fewer Answer : A Topic : Jumbled Sentences The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 7. a. Passivity is not, of course, universal. b. In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier zones where all men go armed, the attitude of the peasantry may well be different. c. So indeed it may be on the fringe of the un-submissive. d. However, for most of the soil-bound peasants the problem is not whether to be normally passive or active, but when to pass from one state to another. e. This depends on an assessment of the political situation.

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Answer: 4 8. a. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint. b. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him. c. He acknowledges too "in fact he returns to the point often " that best translators of poetry always fail at some level. d. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings. e. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street-cleaners. 1. EACDB 2. ADEBC 3. EACBD 4. DCEAB Answer : 1 9. a. Nor has corporate America ever been shaken by such an array of scandals. b. It is a fitting metaphor for 2002, the third year of a grizzly bear market. c. There has not been a time in recent memory, when the stock market has been so violently rocked, destroying the fortunes of many. d .Some say Wall Street is a crooked thoroughfare that begins at a churning river and ends in an old graveyard. 1. CABD 2 .CADB 3.DBCA 4 .DCBA Answer : 3 10. a. The broad roads, the elegant trams and buses and the ubiquitous housing complexes characterise the place. b. The Russian and Uzbeki languages are in vogue here, but Uzbek nationalism, discernable at the airport itself, is the hallmark of changing times. c. A soft touch down at the Tashkent international airport marked the beginning of an encounter with post-Soviet Central Asia. d. Even those Uzbeks with no nostalgia for the old communist order appear to be proud of the public transport system in Tashkent, if not the housing complexes.

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