Choose the appropriate word and fill the bubble / circle corresponding to that letter in the MCQ

Response Form

1. In the second study, the surgeons performed a variety of surgical procedures on a human ______

(a) species (b) cadaver (c) rapid (d) skin

2. He regards the political process with______

(a) disdain (b) affinity (c) acrimony (d) altruistic

3. We are fed up with the ______ local traditions.

(a) score (b) scorned (c)scruple (d) sarong

4. I did not ______ the child for what he had done.

(a) chastise (b) chassis (c) fabulous (d) roil

In the following sentences some segments of each sentence are underlined. Your task is to identify
that underlined segment of the sentence, which contains the mistake that needs to be corrected. Fill
the bubble / circle corresponding to the letter under the segment in the MCQ Response Form.

5. Probably only one star in 100,000 has a planet going around it at right distance for life to be possible on
it.

6. He had no private means and no family connections of some importance.

7. Pakistan came in being on August 14, 1947.

8. All of us has benefited greatly from the use of scientific methods in solving problems.

9. When confronting the enigma of the Chinese planet, many too Westerners have forgotten the Asiatic
background.

10. In my agony for decision I left the Embankment and hastened straight for the first of these.
In each of the following questions, four alternative sentences are given. Choose the CORRECT one
and fill the bubble / circle corresponding to that letter in the MCQ Response Form.

11 (a) He ordered the construction of a wall round it and erected for himself a palace and garden
outside Cordova in imitation to the palace built by an ancestor in eastern Syria.
(b) He ordered the construction of a wall around it and erected himself for a palace and garden
outside Cordova in imitation of the palace built by an ancestor in eastern Syria.
(c) He ordered the construction of a wall round it and erected for himself a palace and garden
outside Cordova in imitation of the palace built by an ancestor in eastern Syria.
(d) He order the construction of a wall round it and erected for himself a palace and garden
outside Cordova in imitation of the palace built by an ancestor in eastern Syria.
12. (a) The Big Hall was full of lusty barbarians ready to pounce at him as their legitimate prey.
(b) The Big Hall was full of lusty barbarians ready to pounce on him as their legitimate prey.
(c) The Big Hall was full of lusty barbarians ready to pounce on him as its legitimate prey.
(d) The Big Hall was full of lusty barbarians ready to pounce on him as their legitimate pray.
13. (a) It happened that one of the animal entered a melon field.
(b) It happened that one of the animals had entered a melon field.
(c) It happened that one of the animals entered the melon field.
(d) It happened that one of the animals entered a melon field.
14. (a) You can’t satisfy your conscience by writing a cheque for a few guineas.
(b) You can’t satisfy your conscience by writing a check for a few guineas.
(c) You can’t satisfy your conscious by writing a cheque for a few guineas.
(d) You can’t satisfy your conscience by writing a cheque of a few guineas.
15. (a) So there Chips lived, with his quiet enjoyments of reading, talking and remembering.
(b) So there Chips lived, with his quite enjoyments of reading, talking and remembering
(c) So there Chips lived, with his quite enjoyments of reading, talking and remember.
(d) So there Chips lived, with his quiet enjoyments of reading, talking and remembrance.
16. (a) She was not in difficulties at all, but was merely signalized to a friend farther down the
mountain.
(b) She was not in difficulties at all, but was merely signaling to a friend further down the
mountain.
(c) She was not in difficulties at all, but was mere signaling to a friend farther down the
mountain.
(d) She was not in difficulties at all, but was merely signaling to a friend farther down the
mountain.
17. (a) But she had not always pleaded for leniency.
(b) But she had not always pleaded to leniency.
(c) But she had not always pleaded of leniency.
(d) But she had not always pleaded on leniency.
18. (a) He had for some reason been afflicted to an acute desire to depreciate himself.
(b) He had for some reason been afflicted on an acute desire to depreciate himself.
(c) He had for some reason been afflicted with an acute desire to depreciate himself.
(d) He had for some reason been afflicted in an acute desire to depreciate himself.
19. (a) Till his marriage he had been a dry and rather neutral type of person
(b) Till his marriage he had been a dry and rather neutral sort of person.
(c) Till his marriage he had been a dry and rather neutral kind of a person
(d) Till his marriage he had been a dry and rather neutral sort of a person
20. (a) The stress of desert travel have affected him physically. His hand had become so cracked
that he could hardly use his camera.
(b) The stress of desert travel has affected him physically. His hand had become too cracked that
he could hardly use his camera.
(c) The stress of desert travel had affected him physically. His hand had become so cracked that
he can hardly use his camera.
(d) The stress of desert travel had affected him physically. His hand had become so cracked that
he could hardly use his camera.

In each of the following question, four alternative meanings of a word are given. You have to select the
NEAREST CORRECT MEANING of the given word and fill the appropriate Bubble / Circle on the MCQ
Response Form
21. Localize
a) delimit b)mysterious c)tumor d)rite

22. Mosey
a)linger b)motley c) skilled d) mote
23. Impetuous
(a) hasty (b) calm (c) circumvent (d) pomposity
24. Devious
a) flatter b) astute c) noble (d) circled
25. Gesticulate
(a) eagerness (b) jester (c) hail (d) beckon
26. Recapitulate
(a) dilate (b) reiterate (c) take back (d) elaborate
27. Urbane
(a) sophisticated (b) naive (c) sarcastic (d) impolite
28. Inadvertently
(a) unwittingly (b) assiduously (c) wittingly (d) consciously
29. Hiatus
a) interim b) joy c)medium (d) indictment
30. Dote
(a) love (b) eschew (c) diva (d) stink