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Verbal Ability - Online practice Test 20
Directions for questions 1 and 2: The following questions have a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,
choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
1.
Genomics is the science that maps and describes an individual's genetic
code. In the future, personalized DNA chips will allow us to assess our
own predispositions for certain diseases, then adjust our diets
accordingly. So if you are at risk for heart disease, you won't just go on a
generic low fat diet. You will eat foods with just the right amount and
type of fat that is best for you. _____
(1) The foods we like the most will be the most healthy for us.
(2) It is nothing short of a revolution in how we eat, and it is getting closer
every day.
(3) Each of us may have personal nutria-genomic bar codes, which would keep
our fundamental genetic information and nutritional needs.
(4) So diet related diseases like diabetes and certain cancers will decline
dramatically.
(5) Since people differ in their genetics and metabolism, one diet won't fit all.
Directions for question 3 and 4: The following questions have a set of sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the
following.
- Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option
indicates such a statement with an 'F').
- Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
- Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the
future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').
Select the answer option that best describes the set of statements.
3.
(A) There are not many philosophical questions to ask; we have already
asked most of them.
(B) History presents us with many different answers to each
philosophical question, making it easier to ask questions than to answer
them.
(C) Each individual has to discover his own answers to philosophical
questions.
(D) Questions such as 'Does God exist?" or 'Is there life after death?' are
not answered in any encyclopedia.
(E) Reading what other people have believed in can help formulate our
own view of life.
(1) JJJFI
(2) FJJFI
(3) JIJFJ
(4) FFJFI
(5) IJIFJ
Directions for questions 5 to 7: In the following questions, the word at the top is used in five different ways numbered 1 to 5. Choose the option in
which the usage of the word is Incorrect orInappropriate.
5.
GOOD>
(1) The guest took in good part of the dish that he found tasty.
(2) After retirement, he went back to his native place for good.
(3) In spite of the storm, they reached the place in good time.
(4) The members of the Home participated in good works to help others in their
locality.
(5) Being on a holiday, Lakshmi was in a good mood.
7.
EQUAL
(1) He asked for an equal share of the property.
(2) Equal opportunities should be given for all in a democracy.
(3) "I am equal to any task", she declared.
(4) He has no equal in the field of cinema.
(5) John is an assiduous worker, I am sure he will prove himself equal to this
task.
9.
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2.
I have treated seriously the ideas and writings of terrorists, not only their
bloody acts. The charters and communiqués that the groups write, and
the interviews they eagerly arrange with friendly newspapers, are as
instructive as the incendiaries they leave in department stores or under
diplomat's cars. Politicians are wrong in using the word 'mindless' so
often when denouncing terrorist bloodshed; they are not thinking when
they do. Many terrorists are calculating and clever. Hundreds of them are
well-educated. _________
(1) Strong governments are driven to distraction and to international
embarrassment.
(2) Most often, terrorism is not mindless, it is the calibration of violence and fear
for political effect.
(3) Terrorism works - well enough that despite all its abhorrent characteristics, it
continues to be pressed into service.
(4) Their expectations are doubtless maintained by the awareness that one
man's terrorist is another man's nationalist.
(5) The prospect that they might succeed - that terrorists can eventually destroy
a government, or even take power - deserves full consideration.
4.
(A) Enhancing the capacity of millions of farm men and women,
influencing their decisions so they add up to faster and more inclusive
growth is an enormous challenge.
(B) Increases in productivity and farm income take place within
households, whereas the U.N. as an inter-governmental body works
primarily at other levels.
(C) How the U.N. can best contribute to reducing hunger and poverty in
this context is an important question.
(D) This reflection is particularly relevant at the moment as U.S agencies
in India formulate their common assistance frame work to coincide with
the Eleventh plan.
(1) JFFI
(2) JFFJ
(3) IJJI
(4) JFIJ
(5) JFJJ
6.
TREAT
(1) He was sporting enough to treat the incident as a joke.
(2) The panoramic view below was a treat to the eyes.
(3) The entire supply of water was treated to a disinfectant.
(4) Having lost all hopes of winning, she considered the award a treat.
(5) When Ram announced his engagement, his friends demanded a treat.
8.
His suggestion was met with _____, if not outright hostility, by the other
members who _____ disagreed with him.
(1) disapprobation . . . vehemently
(2) disapproval . . . allegedly
(3) dissent . . . reluctantly
(4) contempt . . . summarily
(5) dissension . . . perfunctorily
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Though he always spoke in a/an _____ manner, beneath that _____ lay a The principal wisely adopted a policy of patience and _____ towards the
very serious and profound character. students, rather than _____ their demands outright.

(1) frivolous . . . farce (1) tolerance . . . rejecting

(2) carefree . . . travesty (2) compromise . . . declining
(3) lofty . . . veneer (3) restraint . . . ignoring
(4) facetious . . . masquerade (4) fortitude . . . refusing
(5) flippant . . . façade (5) perseverance . . . omitting

Directions for question 11: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with
a letter. From among the choices given, choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph.

11. 12.

A. In the absence of an inherited colonial administrative and political Which of the following is in line with the thinking that infants who lack
structure capable of coordinating its heterogeneous territories, India's language cannot think?
size could just as well have been a disadvantage of gigantic proportions.
B. Any work that analyses both India and Pakistan, has to contend with
serious issues of comparability between the two nations. (1) Women are incapable of tough physical labour on account of an inherent
C. As for the symbols which gave the most explicit expression to the gender weakness.
nationalist idiom of Indian unity, these had been so appropriated and (2) Black and white portraits are less attractive than coloured ones.
altered by autonomous economies and cultures, as to deny the
centralised state's hegemonic project to infuse them with a singular and (3) Cricket played without enthusiastic spectators is a dull game.
monolithic meaning. (4) Adroitness is a characteristic which cannot be associated with the physically
D. Without denying the significance of scale and symbol, it is important challenged.
not to let the determinisms of political geography and the imaginings of (5) Retentiveness declines progressively with age.
sacred mythology cloud historical analysis.
E. India's geographical size and its ideal of unity, albeit largely mythical
and symbolic, are often cited as key differences with Pakistan, which is a
fabrication of political necessity.

(1) EBCAD
(2) BEDAC
(3) EDACB
(4) BACED
(5) EACDB

13. 14.

In which of the following ways is the Whorfian theory thought to be According to the passage, the question that remains unanswered vis-à-vis
limited? language and thought is

(1) The structure of a language affects the way we communicate. (1) whether thought enlarges language.
(2) Borrowing from other languages implies a limited scope of expression. (2) whether language enlarges thought.
(3) The smaller the vocabulary of a language, the less the thinking and (3) whether limited vocabulary leads to better thinking.
perception. (4) how language affects communication.
(4) The statement that Inuits have a larger fund of vocabulary at their disposal (5) how far language has a bearing on thought.
than do the Navajos.
(5) The more receptive a language is to foreign words, the better the scope of
expression.

15.

Which of the following statements is not applicable to Native American languages.

(1) They have different vocabularies.

(2) They do not use tenses to express different time frames.
(3) The degree of certainty is expressed through the use of tenses.
(4) They cannot express counter factual statements.
(5) None of these

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