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Verbal Ability - Online practice Test 28
Directions for questions 1 and 2: 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 or INAPPROPRIATE.
1.
NOTICE
(1) Send this notice to all our area offices.
(2) Owls and cats notice in darkness.
(3) If you want to continue in my office be honest, otherwise hand in your
notice.
(4) Sorry I took no notice of your presence at the dinner.
(5) Leela could leave at short notice since she found someone to replace her.
Directions for questions 3 and 4: A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the
most logical order of sentences, from among the four given choices, to construct a paragraph.
3.
A. The government is confident that all these works, apart from
additional 1000 MWe units, would enhance the country's power capacity.
B. India's 17th pressurized Heavy Water Reactor is in operation and has
fulfilled the commitment to extend capacity.
C. Kakrapur in Gujarat and Rawatbhata, identified to be ideal sites, will
soon witness operations.
D. The future units that are sanctioned will be built through global
tender.
E. Kaiga-4, built indigenously, is about four months away from
attaining criticality.
(1) BECDA
(2) ABEDC
(3) BEDCA
(4) ABECD
(5) EDABC
Directions for questions 5 and 6: Five alternative summaries are given below each text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.
5.
In order to arrive at a gender-equitable legislative regime, an exercise is
underway, to put all existing laws under the gender scanner. This
exercise in ensuring substantive equality for women within existing law,
was long overdue. Even as we recognise that laws by themselves are
inadequate, because most women in India do not have the awareness,
the resources or the ability to benefit from them individually, they
nevertheless represent an important benchmark for socially desirable
norms and practices. The constitution guarantees equality between the
sexes and has been hailed for its progressive vision. Yet, in many ways,
these guarantees have proved inadequate in addressing the complexities
and dynamics of gender discrimination.
(1) Existing laws are being scrutinised to ensure gender equality. Though the
laws by themselves are inadequate to ensure gender equality, they represent an
important benchmark for what is good. Though the constitution guarantees
equality, it has proved to be ineffective.
(2) Laws are being put under the gender equitability scanner. As the laws by
themselves cannot protect women, they are not entirely useful as benchmarks.
The constitution does not provide equality even though it professes to do so.
(3) Laws are being scanned under the gender equitability scanner to ensure
gender equality, which even the constitution has failed to ensure.
(4) Existing laws are being subjected to the gender equitability test, to ensure
equality. Though laws by themselves are inadequate to ensure this, they are
important benchmarks for what is socially acceptable. Constitutional guarantees
on equality have proved inadequate.
(5) Existing laws are being scrutinized for gender equality although they, like
the constitution, have proved inadequate and are mere benchmarks.
Directions for questions 7 and 8: Each statement has a part missing. Select the best option from the five options given below the statement to make
up the missing part.
7.
Aestheticism, or "the Aesthetic Movement", _____, although its roots lie Subversive foreign outfits, _____ to destabilise the country.
in the German theory proposed by Immanuel Kant.
(1) was an European phenomenon during the late nineteenth century that had
its chief philosophical headquarters in France
(2) was a European phenomena during the late nineteenth century that had its
chief philosophical headquarters in France
(3) was a European phenomenon during the late nineteenth century that had its
chief philosophical headquarters in France
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2.
DISTINCT
(1) He is distinct about what is right and what is wrong.
(2) Mars became distinct on the horizon in the month of August.
(3) The distinct strains of Ravi's violin could be heard above the general din.
(4) Ghoshbabu's is a distinct case of water rising above its own level.
(5) I have distinct memories of my childhood in a small town.
4.
A. As more and more women claim boardroom seats, the glass ceiling is
eventually bound to break.
B. The time to shake up the Indian boardroom is ripe.
C. The greatest error would be to restrict our discussions within four
walls.
D. To make the exercises worthwhile it must help to define our next
step.
E. Over a period of time, it is hoped that there will be more and more
women at the top of Indian enterprises.
(1) DBEAC
(2) EADCB
(3) ACDEB
(4) ABDEC
(5) BEACD
6.
Coparcenary rights for daughters is an idea whose time has long come. If
daughters are given the same status as sons are, and accorded socially
recognised and legally enforceable rights, there would be less reason to
discriminate against them. In any case, the times are changing rapidly.
With growing literacy and employment opportunities, women today, are
no longer chattel to be passed on from one family to another. They are
individuals in their own right, contributing to the well-being of their
families, both as daughters and as wives.
(1) If equal rights are given to daughters as to sons, there won't be any
discrimination against them. However, they are already individuals, asserting
their rights, as daughters and as wives.
(2) Coparcenary rights for daughters will most likely help reduce discrimination
against women. These are in keeping with the coming of age of women as
individuals and as contributors to the family.
(3) Coparcenary rights for daughters will end their being discriminated against,
in property sharing. They are, however, already proving that they are not chattel,
but individuals, contributing their mite to the family.
(4) Equal rights to property for daughters, free them from discrimination, just as
education and employment have done.
(5) Giving women equal rights in inheritance will end discrimination against
them. This will also help in making them into individuals who can contribute to
the welfare of the family.
8.
(1) besides the ISI of Pakistan, have forged covert links with ideological
extremists and insurgents in India
(2) beside ISI of Pakistan, have forged covert links with ideological extremists
and insurgents in India
(3) besides the ISI of the Pakistan, have forged covert links with ideological
extremists and insurgents in India
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(4) was a European phenomenon during the late nineteenth century that had its (4) besides ISI of Pakistan, has forged covert links with extremists and
chief philosophical headquarters at France insurgents in India
(5) was a European phenomenon during late nineteenth century that has its (5) besides the ISI of Pakistan, have forged covert link with extremists and
Chief philosophical head quarters at France. insurgents in India

Directions for questions 9 and 10: In each question the CAPITALIZED words is followed by five pairs of words. Chose the pair which does NOT exhibit
the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalized pair.

9. 10.

CALENDAR : DATE CRIMSON : RED

(1) watch : time (1) khaki : brown

(2) thermometer : temperature (2) incarnadine : red
(3) odometer : distance (3) mauve : violet
(4) earthquake : richter scale (4) turquoise : blue
(5) barometer : pressure (5) cream : white

Directions for questions 11 to 15: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

I don't drive. But my life is dominated by cars. They are around me and inside me; I breathe their fumes every time I walk along a road. As a child I
breathed in their glamour and persuaded my parents to buy me countless toy cars. Now they are everywhere I look. I dodge between them going from
any one place to any other. I shout over them to have a conversation walking down the street. I wake up to their sound systems in the small hours as
they park or drive by my house. Places that I love have been divided and paved over to make way for cars. Until a new traffic system was introduced
to my hometown in Essex I could cross into the town centre by walking over a road of two lanes. After, I had to cross about thirteen lanes.

A car showroom now sits at the corner of that junction. One time I walked past and there were large posters in the window advertising the latest
'retro' model of car produced by the manufacturer Chrysler. As I stood outside, the windows picking up reflections of a bleak landscape - a spaghetti
mess of traffic lanes and vulnerable pedestrian islands - the posters nevertheless invited me to "Buy your soul", by purchasing the PT Cruiser. Dr.
Faust was at work.

Cars cover and suffocate our lives but somehow their dominance is also strangely invisible. Our unique adaptability as a species has enabled us to
acclimatize to their staggering 'everywhereness', and not see it as odd. Were the car a disease it would be an epidemic. Yet, spellbound, we embrace
the great destroyer and design our lives, communities and countryside around it. We welcome cars into our lives when, rationally, we should be
emblazoning them with public health warnings in the same style as cigarette packets. 'Driving can seriously damage your health', or 'Driving Kills'.

Where the unsustainable use of fossil fuels is concerned, nothing is more symbolic than the car. If attitudes towards the car were to change, in much
the same way that attitudes towards smoking already have, we might reasonably conclude grounds for hope in the face of the ecological debt of
climate change. The opposite is also true.

So deeply is the car built into the organization of society, the running of the economy and the construction of our own identities, that a change in
attitudes towards it might signal public readiness for action on climate change. Action that is finally commensurate with the scale of the problem.

The car has not simply stumbled into its current iconic and dominant status. History's biggest red carpet has been rolled out for it. Like a spoilt young
prince it was born and brought up with an economic silver spoon in its mouth. Margaret Thatcher, as prime minister when I was growing up, told us
we were living in a "great car economy". Roads and car parks were built for it at public expense. Competition, like the railways and trams, had already
been deliberately run down in its favour.

The good behaviour of the car, like the ability to get you around (if ever more slowly) was fawned over. Bad behaviour, like killing and injuring people
on an epidemic scale and trashing both the urban and the rural environment, was indulged and ignored. Thatcher never mentioned what happened
when problems hit the great car economy, and now there is malady in our dependence. Comedian and activist Michel Moore first came to prominence
with a film called Roger and Me about the impact on his hometown of the closure of a car manufacturing plant. The town's economy depended almost
entirely on it. Across Britain other towns suffered similar fates as car making became increasingly mechanized and shifted to Asia in the 1980s and
1991s.

Potential environmental improvements in car design have been rubbed out by the fact that people want bigger, faster and off road cars. In the US,
overall vehicle fuel economy was lower in 2000 than it was in 1980. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, "Two decades of fuel saving
technologies that could have helped curb CO2 have instead gone into increasing vehicle weight and performance. " In Europe advertisers claim a
similar trend. Feeding an "Active car buying Audience" on the internet, the company Ad link points out that "Europeans like their cars fast! The
average power of car engines has increased by twenty five per cent in the last ten years".

Of course the demand for large fast cars doesn't just happen. Around six billion euros was spent on car advertising in the five biggest European
markets in 2000. In the US, advertising spending to keep cars moving through the showrooms was around $10 billion in 2003 and still rising. The
money is not just thrown around. Although carmakers keep it quiet, careful psychological research goes into every stage of product development from
the design of components through to advertising the final product. Each decision is carefully measured to maintain the apparent indispensability of
the car to our lives. The process has been quite amazingly successful.

Change, and an end to ecological debt, demands that we 'untell' the stories told every day on behalf of the car in a thousand newspaper and magazine
adverts. These adverts are, for the car industry, the equivalent in propaganda to Stalin's state propaganda posters, newsreels and artwork of happy
smiling workers. They hide a brutal reality and a naked, dissolute emperor.

11. 12.

The author in this passage Which of the following could the reference to Dr. Faust imply?
(A) The reality on the roads negates the charms of the car showroom.
(B) The purchase of the car can only be a downhill journey,
(1) uncovers the superficial glamour and charm of cars. metaphorically.
(2) reveals how the car has surreptitiously come to dominate and destroy our (C) The reality is the opposite of what the poster at Chrysler said.
lives. (D) The charm of the car is irresistible.
(3) places the car in its true perspective.
(4) criticizes the car for its inability to deliver its promise. (1) A and B
(5) points to the damages caused to the environment by cars. (2) B, C and D
(3) A, C and D
(4) Only D
(5) B and D

13. 14.

The tone of the passage is What is the story that we have to 'untell'?

(1) scathingly critical. (1) The brutal reality that driving kills.
(2) cynical. (2) The fact that the car is the main culprit for climate change.
(3) sarcastic. (3) The belief that we cannot survive without cars.
(4) desperate. (4) The story that the ownership of car symbolizes an ecological debt.
(5) resigned (5) The propaganda that has given the car an iconic status.

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15.

What is the malady in the great car economy?

(1) The vicious circle created by our dependence on car and the harm it inflicts.
(2) A market controlled by a few giant corporate.
(3) Our being charmed by the car and not realizing it is the largest killer.
(4) The desire for bigger and faster cars.
(5) Being mesmerized by automobiles despite knowing the harm it inflicts.

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