MIXED BAG TEST – 6

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Directions for Questions 1 to 5: In questions, 6. a) range b) trade

sentences are given with blanks to be filled in c) culture d) pride
with appropriate word (s). Four alternatives
are suggested for each question. Choose the 7. a) Indians b) North–Indians
correct alternative out of the four and c) South–Indians d) Rajputs
indicate it by marking the appropriate option
in the Answer Sheet. 8. a) the b) a
c) an d) now
1. We will have to atone............our misdeeds.
a) at b) on 9. a) of b) with
c) for d) with c) for d) to

2. I got used.............on the right when I was in 10. a) served b) met

the U.S. for two years. c) planned d) started
a) driving b) to drive
c) to driving d) by driving
11. a) performing b) conducting
c) achieving d) changing
3. Had you told me earlier I..............the meeting.
a) had attended b) have attendee
c) attended d) would have attended 12. a) with b) in
c) of d) from
4. The climate is not conducive.................good
health. 13. a) departments b) institutions
a) with b) from c) concerns d) projects
c) in d) to
14. a) was b) had
5. A dog lives in a................. c) were d) have
a) burrow b) coop
c) stable d) kennel 15. a) rural b) revenue
c) private d) government
Directions for Questions 6 to 15: In the
following passages, some of the words have Directions for Questions 16 to 20: In these
been left out. First read the passage over and questions the first and last sentences of the
try to understand what it is about. Then fill in passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the
the blanks with the help of the alternatives passage is split into four parts and named, P,
given. Mark your answer in the Answer Sheet. Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in
their proper order. Read the sentence and find
PASSAGE out which of the four combinations is correct.
The educational institutions established by the Then indicate your correct answer.
British and the Christian missionaries were
primarily designed to propagate and promote the 16. 1. When she got to her house, there was
English language and the Western ….(6)…. . Their nothing to retrieve.
aim was also to produce such ....(7).... who could P. All valuable were smashed or stolen.
man the lower levels of ....(8).... . British Q. The curtains were burned; books were
administrative hierarchy and remain ever loyal ripped to shreds.
....(9).... the British rulers. The British educational R. Her medals and trophies had been flung
policy ....(10).... with immense success in the everywhere.
matter of ....(11).... its objectives. The majority of S. The house had been completely ransacked.
people ....(12).... middle classes who went to these 6. Mrs. M Stood in the centre of her bedroom
educational ....(13)...., did acquire some looking at a ruined copy of the Holv book,
knowledge and skills which ....(14).... sufficient forcing back here tears.
enough to work as babus in these ....(15).... a) PQRS b) PRQS
offices. c) SPRQ d) RSQP

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17. 1. Freedom is first of all a personal matter. Directions for Questions 21 to 25: In the
P. A man who will not submit to the discipline following questions you have some brief
of his chosen occupation is not free to be a passages with five questions following each
great surgeon or engineer or golfer or passage. Read the passages carefully and
executive. choose the best answer to each question out of
Q. Life imposes a drastic discipline on all the four alternatives and mark it in the
living things, including human beings. Answer Sheet.
R. We are free to eat poison or jump off a tall
building, but not to escape the
consequence. PASSAGE
S. We are bound by the laws of cause and “The Law is an ass”, declared Mr. Bumble in
effect. “Oliver Twist”, and it often seems he was right. For
6. Nature, moreover, binds us by arbitrary punishment does not always fit the crime and it
limits of mind and body; we are not free to rarely happens that a prison term reforms a
do, by whatever effort, what is beyond our criminal.
capacity.
a) QRSP b) RSPQ Consider the following two cases. The first one had
c) PQRS d) SRQP happened in a village in Madurai District. One
Gopal Yadhav, a hard–core criminal undergoing
life sentence in the Madurai Prison came out on
18. 1. The student came late to the school. bail for two days to perform the last rites of his
P. He went home weeping. mother. But he was rearrested on the same
Q. The watchman didn’t allow him inside the evening on the charges of murdering his
school. neighbour’s son to settle old scores.
R. The boy was waiting outside for some time.
S. He then decided to go home.
6. It was a bad day for him. The second case, too, came to Madurai Court
a) QSPR b) QSRP recently. Deserted by her husband, a drunkard,
c) QRSP d) QPSR his grief–stricken wife mixed rat poison in the food
and gave it to her four children aged between 1.5
and 9 years. Before she could swallow the same
19. 1. We do not know whether the machines are food, she was unable to bear the pitiable sight of
the masters or we are. her children writhing in pain. She rushed them to
P. They must be given or rather ‘fed’ with coal hospital where she disclosed everything. She was
and given petrol to drink from time to time. able to save the lives of the first three children, but
Q. Already man spends most of his time the law of the country awarded her two years
looking after and waiting upon them. imprisonment (later commuted to a year) on the
R. Yet we have grown so dependent on them charges of plotting to kill her children. Would you
that they have almost become the masters say women like her are a danger to the society?
now. Would you call them criminal? It is high time that
S. It is very true that they were made for the we found other ways of Registering our
sole purpose of being man’s servants. disapproval of wrong doing. To imprison the bad is
6. And if they don’t get their meals when they expedient when they are dangerous. To imprison
expect them, they will just refuse to work. the mad and the merely sad, as we do, is not only
a) RSQP b) RSPQ unnecessary, it is uncivilised.
c) SPQR d) SRQP
21. The writer says ‘The Law is an ass’ because
a) it is as patient as an ass.
20. 1. The king of the oilfield is the driller. b) it does not punish the criminals severely.
P. During the process of drilling, gas and oil c) punishment do not help to reform
may be met. criminals.
Q. He is a very skilled man. d) criminals can escape punishment.
R. If this rushes out and catches fire it is
dangerous.
S. Sometimes he sends his drill more than a 22. Gopal Yadhav came out on bail
mile. a) in order to murder his enemy
6. This danger is well–known and steps are b) to cremate his mother
taken to prevent it. c) so that he could be rearrested
a) PQRS b) QSPR d) to see his four children undergoing
c) QPRS d) QSRP treatment in the hospital

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23. The mother in the second case cannot be Directions for Questions 31 to 35: In the
called a criminal because she following questions out of the four
a) rushed her children to the hospital alternatives, choose the one which best
b) mixed an ineffective poison in the food expresses the meaning of the given word and
c) was able to save three out of four children mark it in the answer Sheet.
d) was deserted by her husband
31. ERRORNEOUSLY
24. The writer argues that punishment for people a) Previously b) Effectively
like the woman in the second case are not c) Wrongly d) Evidently
necessary because they
a) don’t commit crimes frequently
b) are less dangerous than other criminals 32. ESTRANGED
c) represent poor society a) Jealous b) Angry
d) should not be clubbed with other criminals c) Separated d) Suspicious

25. The main difference between the two cases is 33. CAPITULATE
a) the first is about a man and the other is a) Repeat b) Execute
about a woman. c) Summarize d) Surrender
b) the woman regrets what she has done, but
not the man.
c) the man is a killer but the woman is not. 34. PROPITIATE
d) the man and the woman belong to different a) Conform b) Appease
communities. c) Influence d) Approach

Directions for Questions 26 to 30: In the 35. CEREMONIOUS

following questions, out of the four a) Religious b) Formal
alternatives, choose the one which can be c) Official d) Approach
substituted for the given words / sentence and
indicate the correct answer. Directions for Questions 36 to 40: In the
following questions, groups of four words are
26. A government by officials given. In each group one word is correctly
a) Oligarchy b) Aristocracy spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.
c) Plutocracy d) Bureaucracy

27. One who walks in sleep 36. a) Mischeivous b) Miscariage

a) Somniloquist b) Egoist c) Misdemeanour d) Misnomar
c) Somnambulist d) Altruist
37. a) Harrassment b) Commitment
28. Commencement of adjacent words with the c) Breevement d) Temparament
same letter
a) Pun b) Alliteration
c) Transferred epithet d) Oxymoron 38. a) Capracious b) Auspicious
c) Fallicious d) Dalicious
29. A specialist who tests eyesight
a) Optician b) Ophthalmologist 39. a) Inefable b) Inaccesible
c) Ichthyologist d) Neurologist c) Infallible d) Invinscible

30. A wall built to prevent the sea or a rive from 40. a) Camoflage b) Tabuleau
flooding an area c) Milieu d) Miraze
a) Dam b) Mound
c) Dyke d) Embankment

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 Answers Key

1. (c) 9. (d) 17. (d) 25. (c) 33. (d)

2. (c) 10. (b) 18. (c) 26. (d) 34. (b)

3. (d) 11. (c) 19. (d) 27. (c) 35. (b)

4. (d) 12. (d) 20. (b) 28. (b) 36. (c)

5. (d) 13. (b) 21. (c) 29. (b) 37. (b)

6. (c) 14. (c) 22. (b) 30. (d) 38. (b)

7. (a) 15. (d) 23. (a) 31. (c) 39. (c)

8. (a) 16. (c) 24. (d) 32. (c) 40. (c)

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