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Q27. When you are living with your ____________ values Q32. Bankers commanding astronomic salaries
and principles, you can be straightforward, honest and presided over a collective madness which took the
____________. global financial __________to the precipice - and has
(a) core, upfront affected living standards and economic ________ around
(b) inherited, distinct the world.
(c) innate, durable (a) order, anticipation
(d) cultural, perceptive (b) approach, survey
(e) inborn, vehement (c) system, prospects
(d) method, anticipation
Q28. In the role of counselor, you are an authority figure
(e) process, danger
whose objective is to ____________ attentively and
sensitively to employees who ____________ you with their
Q33. Politicians appeared to be unable or unwilling
feelings.
either to ________high finance effectively or to punish
(a) project, focus
those who had been culpably _________.
(b) manage, direct
(a) control, thoughtless
(c) listen, trust
(d) concentrate, believe (b) regulate, reckless
(e) consider, explain (c) govern, mindless
(d) guide, reckless
Q29. Man is ____________. He likes to know how things (e) adjust, thoughtless
work. The search for understanding is ____________ in its
own right. Q34. Though the Indian media industry has not yet
(a) evolving, prophetic reached a crisis point _____________ to its Western
(b) inquisitive, legal counterparts, the time has come to recalibrate our own
(c) appreciative, fundamental structures to ____________ a sustainable public interest
(d) curious, philosophical information ecology.
(e) social, judgemental (a) variable, assure
(b) proportional, ensure
Q30. Leadership is one of the world’s oldest ____________. (c) similar, insure
The understanding of leadership has figured strongly in (d) comparable, ensure
the ____________ for knowledge. (e) parallel, assure
(a) culture, desire
(b) institutions, passion Q35. Readers sometimes call to ask a specific question,
(c) pre-occupations, quest but the discussion _________ moves on to different areas
(d) subjects, preference of news production and the ________ therein.
(e) undertakings, conviction (a) universally, objection
(b) repeatedly, provocation
Q31. Our ____________ to understand the process of (c) historically, challenges
learning underlying behavior change are ____________ by (d) constantly, summons
the fact that any given behaviour is determined jointly (e) invariably, challenges
by many processes.
(a) normalcy, determined Q36. The solution to excessive campaign expenditure
(b) scope, precede and a much too __________ eye on the electoral cycle is
(c) functions, followed better found in _________ political leaderships to develop
(d) restrictions, moderated self-discipline and to explain to the people the need for
(e) attempts, complicated unpopular, but necessary, decisions.
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(a) centered, inducing Q41. The so-called civilised human race has ____________
(b) blurred, convincing and ill-treated small and large animals in an attempt to
(c) motivated, prompting prove his ____________
(d) focussed, persuading (a) abused, supremacy
(e) fuzzy, influencing (b) misuse, power
(c) cruelty, altruism
Directions (37-41): Pick out the most effective pair of (d) advocated, worthlessness
(e) beaten, generosity
words from the given pair of words to make the
sentences meaningfully complete.
Directions (42-46): The question has two blanks, each
blank indicating that something has been omitted.
Q37. With large classes, it is difficult for teachers to Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits the
____________ regular essay-type questions for homework meaning of the sentences as a whole.
because ____________ long answers would take too much
time. Q42. After having been friends for more than a decade,
(a) consider, writing they had a ________ last year and have not _________ each
(b) revalue, concise other ever since.
(c) pursue, feeling (a) fight, cherished
(d) take, weighing (b) argument, slender
(e) give, marking (c) dispute, seen
(d) quarrel, admired
Q38. Ours is a democracy and any ____________ or use of (e) difference, introduced
force is out of question. Methods of ____________ and
Q43. The workers, several of ________ had complained
education are best suited to a democratic regime.
about their low wages earlier, have now _______ to move
(a) attempt, coercion
the court for the labour rights.
(b) compulsion, persuasion
(a) who, indicated
(c) judgment, prayer
(b) whom, decided
(d) inhuman, apprehension (c) which, threatened
(e) Implied, technology (d) them, resolved
(e) number, warned
Q39. Despite being the ____________ partner in the
relationship, the franchiser doesn’t always have all the Q44. The hutment dwellers were jubilant when the
____________ government _________ an apartment to each of them at
(a) sincere, limitations ________ rates.
(b) vulnerable, powers (a) demolished, fast
(c) active, losses (b) announced, less
(d) dominant, advantages (c) provided, high
(e) authoritative, legalities (d) acquired, low
(e) promised, subsidized
Q40. India’s ____________ over the past half century since
Q45. The organization was deeply ________ by difficulties
independence has been unique and ____________ in many
a decade ago but the new CEO brought many _________
ways.
changes in it and took it to a new high.
(a) thinking, feeling (a) indebted, necessary
(b) development, commendable (b) plagued, vital
(c) victory, risking (c) coping, more
(d) crash, overbearing (d) hurt, critical
(e) regress, praiseworthy (e) shaken, inevitable
Q73. From very ancient times, the Indian society Q77. The government was forced to ___________________
_____________ elitist and power, wealth and education were from implementing these proposals.
mostly _____________ to the upper castes of the society. (a) aim at
(a) had been, jailed (b) look into
(b) has always been, confined (c) back up
(c) had always, stopped (d) back down
(d) have had always, restricted (e) bite off
(e) have always been, constricted
Q78. The company has ___________________ the police to
Q74. A leading Indian industrialist, in a recent article on investigate.
ways to strengthen India’s economy, _____________ (a) called in
attention to the problems of inflation and industrial (b) called off
sickness _____________. (c) bumped into
(a) has drew, amongst other things (d) called-up
(b) have drawn, among things (e) caught on
(c) has drawn, amongst other things
(d) have had drawn, among most things Q79. His mother complains that he makes excuses to
(e) have drawn, among nothing ___________________ of family occasions such as
weddings.
Q75. While the traditional structure of education as a (a) come down
three–layer hierarchy from the primary stage to the (b) chicken out
university ____________ the core, we should not ____________ (c) close down
the periphery which is equally important. (d) chop up
(a) represents, overlook (e) clear out
(b) imagine, look
(c) prosecute, gloss Q80. Keeping in mind the notion that the best
(d) portrays, admit quarterback is a Monday morning quarterback, if I
(e) related, overshadow had it to ___________________, this is what I would have
done differently.
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(a) dry off Q86. As you start your married life together hand in
(b) do with hand, may all the things you're hoping for
(c) do over ___________________ the way you've planned.
(d) do away (a) turn out
(e) fall off (b) turn in
(c) turn over
Q81. A trip you've been psyched about may (d) turn into
___________________, so have back - up plans ready. (e) turn off
(a) fall apart
(b) fall behind Directions (87-92): In each of the questions given
(c) fall over below, a statement has been given with two words
(d) fall for omitted. Following the statement are four set of words
(e) fall through which may fit in the blanks in the similar sequence as
given. Choose the most appropriate set of words to make
Q82. I can't find my purse, but it must be the statement contextually correct and grammatically
___________________ here somewhere. meaningful. If none of the given options make the
(a) floating around statement complete and correct, mark ‘e’, none of these,
(b) flipping out as your answer.
(c) fooling around
(d) going beyond Q87. It is now _________that the frontier politics of British
(e) going around India had failed to produce a single ________ and well-
defined northern boundary separating the Indian
subcontinent from Xinjiang and Tibet.
Q83. Try and ___________________ the aspects of your
(a) epidemics, evolving
background which make you especially suitable for
(b) incapacitated, signified
the job you have applied for.
(c) dispute, advisory
(a) pull out
(d) accepted , integrated
(b) pick out
(e) none of these
(c) pick up
(d) pick on
Q88. The ___________ rationale for the British at the time
(e) pile up
was to _________ a buffer around an autonomous “Outer
Tibet” that would eventually fall under its sway.
Q84. Many men began to ___________________ the rights
(a) criticising, downplaying
of women and children.
(b) entangled, formulating
(a) stick to
(c) underlying, carve
(b) stick out
(d) perpetrated, erroneous
(c) stick with (e) none of these
(d) stick up for
(e) stick in Q89. Between 1954 and 1956, Jawaharlal Nehru
_________ in several long exchanges with Premier Zhou
Q85. I know you've had a bad day, but you don't have Enlai in Delhi and Beijing but the border issue was
to ___________________ me! mostly __________ from their conversations.
(a) take back (a) anticipated, concession
(b) take apart (b) scrambled, regards
(c) take it out on (c) engaged, excluded
(d) take in (d) recommendations, recast
(e) take out (e) none of these
Q91. The primary responsibility of an elected Q95. India has now a ____________of experts by the IT
government is __________ governance and __________ to its Ministry which is talking about the value of ________,
voters. including non-personal data and how its ___________value
(a) preventive, accomplishment should be distributed and so on.
(b) incumbent, consciousness (a) Fraud, Genuine, Fungible
(c) efficient, accountability (b) Wrought, Despicable, Impulsive
(d) integrity, regretted (c) Committee, Data, Economic
(e) none of these (d) Cognitive, Intention, Extends
(e) None of these
Q92. MGR and other Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu did
Q96. We need to make a political___________ about
not have to rush to New Delhi to make the decision to
whether there is broad public support for the idea that
____________ a midday meal programme and __________ ___________professional journalism is in public interest
additional sales taxes to fund it. and is a public good, and needs to benefit from public
____________.
(a) offset, diplomat (a) Showed, Portrayal, Benefitting
(b) analysed, initiated (b) Rationalize, Knowing, Strategic
(c) implement, impose (c) Considerable, Sizing, Merciful
(d) despot, probe (d) Decision, Independent, Funding
(e) none of these (e) None of these
Q93. ____________ societies respect ____________because Q98. _________ plasma therapy is being studied by the
they subject the present to ____________informed Indian Council of Medical Research, through open label,
randomized controlled trial to ___________it for both
investigation, interpretation, critique and prescription.
safety and _________.
(a) Admiring, Abrupt, Loathe
(a) Highlighted, Lobbying, Pushed
(b) Apparently, Enigmatic, Isolation
(b) Throwback, Sustained, Defer
(c) Sophisticated, Intellectuals, Historically (c) Convalescent, Evaluate, Efficacy
(d) Whirlwind, Lightning, Weird (d) Adjourn, Precarious, Continues
(e) None of these (e) None of these
Solutions
S1. Ans.(b) S7. Ans.(c)
Sol. Neck of the woods means the area where a Sol. “Understanding” is the appropriate word that can
person lives. fill the given blank to make the sentence both
grammatically and contextually correct. Hence, option
S2. Ans.(d) (c) is the right answer choice.
Sol. cold turkey means describing the actions of a
person who abruptly gives up a habit or an S8. Ans.(a)
addiction. Sol. “Appraised” is the appropriate word that can fill the
given blank to make the sentence both grammatically
and contextually correct. hence, option (a) is the right
S3. Ans.(b)
answer choice.
Sol. “Freshly, Delisting” is the most appropriate set of
words to make the statement contextually correct and
S9. Ans.(d)
grammatically meaningful. Hence, option (b) is the
Sol. “Benefit” is the appropriate word that can fill the
right answer choice. given blank to make the sentence both grammatically
and contextually correct. hence, option (d) is the right
S4. Ans.(d) answer choice.
Sol. “Unveiled, Emissions” is the most appropriate set
of words to make the statement contextually correct and S10. Ans.(c)
grammatically meaningful. Hence, option (d) is the Sol. “Induction” is the appropriate word that can fill the
right answer choice. given blank to make the sentence both grammatically
and contextually correct. Hence, option (c) is the right
S5. Ans.(b) answer choice.
Sol. “Stumbled” is the appropriate word that can fill the
given blank to make the sentence both grammatically S11. Ans.(b)
and contextually correct. hence, option (b) is the right Sol. “Encroached” is the appropriate word that can fill
answer choice. the given blank to make the sentence both
grammatically and contextually correct. hence, option
S6. Ans.(e) (b) is the right answer choice.
Sol. “Captured” is the appropriate word that can fill the
given blank to make the sentence both grammatically S12. Ans.(a)
Sol. ‘cited, reason’ is the correct use.
and contextually correct. Hence, option (e) is the right
Cited means refer to as evidence for or justification of an
answer choice.
argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work.
S24. Ans.(d)
Sol. 'accolades, constraints' fits the sentence
appropriately where 'accolades' means an award or
privilege granted as a special honour or as an
acknowledgement of merit and 'constraints' means a
limitation or restriction.
S25. Ans.(c)
Sol. 'indeed, feather' fits the sentence appropriately
where 'feather in the cap' is a phrase which means
an achievement that you can be proud of
S39. Ans.(d)
S52. Ans.(b)
Sol. In the first filler (a), (c), (d) are fit in the 2nd filler Sol. conceded and offload are the most appropriate pair
only (b) and (d) can fit. of words to fit here. Announced do not go with formally,
so (c) is out. Nor does ratified, so (d) is out. Acquire does
S40. Ans.(b) not go logically with purchasers, so (a) is out.
Sol. Commendable means deserving praise.
S53. Ans.(c)
S41. Ans.(a) Sol. If you have friends outside college, they tend to
Sol. In first filler (a) and (e) are can be used but in the mask adjustment problems with college colleagues.
other only (a) and (b) can fit. Thus, both the words of treatment cannot be compounded, so (a) is out. If signals
option (a) can be used to complete the given sentence. are masked, nothing is facilitated, so (b) is out. For
similar reasons, helped in (d) cannot fill the second
S42. Ans.(c) blank. Identification and complicated is thus the right
Sol. Dispute means a disagreement or argument. pair.
S97. Ans.(b)
Sol. “Medicine, Novel, Thrives” can fill the given blanks
in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option
(b) is the right answer choice.
S98. Ans.(c)
Sol. “Convalescent, Evaluate, Efficacy” can fill the
given blanks in the exact order as given in the option.
Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S99. Ans.(b)
Sol. “Profitability, Offset, Segments” can fill the given
blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence,
option (b) is the right answer choice.