English - Online Test
Q1. Rahul Murali, Srinivas and Arul are seated around a square table. Rahul is sitting to the left of
Murali. Srinivas is sitting to the right of Arul. Which of the following pairs are seated
opposite each other ?
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
Q2. Which one of the following options is the closest in meaning to the word given below?
Mitigate
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q3. Direction: Read each sentence to find out whether there is an error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. If there is no error, the answer will be “No Error”.
There has been an increase of 584 percent (0.3 to 4.5 million)(1)/ in digital transactions done through (2)/the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) for demonetization (3) / in November last year, said an official release (4).
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
In C part, use of ‘for’ after UPI is incorrect . ‘Since' will be used in place of ‘for’. For is used before an exact or inexact quantity of time. For is used for a ‘period of time’. Since is used before a specific time or date that is definite. Since is used before a ‘point of time’. Therefore, since should be used in place of ‘for’.
Hence C is the correct choice.
Q4. Choose the appropriate word/phrase, out of the four options given below, to complete the following sentence:
Frogs _______.
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q5.
Direction: Each passage is followed by a set of five statements. Answer according to the directions given for each question.
The average American voter does not care about Libya. That may sound harsh, but it’s generally true. The average American does however care a great deal about gas prices. So perhaps it is no surprise that as the regime of Moammar Gadhafi falls, American news outlets are trying to explain the news out of Libya within the frame of prices at the pump. Heck, it was the first idea that came to my mind as I thumbed through the morning news.
Adding insult to injury is the amount of fuel being used to conduct these fuel-based military operations in the Middle East. A CNN.com article pointed out recently that, “One out of eight U.S. Army casualties in Iraq was the result of protecting fuel convoys. A post on Scaling Green contained a video of FTI Consulting’s Adam Siegel recalling a chat with Gen. Richard Zilmer. In that conversation, the former commander of troops in the Anbar province of Iraq told Seigel, “I need renewable energy because getting fuel to my base is putting people's lives at risk.”
Which of the above statements can be a just explanation for the way American news agencies are portraying the Libyan news?
Answer : Option E
Explaination / Solution:
This is an explanation that may be drawn easily from the facts mentioned in the passage.
Q6. Direction: Which of the following is the MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the given word?
Extemporize
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
‘Extemporize’ means ‘to speak spontaneously without preparation'.
‘improvise’ means ‘to manage situation according to the available resources’.
Indigent means 'poor, needy'
Tractable means 'easy to control or influence'
Jealous means 'fiercely protective of one's rights or possession'
Repercussions means 'an unintended consequence of an event or action, especially an unwelcome one'
Q7. “The hold of the nationalist imagination on our colonial past is such that anything
inadequately or improperly nationalist is just not history”
Which of the following statements best reflects the author’s opinion ?
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q8. Direction: Read the sentence(divided in different parts) to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence.
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
The error present above is usage of an incorrect part of speech. The word “range” is a noun which is incorrectly described by another noun “demograph”. The noun “range” should be qualified by the adjective “demographic” which is the correct part of speech in this reference.
Q9. The question below consists of a pair of related words followed by four pairs of
words. Select the pair that best expresses the relation in the original pair.
Unemployed: Worker
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q10. Which one of the following options is the closest in meaning to the word given below?
Nadir
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
Nadir in the lowest point on a curve
