English - Online Test
Q1. Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the word “coherent”.
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q2. Choose the most appropriate phrase from the options given below to complete the following sentence.
The aircraft _____ take off as soon as its flight plan was filed
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q3.
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 among the above statements is the assumption upon which the demand of Gen. Richard Zilmer is based?
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
As fuel convoys were being targeted, it is clear that the general is making such a demand to eliminate the need for such risky convoys in Iraq.
Q4. Direction: Rearrange the following six sentences A, B, C, D, E and F in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions given below them.
A. While the reference point for the former is the state, for the latter it’s society.
B. India’s strategic community’ comprises two distinct circles with little overlap.
C. Consequently, mainstream strategists have an external orientation to their discourse, concentrating on high politics; the latter is more internal oriented.
D. Their prescriptions too are understandably poles apart and thus, the state, to which both their commentary is directed, has to play balancer, and ends up being at the receiving end of criticism from both sides.
E. Out of the two, one can be termed the ‘mainstream’ and the other ‘alternate’.
F. To further elaborate on the external and internal concept−while one is enamored of India’s rise and place in the global order, the other is more sensitive to its vulnerabilities and inadequacies.
Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q5. Few school curricula include a unit on how to deal with bereavement and grief,
and yet all students at some point in their lives suffer from losses through death
and parting.
Based on the above passage which topic would not be included in a unit on
bereavement?
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q6. Direction: Read each part of the sentence to find out if there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, mark your answer as (5).
The increasing demand for organic vegetables, especially (1)/ between urban residents has convinced the (2)/ state government to formulate (3)/ the organic farming policy (4)
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
It’s very complicated to figure out the distinction between the two prepositions 'among' and 'between'. But here as per the context ‘Among’ is an appropriate word against between. The term ‘between’ is usually used with two — but sometimes more than two — separate and distinct things. While ‘Among’ is used to portray the idea of being in a group or in the midst of a group.
Q7. Modern warfare has changed from large scale clashes of armies to suppression of
civilian populations. Chemical agents that do their work silently appear to be
suited to such warfare; and regretfully, there exist people in military
establishments who think that chemical agents are useful tools for their cause.
Which of the following statements best sums up the meaning of the above passage:
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q8. Indian currency notes show the denomination indicated in at least seventeen languages.
If this is not an indication of the nation‟s diversity, nothing else is.
Which of the following can be logically inferred from the above sentences?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q9. Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence.
Many ancient cultures attributed disease to supernatural causes. However, modern science has largely helped______such notions.
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q10. A generic term that include various items of clothing such as a skirt, a pair of trousers and a
shirt is
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
apparel- clothing, especially outerwear; garments; attire; raiment
