English - Online Test
Q1. Directions: Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical 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, the answer is ‘No error’. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)
The success of the /government sponsor job guarantee Programmer /has resulted in a / drastic drop in poverty.
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
Here 'government sponsored job guarantee programme' should be used in place of ‘government sponsor job guarantee Programmer’. 'Programmer' means a person who writes computer programs which is irrelevant to the context of the statement.
Q2. After several defeats in wars, Robert Bruce went in exile and wanted to commit
suicide. Just before committing suicide, he came across a spider attempting
tirelessly to have its net. Time and again the spider failed but that did not deter it
to refrain from making attempts. Such attempts by the spider made Bruce
curious. Thus, Bruce started observing the near-impossible goal of the spider to
have the net. Ultimately, the spider succeeded in having its net despite several
failures. Such act of the spider encouraged Bruce not to commit suicide. And
then, Bruce went back again and won many a battle, and the rest is history.
Which one of the following assertions is best supported by the above information?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q3. The ways in which this game can be played __________ potentially infinite.
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q4. Direction: In given question below, a statement is followed by some assumptions. An assumption is something supposed or taken in for granted. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions and then decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement.
Statement: No reform of income-tax law can be completed without a reasonable and rational personal income-tax rate structure in our country.
Assumptions:
I. Until the present exemption limit for individuals is not raised, tax evasion and black money can’t be checked.
II. Developed countries have reasonable income-tax rate structure.
Assumptions:
I. Until the present exemption limit for individuals is not raised, tax evasion and black money can’t be checked.
II. Developed countries have reasonable income-tax rate structure.
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
None follows: Assumption I is not exhaustive. Hence it is not implicit. The speaker has nothing to do with other countries. He is talking about his country only. Hence II is not implicit.
Q5. 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 FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q6. Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence:
Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the Indian Medical Association, human genes are to be manipulated only to correct diseases for which______________ treatments are unsatisfactory.
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
Available is appropriate because manipulation of genes will be done when other treatments are not useful.
Q7. Direction: Read the sentence to find out whether 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 the given sentence is correct, the answer is 'No error'. Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.
One family of three, which stood in the crowd sobbing (1) / and asked not to be named, said simply that they had (2) /lost someone in the Manchester terror attacks and had came (3) / to London to show “solidarity and strength”. (4)
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
The error lies in part 3 of the sentence where the verb in the past tense ‘came’ is incorrect and needs to be replaced with the verb in the past present tense ‘come’ to make the sentence correct. With ‘had’ the verb should be in the present tense) It should read as:’..and had come to London..’
Q8. Which of the following options is closest in meaning to the word Circuitous.
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q9. If „relftaga‟ means carefree, „otaga‟ means careful and „fertaga‟ means careless, which
of the following could mean „aftercare‟?
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q10. “If you are looking for a history of India, or for an account of the rise and fall of the British
Raj, or for the reason of the cleaving of the subcontinent into two mutually antagonistic parts
and the effects this mutilation will have in the respective sections, and ultimately on Asia, you
will not find it in these pages; for though I have spent a lifetime in the country, I lived too near
the seat of events, and was too intimately associated with the actors, to get the perspective
needed for the impartial recording of these matters.”
Which of the following closest in meaning to 'cleaving'?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
