English - Online Test
Q1. 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 nearimpossible
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.
Q2. Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall every day while having lunch. The wall sometimes breaks. A person sitting on the wall falls if the wall beaks.
Which one of the statements below is logically valid and can be inferred from the above sentences ?
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q3.
Directions :Questions in the form of inference/conclusions are based on the passages given below. Each passage is followed by five inferences. You are required to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.
Passage:
There is no disputing the fact that one part of globalization is the information revolution. But like all revolutions, this one has its winners and losers. Even on the Pacific Rim, home of so many economic “miracles”, the vast majority of people live on less than two dollars a day. That is what nearly half the world’s population subsists on, while the poorest 1.2 billion get by on less than one dollar. In the face of these grim realities, talk of a global information age takes on a perverse, ‘let them eat cake’ quality. What possible benefit could this “other half” derive from expanded web-based technology?
The notion that the internet will mainstream the world’s underprivileged fits a pattern of technological fantasy that reaches back at least to the mid-nineteenth century. A more immediate effect, unfortunately, has been an expanding communications gap between the rich and poor. With 90% of internet traffic in English, and native language skills eroding among non-Western internet addicts, 95% of the world’s Web users reside in developed countries. Only 0.08% of Latin Americans had Web access in 1999, which is double that of South Asia. In so far as rapid information flow translates into power, this great divide is integral to the knowledge-based and culturally driven geopolitics that Joseph S. Nye terms “soft power”.
During the mid-nineteenth century, there was a notion that the internet would make the world's poor become part of the mainstream.
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
The first sentence talks about a "pattern of technological fantasy"; that there was an actual notion might not be true, and is most probably false, given the timeline being spoken of here.
Q4. Which of the following is the antonym of the word “Renaissance ”?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
Renaissance- a revival of or renewed interest in something
Invigoration- to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize
Resurgence- rising or tending to rise again; reviving
Awakening- a revival of interest or attention/ a recognition, realization, or coming into awareness of something:
Destruction- the condition of being destroyed; demolition; annihilation
Q5. Research in the workplace reveals that people work for many reasons_________.
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q6. Direction: Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
Option D- ‘complied into by’ is incorrect.
Q7. Which of the following options is closest in meaning to the world below:
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
Circuitous means round about or not direct. Indirect is closest in meaning to this circuitous
(A) Cyclic : Recurring in nature
(B) Indirect : Not direct
(C) Confusing : lacking clarity of meaning
(D) Crooked : set at an angle; not straight
Q8. While trying to collect an envelope from under the table, Mr. X fell down and was losing consciousness.
I II III IV
Which one of the above underlined parts of the sentence is NOT appropriate?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q9. The following question presents a sentence, part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you find four ways of phrasing the underline part. Following the requirements of the standard written English, select the answer that produces the most effective sentence.
Tuberculosis, together with its effects, ranks one of the leading causes of death in India.
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q10.
Directions :Questions in the form of inference/conclusions are based on the passages given below. Each passage is followed by five inferences. You are required to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.
Passage:
There is no disputing the fact that one part of globalization is the information revolution. But like all revolutions, this one has its winners and losers. Even on the Pacific Rim, home of so many economic “miracles”, the vast majority of people live on less than two dollars a day. That is what nearly half the world’s population subsists on, while the poorest 1.2 billion get by on less than one dollar. In the face of these grim realities, talk of a global information age takes on a perverse, ‘let them eat cake’ quality. What possible benefit could this “other half” derive from expanded web-based technology?
The notion that the internet will mainstream the world’s underprivileged fits a pattern of technological fantasy that reaches back at least to the mid-nineteenth century. A more immediate effect, unfortunately, has been an expanding communications gap between the rich and poor. With 90% of internet traffic in English, and native language skills eroding among non-Western internet addicts, 95% of the world’s Web users reside in developed countries. Only 0.08% of Latin Americans had Web access in 1999, which is double that of South Asia. In so far as rapid information flow translates into power, this great divide is integral to the knowledge-based and culturally driven geopolitics that Joseph S. Nye terms “soft power”.
Perhaps due to the use of English as the predominant language over the internet, there has arisen an expanding communication gap between the rich and the poor.
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
The second para talks of a communications gap, but it does not state English as the clear and specific reason for the same
