English - Online Test
Q1. Which of the following is the synonym of the word “Cumulative ”?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:
Cumulative- increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions.
Augmenting- to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase
Decremental- the act or process of decreasing; gradual reduction
Degressive- pertaining to a form of taxation in which the rate diminishes gradually on sums below a certain fixed amount.
Regressive- decreasing proportionately with an increase in the tax base.
Q2. After Rajendra Chola returned from his voyage to Indoneisa, he _______ to visit the temple in Thanjavur.
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q3. 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 E
Explaination / Solution:
Option A: ‘legally state-issued currencies’ is incorrect. The word describes the state-issued currencies; hence it should be an adjective and not an adverb.
Option B: ‘state-issues’ is incorrect and should be replaced by ‘state-issued’.
Option C: ‘carry in’ is grammatically incorrect.
Option D: ‘to carrying out’ is grammatically incorrect.
Q4. 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 B
Explaination / Solution:
A worker may by unemployed. Like in same relation a sleeper may be unaware.
Q5. Choose the word most similar in meaning to the given word:
Educe
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q6. By the beginning of the 20th century, several hypotheses were being proposed, suggesting a
paradigm shift in our understanding of the universe. However, the clinching evidence was
provided by experimental measurements of the position of a star which was directly behind
our sun.
Which of the following inference(s) may be drawn from the above passage?
(i) Our understanding of the universe changes based on the positions of stars
(ii) Paradigm shifts usually occur at the beginning of centuries
(iii) Stars are important objects in the universe
(iv) Experimental evidence was important in confirming this paradigm shift
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q7. Read the following paragraph and choose the correct statement.
Climate change has reduced human security and threatened human well being. An ignored reality of human progress is that human security largely depends upon environmental security. But on the contrary, human progress seems contradictory to environmental security. To keep up both at the required level is a challenge to be addressed by one and all. One of the ways to curb the climate change may be suitable scientific innovations, while the other may be the Gandhian perspective on small scale progress with focus on sustainability.
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q8.
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”.
The information revolution will bring the world's poor out of the depths of their financial and social troubles, given it spreads through the masses with equity.
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
The passage talks about inequitable distribution of the benefits of the information revolution, hence, this is a reasonable inference.
Q9. Which of the following word means "lacking in detail and finesse "?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
Broad Brush- characterized by sweeping comprehensiveness with little attention to details
Nitty-Gritty- the essential substance or details of a matter; basics
Crux- a vital, basic, decisive, or pivotal point
Timber- personal character or quality
Q10. Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence:
If we manage to ____________ our natural resource, we would leave a better planet for our children.
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
