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Directions (Q. 1-10): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic 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 e). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)
1). a) If after all these decades of reservations, the only demand / b) is for even more reservation, is it not a proof that /c) the whole exercise is not only futile, but also /d) constitute a real threat to the country? / e) No error
1). D) Replace 'constitute' with `constitutes' .
2).a) As 'triple talaq' separates man and wife instantaneously upon its utterance / b) by a man, leaving no remedy to the woman, / c) delete of this draconian clause /d) is essential to bring parity. / e) No error
2). C) Replace 'delete' with 'deletion'.
3). a) All right-thinking people are of /b) the view that the basis for / c) reservation would be economic status / d) rather than the caste of a person. / e) No error
3). C) Replace 'would' with 'should'.
4). a) There are reasonable well found arguments / b) in favour of doing away with age-old customs / c) that are incongruous with the aspirations and / d) rights of educated women and the changing needs of society. / e) No error
4). A) Replace 'found' with 'founded' and `reasonable' with `reasonably'
5). a) The deal has the potentiality to change / b) relations between the two countries; / c) it can also pave the way for / d) setting up American nuclear reactors in India. / e) No error
5). A) Replace 'potentiality' with `potential'
6). a) Keeping important sea lanes in the Indo-Pacific region / b) secure and trouble-free is a top priority / c) not only for India but also / d) for another Asian countries. / e) No error
6). D) Replace 'another' with 'other'
7). a) Irrespective of the final summit statement, / b) there is little doubt that managing Sino-Japanese rivalry / c) without jeopardising India's own position and interest / d) will continue to be a big diplomatic challenge for PM Modi. / e) No error
7). E)
8). a) The suave businessman was blacklisted by CBI / b) as he was suspected of manipulating government contracts, / c) and ministers and bureaucrats were expected to take / d) extra care while dealing with him. / e) No error.
8). A) Insert 'the' before `CBI'
9). a) Meat exporter Qureshi, wanted by the ED for alleged money laundering / b) and hawala deals, managed to fly off / c) to Dubai from IG International airport on October 15 / d) despite a look-of notice. / e) No error
9). D) Replace look-For with 'look-out'
10). a) Composer Nadeem Saifi, having living /b) in London since 1997, obtained a UK passport / c) and shifted to Dubai to / d) run a perfumery business. / e) No error
10). A) Replace 'living' with 'lived'
Directions (Q. 1-10): Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
1). In early March, Pakistani Minister ______ the National Assembly that Islamabad will take its objections on four Indian hydel power projects to the Permanent Indus Commission, reportedly ______ to meet in April.
a) advised, coming
b) cautioned, stipulated
c) educated, anticipated
d) apprised, seemly
e) informed, scheduled
E
2). Instead of healthy discussion about issues of national ________ we have lies, scandals, mockery, nepotism, and candidates _______ denying their criminal past.
a) concern, candidly
b) importance, blatantly
c) effect, simply
d) attention, honestly
e) value, publicly
B
3). Over the last eight years, as treasurer, secretary and then president of BCCI and simultaneously as owner of the IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings, Srinivasan ______ support for himself by finessing, the ______ of largesse and patronage into an art form.
a) harnessed, modus operandi
b) mobilised, proceeding
c) exploited, procedure
d) tackled, modus vivendi
e) tamed, system
A
4). Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore have come _______ with a little pen-shaped device (injection) that can _______ the 'ouch' out of jabs.
a) out, cause
b) in, throw
c) up, take
d) on, send
e) for, cut
C
5). A trust is an obligation ______ to the ownership of a property, arising out of confidence ________ in and accepted by the person for the benefit of another or of another owner.
a) connected, placed
b) appended, shown
c) associated, expressed
d) annexed, repose
e) 5)made, laid down
D
6). A group of several hundred people marched towards the eastern part of the city and ________ the fortress prison, where they hoped to find _______ ammunition.
a) raged, hidden
b) roared, saved
c) ripped, treasured
d) charged, acquired
e) stormed, hoarded
E
7). One of the most ________ social reforms of the Jacobin regime was the ______ of slavery in the French colonies.
a) reactionary, break up
b) revisionary, cancellations
c) revolutionary, abolition
d) leftist, reversal
e) insurgent, split up
C
8). The previous constitution of Nepal, which had been, adopted in 1990, ______ the fact that the final authority _____ with the king.
a) reflected, rested
b) reproduced, alerted
c) repeated, renewed
d) returned, revived
e) brooded, recovered
A
9). Drama had its earliest beginnings in the corporate life of the village, the _______ form of settlement that took ________ in England.
a) reigning, area
b) predominant, place
c) ascendant, venue
d) arbitrary, reservation
e) controlling, position
B
10). In the year 1605 the famous Gunpowder plot was _______ as a protest against the sharp _________ of the Catholic laws of King James I.
a) effected, administration
b) acted, obligation
c) committed, prescription
d) perpetrated, enforcement
e) executed, coercion
D
Directions (Q. Nos. 1-10): 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 (e), i.e., no error. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)
1). I have been traveling by local trains (a)/ since last several years (b)/ but had never experienced (c)/ such a horrible situation as this. (d)/ No error (e)
B FOR
2). I found this ring (a)/ as I dig in the garden. (b)/ It looks very old. (c)/ I wonder who it belonged to. (d)/ No error (e)
B DUG
3). India today stands (a)/ at crucial crossroads (b)/ with its history (c)/ as an independent nation.(d)/ No error (e)
E
4). By April next year (a)/ I will have been (b)/ working in this office (c)/ for twenty years. (d)/ No error (e)
E
5). He was having a bath (a)/ when the phone rang (b)/ very unwillingly he got out of the bath (c)/ and went to answer it. (d)/ No error (e)
C OF BATH
THE IS FOR SPECIAL BATH LIKE "OF THE SPA BATH"
6). By the time he gets back (a)/ from his holidays (b)/ the milkman has left (c)/ twenty one bottles of milk outside his door.(d)/ No error (e)
C HAD LEFT
7). Have you heard the news? (a)/ Mukesh and Malati are engaged. (b) / That is not new, (c)/ I know it for ages. (d)/ No error (e)
D, I HAVE KNOWN IT FOR AGES
8). Ganesh is not only involved (a)/ in organising conferences and seminars (b) / but also in conducting (c)/ adult literacy programmes. (d)/ No error (e)
A. GANESH IS INVOLVED NOT ONLY
9). When I heard his knock (a)/ I went to the door (b)/ and opened it (c)/ but I was not recognise him. (d)/ No error (e).
D.I HAD NOT RECOGNISED
10). If would have realised (a)/ what a bad shape our library is in (b)/ I would have done something (c)/ to arrest the deterioration. (d)/ No error (e).
A.HAD INSTEAD OF WOULD HAVE
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