Choose Your Language

Part B : English Language

Q1. Direction : In question nos. 1-5, four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase bold-italicised in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase and mark it. Question : She purchased every thing at knock-down prices

(A) very high prices
(B) reasonable prices
(C) for free
(D) very low prices

Q2. He has rolled up his sleeves as the time of test has come.

(A) left home
(B) prepared for hard work
(C) finished the course
(D) purchased a new dress

Q3. Yesterday he pulled the secretary to pieces.

(A) criticised severely
(B) murdered in broad daylight
(C) praised a lot
(D) cut into pieces

Q4. You must keep abreast of the latest development in the country.

(A) be aloof from
(B) be part of
(C) be pleased with
(D) stay up to date with

Q5. His grandmother gave up the ghost last month.

(A) went on tour
(B) died
(C) fell ill
(D) won a lottery

Q6. Directions : In question nos. 6-10, a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at 1), 2) and 3) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed choose ‘No Improvement’. Click the button corresponding to it. Question : At the heart of the NSG’s worries is the fact that it is a deputationist force

(A) in the wake
(B) In the heart
(C) At the front
(D) No Improvement

Q7. She went to the police for help but they gave her no shoulder.

(A) the strong shoulder
(B) the hot shoulder
(C) the cold shoulder
(D) No Improvement

Q8. If we expand our business successfully, we will need to employ much staffs soon.

(A) more staff soon
(B) many staffs sooner
(C) most staff soon
(D) No Improvement

Q9. We are either never so happy or so miserable as we suppose ourselves to be.

(A) so happy either never
(B) never either so happy
(C) never so happy either
(D) No Improvement

Q10. 85 Advertisement is a means by which a seller takes his products to the notice of the people.

(A) whom a seller brings
(B) that a seller takes
(C) which a seller brings
(D) No improvement

Q11. In question nos. 11-15, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence. Question : Clues available at a scene

(A) Inferential
(B) Suggestive
(C) Derivative
(D) Circumstantial

Q12. Person with whom one works

(A) Partner
(B) Colleague
(C) Companion
(D) Contemporary

Q13. An office with high salary but no work

(A) Honorary
(B) Corporate office
(C) Sinecure
(D) Sanatorium

Q14. Direct decision by a general vote on a single question

(A) Referendum
(B) Regicide
(C) Red tapism
(D) Republic

Q15. A stanza of six lines

(A) Sestet
(B) Poem
(C) Blank verse
(D) None of these

Q16. Directions : In question nos.16-20, four words are given in each question, out of which only one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word and click the button for correct answer.

(A) planetarium
(B) planetorium
(C) plantorium
(D) planetrium

Q17. Find the correctly spelt word and click the button for correct answer.

(A) diaphram
(B) diafram
(C) diaphragm
(D) diaphreme

Q18. Find the correctly spelt word and click the button for correct answer.

(A) grammer
(B) grammar
(C) grammur
(D) graamm

Q19. Find the correctly spelt word and click the button for correct answer.

(A) colloquiel
(B) collequial
(C) coloquiall
(D) colloquial

Q20. Find the correctly spelt word and click the button for correct answer.

(A) guinea
(B) guinni
(C) guinnea
(D) ginnae

Q21. Direction : In question nos. 21-25 you have brief passages with five questions following each passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

Most of us do not listen at all, we naturally have ideas….. our own opinions, prejudices, conclusions…….. and these become a barrier and prevent us from listening. After all, if one is to listen, one must be attentive. And there is no attention if one is occupied with one’s own thoughts, conclusions, opinions, evaluations……. then all communication ceases.

Communication implies responsibility ……responsibility on the part of the listener and the speaker. The speaker wishes to convey something, and the listener must partake, share, in what is being said. It is not a one- sided affair. Both you and the speaker must be in communication with each other, that is, the words the speaker uses must have the same meaning for you also. There must be not only a verbal communication but also intellectual understanding of the words and also of the nature and significance of the words and the sentences. There must also be an emotional contact. You may be intellectually aware of agreeing or disagreeing, rejecting or accepting, but that will not lead us far. Whereas if there were an intellectual awareness of what is being said, of what is implied, and also an emotional contact, then communication with each other would be possible. So, to communicate with each other, there must be not only an intellectual, rational, clear thought but also an open attention; and then only is it possible to understand very deeply what is being said.

According to the author,

(A) communication requires exchange between speakers and listeners of words having the same meaning
(B) sometimes meaningful communication may be a unidirectional flow of words.
(C) communication and responsibility bear entirely different meanings.
(D) for wrong communication only listeners are responsible

Q22. Agreeing or disagreeing is related to our

Most of us do not listen at all, we naturally have ideas….. our own opinions, prejudices, conclusions…….. and these become a barrier and prevent us from listening. After all, if one is to listen, one must be attentive. And there is no attention if one is occupied with one’s own thoughts, conclusions, opinions, evaluations……. then all communication ceases.

Communication implies responsibility ……responsibility on the part of the listener and the speaker. The speaker wishes to convey something, and the listener must partake, share, in what is being said. It is not a one- sided affair. Both you and the speaker must be in communication with each other, that is, the words the speaker uses must have the same meaning for you also. There must be not only a verbal communication but also intellectual understanding of the words and also of the nature and significance of the words and the sentences. There must also be an emotional contact. You may be intellectually aware of agreeing or disagreeing, rejecting or accepting, but that will not lead us far. Whereas if there were an intellectual awareness of what is being said, of what is implied, and also an emotional contact, then communication with each other would be possible. So, to communicate with each other, there must be not only an intellectual, rational, clear thought but also an open attention; and then only is it possible to understand very deeply what is being said.

(A) emotional attachment
(B) verbal communication
(C) listening impairment
(D) intellectual understanding

Q23. What leads to ceasing of communication?

Most of us do not listen at all, we naturally have ideas….. our own opinions, prejudices, conclusions…….. and these become a barrier and prevent us from listening. After all, if one is to listen, one must be attentive. And there is no attention if one is occupied with one’s own thoughts, conclusions, opinions, evaluations……. then all communication ceases.

Communication implies responsibility ……responsibility on the part of the listener and the speaker. The speaker wishes to convey something, and the listener must partake, share, in what is being said. It is not a one- sided affair. Both you and the speaker must be in communication with each other, that is, the words the speaker uses must have the same meaning for you also. There must be not only a verbal communication but also intellectual understanding of the words and also of the nature and significance of the words and the sentences. There must also be an emotional contact. You may be intellectually aware of agreeing or disagreeing, rejecting or accepting, but that will not lead us far. Whereas if there were an intellectual awareness of what is being said, of what is implied, and also an emotional contact, then communication with each other would be possible. So, to communicate with each other, there must be not only an intellectual, rational, clear thought but also an open attention; and then only is it possible to understand very deeply what is being said.

(A) Lack of listening capacity
(B) Lack of medium of communication
(C) Lack of attention
(D) Lack of communication skill

Q24. What prevents us from listening to other’s opinions”?

Most of us do not listen at all, we naturally have ideas….. our own opinions, prejudices, conclusions…….. and these become a barrier and prevent us from listening. After all, if one is to listen, one must be attentive. And there is no attention if one is occupied with one’s own thoughts, conclusions, opinions, evaluations……. then all communication ceases.

Communication implies responsibility ……responsibility on the part of the listener and the speaker. The speaker wishes to convey something, and the listener must partake, share, in what is being said. It is not a one- sided affair. Both you and the speaker must be in communication with each other, that is, the words the speaker uses must have the same meaning for you also. There must be not only a verbal communication but also intellectual understanding of the words and also of the nature and significance of the words and the sentences. There must also be an emotional contact. You may be intellectually aware of agreeing or disagreeing, rejecting or accepting, but that will not lead us far. Whereas if there were an intellectual awareness of what is being said, of what is implied, and also an emotional contact, then communication with each other would be possible. So, to communicate with each other, there must be not only an intellectual, rational, clear thought but also an open attention; and then only is it possible to understand very deeply what is being said.

(A) Our haughtiness
(B) Our natural tendency of disparaging others
(C) Our excessive knowledge
(D) Our own opinions, prejudices and conclusions

Q25. To understand the deeper meaning, we require

Most of us do not listen at all, we naturally have ideas….. our own opinions, prejudices, conclusions…….. and these become a barrier and prevent us from listening. After all, if one is to listen, one must be attentive. And there is no attention if one is occupied with one’s own thoughts, conclusions, opinions, evaluations……. then all communication ceases.

Communication implies responsibility ……responsibility on the part of the listener and the speaker. The speaker wishes to convey something, and the listener must partake, share, in what is being said. It is not a one- sided affair. Both you and the speaker must be in communication with each other, that is, the words the speaker uses must have the same meaning for you also. There must be not only a verbal communication but also intellectual understanding of the words and also of the nature and significance of the words and the sentences. There must also be an emotional contact. You may be intellectually aware of agreeing or disagreeing, rejecting or accepting, but that will not lead us far. Whereas if there were an intellectual awareness of what is being said, of what is implied, and also an emotional contact, then communication with each other would be possible. So, to communicate with each other, there must be not only an intellectual, rational, clear thought but also an open attention; and then only is it possible to understand very deeply what is being said.

(A) Intellect
(B) Rationality
(C) Attention
(D) All of the above