(Choose the most appropriate preposition)

Q. A good judge never jumps_____ the conclusion.

(a) to
(b) at
(c) on
(d) for
Answer – (b) at

(For each sentence below choose the correct preposition that best completes the meaning of the verb phase suitable for the sentence)

Q. Now it is difficult to carry ____this business in the teeth of stiff competition.

(a) out
(b) on
(c) off
(d) for
Answer – (b) on

(For each sentence below choose the correct preposition that best completes the meaning of the verb phase suitable for the sentence)

Q. The fear that AIDS has broken _ in India is not unfounded.

(a) up
(b) about
(c) out
(d) over
Answer – (c) out

( In each of the following questions, a sentence has been given in Direct / Indirect Speech.Out of the four alternatives suggested select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect / Direct speech. )

Q. He said, “I clean my teeth twice a day.”

(a) He said that he cleaned his teeth twice a day.
(b) He said that he cleans his teeth twice a day.
(c) He said that he used to clean his teeth twice a day.
(d) He said that he is used to cleaning his teeth twice a day.

Answer – (b) He said that he cleans his teeth twice a day.

(Choose the word appropriate in meaning to the word underlined below.)

Q. TYRANNY –

(a) Misrule
(b) Power
(c) Madness
(d) Cruelty
Answer – (d) Cruelty

(Choose the word opposite in meaning to the one underlined below.)

Q. ALIVE –

(a) Passive
(b) Dead
(c) Asleep
(d) Drowsy
Answer – (b) Dead

(In each of the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words / sentence.)

Q. Anything written in a letter after it is signed

(a) Posterity
(b) Postdiction
(c) Postscript
(d) Corrigendum
Answer – (c) Postscript

(Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blanks to make the sentence meaningfully complete.)

Q. Some people _____themselves into believing that they are indispensable to the organisation they work for.

(a) keep
(b) fool
(c) forc
(d) denigrate
Answer – (d) denigrate

Q. (Find out the error part from the given options.)

(a) All the doctors were
(b) puzzled on the
(c) strange symptoms
(d) reported by the patient itudes
Answer – (c) strange symptoms

(Find out the error part from the given options.)

(a) The detective says that
(b) there is no chance for
(c) finding the person
(d) who wrote these letters
Answer – (b) there is no chance for

(Find out the error part from the given options.)

(a) Of all the men
(b) known to me none is
(c) less inclined that he is
(d) to think ill to others
Answer – (d) to think ill to others

(In each of the following questions an idiomatic phrase is given followed by four alteratives. Choose the alternative that best expresses the meaning of the expression)

Q. To turn over a new leaf

(a) To change completely one’s course of action
(b) To shift attention to new problems after
having studied the old ones throughly
(c) To cover up one’s faults by wearing new marks
(d) To changes the old habits and adopt new
ones
Answer – (d) To changes the old habits and adopt new ones

(Which one of the following words is correctly spelt?)

(a) Inimitable
(b) Innimatible
(c) Inimitible
(d) Inimmitable
Answer – (a) Inimitable

(Which one of the following words is correctly spelt?)

(a) Tempereture
(b) Temparature
(c) Temperature
(d) Tamperature
Answer – (c) Temperature

(Choose the word, which can most appropriately replace the bold italicized words in the given sentence.)

Q. The various practices and norms for bank’s transactions are laid down by the Reserve Bank of India.

(a) are laid up
(b) are lead up
(c) have been lay down
(d) No correction required
Answer – (d) No correction required