Question 1 :
<b>In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.</b> The police have registered a case …………. Manikya Associates for allegedly ……………..recruitment for foreign firms without having licence under the Emigration Act. The case was registered suo motu by the Mangaluru North Police following reports on 35 youths ………. Mangaluru being stranded in Kuwait. In a video clipping circulated on social media, the youths …………. the firm of collecting Rs. 65,000 from each one of them for a job in a firm in Kuwait. They landed in Kuwait this January and since then, …………stranded there. Police Commissioner Sandeep Patil said that every firm carrying out recruitment for a foreign firm should have licence under the Emigration Act. Prima facie, Manikya Associates does not possess licence and hence, a case has been registered.the youths …………. the firm of collecting Rs. 65,000 from each one

Question 2 :
<b>In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".</b> I was just 10 years old and my father “Rajiv Gandhi” was (A) MP with the Congress.

Question 3 :
<b>A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.</b> “As many as 20% of the trees were uprooted, while the rest were found snapped and broken.” Wildlife officials said.

Question 4 :
<b>Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.</b> (P) Today, it is common for public relation firms to cultivate journalists and plant stories. (S) At the same time nobody has addressed the menace of corruption in the media itself. (R) In such a scenario, the reader feels shortchanged as unbiased election coverage is not available. (Q) Indian media still has not matured as far as election coverage goes.

Question 5 :
<b>In the following questions, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.</b> The two first to complete (1)/ their targets will be rewarded (2)/with incentives. (3)/No error. (4)

Question 6 :
<b>In the following questions, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.</b> <b>Shabby</b>

Question 7 :
In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase. Go for a song

Question 8 :
Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order. (P)the cases of poaching too are spread countrywide, with a significant number of such incidents not showing up in government records. (Q)There are also several incidents of leopard deaths on account of road kills, (R)Experts point out that since leopards live in close proximity to human habitations and are found all across the country, (S)particularly in States such as Maharashtra and Karnataka.

Question 9 :
Which one of the following would be the best evidence to demonstrate to parents and administrators what students can do with language?

Question 10 :
<b>In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.</b> He was …………. in bringing about an end to the conflict.

Question 11 :
<b>In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.</b> The transgender community has once again been let (79) ______, as the Lok Sabha passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2018 in (80) ________ hurry amid ongoing protests over the Rafale deal. The Bill, ostensibly aimed (81) _______ protecting transgender persons’ rights, has been drafted hastily, with no real understanding of gender identity and expression. This was made (82) ________ clear in the original draft, with the offensive and unscientific definition of a transgender person as someone who is “neither wholly male nor wholly female”. After several submissions made by the transgender community and the recommendations of a parliamentary standing committee, the definition of transgender (83) _______ rectified and made inclusive of diverse gender identities. the definition of transgender (83) ________ rectified and made inclusive of diverse gender identities

Question 12 :
<b>In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.</b> She looks so young, I ___________ your sister.

Question 13 :
<b>In the following questions, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.</b> “I will be play (1)/ in more such (2)/ events,” Serena told (3)/ the media. (3) / No error (4)

Question 14 :
<b>In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.</b> The intimidatory power of the mob made (79) _________ felt once again when the Ajmer Literature Festival abruptly cancelled veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah’s keynote address. This followed the (80) _______ of abuse heaped on Mr. Shah by a loose coalition of persons, ranging from anonymous trolls on social media to functionaries of the Bharatiya Janata Party, after he spoke about the dangerous amount of power that mobs (81) _________ in India. In a reference to the violence over allegations of cow carcasses found in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district this month that led to the killing of a police officer and another person, he spoke of the growing insecurity over being targeted by vigilante groups. “There is complete impunity for those who take law (82) ________ their own hands,” said Mr. Shah. “I (83) _________ anxious thinking about my children.” Unfortunately, in this climate of hyper-nationalism, even an expression of anxiety is twisted out of context and portrayed as disloyalty to the nation.after he spoke about the dangerous amount of power that mobs (81) ________ in India

Question 15 :
<b>In the following questions, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.</b> Mr. Prasad said that his appeal (1)/ was made not as a Minister (2)/ but as a common citizen and a lawyer. (3)/no error (4)

Question 16 :
<b>In the following questions, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.</b> He would believe (1)/ the story as if (2)/ it was true. (3) / No error (4)

Question 17 :
<b>In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".</b> He had even venturing into areas that he had shunned.

Question 19 :
<b>In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".</b> Tarun assisted the girl (who) was holding her crutches.

Question 20 :
Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order. (R) I expect that this will only be made public after the new government comes in,” a senior official from the Central Ground Water Board(P) how many blocks have critically low levels of water and how many are well-stocked. (S) The groundwater assessment, last done in 2013, is a survey that samples a sliver of blocks in each State and counts (Q) “We have received reports from most States and have passed it on to the Water Resources Ministry for approval.

Question 21 :
<b>In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.</b> Utter chaos ………….. in the normally bustling tourist-pilgrim town of Puri ………. essential commodities, including candles, torches, biscuits and water bottles, vanished from the shelves. Desperate residents demanded restoration of electricity, but normalcy is …………. for at least a week. A shortage of diesel required for running generators is adding to the crisis. The situation was …….. different in the capital Bhubaneswar, where water supplies ………… out in the absence of electricity. Hundreds of angry residents surrounded the offices of the water supply board and staged protests at the residences of MLAs and MPsThe situation was …….. different in the capital Bhubaneswar

Question 23 :
<b>In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.</b> An influential, century-old literary organisation in Assam has issued a diktat saying people ………... do not know Assamese…………. any other indigenous language would not be …………...to work in the State. The Assam Sahitya Sabha, established ………... 1917, has also set the BJP-led government a month’s deadline to make Kendriya Vidyalayas and schools …………… to the CBSE on introduce any recognised indigenous tongue as the third language up to Class 12.Assam has issued a diktat saying people ………... do not know

Question 24 :
<b>In the following questions, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the antonym of the given word.</b> <b>Vitiate</b>

Question 25 :
<b>In the following questions, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the antonym of the given word.</b> Sanguine

Question 26 :
In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.An event serving as an introduction to something more important

Question 27 :
<b>In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.</b> The intimidatory power of the mob made (79) _________ felt once again when the Ajmer Literature Festival abruptly cancelled veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah’s keynote address. This followed the (80) _______ of abuse heaped on Mr. Shah by a loose coalition of persons, ranging from anonymous trolls on social media to functionaries of the Bharatiya Janata Party, after he spoke about the dangerous amount of power that mobs (81) _________ in India. In a reference to the violence over allegations of cow carcasses found in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district this month that led to the killing of a police officer and another person, he spoke of the growing insecurity over being targeted by vigilante groups. “There is complete impunity for those who take law (82) ________ their own hands,” said Mr. Shah. “I (83) _________ anxious thinking about my children.” Unfortunately, in this climate of hyper-nationalism, even an expression of anxiety is twisted out of context and portrayed as disloyalty to the nation.This followed the (80) _______ of abuse heaped on Mr. Shah by a loose coalition of persons

Question 28 :
A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.“They may not have come to the Valley but they didn’t ignore the State,” said Mr. Abdullah.

Question 29 :
<b>In the following questions, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the antonym of the given word.</b> Corroborate

Question 30 :
<b>In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.</b> An influential, century-old literary organisation in Assam has issued a diktat saying people ………... do not know Assamese…………. any other indigenous language would not be …………...to work in the State. The Assam Sahitya Sabha, established ………... 1917, has also set the BJP-led government a month’s deadline to make Kendriya Vidyalayas and schools …………… to the CBSE on introduce any recognised indigenous tongue as the third language up to Class 12.any other indigenous language would not be …………...to work in the State