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Question 3 :
Fill in the blank with the suitable collective noun:<br/>I sent a __________ of fruits for my sister.

Question 4 :
In the following question, choose the correct option to fill in the blank:<br/>To save the drowning man, a&#160;_________ of sailors came out on the boats.

Question 5 :
Fill in the blank with the suitable collective noun:<br/>He has a fantastic ___________ of coins and stamps.

Question 7 :
Fill in the blank with a suitable abstract noun:<br>He made the wrong choice due to his lack of (wise) <u> </u>.<br>

Question 8 :
Choose&#160;the correct&#160;abstract noun form of the underlined adjective.<br/>India fought for many decades&#160;to be <u>free</u> from British rule. The country finally got its _____________ in the year 1947.

Question 9 :
Choose&#160;the correct&#160;abstract noun form of the underlined adjective.<br/>The robbers met at a <u>secret</u> place. All of them had promised to maintain the ___________ of the place.

Question 12 :
Identify the proper noun in the given sentence:Of which country is Bangkok the capital?&#160;<br/>

Question 13 :
Choose the correct noun / noun phrase from the alternatives given below:<br>The statement, _________, shocked everyone.

Question 14 :
Replace the following underlined phrase with appropriate collective noun:&#160;<br/>I bought <u>six drinking glasses of the same kind</u> for the evening party.&#160;<br/>

Question 15 :
Replace the underlined phrase using an appropriate collective noun: <br/>We had to cross <u>a number of houses</u> in order to reach the shopping complex.<br/>

Question 16 :
Fill in the blank with a suitable collective noun, choosing from the alternatives given below:<br/>She brought a ________ of flowers on my birthday.

Question 17 :
Replace the following underlined phrase with appropriate collective noun:&#160;<br/>The <u>people in general</u> are fickle.<br/>

Question 18 :
Choose the correct noun from the alternatives given below:<br>You can show a driving licence to prove your _________.

Question 19 :
Replace the following underlined phrase with appropriate collective noun:&#160;<br/>Charmed by the tunes of his flute a <u>number of cows</u> gathered around Krishna.<br/>

Question 20 :
Replace the following underlined phrase with appropriate collective noun:&#160;The plane crashed because <u>the people who flew the plane</u> did not know each other's language and lacked co-ordination.<br/>

Question 21 :
Identify the part of speech of the underlined word in the following sentence:Sit down and rest a <u>while</u>.

Question 22 :
Identify the nouns and their types using the most suitable option:Wisdom is better than strength.

Question 23 :
Identify the noun using the most suitable option:<br/>Never tell a <u>lie</u>.

Question 24 :
State whether true or false:<br/>Parody mimics a subject directly to produce a comical effect. Satire, on the other hand, makes fun of a subject without a direct imitation.<br/>

Question 25 :
State whether true or false.<br>Parodies arenever exaggerated in the way that they do not imitate the original in order to produce a humorous effect.<br>

Question 26 :
State whether True or False.<br/>Imagery is the use of figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in a such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.

Question 27 :
Which of the words in the poem rhyme:<br><br>Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,<br>Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,<br><br>(The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)<br>

Question 28 :
Read each sentence to find out whether there is an error in any underlined part.<br/>(a) <u>Mr. Smith was accused for murder</u> &#160; (b) <u>but the court found him not guilty</u> &#160; (c) <u>and acquitted him</u>.&#160;

Question 29 :
Read the following dialogue between the poet and the rain, and fill in the blank [1] with the most appropriate option:<br/>Poet: &#34;Who art thou?&#34;<br/>Rain: &#34;I am the poem of the earth.&#34;<br/>Poet: &#34;Why have you come here?&#34;<br/>Rain: &#34;To beautify my origin. I also want to give life to unborn seeds.&#34;<br/>A poet asked the rain __________<span class="MathJax_Preview"><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[<span class="mn">1<span class="mo">]<span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[21]. The rain answered that ________<span class="MathJax_Preview"><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[<span class="mn">2<span class="mo">]<span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[22]. The poet again asked it __________<span class="MathJax_Preview"><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[<span class="mn">3<span class="mo">]<span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[23]. The rain replied that ________<span class="MathJax_Preview"><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[4<span class="mo">]<span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[24]. It further told that _________<span class="MathJax_Preview"><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[<span class="mn">5<span class="mo">]<span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[25].

Question 30 :
Identify the errors in the following sentence and select the correct option(s):<br>Sara looked at him and said, I will be back in five minutes!<br>

Question 31 :
In the mentioned sentence, three possible substitutions are given for the underlined part. Choose the option that is better than the underlined part.&#160;&#160;&#160;<br/><u>Even</u> he worked hard, he failed in the examination.

Question 33 :
It can be inferred that fleas will emerge from eggs as adults _________________.

Question 37 :
For the following question, arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence with sentence 1 and sentence 6 as the starting sentence and the concluding sentence respectively:<br/><br/>(1) As an economy expands, so does the need for cash to fuel growth.<br/>(A)&#160;An important one is a rule insisting that any purchase of shares amounting to 20% or more of the listed stock of a company has to be announced before the purchase goes ahead.<br/>(B)&#160;It also has computerized trading and a whole host of new regulations.<br/>(C) Today the Exchange has an impressive new home on the city's major business artery.<br/>(D) Pushed by government deregulation, the Jakarta Stock Exchange is beginning to come of age after emerging from dormancy only eight years ago.<br/>(6)&#160;This new ruling, plus many other improvements to protect investors, has helped boost confidence in the market.

Question 38 :
<blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Enter BASSANIO, with LEONARDO and other followers</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>BASSANIO</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">You may do so; but let it be so hasted that supper<br/>&#10;be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. See<br/>&#10;these letters delivered; put the liveries to making,<br/>&#10;and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging.<br/>&#10;<br/>&#10;What does the line 'Enter Bassanio and Leonardo with the followers' indicate?</p><p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;</p><p class="MsoNormal">&#160;</p></blockquote>

Question 39 :
Identify the genre of the following passage:<br/><br/>A jackdaw saw that the doves were well-fed, so she painted herself white and flew into the dove-cot. The doves thought at first that she was a dove like them, and let her in. But the jackdaw forgot herself and croaked in jackdaw fashion. Then the doves began to pick at her and drove her away. The jackdaw flew back to her friends but the jackdaws were frightened of her, seeing her white, and themselves drove her away.<br/>

Question 40 :
Computer angst is machine created ________?<br/>Fill in the blank with the appropriate phrase from the passage.

Question 41 :
Which of the following is the best description of the author's technique in handling her material?

Question 43 :
It can be inferred from the passage that a study&#160;limited to patients like those mentioned in lines <span class="x-ref">99220-<span class="x-ref">54827 would have which of the following advantages over&#160;the kind of study proposed by Frazier and Mosteller?

Question 44 :
The function of poetic rhythm in the poem is to convey a _______.<br/>

Question 46 :
Identify the literary device used in the following passage:<br/><br/>&#160; &#160;This was early in March. During the next three months, there was much secret activity. Majors speech had given to the more intelligent animals on the farm a completely new outlook on life. They did not know&#160;when the Rebellion predicted by Major would take place, they had no reason for thinking that it would be within their own lifetime, but they&#160;saw clearly that it was their duty to prepare for it. The work of teaching and organizing the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognized as being the cleverest of the animals. &#160;&#160; &#160;Pre-eminent among the pigs were two young boars named Snowball and &#160;Napoleon, whom Mr. Jones was breeding up for sale.... Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others.<br/>

Question 47 :
<p>Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:</p><p>Miss Prism.&#160; Lady Bracknell, I admit with shame that I do not know.&#160; I only wish I did.&#160; The plain facts of the case are these.&#160; On the morning of the day you mention, a day that is forever branded on my memory, I prepared, as usual, to take the baby out in its perambulator.&#160; I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious handbag in which I had intended to place the manuscript of a work of fiction that I had written during my few unoccupied hours.&#160; In a moment of mental abstraction, for which I never can forgive myself, I deposited the manuscript in the bassinette and placed the baby in the handbag.<br/></p>Jack.&#160; [Who has been listening attentively.]&#160;<p>But where did you deposit the handbag?</p>Miss Prism.&#160; Do not ask me, Mr. Worthing.<br/><br/><p>Jack.&#160; Miss Prism, this is a matter of no small importance to me.&#160; I insist on knowing where you deposited the handbag that contained that infant.</p>Miss Prism.&#160; I left it in the cloak-room of one of the larger railway stations in London.<br/><br/><p>Jack.&#160; What railway station?</p>Miss Prism.&#160; [Quite crushed.]&#160;<br/><p><br/>Victoria.&#160; The Brighton line.&#160; [Sinks into a hair.]</p>Jack.&#160; I must retire to my room for a moment.&#160; Gwendolen, wait here for me.<br/><br/><p>Gwendolen.&#160; If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.&#160; [Exit Jack in great excitement.]</p><b>....<br/><br/></b>Gwendolen.&#160; This suspense is terrible.&#160; I hope it will last.&#160; [Enter Jack with a handbag of black leather in his hand.]<br/><br/><p>Jack.&#160; [Rushing over to Miss Prism.]&#160;<br/>Is this the hand-bag, Miss Prism?&#160; Examine it carefully before you speak.&#160; The happiness of more than one life depends on your answer.</p>Miss Prism.&#160; [Calmly.]&#160; It seems to be mine.&#160; Yes, here is the injury it received through the upsetting of a Gower Street omnibus in younger and happier<br/><p>days.&#160; Here is the stain on the lining caused by the explosion of a temperance beverage, an incident that occurred at Leamington.&#160; And here, on the lock, are my initials.&#160; I had forgotten that in an extravagant mood I had had them placed there.&#160; The bag is undoubtedly mine.&#160; I am delighted to have it so unexpectedly restored to me.&#160; It has been a great inconvenience being without it all these years.</p>Jack.&#160; [In a pathetic voice.]&#160; Miss Prism, more is restored to you than this handbag.&#160; I was the baby you placed in it.<br/><br/>The passage above is taken from a __________.<br/>