Question 1 :
<div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the question that follows. </span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div>The New Year is a time for resolutions. Mentally at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of do's and dont's. The same old favourites recur year in and year out with monotonous regularity. Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are beyond attainment. If we remain inveterate smokers, it is only because we have so often experienced to frustration that results from failure. Most of us fail in our efforts at self improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have time to carry them out. We also make the fundamental error of announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we slip back into our old bad ways. <br/></div></div><div><br/></div><div><span>The author seems to think that others _______. </span><br/></div>
Question 2 :
<span>Read the passage and answer the question given below. </span><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>This country now needs a new equilibrium, a new spirit of national reconciliation that can be brought about only by moving forward to the new frontiers of true equality, fuller opportunity and greater compassion for the weaker sections of its people. Our goal is total freedom for the people that can fully reflect their urges and aspirations for a better life. We cannot remain content by merely reliving our past even under the condition of complete freedom, without a matching concept of the present and the future. We can survive only by seizing every constructive opportunity that can offer a creative alternative to the legacies of the past. It is only through such a lofty endeavour that the country can discover itself with a new sense of adventure and faith in ourselves.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div>We cannot remain satisfied with the past. We should think of ____. 
Question 3 :
<div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.</span></div></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>Once upon a time, I went for a week's holiday to the Continent with an Indian friend. We both enjoyed ourselves and were sorry when the week was over, but on parting, our behaviour was absolutely different. He was plunged in despair. He felt that because the holiday that was overall happiness was over until the world ended. He could not express his sorrow too much. But in me, the Englishman came out strong. I could not see what there was to make a fuss about. It wasn't as if we were parting forever or dying. 'Buck up', I said, 'do buck up'. He refused to buck up and I left him plunged in gloom. </span><br/></div><div><br/></div>What is the Continent in the context of the passage? 
Question 4 :
<span>Read the passage and answer the following question:<br/></span><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>It must be realized to make compulsory education a success, it is absolutely necessary to make it entirely free. India is a poor country and we cannot expect our people to pay directly for the education of their children. Even in rich countries like England and U.S.A. mass education is not only free but there are many additional facilities like mid-day meal for children, free medical service, and scholarship on a generous scale. Since education is a fundamental civil and human right and basic to the health of the body politics, funds must be found for the purpose whatever the cost of the scheme. If we consider educational and cultural activities to be important, funds will be forthcoming. What we have to do is to rearrange our priority. With this in view, we have to adopt a many-sided programme of national planning and economic and industrial reconstruction. If not there will always be arguments and statistics to prove that it is impossible to introduce free, compulsory and universal education in India.</span><div><br/></div><div>Which is the central argument of the passage?</div></div>
Question 5 :
Choose the correct answer form the alternatives given.<br>Directions for questions 96 to 100: The passage given below is followed by a set of five questions. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.<br>I have spoken of liberty as good, but it is not an absolute good. We all recognise the need to restrain murderers, and it is even more important to restrain murderous states. Liberty must be limited by law, and its most valuable forms can only exist within the framework of law. What the world most needs are effective laws to control international relations. The first and most difficult step in the creation of such laws is the establishment of adequate sanctions and this is only possible through the creation of a single armed force, which is in control of the whole world.<br>But such an armed force, like a municipal police force, is not an end in itself; it is the means to the growth of a social system governed by law, where force is not the prerogative of private individuals or nations, but is exercised only by a neutral authority in accordance with rules laid down in advance. There is hope that law, rather than private force, may come to govern the relations of nations within the present century.<br><span>A single armed force should be in control</span><br>
Question 6 :
The second sentence is missing in the following. Choose the appropriate option that completes it.<br/>A: Sheela woke up late.<br/>B: ___________________ .<br/>C: So, by the time she reached school, the class had already started.
Question 7 :
Arrange the parts to form a meaningful sentence:<br/><br/>P) <u>no conclusive evidence</u><br/>Q) <u>the enquiry committee found</u><br/>R) <u>to the airplane</u><br/>S) <u>of a thermal shock</u> <br/>
Question 8 :
Choose the best option that rearranges the following sentence in the correct order:<br/>a. other people<br/>b. to speak with you<br/>c. I want<br/>d. but not in front of
Question 9 :
Select the most suitable alternative to complete the following statement:<br/>When Edison tried his experiment on his servant girl.<br/>
Question 10 :
'Friendship was indeed a value for the villagers, more for men than for women. Two good friends were said to be 'like brothers' (literally, 'like elder brother-younger brother', annatamman-dirahage). I heard this expression several times and I could not help recalling the statement of an elderly English colleague who had told me that he and his brother were very close and had written to each other every week. He had added, 'We are very good friends.' That is, friendship connoted intimacy in England while in Rampura (as in rural India everywhere), brotherhood conveyed intimacy'.<br><br>Which of the following best summarizes the conclusion of the argument of this paragraph? <br><br>
Question 11 :
<div><div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.</span></div></div><div><br/></div><div><span>We should preserve nature to preserve life and beauty. A beautiful landscape, full of green vegetation, will not just attract our attention but will fill us with infinite satisfaction. Unfortunately, because of modernization, much of nature is now yielding to towns, roads and industrial areas In a few places, some natural reserves are now being carved out to avert the danger of destroying nature completely. Man will perish without nature, so modern man should continue this struggle to save plants, which give us oxygen, from extinction. Moreover, nature is essential to man's health.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>What does the writer suggest?
Question 12 :
<div><div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the question that follows.</span></div></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>As civilization proceeds in the direction of technology, it passes the point of supplying all the basic of life, food, shelter, clothes and warmth. Then we are faced with a choice between using technology to provide and fulfil needs which have hitherto been regarded as unnecessary or, on the other hand, using technology to reduce the number of hours of work which a man must do in order to earn a given standard of living. In other words, we either raise our standard of living above that necessary for comfort and happiness or we leave it at this level and work shorter hours. I shall take it as axiomatic that mankind has, by that time, chosen the later alternative. Men will be working shorter and shorter hours in their paid employment.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>What does the author suggest? 
Question 13 :
<div><div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the question that follows. </span></div></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>One December night, a family had gathered around their fireside and piled it high with wood gathered from mountain streams and ruins of great trees that had come falling down the mountain sides. The fire roared and brightened the room with its light. The faces of the father and mother had a quiet gladness; the children laughed; the oldest daughter was the picture of happiness at seventeen;and the aged grandmother who sat sewing in the warmest place was the picture of happiness grown old.</span></div></div><div> </div>The oldest daughter looked _______. <span><br/></span>
Question 14 :
Which of the two sentences given below convey the following meaning?<br/>We do not have sufficient water. 
Question 15 :
<div><div><span><font color="#4d4d4d" face="Alegreya"><span>Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:</span></font><br/></span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>Deriving your authority from the government, your position would secure the respect and consideration of everyone, especially in a service where official rank carries so much weight. This would secure you every attention and comfort on your way and there, together with a complete submission to your orders. I know these things are a matter of indifference to you except so far as they may further, the great objects you have in view, but they are of importance in themselves, and of every importance to those who have a right to take an interest in your personal position and comfort. </span></div></div><div><br/></div>The person addressed in most likely a ______.
Question 16 :
<div><span>In the following, some parts of the sentence have been jumbled up. You are required to re-arrange these parts which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence. </span><br/></div><div><br/></div>Such was <br/>(P) the scale of devastation <br/>(Q) that it was described as the worst natural disaster<br/>(R) caused by the hurricane <br/>(S) to hit Central America this century.<div><br/></div><div><span>The correct sequence should be:</span><br/></div>
Question 17 :
Arrange the following parts to form a logical and meaningful sentence:<br/>a. in two quick goals<br/>b. moves made by<br/>c. the courageous<br/>d. the centre forward resulted
Question 18 :
<div><div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.</span></div></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>The world is full of people - appallingly full; it has never been so full before, and they are all tumbling over each other. Most of these people one doesn't know and some of them one doesn't like. Well, what is one to do? There are two solutions. One of them is the Nazi solution. If you don't like people, kill them, banish them, and segregate them. The other way is much less thrilling, but it is, on the whole, the way of the democracies, and I prefer it. If you don't like people, put up with them as well as you can. Don't try to love them: you can't, you'll only strain yourself. But try to tolerate them.</span><br/></div></div><div><br/></div>Which one of the following is the correct statement? The author thinks that the other solution is much less thrilling because it is ______. 
Question 19 :
Choose the option that correctly conveys the meaning of the sentence given below:<br/>Never can a fish survive on land. 
Question 20 :
Identify the correct sequence of the given phrases, which can make a meaningful sentence:<br/>P. a <br/>Q. empty house <br/>R. boy walked <br/>S. into an <span><br/></span>