Question 1 :
<b>Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.</b> <br>Instead of showing his mother his paper, the boy chose to _______ it up.

Question 2 :
<b>Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response.</b> <br>It is advisable to ______________sweets and junk food in order to stay healthy.

Question 3 :
<b>Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response.</b> <br>The brilliant runner ___________________to third place when he fell on the ground during the race.

Question 4 :
<b>In this section, each item consists of a sentence wih a word underlined and is followed by four words or groups of words, Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the underlined word and indicate your response.</b> <br>Some spray <b>propellants</b> that contribute to ill-effects on the environment have been banned.

Question 5 :
<b>In this section, look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (A),(B) or (C) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response against (A),(B)or (C). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (D) as your response. Thus a No improvement response will be signified by the letter (D).</b> <br>Please report to me when <b>you return back from </b>Delhi.

Question 6 :
<b> In the following question, 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> <br>Majority of the banks (A)/ today uses technology (B)/ to reach out to those living in rural areas. (C)/No error (D). <br>

Question 7 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> The ways of ants are myriads and truly spectacular. Though an average antis only 0.04 inches tall, collectively the ants are the most dominant force of Earth. Their 8800 known species number 10 million billion and weight over two billion pounds, approximately over 10 percent of the entire animal kingdom living on land. The operational unit of ants’ colony is not an individual ant but hundreds of thousands of worker ants. These worker ants willingly give up their lives for the society. They take risk in going out to gather food and defend the nest. Some of them have poisonous glands which they emit over their enemies in a fight for survival. Ants are so useful for the survival of our planet that if they were to be somehow exterminated, the life on Earth would be in great danger. They enrich most of the world’s soil with organic mass in their subterranean nests. They help in pollination in flowering plants and often disperse seeds of immobile plants to faraway places. They also keep the Earth clean by eating up 90% of the corpses of small animals. Their social organization and work distribution system is remarkable. <br>Worker ants work for ant colony and

Question 8 :
<b>Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.</b> <br>Instead of showing his mother his paper, the boy chose to _______ it up.

Question 9 :
<b>Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.</b> <br>When the lawyer accused the priest of __________ he shocked everyone in the courtroom.

Question 10 :
<b>Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.</b> <br>The President has threatened to impose ________ import duties on a range of foreign goods.

Question 11 :
<b>In the following question, 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> <br>The beggar (A)/ whom we had suspected (B)/ to be guilty turned out to be innocent. (C)/ No Error. (D) <br>

Question 12 :
<b>Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives. </b> <br> The habit of reading is one of the greatest resources of mankind; and we enjoy reading books that belong, to us much more than if they are borrowed. A borrowed book is like a guest in the house; it must be treated with punctiliousness, with certain considerate formality. You must see that sustains no damage; it must not suffer while under your roof. You cannot leave it carelessly, you cannot mark it, you cannot turn down the pages, cannot use it familiarly. <br> But your own books belong to you; you treat them with that affectionate intimacy that annihilates formality. <br> Books are for use not for show. A good reason for marking favourite pages in books is that this practice enables you to remember more easily the significant sayings, to refer to them quickly. Everyone should begin collecting a private library in youth; one should have one’s own book-shelves, which should not have doors, glass windows, or keys; they should be free and accessible to the hand as well as to the eye. Books are of the people, by the people and for the people. Literature is an immortal part of history; it is the best and most enduring part of personality. <br>According to the passage, a borrowed book is like a <br>

Question 13 :
<b>In this section, each item consists of a sentence wih a word underlined and is followed by four words or groups of words, Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the underlined word and indicate your response.</b> <br>The cloth that I bought online was of <b>inferior</b> quality.

Question 14 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> A guest speaker was addressing the faculty and the students in the college auditorium. I had joined the faculty the year before, and was already drawing attention. I was 27, full of assumptions about myself, quick with a comment on everything, and expected people to pay attention to all that I had said. <br> I listened to the talk for the first five minutes. By the seventh, I was looking around to check if others were listening. By the tenth, I had glanced at my watch three times, and yawned once. After twenty minutes I was thoroughly bored, and telling myself that it was difficult to sit through such an insipid talk. I wanted to share some of my expert comments with my neighbour. But he was completely sold out to the speaker, and looked like it was the greatest day of his life. I was disgusted. I tried to catch a word or phrase from the talk, only to convince myself that this should be his last talk ever. <br> The one-hour talk took ages to end, and before the thanks were said, I jumped to my feet with a sigh of relief. My neighbour smiled at me and said, "The talk was wonderful, wasn't it?" I retorted, "It almost killed me with kindness". <br>How did the narrator respond to the speech? <br>

Question 15 :
<b> In this section, each item consists of a sentence with a word bold and is followed by four words. Select the word that is most opposite in meaning to the bold words and indicate your response accordingly.</b> <br>You don't believe the <b> drivel</b> you read in the papers, do you?

Question 16 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> The ways of ants are myriads and truly spectacular. Though an average antis only 0.04 inches tall, collectively the ants are the most dominant force of Earth. Their 8800 known species number 10 million billion and weight over two billion pounds, approximately over 10 percent of the entire animal kingdom living on land. The operational unit of ants’ colony is not an individual ant but hundreds of thousands of worker ants. These worker ants willingly give up their lives for the society. They take risk in going out to gather food and defend the nest. Some of them have poisonous glands which they emit over their enemies in a fight for survival. Ants are so useful for the survival of our planet that if they were to be somehow exterminated, the life on Earth would be in great danger. They enrich most of the world’s soil with organic mass in their subterranean nests. They help in pollination in flowering plants and often disperse seeds of immobile plants to faraway places. They also keep the Earth clean by eating up 90% of the corpses of small animals. Their social organization and work distribution system is remarkable. <br>What lesson can we, as human beings, learn from the ants?

Question 17 :
<b> In the following question the 1st and the last part of the sentence/passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence/ passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence/passage and find out which of the four combinations is correct.</b> <br>1. Love is one of the earliest of human passions. <br> P. It is also one of the sweetest. <br> Q. Love should be directed towards a worthy object. <br> R. But, like all strong passions it may, if not well regulated and controlled, lead us into misery. <br> S. Or it will prove in the end a source of bitterness. <br> 6. Love, moreover, looks forward to reciprocation.

Question 18 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives. </b> <br> Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his next-door neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective. <br>The most learned man is he who <br>

Question 19 :
<b>In the following question the 1st and the last part of the sentence/passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence/ passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence/passage and find out which of the four combinations is correct.</b> <br>1.Porcelain became popular at the beginning of the 19th century. <br> P. Porcelain from this era was fired in ovens at more than 2372 degree Fahrenheit. <br> Q. Refers to both China and Bisque dolls. <br> R. it is made by firing special clays <br> S. porcelain is used generically, to <br> 6. Only a few types of clays can withstand such high temperatures. <br>

Question 20 :
<b> Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your Answer accordingly. </b> <br>Shalini was not .......... by the criticism and paid no attention even when her best friend talked against her.

Question 21 :
<b> In this section, each item consists of a sentence with a word bold and is followed by four words or groups of words, Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the bold word and indicate your response</b>. <br>The flow of water has <b>undermined</b> the pillars supporting the roof.

Question 22 :
<b> In this section, look at the bold part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the bold part. If one of them (A),(B) or (C) is better than the bold part, indicate your response against (A),(B)or (C). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (D) as your response. Thus, a No improvement response will be signified by the letter (D).</b> <br>I walked back home after the movie <b>yesterday night.</b>

Question 23 :
<b> In this section, look at the bold part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the bold part. If one of them (A),(B) or (C) is better than the bold part, indicate your response against (A),(B)or (C). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (D) as your response. Thus, a No improvement response will be signified by the letter (D).</b> <br>A thing of beauty <b>is joy</b> forever.

Question 24 :
<b> In this section, look at the bold part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the bold part. If one of them (A),(B) or (C) is better than the bold part, indicate your response against (A),(B)or (C). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (D) as your response. Thus, a No improvement response will be signified by the letter (D).</b> <br><b> Because that there were </b>heavy rains the lake was flooded.

Question 25 :
<b>Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.</b> <br>All I need is a ___________ of money to pay for my basic needs.

Question 26 :
<b>In the following question, 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> <br>Under no circumstances (A)/ have I harmed (B)/ him, and he knows. (C)/ No Error. (D) <br>

Question 27 :
<b>Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response.</b> <br>Kindly ___________- your old address and write down your new residential address.

Question 28 :
<b> In this section, each item consists of a sentence with a word underlined and is followed by four words. Select the word that is most opposite in meaning to the underlined words and indicate your response.</b> <br>He was <b>befogged</b> due to lack of proper sleep <b>. </b>

Question 29 :
<b>In this section, look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (A),(B) or (C) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response against (A),(B)or (C). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (D) as your response. Thus a No improvement response will be signified by the letter (D).</b> <br>My mother <b>teach</b> me to be a good human being.

Question 30 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> A guest speaker was addressing the faculty and the students in the college auditorium. I had joined the faculty the year before, and was already drawing attention. I was 27, full of assumptions about myself, quick with a comment on everything, and expected people to pay attention to all that I had said. <br> I listened to the talk for the first five minutes. By the seventh, I was looking around to check if others were listening. By the tenth, I had glanced at my watch three times, and yawned once. After twenty minutes I was thoroughly bored, and telling myself that it was difficult to sit through such an insipid talk. I wanted to share some of my expert comments with my neighbour. But he was completely sold out to the speaker, and looked like it was the greatest day of his life. I was disgusted. I tried to catch a word or phrase from the talk, only to convince myself that this should be his last talk ever. <br> The one-hour talk took ages to end, and before the thanks were said, I jumped to my feet with a sigh of relief. My neighbour smiled at me and said, "The talk was wonderful, wasn't it?" I retorted, "It almost killed me with kindness". <br>What do you understand about the narrator from the description in the first paragraph? <br>

Question 31 :
<b>In the following question the 1st and the last part of the sentence/passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence/ passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence/passage and find out which of the four combinations is correct.</b> <br>1.Indiscriminate industrialization resulted <br> P. as the rural <br> Q. in cities in search <br> R. in urban migration <br> S. poor settled <br> 6. of opportunities. <br>

Question 32 :
<b> Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your Answer accordingly. </b> <br>Though he is reputed for his technical expertise his books were sadly......... of the work of others as he lacked originality.

Question 33 :
<b> In this section, each item consists of a sentence with a word bold and is followed by four words. Select the word that is most opposite in meaning to the bold words and indicate your response accordingly.</b> <br>Her voice was weak and <b>tremulous</b>, but the audience clapped politely when she finished the aria

Question 34 :
<b> In this section, each item consists of a sentence with a word bold and is followed by four words or groups of words, Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the bold word and indicate your response</b>. <br>He was <b> livid</b> that grey had escaped.

Question 35 :
<b> In this section, each item consists of a sentence with a word bold and is followed by four words or groups of words, Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the bold word and indicate your response</b>. <br>He built a <b>stately</b> house in the city and adorned it with a multitude of paintings.

Question 36 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> There are certain people, however, with whom one has a right to be bored - people who are so self-centered that they cannot listen to anyone else talking, people who engage in long conversations with their pets when visitors are present, people who engage in endless reminiscences of their old school when in company of a man who was at a different school. Such people are boring because they make one feel, for the time being, an outsider. <br>A person feels an outsider in a company when

Question 37 :
<b> In this section, look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (A),(B) or (C) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response against (A),(B) or (C). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (D) as your response. Thus a No improvement response will be signified by the letter (D)</b> <br>A very horrifying serial <b>was telecasted</b> ten days ago.

Question 38 :
<b> In this section, look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (A),(B) or (C) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response against (A),(B) or (C). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (D) as your response. Thus a No improvement response will be signified by the letter (D)</b> <br>The constitution of <b>India guaranteed</b> each citizen equal rights and privileges.

Question 39 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives</b> <br> Is there any difference between "genius" and "talent”? We generally feel that a man of genius is in some way higher than a man of talent; and that talented men are more common than genius. This is true, but it is rather vague. Genius implies "very extraordinary gifts or native powers, especially as displayed in original creation, discovery, expression or achievement; phenomenal capacity regarded as relatively independent of instruction and training". Talent, on the other hand, consists of "mental endowments or capacities of superior character; marked mental ability". "Talent" is more the capacity to learn to do a thing well; but "genius" is an inborn inspiration that drives a man to do a thing with original excellence. As Meredith said, "Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can". <br> Shakespeare in drama and poetry, Isaac Newton in science, Napoleon in war, Beethoven in music, were geniuses; many well-known poets, scientists, generals and musicians have been men of talent. <br>A genius is a man with _________ ideas. <br>

Question 40 :
<b> In this section, each item consists of a sentence with a word underlined and is followed by four words. Select the word that is most opposite in meaning to the underlined words and indicate your response.</b> <br>The <b>peroration </b>should be the most powerful part of an effective speech.

Question 41 :
<b> Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your Answer accordingly. </b> <br>We cannot pardon such a/an ............. act of violence.

Question 42 :
<b> In the following question, 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> <br>The rate of metabolism of (A)/ a body is comparatively lowest when (B)/ it is at rest and is thus optimum for examination.(C)/No error (D).

Question 43 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> There are certain people, however, with whom one has a right to be bored - people who are so self-centered that they cannot listen to anyone else talking, people who engage in long conversations with their pets when visitors are present, people who engage in endless reminiscences of their old school when in company of a man who was at a different school. Such people are boring because they make one feel, for the time being, an outsider. <br>The expression “endless reminiscences” stands for

Question 44 :
<b> In the following question the 1st and the last part of the sentence/passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence/ passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence/passage and find out which of the four combinations is correct.</b> <br>1. He could not rise. <br> P. All at once, in the distance, he heard an elephant trumpet. <br> Q. He tried again with all his might but to no use. <br> R. The next moment he was on his feet. <br> S. He stepped into the river. <br> 6. It was colder than usual.

Question 45 :
<b>Each of the following items has a sentence with a blank space and four words or group of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.</b> <br>The ……………of a dynasty has been found in an architecture excavation

Question 46 :
<b> In this section, each item consists of a sentence with a word bold and is followed by four words. Select the word that is most opposite in meaning to the bold words and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet accordingly.</b> <br>By being clever, Marvin was able to <b>negate</b> his opponent’s strategy during the card game.

Question 47 :
<b> In this section, each item consists of a sentence with a word bold and is followed by four words. Select the word that is most opposite in meaning to the bold words and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet accordingly.</b> <br>The celebrity cut in front of me like I was a <b>nonentity</b>.

Question 48 :
<b> In this section, look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (A),(B) or (C) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response against (A),(B) or (C). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (D) as your response. Thus a No improvement response will be signified by the letter (D)</b> <br>His speech <b>was broadcasted</b> over the radio last Thursday.

Question 49 :
<b>In this section, each item consists of a sentence wih a word underlined and is followed by four words or groups of words, Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the underlined word and indicate your response.</b> <br>Students <b>converged</b> in the parking lot to say goodbye after graduation.

Question 50 :
<b>In this section, each item consists of a sentence wih a word underlined and is followed by four words or groups of words, Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the underlined word and indicate your response.</b> <br>The weather is <b>mercurial</b> these days owing to the bad effects of industrialization.