The lockdown
Weekly test, 03rd July
Total= 50 marks
Time= 30 min.
Cut off= 38 marks
Pool= 150
Cap= 75
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1.Spot the eror:
Besides clearing (A)/ India's toughest exam, (B)/ he acquire a scholarship ✅(C)/ for higher studies from Oxford University.(D) No error (E)
Expl.
Here
Acquire= incorrect
Acquires= correct
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2.Spot the eror:
It is known (A)/that the cheetah (B)/is faster (C)/than any animal (✅D). /No error (E)
Expl.
Here
..any animal..= incorrect
..any other animal../ ..all other animals..= correct
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3.Spot the eror:
Had she not (A)/ been annoyed (B)/ with you, she would (C)/had told you the truth. (✅D)/ No error (E)
Expl.
It is a THIRD CONDITIONAL SENTENCE
..would had..= incorrect
..would have..= correct
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4.Spot the eror:
If I were (A)/ he, I could (B)/ challenged him.(✅C)/ No error (D)
Expl.
It is a SECOND CONDITIONAL SENTENCE
..could challenged= incorrect
..could challenge= correct
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5.Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
[What sort of a person] he is.
(a) What kind of a person
(b) What sort of person✅
(c) What a sort of person
(d) No improvement
Expl.
We do not use any article after 'what kind of..' and 'what sort of..'
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6.Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
If Mohan listens to the English news, [it improve] his English.
(a) It is improving
(b) It will improve✅
(c) It improved
(d) No improvement
Expl.
It is a FIRST CONDITIONAL SENTENCE
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7.Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
The aeroplane [raising] when it reached near the mountains.
(a) rose✅
(b) raised
(c) was raising
(d) risen
Expl.
Here, we need an intransitive verb.
Rise/ rose/ risen/ rising= Intransitive verbs
Raise/ raised/ raised/ raising= Transitive verbs
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8.Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
My house [comprises of] a lot of furniture.
(a) is comprise of
(b) comprised✅
(c) is comprise
(d) comprising
Expl.
S+ be+ comprised + of + noun= correct
The bag is comprised of many books.
S+ comprise* + noun= correct
The bag comprises many books.
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9.Select the synonym of the given word.
Vagrant
(a) Gallant
(b) Elegant
(c) Stagnant
(d) Rover✅
Expl.
Vagrant: Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
Rover: Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
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10.Select the synonym of the given word.
Imbecile
(a) Prat✅
(b) Resurrect
(c) Affluent
(d) Astute
Expl.
Imbecile: a stupid person.
Prat: an incompetent or stupid person; an idiot.
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11.Select the synonym of the given word.
Omnipresent
(a) Monolith
(b) evasive
(c) ubiquitous✅
(d) meshuggener
Expl.
Omnipresent: present in all places and at all times
Ubiquitous= Being present everywhere at once
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12.Select the synonym of the given word.
Perplexity
(a) empathy
(b) amicability
(c) puzzlement✅
(d) concordantly
Expl.
Perplexity= Trouble or confusion resulting from complexity
Puzzlement= Confusion resulting from failure to understand
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13.Voice:
The cloth needs to be cleaned.
(a) The cloth need to clean.
(b) The cloth needs cleaning.✅
(c) The cloth needs to be cleaning.
(d) The cloth needs be cleaning.
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14.Voice:
A massive search operation has been launched by the Army to nab the terrorists.
(a) The Army has launched a massive search operation to nab the terrorists.✅
(b) The Army has launch a massive search operation to nab the terrorists.
(c) The Army had launched a massive search operation to nab the terrorists.
(d) A massive search operation has launched the Army to nab the terrorists.
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15.Voice:
Let us go on a Europe trip.
(a) We should be going on a Europe trip.
(b) It is suggested that we should go on a Europe trip.✅
(c) Europe trip should be completed by us.
(d) It suggests that we are going on a Europe trip.
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16.Voice:
I remember my father taking me to museums.
(a) It is being remembered by me that my father was taking me to museums.
(b) I remember being taken to museums by my father.✅
(c) I was being taken to museums by my father.
(d) I remember been taking to museums by my father.
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17.Voice:
Their children were brought up with great care.
(a) They had brought up their children with great care.
(b) They children brought them up with great care.
(c) They brought up their children with great care.✅
(d) They bought up their children with great care.
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18.Narration:
She said to me, ''Shut up''.
a)She ordered to me to shut up.
b)She adviced me to shut up.
c)She asked me to shut up.✅
d)She requested me to shut up.
Expl.
Here
..ordered to me..= incorrect
..ordered me..= correct
..adviced me..= incorrect
..advised to me..= correct
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19.Narration:
She has said to him ,''Why are you late?''
a)She has asked him why he is late.✅
b)She has asked to him why he is late.
c)She asked him why he was late.
d)She had asked him why he was late.
Expl.
Reporting speech= present tense
..therefore
The tense of the reported speech won't change.
..asked to him..= incorrect
..asked him..= correct
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20.Narration:
He said, ''Let's complete the task.''
a)He suggested to him to completing the task.
b)He suggested to him that we should complete the task.
c)He suggested that they should completed the task.
d)He suggested completing the task.✅
Expl.
a)..to completing..= incorrect
b)..we..=incorrect
c)..should completed..= incorrect
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21.Narration:
Sohan told her that he needed her time.
a)''I need your time'' said Mohan to her.✅
b)''I need your time'' Mohan said to her.
c)''I needed your time'' said Mohan to her.
d)Mohan said her ''I need your time''
Expl.
''I need your time'' Mohan said to her.= incorrect
'I need your time'' said Mohan to her.= correct
Because
REPORTING SPEECH+ REPORTED SPEECH
''..................................'' noun [reporter]+ reporting verb = incorrect
''..................................'' reporting verb+ noun [reporter]= correct
..''I needed..''= incorrect
..Mohan said her..= incorrect
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22.Narration:
He said, ''Alas! I missed the train.''
a)He exclaimed with sadness that he had missed the train.✅
b)He exclaims sadly that he had missed the train.
c)He exclaimed with sadness that he has missed the train.
d)He exclaimed sadly that he missed the train.
Expl.
b. ..exclaims..= incorrect
c. ..he has missed..= incorrect
d. ..he missed..= incorrect
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23.Select the wrongly spelt word.
(a) Believe
(b) Recieve✅
(c) Relieve
(d) Conceive
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24.Select the wrongly spelt word.
(a) Connivence✅
(b) Deliberate
(c) Persecution
(d) Prosecution
Expl.
Connivance= willingness to allow or be secretly involved in an immoral or illegal act.
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25.Select the wrongly spelt word.
(a) knoty✅
(b) haughty
(c) vagabond
(d) yolk
Expl.
Knotty: extremely difficult or complex.
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26.Select the wrongly spelt word.
(a) dangerous
(b) skilful
(c) beautiful
(d) vaccum✅
Expl.
Vacuum: space entirely devoid of matter.
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27.Select the antonym of the given word.
Endowment
(a) Disinherit✅
(b) Bequest
(c) Gift
(d) Shun
Expl.
Endowment: an income or form of property given or bequeathed to someone.
Disinherit: change one's will or take other steps to prevent (someone) from inheriting one's property.
Bequest: the action of bequeathing something.
Shun: persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution.
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28.Select the antonym of the given word.
Commotion
(a) Maelstrom
(b) Ruction
(c) Tranquility✅
(d) Kerfuffle
Expl.
Commotion: a state of confused and noisy disturbance. Maelstrom, Ruction and Kerfuffle are its
synonyms.
Tranquility: the quality or state of being tranquil; calm.
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29.Select the antonym of the given word.
Uncouth
(a) Refined✅
(b) Oscillate
(c) Chauvinist
(d) Awkward
Expl.
Uncouth: lacking good manners, refinement, or grace.
Refined: elegant and cultured in appearance, manner, or taste
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30.Select the antonym of the given word.
Fatality
(a) casualty
(b) birth✅
(c) victim
(d) sacrifice
Expl.
Fatality: a person or thing harmed, lost, or destroyed
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Select the word with the correct spelling.
31.(A) Fragrent (B) Fragmant (C) Flurocent (D) ✅Flamboyant
32.(A) ✅Mischievous (B) Mischievious (C) Mischeivous (D) Mischeivious
33.(A) Drunkeness (B) ✅Drunkenness (C) Dunnkaness (D) Drunkennes
34.(A) Coreigible (B) Coraegible (C) Correigible (D) ✅Corrigible
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35.Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Curiosity killed the cat
(a) a person who constantly keeps asking questions is avoided by everybody
(b) everybody has a fatal weakness
(c) being inquisitive about other people's affairs may get you into trouble✅
(d) everyone feels like killing a nagging person
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36.Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Every cloud has a silver lining
(a) no one wants a bad situation to be permanent
(b) if one wants rain then one has to bear with dark clouds
(c) every blessing turns into a wide curse
(d) every bad situation has some good aspects to it✅
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37.Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
A hot potato
(a) A war like situation which could have been easily avoided
(b) A person with a bad temper
(c) A controversial situation which is awkward to deal with✅
(d) A celebrity who keeps getting into some or the other controversy
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38.Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Up a blind alley
(a) hiding something intentionally from another person
(b) not warning a person who is in danger
(c) one can enjoy thrills only if one takes risk
(d) following a course of action that is certain to lead to an undesirable outcome✅
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39.Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
For the time being
(a) Temporarily✅
(b) Forever
(c) To leave from a place before time
(d) To be punctual
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40.Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom/ phrase.
Cast down
(a) Make evident
(b) Deject✅
(c) To complete
(d) To publish
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Cloze test:
Pigeon racing has become increasingly popular in parts of China (41)________ the country’s elite and its middle class. Sun Yan, the deputy general-secretary of Beijing Racing Pigeons Association, (42)_______ that at least 100,000 pigeons breeders live in Beijing, and (43)_________90,000 of them are registered with
Racing Pigeons Associations at (44)_________ levels, to qualify for the games held in the spring and autumn. Competitions can be lucrative for (45)________owners, with some prizes amounting to tens of thousands of dollars. Liu said in recent years, pigeon racing has been surging in popularity across China.
41.(a) against (b) along (c) ✅among (d) about
42.(a) ✅Said (b) Clarified (c) Told (d) Advised
43.(a) Utmost (b) ✅Almost (c) Nearby (d) Exact
44.(a) ✅different (b) differed (c) differential (d) differ
45.(a) pigeons (b) birds (c) animals (d) ✅bird
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46.Rearrangement
A. To the world as the weapon, Mission Shakti, developed.
B. Rolled out on the Rajpath during the 71st Republic Day parade.
C. By the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) ,
D. India on Sunday showcased its anti-satellite (A-SAT) missile capability.
(a) DACB✅
(b) BCDA
(c) ACBD
(d) BACD
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47.Rearrangement:
A. As the space for a public, shared, collectively crafted jurisprudence of citizenship.
B. It has also ushered in the full-blooded emergence of the constitutional commons.
C. Never witnessed before in the history of independent India.
D. The 70th Republic Day has ushered in lyrical constitutionalism of a kind.
(a) ABCD
(b) BDAC
(c) CABD
(d) DCBA✅
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48.Fill in:
Officials told that capital subsidy and skill development training ___________ provided to 1,007 and 7,383 of
the identified manual scavengers, respectively.
(a) will be
(b) has been
(c) had been✅
(d) have been
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49.Fill in
The Constitution allows the ___________ of the different practices of various religions until the state
succeeds in its endeavour to secure a Uniform Civil Code.
(a) continuance✅
(b) abandonment
(c) termination
(d) dominance
Expl.
Continuance: the state of remaining in existence or operation.
Abandonment: the action or fact of abandoning or being abandoned; desertion.
Termination: the action of terminating something or the fact of being terminated; ending.
Dominance: power and influence over others.
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50.Fill in:
More than 600 members of eight extremist groups in Assam ___________ arms at an official programme on January 23, but eyebrows have been raised with regard to one of them — the National Liberation Front of Bengalis (NLFB) .
(a) gave away
(b) gave out
(c) gave up✅
(d) put out
Expl.
Give up: cease making an effort; admit defeat.
Give away: a thing that is given free, often for promotional purposes.
Give out: be completely used up.
Put out: upset or annoy someone.
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Choose the correct option:
51.An act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling -..................
a.dissent
b.decent
c.descent✅
d.desent
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Choose the correct option:
52.Very strange or unusual -..................
a.bizzere
b.bizzare
c.bizzarre
d.bizarre✅
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Choose the correct option:
53.Notably large in size, amount, or extent -..................
a.conceive
b.consignment
c.considerate
d.considerable✅
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Choose the correct option:
54.Friendly relations -..................
a.amnity
b.amity✅
c.amnisty
d.amidst
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Choose the correct option:
55.Feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems-..................
a.vary
b.very
c.wary✅
d.wierd
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Fill in:
56.The court has absolved him .............. all the charges leveled against him.(a) off (b) with (c) in (d) ✅of
Expl.
Absolve of= declare (someone) free from guilt, obligation, or punishment.
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Fill in:
57.The firm has been dealing .............. luxury goods for more than two decades.(a) ✅in (b) with (c) out (d) on
Expl.
Deal with= to take action to do something, especially to solve a problem
Deal in= to buy and sell (something) as a business
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58.What is the plural form of CURRICULUM?
a.curriculums'
b.curriculum's
c.✅curricula
d.curriculae
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59.The feminine gender of BUCK is.........
a.buckress b.✅doe c.rabbit d.roe
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60.Which one is an adverb in the given sentence?
She still lives in her old house.
a.lives /b.old /c.✅still /d.her
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61.Identify the sentence:
Tell me why he is late.
a.simple sentence
b.compound sentence
c.complex sentence✅
d.compound- complex sentence
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62.The best time to learn a second language is in .................
a.junior school
b.college
c.early childhood✅
d.senior secondary school
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63.Which skills are receptive?
a.listening- speaking
b.listening- reading✅
c.reading- writing
d.writing- speaking
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64.The teaching of reading by associating characters or groups of characters with sounds is the ...............method.
a.morphemic
b.direct
c.phonic✅
d.whole- language
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65.Diphthong is a ............
a.Pure vowel sound
b.Pure consonant sound
c.Vowel glides✅
d.None of the above
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Fill in:
66.When you are living with your ____________ values and principles, you can be straightforward, honest and ____________.
(a) core, upfront✅
(b) inherited, distinct
(c) innate, durable
(d) cultural, perceptive
(e) inborn, vehement
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Fill in:
67. In the role of counselor, you are an authority figure whose objective is to ____________ attentively and sensitively to employees who ____________ you with their feelings.
(a) project, focus
(b) manage, direct
(c) listen, trust✅
(d) concentrate, believe
(e) consider, explain
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Cloze test:
“One thing scientists have discovered,” note Thomas Dreier, “is that often-praised children become more … (68)… than often-blamed ones. There’s a creative element in praise.”
Good leaders know that. Fundamentally, their job is to help others make the most of themselves. Viewed in strictly … (69)… terms, that is their greater contribution to their companies. People, employees, are a great untapped … (70)… of energy. Leaders who can tap this source are valuable to any organization. It doesn’t require elaborate …(71).. to bring out the best in people. If you … (72)… their work, they’ll probably give you the best that’s in them.
68. (a) adamant (b) notorious (c) rebellious (d) whimsical (e)✅ intelligent
69. (a) casual (b) useful (c) remedial (d) sensible (e) ✅commercial
70. (a) wastage (b) ✅reservoir (c) utilization (d) conservation (e) consumption
71. (a) baits (b) pains (c) troubles (d) features (e)✅ incentives
72. (a) share (b) ignore (c) perform (d) ✅recognize (e) advertise
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Rearrangement:
A. The general impressions that skilled negotiators seem to convey is they are people who keep their cards close to their chest and do not reveal their feelings.
B. Hence, they used a surrogate method- they countered the number of times that the negotiators talked about their feelings or motives.
C. This contrasts sharply with the amount of information given about external events such as facts, clarifications and general expressions of opinion.
D. The results showed that contrary to the general impressions, skilled negotiators are more likely to give information about internal events than are average negotiators.
E. Feelings are in themselves not observable and Huthwaite’s researchers could not measure them directly.
73. Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
(a) ✅A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E
74. Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) ✅E
75. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
(a) E (b) ✅B (c) C (d) D (e) A
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