Monday, April 23,2012

Directions—(Q. 1–12) Read the following passage carefully and answerwer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answerwering some of the questions.





(A) He had the ability to transwerform animals into human beings
(B) He took advantage of Keshava’s simple nature
(D) He enjoyed teaching children though he was poorly paid
Answer : (B)

2. Why did Keshava talk to his donkey while working ?
(B) To entertain himself because he found his work monotonous
(C) The donkey helped him to find answerwers to his problems
Answer : (E)

3. How did Keshava get his donkey back ?
(B) The sage forced the teacher to release the donkey
(C) He asked the village headman for help
(E) None of these
Answer : (E)

(a) The donkey was over burdened by the teacher.
(b) The teacher was cunning by nature.
(A) Both (a) & (c)
(B) Both (b) & (c)
(C) Only (b)
(E) None of these
Answer : (A)

(E) None of these
Answer : (A)

(C) He wanted them to get justice for him
(E) None of these
Answer : (E)

7. What made Keshava pull the sage’s beard ?
(E) None of these
Answer : (D)

(b) To reduce Keshava’s dependence on the donkey.
(A) None
(B) Only (b)
(C) Both (a) & (b)
(D) Only (c)
(E) None of these
Answer : (A)


9. trick
(A) joke
(B) skill
(C) mislead
(D) technique
(E) lunny
Answer : (C)

10. remained
(A) pending
(B) waited
(C) lasted
(D) survived
(E) continued
Answer : (D)


11. real
(A) false
(B) imitated
(C) dishonest
(D) imagine
(E) genuine
Answer : (A)

12. deep
(A) low
(B) distracted
(C) flat
(D) awake
(E) sleep
Answer : (B)


(A) further to study
(B) of studying more
(C) to study onward
(D) for higher studies
(E) No Correction Required
Answer : (D)

(A) a source of additional
(B) an additionally source
(C) an additional source
(D) additionally the source
(E) No Correction Required
Answer : (C)

(A) since you belong to
(B) whoever belongs
(C) for belonging to
(D) to belong in
(E) No Correction Required
Answer : (A)

(A) is looking over
(B) will be looked after
(C) will look out
(D) looks down on
(E) No Correction Required
Answer : (E)

(A) if I am successful in
(B) how should I successfully
(C) whether I could successfully
(D) that I would succeed to
(E) No Correction Required
Answer : (C)


Answer : (B)

Answer : (E)

Answer : (B)

Answer : (A)

Answer : (D)

(a) I was pleased by their reaction.
(c) Instead of throwing out their unusable articles, they had transwerferred them to my office in the name of donations.

(A) (b)
(B) (c)
(C) (d)
(D) (e)
(E) (f)
Answer : (A)

(A) (a)
(B) (b)
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(E) (e)
Answer : (E)

(A) (a)
(B) (b)
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(E) (e)
Answer : (A)

(A) (b)
(B) (c)
(C) (d)
(D) (e)
(E) (f)
Answer : (B)

(A) (a)
(B) (b)
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(E) (e)
Answer : (D)

Directions—(Q. 28–32) Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answerwer. If there is no error, the answerwer is (E).
(Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

Answer : (C)

Answer : (B)

Answer : (D)

31. It is necessarily to maintain (A) / a record of all transweractions (B) / in case the auditors (C) / want to see it. (D) No error (E)
Answer : (A)

Answer : (E)



33. (A) origin
(B) commence
(C) existed
(D) began
(E) inaugurated
Answer : (E)

34. (A) assemble
(B) cope
(C) interact
(D) deal
(E) handle
Answer : (E)

35. (A) differently
(B) similar
(C) reverse
(D) opposite
(E) identically
Answer : (A)

36. (A) worried
(B) upset
(C) panicking
(D) anxious
(E) threatening
Answer : (D)

37. (A) principle
(B) discipline
(C) opportunity
(D) chance
(E) advantage
Answer : (A)

38. (A) worth
(B) vary
(C) disburse
(D) contrast
(E) diver
Answer : (B)

39. (A) consistently
(B) regular
(C) often
(D) frequently
(E) daily
Answer : (B)

40. (A) benefiting
(B) serving
(C) welfare
(D) obliged
(E) progress
Answer : (A)


1. Senior citizens prefer (A) / banks which (B) / branches are located (C) / near their homes. (D) No error (E)

2. In the latest statistics (A) / China supplies more than (B) / ninety per cent of the (C) / steel imported by India. (D) No error (E)

3. We shall be calling a meeting (A) / next week to assess (B) / the causes of frequently (C) / delays in infrastructure projects. (D) No error (E)

4. Although it has received (A) / clearance from RBI the bank (B) / has decided not to open (C) / their office in Hongkong. (D) No error (E)

5. Most of the tribals (A) / in the region (B) / are depended on the forest (C) / to earn their livelihoods. (D) No error (E)

6. After graduating from college (A) / having an engineering degree (B) / he received a job offer (C) / from a reputed American firm. (D) No error (E)

7. In order for (A) / the scheme to be (B) / successful we require as (C) / much as twenty investors. (D) No error (E)

8. The insurance company has plans (A) / to hire 30,000 agents (B) / at a time when (C) / most companies are cutting jobs. (D) No error (E)

9. One of the important lesson (A) / he taught me was to save (B) / at least thirty per cent (C) / of my gross income. (D) No error (E)

10. Due to the financial crisis (A) / the price of foodgrains (B) / has risen sharply (C) / over the past few months. (D) No error (E)

1. (B)   2. (A)   3. (C)   4. (D)   5. (C)   6. (B)   7. (D)   8. (D)   9. (A)   10. (A)

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