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Question No. 1-0.25+1 Marks
Question:
Select the correctly spelt option that can substitute the Bold word in the given sentence.
Direction: The given sentence is divided into four parts: A, B, C, and D. Choose the part that contains an error as your answer. If the sentence is error-free, mark E i.e. No error as your answer.
You should gone (A)/ for learning new (B)/ skills on this vacation (C)/ to utilize your time. (D)/ No Error(E)
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Democracy is a form of government where the power lies______ (1)the people. It is based on the principles of equality, freedom and the rule of law. In a democratic society, ________(2)have the right to participate in the decision-making process,_______(3) directly or throughelected representatives. Democracy also allows for the_______(4) of individual rights and liberties. While democracy is not without its challenges, such as the need to balance competing interests and the risk of ________(5) movements, it remains one of the most widely embraced forms of government around the world.
Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Once there were two brothers. One brother was (1)_____poor farmer. He worked in the fields, and (2)____the weather was bad, he (3)_____no food. But he was kind and worked a (4)_____The other brother was a rich man (5)_____worked on a ship. He was not kind and often cheated people.
Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.
Direction: In the following questions, a sentence is given consisting four highlighted words. Choose the option reflecting the word which is either misspelt or grammatically incorrect. If all the highlighted words are correct, choose option (e) i.e. “no error” as your answer choice.
Question: When the man gave the terrific persuasive speech at the conference, the observers applaud with gusto by putting their hands together.
Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blanks out of the four alternatives.
Don't (1) ______ guilty for feeling disengaged from the news. It's normal to find it distressing when (2) ______ traumatic news stories, or seeing distressing images. This (3) ______ technique is called avoidance and explains why so many of us want to switch (4)______ from troubling things. Knowing and accepting that this is a normal (5) ________ given the circumstances is the initial step to overcoming compassion fatigue.
Direction: Read the following passage and answer the given questions based on the
information provided in the passage.
New employee orientation programs have been shown to socialize newcomers and increase their knowledge, skills, and abilities upon completion. These types of programs are perhaps the most influential piece of an employees development. Although many organizations include orientation as part of their new employee development tactics, few truly utilize its full scope. New employee orientation programs are deliberate attempts by an organization to introduce a new employee to what working for the organization will be like. Although orientations can teach some important skills and
abilities, they also teach new employees about the organization’s history, goals, values, people, politics, and language. Orientation programs start off the socialization process and help the new employee fit into his or her new surroundings. New employee orientation programs may sometimes feel like a stale period of high anxiety and stress while training takes place when these potentially harmful feelings
have most likely been resolved. A great deal of time and money is spent every year socializing and technically training employees.
Making sure this investment is well spent should be a central concern. However, this is not always the case. Because training is expensive, organizations should make sure they are effectively preparing employees to run for on-the-job success by delivering the proper training content and teaching it the right way. Assessing the training needs of new employees consumes time and money, but it sends the message that the organization is committed to the development of its employees, to giving them the
right tools to perform and putting them in a position where they can succeed, all of which are recognized goals of new employee orientation programs. Helping a new employee fit into his or her job and organization is important when considering job satisfaction, commitment, and retention.Whether potential candidates accept the job or not is somewhat influenced by how well they believe they will fit into that company. Thus, developing an orientation program that will not only properly
train new hires, but successfully introduce them to their new organization is extremely important. The attributes an employee needs to succeed on the job, including those desired upon entry into the job, can be found through an analysis of the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential functions of the job. Since technical skills training is meant to enhance those skills and abilities needed for a job, it makes sense that training should have a close___________(I)___________ to whether or not a new employee fits into his or her environment. A big difference between Japanese and western organizations is that orientation programs are much more important to Japanese organizations because they want to cement a lasting relationship with new employees. Thus, the Japanese approach to selection and recruitment also works hand in hand. Japanese firms hire almost entirely at the entry-level. This is done so that the new arrival can be properly trained and socialized into the organization to be a good fit. The length of this process can vary from six months to three years, whereas in many western organizations a new employee merely completes the required HR paperwork and is then suddenly expected to execute the role for which he or she was hired.
Question: How does the author differentiate between new employee orientation programs and training?
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides (1)_____computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises (2)_____various capabilities to store and process their data in third-party data centres. Local computers no longer have to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to running applications. The goal of cloud computing is to apply traditional supercomputing or high-performance computing power, normally used by military and research (3)______to perform tens of trillions of computations per second, in consumer-oriented application such as financial (4)______to deliver personalised information and to provide data storage. In 2013, it was reported that cloud computing had become a highly demanded service or (5)______due to the advantages of high computing power, cheap cost of services, high performance, scalability, accessibility as well as availability.
Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.Once, there was a boy who became bored when he watched over the village sheep (1)_______on the hillside. To entertain himself, he sang out, "Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!" When the villagers heard the cry, they came (2)_______the hill to drive the wolf away. But, when they arrived, they saw no wolf. The boy was amused when seeing their angry faces. "Don't scream wolf, boy," warned the villagers, "when there is no wolf!" They angrily went back down the hill. Later, the shepherd boy cried out once again, "Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!" When the villagers came, they saw there was no wolf, they said strictly, "Save your (3) _______cry for when there is really a wolf! Don't cry 'wolf' when there is no wolf!" Later, the boy saw a real wolf sneaking around his flock. Alarmed, he jumped on his feet and cried out as loud as he could, "Wolf! Wolf!" But the villagers thought he was (4)_____ them again, and so they didn't come to help. At sunset, the villagers went looking for the boy who hadn't returned with their sheep. When they went up the hill, they found him (5) ________as all the sheep were dead.
Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.
In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five options are given. Find out the appropriate word which fits the blank appropriately to make a grammatically and contextually correct sentence.
Two decades have passed since the mid-day meal became a part of the daily routine in government schools nationwide. In this long passage of time, procedures have ______ (79) but accidents continue to occur. Funds from the Centre flow smoothly though procurement of food items faces hurdles of different kinds. The latest _______ (80) in mid-meal stories concerns milk. Government norms entitle every child to receive 150 ml of milk as part of the mid-day meal. However, a video revealed recently how one litre of milk was mixed in a bucketful of water so that it would ________ (81) for the more than 80 children present that day in a school in rural Uttar Pradesh (U.P.). This was somewhat similar to the one reported from U.P. a couple of months ago. In the earlier incident, a video showed plain chapatis being served with salt. The two videos made it to the national media; they also proved useful for the officers who __________ (82) the mid-day meal scheme since they also depend on unauthorised videographers to learn about the reality in schools. Each such revelation leads to the same _________ (83) official statement: punish the guilty, locate the video-maker and deal with him/her. In the latest mid-meal story narrated above, authorities in U.P. have reportedly done the ________ (84) needful, i.e. they have fired the apparent culprit who is a para-teacher.
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
All state universities and colleges in Uttar Pradesh, one of the (1) _______ in India, will now (2) _______ a “save water” ritual named ‘Jal Bharo’ in place of ‘lamp lighting’ to inaugurate their annual convocations. The governor of the state, who is also chancellor of state universities, instructed that every university and college in the state should install rainwater harvesting plants on its campus. ‘Jal Bharo’ signifies (3)_______ the vision of ‘Jal Shakti’.This ceremony symbolises the (4) _______ importance of water conservation, whereas the lamp lighting ceremony symbolised removing darkness through education and spreading the light of learning. It is really a (5) _______ initiative. Every educational institute in India should ensure to save and recharge groundwater by installing rainwater harvesting plants. These kinds of initiatives provide awareness of using and saving water, the elixir of life.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 4.
Directions (23-26): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If the sentence is error-free then, choose “No error” as the answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)
Q26. (A) Among the various challenges / (B) faced by the team, / (C) the lack of resources / (D) were the most significant.
Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Reports in recent weeks suggest that Russian intelligence gravely miscalculated the Ukrainian ___(1)___ before the war. When the Kyiv regime stayed put in the face of Russia’s multi-axis assault, the Russian generals had to change their ___(2)___, from lightning strikes across the country to a focused ground invasion in the east. Even that was made complicated by Ukraine’s resistance, which got military and financial ___(3)___ from the West. As the war dragged on, the West’s ___(4)___ to punish Russia only hardened, leading to crippling sanctions on the Russian economy. So, Mr. Putin is now in a spot, despite the limited battlefield gains of his troops: managing the sanctions-hit economy itself is a tall task; continuing the war would be costly, and there is no ___(5)___ that he would meet his strategic goals through a long-term war. And for Ukraine, despite its resistance capabilities and the support from the West, taking back territories using force remains ___(6)___. So, to break the ___(7)___, what both sides can do is agree to a ceasefire and start direct talks seeking a political solution. The UN and Turkey-mediated talks that saw a ___(8)___ in July in shipping grain from Ukraine’s ports via the Black Sea are a model worth being followed. Regional players with communication lines open to Moscow and Kyiv should ___(9)___ them to come to the table. If a war of ___(10)___ is allowed to grind on, it would continue to hurt all stakeholders, besides holding the global economy hostage.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 8.
