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SECTION
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
To be in two minds
Select the option that is closest in meaning to the underlined idiom/phrase in the given sentence.
The manager moved heaven and earth to help the factory workers who had lost their jobs.
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
Having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressure
Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the Bold segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution’.
Please ask the dog to get of my couch.
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
One who makes an active effort to promote human welfare
Comprehension:
Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.
The number of Indian students going abroad for higher studies has increased by 68.79 per cent in the past year, according to data provided by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Subhas Sarkar. As per the data provided by him in the Lok Sabha, the number of Indians enrolled in foreign varsities increased from 4.44 lakh in 2021 to 7.5 lakh in 2022. He clarified that while the Bureau of Immigration and Ministry of Home Affairs maintain departure and arrival data of Indians, there is no index for capturing the category of Indians going abroad for higher education.
Purpose of Indians going abroad for higher education is captured manually based either on their verbal disclosure or the type of visa of the destination country produced by them at the time of immigration clearance, Sarkar said.
According to the data provided by the ministry, the number of Indian nationals increased from 4.54 lakh in 2017 to 5.17 lakh in 2018. There was a significant increase in 2019 as well, with 5.86 lakh students flying out of the country. However, during the Covid pandemic, the number of Indian nationals in foreign varsities saw a drastic dip as only 2.59 lakh students were registered. While the number continued to remain low, it saw a slight increase in 2021 with 4.44 lakh registrations. However, the number has significantly jumped to 7.5 lakh in 2022. The increase in the number of Indian nationals abroad corresponds with the latest immigration reports from some of the popular study-abroad destinations such as the US, UK, and Australia. For the UK, the Immigration Statistics Report states that 127,731 visas were granted to Indian students in September 2022, an increase of 93,470 (+273 per cent) against 34,261 in 2019. Similarly, in the US, the number of Indian students has more than doubled, and the Open Doors Report 2022 has predicted that the number of Indian students heading to America is likely to surpass those from China in 2022-23.
In 2019, how many Indian students went abroad?
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Start from scratch
Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the Bold segment in the given sentence.
The fact that God created man in his personal view by giving him an intellectual spirit elevates him above the beasts of the field.
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
The little boy called up his best friend on his birthday.
Identify the INCORRECTLY spelt word in the following sentence.
The detective and his agent inspected the krime scene yesterday.
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
A creature which depends on others
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Brexit has evoked a spate of comments. These comments fall into broadly two categories. The first set of comments focusses on the short-term and medium- term impact of Brexit on the U.K., Europe and the rest of the world including India. The second goes into the reasons behind this decision of the British. Globalisation has been interpreted in many ways. In broad terms, globalisation denotes the free movement of goods,services, capital, funds, Ideas, technology and people across countries. Many people think globalisation is a recent phenomenon. This is not true. This has been going on for centuries. What has made it unique in recent times is the speed of the movement. Great Britain and many other countries in Europe have reached the present level of economic development only because of this free movement. In both demographic and geographic terms, Britain is a small country. It is not the size of the domestic market that determined its growth.. London could not have emerged as the financial centre. of the world but for the free flow of capital.
The gamut of financial services offered by
London is geared to meet world demand and not that of Britain alone. Even after the exit from the EU, Britain cannot remain as an isolated island. It has to be part of an international trade regime which allows for free trade. What then could have motivated a little more. than 50 per cent of the population to come out of the EU? It has something to do with the nature of the relationship within the EU. The EU has evolved over the last seven decades. From a loose arrangement, it has become a light bureaucratic organisation with its Jurisdiction extending to multifarious activities. When
the euro was created as a common currency, Britain opted out of it. The European Central Bank sets a common monetary policy stance for all member countries. This itself has been a source of irritation to many member countries. This came out prominently at the time of the Greek crisis, With the loss of one Instrument of control namely, the exchange rate variation the entire burden of adjustment had to be through employment and output changes. As one commentator put it, the EU has moved up its aspiration from the idea of 'common' market to 'single market. It is this transition which half of Britain has resented. The complex set of regulations emanating from Brussels has made at least a section of the British people feel that they have lost 'independence'. Some of the elite of Britain who voted to 'leave' feel this way. They think that control has moved to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. What has Induced the 'non-elite' to vote for Brexit was the EU's migration policy. The free movement of people has been the last straw that broke the camel's back. The low-paid Jobs in the U.K. have been taken over by migrants predominantly from Eastern Europe. In an economy which has been growing slowly (even though the U.K. is a better performer than other European countries in recent years), this has come as a shock. The spirit of 'nationalism still runs high. The poor in Britain feel that they have been cheated by the migrants. Absorbing migrants is not new for Britain. The Asian and African migrants constitute significant proportion of the population. All this happened when the economy was strong and growin But this is not the situation now, and the resentment in one sense natural. However, looked at globally, the poor in the countries from which people migrate hav benefited. The British have also gained to the extent that the free movement of people has enabled highly skilled professionals to find positions all over Europe. The 'leave vote thus was motivated by two considerations: one, the degree of integration that the FU was trying to impose, and two, the migration policy which allowed a free movement of people across countries. Globalisation is not really the devil. If the EU arrangement had been restricted only to free movement of goods, services, capital and funds, it could not have led to any deep resentment. It is the attempt at greater economic integration that has been interpreted as a loss of sovereignty and resented. Globalisation, with its emphasis on efficiency (since goods and services will get produced at the least cost centres), can lead to greater inequality theoretically. Within a country also, the more efficient including professionals gain disproportionately. This situation. gets worse if economies are growing slowly. The U.S. has always prided itself on saying that the system they have is 'people's capitalism. Inequalities do not matter much when economies are growing strongly and when new entrants to the labour force find employment easily. Countervalling measures are needed to take care of the adverse impact of globalisation. For this reason, we cannot throw the baby out with the bathwater. The developed countries face a serious dilemma. They have reached a stage in their development when further growth will be slow. This will have implications for absorbing the labour that gets added to the market. Complicating the situation is technological development which is increasingly labour-saving. New technologies have a twofold impact. First, they reduce the demand for labour in general. Second, in particular they make unskilled and semi-skilled work redundant. They demand new skills for which retraining may be needed. Distribution of Income has thus become an issue which needs to be dealt with directly. Brexit is not a blow against globalisation per se. Labour does not stand the same category as capital, even though both are factors of production. Migration hurts when the economy is at a low ebb. Britain, along with other developed countries, faces a basic problem of coping with a growth potential which is far lower than the growth rate they had seen before 2008.
What is the peril of migration?
Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution required".
Delhi is a most affected city by the virus nowadays.
Directions: Fill in the blanks in the passage below, with the word from among the options given for each blank labelled (1) to (6). Choose the word that fits in each blank most appropriately in the context of the passage.
Aside from the nuance of the screen, stage, method, and technical acting, there are also ___(1)___ types of actors and what they do on stage or on cam. An actor may be known to stick to a role that’s similar to all his other previous roles or he may be known to be ___(2)___. Each actor has a distinctive style of his own that the director makes use of to ___(3)___ the quality of his play or film.
Personality actors are actors who take their persona with them from role to role. Personality actors make use of their own ___(4)___ in playing the role instead of learning about the character he is playing. As a result, reading the actors’ names alone can tell the audience what to expect in a film since personality actors rarely stray from their usual roles.
A character actor is the exact opposite of a personality actor. Character actors ___(5)___ their roles and detach themselves from their characters. They do not allow their own personality to come to the surface as this will make them break character.
Chameleon actors are like an upgraded version of character actors. Chameleon actors can play a variety of ___(6)___ roles. They are known to be versatile and can successfully take on any personality and even change their external features for a role.
Select The most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below them.
Animals of all sorts live together in various ecosystems. Within these natural communities, the animals eat specific diets that connect them together in a food chain. The three diets of animals include creatures that eat only plants, those that eat only meat, and animals that eat both plants and meat. Animals that eat plants exclusively are herbivores, and animals that eat only meat are carnivores. When animals eat both plants and meat, they are called omnivores. The balance of an ecosystem depends on the presence of every type of animal. If one type of animal becomes too numerous or scarce, the entire balance of the ecosystem will change.
Carnivores will feed on herbivores, omnivores, and other carnivores in an ecosystem. A natural community depends on the presence of carnivores to control the populations of other animals. Large carnivores include wolves and mountain lions. A large carnivore might hunt down large herbivores such as elk and deer. Medium-sized carnivores include hawks and snakes, and these animals typically feed on rodents, birds, eggs, frogs, and insects. Examples of small carnivores include some smaller birds and toads. These carnivores may eat insects and worms. Carnivorous animals have strong jaws and sharp teeth to enable them to tear and rip prey. These animals often have long, sharp claws that they also use to tear prey. Carnivores depend on sufficient prey in the food chain to give them the food they need. If the herbivore population or the population of other adda carnivores declines in an ecosystem, carnivores may not survive.
With a diet comprised of only plants, herbivores can be surprisingly large animals. Examples of large herbivores include cows, elk, and buffalo. These animals eat grass, tree bark, aquatic vegetation, and shrubby growth. Herbivores can also be medium-sized animals such as sheep and goats, which eat shrubby vegetation and grasses. Small herbivores include rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, and mice. These animals eat grass, shrubs, seeds, and nuts. An ecosystem must provide _______ (1) plants to sustain herbivores, and many of them spend the majority of their lives eating to stay alive. If plant availability declines, herbivores may not have enough to eat. This could cause a decline in herbivore numbers, which would also impact carnivores. Herbivores usually have special biological systems to digest a variety of different plants. Their teeth also have special designs that enable them to rip off the plants and then grind them up with flat molars.
Omnivores have an advantage in an ecosystem because their diet is the most diverse. These animals can vary their diet depending on the food that is most plentiful, sometimes eating plants and other times eating meat. Herbivores have different digestive systems than omnivores, so omnivores usually cannot eat all of the plants that an herbivore can. Generally, omnivores eat fruits and vegetables freely, but they can't eat grasses and some grains due to digestive limitations. Omnivores will also hunt both carnivores and herbivores for meat, including small mammals, reptiles, and insects. Large omnivores include bears and humans. Examples of medium-sized omnivores include raccoons and pigs. Small omnivores include some fish and insects such as flies. Omnivore teeth often resemble carnivore teeth because of the need for tearing meat. Omnivores also have flat molars for grinding up food.
Which of the following words is most similar in meaning as BALANCE, highlighted in the given passage?
Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
The next Faerie Market was held (1)_____schedule (2)______the other side of the wall. The two boys were not allowed to go to the market, but they wanted to. This was a source of great (3)______to the boys. The younger of the two had a kitten. She grew slowly but was the sweetest cat in the world, until, one evening, she began to (4)______around the house impatiently. The cat was off in the dark and the boy never saw the cat again. He was (5)_____for a while.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Pritha will been cooking / the meal of your choice / before you / reach home.
Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Indian culture treats guests as God and serves them and takes care of them as if they are a part and (1) ______ of the family itself. Even though we don’t have anything to eat, the guests are never left hungry and are always (2) ______ after by the members of the family. Elders and respect for elders is a major component in Indian culture. Elders are the (3) ______ force for any family and hence the love and respect for elders comes from (4)______ and is not artificial. An individual takes blessings from his elders by touching their feet. Elders drill and (5)______ the Indian culture within us as we grow.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
We're asking them to _____the deadline.
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Harish says/that his sister/loves to play / harmonium.
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given phrase.
Waver between different opinions or actions
Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
War is mostly glorified and (1) _______ by society. The real picture of warfare is as horrific and (2) _______as one can imagine. Often, soldiers who witness death-like experiences suffer from psychological disorders and are (3) _______for the rest of their lives. Many war poems contrast all the sentimental myths about warfare by (4) _______the harsh realities that soldiers face. The real trauma is seen in people who are left to (5) _______for their loved ones after they are gone.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.
A. It can even make exercise more fun and productive.
B. Plus, hearing others laugh, even for no apparent reason, can often trigger genuine laughter.
C. To add simulated laughter into your own life, search for laugh yoga or laugh therapy groups. Or you can start simply by laughing at other people’s jokes, even if you don’t find them funny.
D. A Georgia State University study found that incorporating bouts of simulated laughter into an exercise program helped improve older adults’ mental health as well as their aerobic endurance.
E. Believe it or not, it’s possible to laugh without experiencing a funny event—and simulated laughter can be just as beneficial as the real thing.
Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Friendship is one of the most significant aspects (1) ______ human life. It is a relationship based on mutual trust, respect and support. True friendship is not just about spending time (2) _____ but also about sharing each other's joys, sorrows and dreams. Good friends are those who stand by us in both good times and bad times, providing emotional and moral support. Having good friends can have a positive impact on one's mental health and well- being. Friends can be a source of happiness, laughter and comfort. They can also provide different perspectives and ideas that can help us grow as (3) _______ Moreover, friends can serve as a support system during challenging times, offering words of encouragement and helping us navigate through difficult situations. (4) _______ building and maintaining friendships requires effort, patience and understanding. It is important to be there for each other, listen to one another and respect each other's boundaries. It is important to remember that friendships can evolve and change over time, and it is okay to let go of (5) _____ friendships.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Malice
Select the grammatically correct sentence.
Select the correct homonym from the given options to fill in the blank.
Nadia had an apple and a ______for breakfast.
Identify the INCORRECTLY spelt word in the following sentence and select its correct spelling from the given options.
Your lack of knowledge of recent advances in technology will be a sitback for your business.
Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Camouflage
Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the wing select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank, passage carefully and As a boy, I was always exploring lonely places-neglected gardens and orchards, unoccupied houses, patches of scrub or wasteland, the fields outside the town, the fringes of the forest. On one of my rambles (1) the bungalow, I pushed my way through a thicket of lantana bushes and stumbled over a thick stone slab, twisting my ankle slightly as I feil. For some time, I sat on the grass massaging my foot. When the pain eased, I looked more (2) at the stone slab and was surprised to find that it was a gravestone. It was almost entirely covered by ivy; obviously no one had been near it for years. I tugged at the ivy and some of it came away in my hands. There was some (3) lettering on the grave, half-obscured by grass and moss. I could make out a name Rose but little more. I sat there for some time, (4) over my discovery. I was wondering why 'Rose' should have been buried at so lonely a spot when there was a (5)_____not far away.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.
Choose the word that can substitute the given group of words.
A group of people who have no permanent abode but wander from place to place
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
He looks out of the window at the (1)________ snow, then turns and takes his wife in his arms, feeling grateful to be here even as he wonders what he is going to do with his life in strictly practical terms. For years, he had (2)________ himself to do one thing, and he did it well, but he doesn't know whether he wants to keep doing it for the rest of his life, for that matter, whether anyone will let him. He is still worrying when they go to bed.
They've been learning to get by with less, and they'll keep learning. It seems to him as if they're taking a course in loss lately. And as he feels himself falling asleep he has an (3)________ he believes is important, which he hopes he will remember in the morning, although it is one of those thoughts that seldom (4)________ translation to the language of daylight hours.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 3.
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
To get cold feet
Select the most appropriate phrasal verb to fill in the blank.
______ that thought. It will be a great idea someday.
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains an error.
The committee requested / the Chief Investigator / to personally / look after the matter.
The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don't find any error, mark 'No error' as your answer.
Karan call the restaurant/to ask if he could/reserve a table for tomorrow.
Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Disability was viewed as God's retribution for wickedness in the past.
Directions: In the following sentence, five words are given in bold, out of which one word is misspelled. Find the misspelled word.
The stratagic(A) dimensions of Indo-Vietnamese relations, initiated(B) during the 1980s, began unfolding in the form of structured(C) and institutional(D) arrangements(E) during the 1990s.
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word
Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.Kasturi went to the garder looking for her mother. Her dog Rex was waiting (1)____her. Kasturi picked up a stick and threw it.Rex (2)_____ the stick and brought it back. Kasturi ran (3)_____ the house. Rex chased her. Kasturi ran through the garden and Rex (4)______ her. Mother yelled at both of them. She told them to stay (5) ______of the garden and play somewhere else. Kasturi apologised to her mother. She went for a bike ride while Rex ran next to the bike.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.
Select the sentence with no spelling errors.
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