Model Questions

Directions (Q.1-5): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words/ phrases are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/ phrase in each case and mark your answer.

One of the major causes of illiteracy is ------- (1) and the subsequent lack of --------- (2) to reading and writing materials. Realistically, students who would have --------- (3) on to continue their education past the 5th year sometimes --------- (4) school in order to work on the farm or in a factory in order to -------- (5) with the family income.

1.    1) poor     2) purity
    3) poverty    4) possible
    5) confront

2.    1) excess    2) exceed
    3) exclude    4) acces
    5) actual

3.    1) goes    2) want
    3) went    4) going
    5) gone

4.    1) quit    2) fit
    3) bet     4) boast
    5) beat

5.    1) assist    2) assistant
    3) assists    4) assert
    5) tell

Directions (Q.6-15): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/ phrases are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Many artists lived in the Greenwich Village area of New York. Two young women named Sue and Johnsy shared a studio apart-ment at the top of a three-story building. Johnsy's real name was Joanna. In November, a cold, unseen stranger came to visit the city. This disease, pneumonia, killed many people. Johnsy lay on her bed, hardly moving. She looked through the small window. She could see the side of the brick house next to her building.

One morning, a doctor examined Johnsy and took her temperature. Then he spoke with Sue in another room. "She has one chance in - let us say ten," he said. After the doctor had gone, Sue went into the workroom and cried. Then she went to Johnsy's room with her drawing board, whistling ragtime. Johnsy lay with her face toward the window. Sue stopped whistling, thinking she was asleep. She began making a pen and ink drawing for a story in a magazine. Young artists must work their way to "Art" by making pictures for magazine stories. Sue heard a low sound, several times repeated. She went quickly to the bedside. Johnsy's eyes were open wide.

She was looking out the window and counting - counting backward. Sue looked out the window. What was there to count? There was only an empty yard and the blank side of the house seven meters away. An old ivy vine, going bad at the roots, climbed half way up the wall. The cold breath of autumn had stricken leaves from the plant until its branches, almost bare, hung on the bricks. "What is it, dear?" asked Sue.  "Six," said Johnsy, qui-etly. "They're falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred. It made my head hurt to count them. But now it's easy. There goes another one. There are only five left now."  

"Five what, dear?" asked Sue.

"Leaves on the plant. When the last one falls I must go, too. I've known that for three days. Didn't the doctor tell you?"

"Oh, I never heard of such a thing," said Sue. "What have old ivy leaves to do with your getting well? And you used to love that vine. Don't be silly. Why, the doctor told me this morning that your chances for getting well real soon were - let's see exactly what he said - he said the chances were ten to one! Try to eat some soup now. And, let me go back to my drawing, so I can sell it to the magazine and buy food and wine for us."

6.    The unseen stranger referred in the passage is ___
    1) Sue    2) Joanna    3) Johnsy
    4) Doctor    5) Disease

7.    What was doctor's prediction?
    1) Sue will survive
    2) Johnsy will survive
    3) The chances of recovery are high
    4) The chances of Joanna's getting well are less
    5) That she is having a boy friend

8.    What bothered Johnsy?
    1) The ivy leaves
    2) Sue's friendship
    3) The doctor's treatment
    4) The food
    5) Her desire to paint

9.    Joanna was ____
    1) optimistic    2) pessimistic
    3) opportunist    4) weird
    5) wild

Directions (Q.10-12): Each of the following questions contains a main word in capital letters followed by five words. Select the word that is most similar in meaning to the main word in capital letters.
10.    STRANGER

    1) Alien    2) Friend
    3) Acquaintance    4) Neighbor
    5) Well known

11.    EXAMINE
    1) Refuse    2) Reject
    3) Fool proof    4) Scrutinize
    5) Consider

12.    SOUND
    1) Volume    2) Resonance
    3) Guide    4) Dimension
    5) Channel

Directions (Q.13-15): Each of the following questions contains a main word in capital letters followed by five words. Select the word that is most opposite in meaning to the main word in capital letters.
13.    QUICKLY
    1) Fast    2) Rapid    
    3) Swift    4) Slowly    5) Jiffy

14.    BARE
    1) Naked    2) Exposed
    3) Covered    4) Stripped
    5) Enclosed

15.    REPEATED
    1) Rare    2) Frequent
    3) Continuous    4) Regular
    5) Numerous

Directions (Q.16-26): 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 answer. If there is no error, the answer is (5). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

16.    Circumstances were so pathetic (1)/ that they will not be (2)/ able to meet (3)/ the assign target. (4)/ No error (5)   

17.    Farmers must be ensured (1)/ that loans are given (2)/ by the banks (3)/ to the agricultural sector. (4)/ No error (5)  

18.    The government (1)/ will anno-unced (2)/ several initiatives (3)/ beneficial to factory workers. (4)/ No error (5)  

19.    The committee meeting (1)/ to discuss the details (2)/ of the proposal (3)/ will yet been decided. (4)/ No error (5)  

20.    Owing to the heavy rains (1)/ the multi-storey office building (2)/ were badly damaged (3)/ and collapsed. (4)/ No error (5)  

21.    Many customers (1)/ prefer a bank (2)/ which are located (3)/ near their homes. (4)/ No error (5)
22.    The metro rail authorities (1)/ have decided to call a meeting (2)/ next week to assess the causes of (3)/ frequently delays in its project. (4)/ No error (5)

23.    After graduating (1)/ from college (2)/ he received a job offer (3)/ from a reputation company. (4)/ No error (5)

24.    One of the important lessons he taught me (1)/ is to save (2)/ at least twenty five per cent (3)/ of my gross income. (4)/ No error (5)
25. Due to financial crisis (1)/ the prices of essential commodities (2)/ has rising sharply (3)/ over the past few months. (4)/ No error (5)  

26. We have received many (1)/ of the letters from farmers (2)/ asking us to extend (3)/ the deadline to repay their loans. (4)/ No error (5)