Directions (1-5): Which of the phrase/ word from the options (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (e) i.e., “No correction required” as the answer.
Q1. When the police started asking questions, the suspect clammed up.
(a) camped down
(b) clamped up
(c) clam out
(d) clamed off
(e) No Correction Required
Q2. The implication is that these may be black funds and they are to be tracked and the people
behind them will be caught.
(a) are on track
(b) is being tracked
(c) have been tracked
(d) are being tracked
(e) No improvement is required
Q3. I must look after my French before going to Paris next month.
(a) brush in for
(b) catch up
(c) brush up on
(d) bring in on
(e) No Correction Required
Q4. If this is freedom of speech, then it must been curtailed immediately.
(a) have being curtailing
(b) must be curtailed
(c) must have been curtailed
(d) have been curtailed
(e) No correction required
Q5. India has suffered from terrorism. So has Pakistan. And it turns out, now the first world too is not immune.
(a) turning out to
(b) it turns to
(c) it turned out to be
(d) it turning out
(e) No improvement required
Directions (6-10): There are two different sentences with a blank space in each question. Choose the word from the given options which fits into both the blanks appropriately without altering their meanings.
Q6. (1) The ___________ of traffic accidents and drunk driving was attributed to the opening of the new downtown mall.(2) The gradual ___________ of terror over many years left hundred dead and thousands wounded.
(a)accretion
(b)increase
(c)enlargement
(d)accessory
(e)None of the above
Q7. (1) Abraham Lincoln’s _____________ Proclamation declared freedom to slaves in the south.
(2) Hoping to be free from her guardians, the teenager requested _____________ from the court.
(a)abolition
(b)autarchy
(c)exemption
(d)immune
(e)emancipation
Q8. (1) It was feared that there could be a __________________ unsettling of established governments and a new political order could come into being, oriented away from the traditional leadership of the region.
(2) The _____________migration of the bird species occurs every year around the same time, when they all migrate to a warmer climate
(a)comprehensively
(b)wholesale
(c)voluminous
(d)extensive
(e)haphazard
Q9. (1) The French President Emmanuel Macron’s new centrist party is ______________ poised for a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections.
(2) The opinion of parliament on two other questions during the session was, ______________, influenced by events in France.
(a)evidently
(b)seemingly
(c)ostensibly
(d)apparently
(e)All of the above
Q10. (1) Parliament takes pride in asserting the supremacy of the institution, at times even ignoring what it perceives as judicial _______________ in its functioning.
(2) It would have been enough to have cured the whole Roxburghe Club from _______________ with libraries and books forever and ever.
(a)concern
(b)examining
(c)tracing
(d)meddling
(e)quest
Directions (11-15): Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (e) i.e., “No correction required” as the answer.
Q11. Gandhi’s non-violent methods envisage that nature ought to be handled in a mild manner, much against modern technology’s onslaught on nature to help technology achieve its goal.
(a)envisaged how nature should handled
(b)have envisage the handling of the nature
(c)did envisage the natures handling
(d)envisage that nature can be handle
(e)No correction required
Q12. Various forms of traditional wisdom about practical solutions of different problems are considered by environmentalists as more prudent than offered in modern technology.
(a)to be more prudent than the ones offered by
(b)more prudent than those offered by
(c)to be prudential as compared to
(d)that it is more prudent than what offered in
(e)No correction required
Q13. Indian agriculture comes over a long way since Independence, with chronic food scarcity giving way to self-sufficiency in grain despite a two-and-a-half fold increase in population.
(a)has been coming a long way after Independence
(b)have grown a long way after Independence
(c)had gone a longer way after Independence
(d)has come a long way since Independence
(e)No correction required
Q14. North Korea is believed to be developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching mainland United States.
(a)which is capable of carrying a nuclear war
(b)which can carry a nuclear warhead
(c)that is capable of carrying out a nuclear war
(d)capable of carrying out a nuclear war
(e)No correction required
Q15. The dramatic decision by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Yemen of suspending diplomatic ties to Qatar could have far-reaching economic and geopolitical consequences.
(a)suspending the ties of diplomacy with
(b)by suspending diplomatic ties of
(c)to suspend diplomatic ties with
(d)with the suspension of diplomatic ties in
(e)No correction required
Solutions
S1. Ans. (e)
Sol. Clam up means to refuse to speak.
S2. Ans. (d)
Sol. “are being tracked” is the correct phrase replacement.
S3. Ans. (c)
Sol. brush up on means to improve, refresh one’s knowledge of something
S4. Ans. (b)
Sol. Curtail means reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on.
S5. Ans. (e)
Sol. The sentence is grammatically correct.
S6. Ans. (a)
Sol. Accretion means a thing formed or added by gradual growth or increase.
S7. Ans. (e)
Sol. Emancipation means the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
S8. Ans. (b)
Sol. Wholesale means done on a large scale; extensive.
S9. Ans. (e)
Sol. All the given options fit into the blanks appropriately as all four words mean the same i.e. so as to give the impression of having a certain quality; apparently.
S10. Ans. (d)
Sol. Meddling means interfering in something that is not one’s concern.
S11. Ans. (e)
Sol. The given sentence is grammatically correct.
S12. Ans. (a)
Sol. “to be more prudent than the ones offered by” is the correct phrase replacement to make the sentence grammatically correct.
S13. Ans. (d)
Sol. “has come a long way since Independence” is the correct phrase replacement as the sentence is in Present Tense. Hence (d) is the correct option.
S14. Ans. (e)
Sol. The given sentence does not require any correction as it is grammatically correct.
S15. Ans. (c)
Sol. “to suspend diplomatic ties with” is the correct phrase replacement to make the sentence grammatically correct.
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