Arrange P, Q, R, S to make a correct sentence. |
Seven weeks after New Horizons |
P: the mission team has begun the intensive down-linking |
Q: and stored on its digital recorders |
R: sped past the Pluto system to study the unexplored world, |
S: of the massive data the spacecraft collected |
If 'LLMTT is coded as 'GKLSO', find the code for |
'PDEPR'. |
Give one word substitution to the following. |
Explicit undertaking to do something |
Identify the parts of speech for the word underlined below. |
Always aim high. |
Change the narration |
"Where do you live?" asked the stranger. |
Fill in the blank with most appropriate modal. |
You ______improve your spelling. |
Fill in the blank with correct option. |
Women can't______ a secret. |
Identify the type of the sentence given below. |
Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose that you are a genius, and that things will come to you, it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as it is possible. |
Fill in the blank with correct conjunction. |
My strength is as the strength of ten, _____my heart is pure. |
Direction: Give the synonym of the words underlined in the sentences given below. |
He did his job with scrupulous care. |
Direction: Give the synonym of the words underlined in the sentences given below. |
I don't mean to be flippant but there is no nice way to kill somebody in war. |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
Is Calcutta's Howrah the only railway station in the world that stocks Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection' in a platform bookshop? It looks pirated, which is another intellectual plus. Piracy is a tribute to popularity. Darwin is amidst honourable fellow pirates, an inch askance of 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' and within teardrop distance of 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', novels from the weeping pen of the Victorian romantic, Thomas Hardy. Is the purchase manager of A.H. Wheeler, the venerable platform bookstore chain, still emotionally enthralled by an age when English literature was an honourable degree? Unlikely. He would not survive if books sat placidly on shelves. Books must move. |
Fellow Victorian Rudyard Kipling, trumpet and bard of the Empire, sits nearby, smiling with justified pride through the thick flurry of his moustache. The British Raj has not been in vain after all. Charles Dickens is a shelf below. In the vicinity of this elite roam the myriad children of American and Indian English: the fiction of Ken Follett, Dan Brown, |
Mario Puzo, Chetan Bhagat, Amish Tripathi, et al. The popular fixation with murder, love and religion is the true eternal triangle. |
Any Indian railway station is heartland of the middle class. Howrah station, the alpha and omega of countless middle-class journeys, belongs to Bengalis who know the value of Shakespeare's heroes and the worth of Mario Puzo's villains. Salute! |
Howrah station remains the jigsaw puzzle of mess and manicure that it ever was. A thousand whispers coalesce into a middling roar. Dust rises every where and disappears into nowhere. This is how it was in the Sixties, and this is how it remains in the 21st century. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Nostalgia is comforting. But deja vu is another matter. |
My train to Ranchi arrives a comfortable 30 minutes before departure, and leaves on time. After the obligatory small talk with fellow passengers, I am asleep within three pages of my new purchase from platform. |
"He would not survive if books sat placidly on shelves. Books must move." Of whose survival the author is referring to? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
Is Calcutta's Howrah the only railway station in the world that stocks Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection' in a platform bookshop? It looks pirated, which is another intellectual plus. Piracy is a tribute to popularity. Darwin is amidst honourable fellow pirates, an inch askance of 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' and within teardrop distance of 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', novels from the weeping pen of the Victorian romantic, Thomas Hardy. Is the purchase manager of A.H. Wheeler, the venerable platform bookstore chain, still emotionally enthralled by an age when English literature was an honourable degree? Unlikely. He would not survive if books sat placidly on shelves. Books must move. |
Fellow Victorian Rudyard Kipling, trumpet and bard of the Empire, sits nearby, smiling with justified pride through the thick flurry of his moustache. The British Raj has not been in vain after all. Charles Dickens is a shelf below. In the vicinity of this elite roam the myriad children of American and Indian English: the fiction of Ken Follett, Dan Brown, |
Mario Puzo, Chetan Bhagat, Amish Tripathi, et al. The popular fixation with murder, love and religion is the true eternal triangle. |
Any Indian railway station is heartland of the middle class. Howrah station, the alpha and omega of countless middle-class journeys, belongs to Bengalis who know the value of Shakespeare's heroes and the worth of Mario Puzo's villains. Salute! |
Howrah station remains the jigsaw puzzle of mess and manicure that it ever was. A thousand whispers coalesce into a middling roar. Dust rises every where and disappears into nowhere. This is how it was in the Sixties, and this is how it remains in the 21st century. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Nostalgia is comforting. But deja vu is another matter. |
My train to Ranchi arrives a comfortable 30 minutes before departure, and leaves on time. After the obligatory small talk with fellow passengers, I am asleep within three pages of my new purchase from platform. |
'Howrah station, the alpha and omega of countless middle-class journeys...' Why the author thinks so? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
Is Calcutta's Howrah the only railway station in the world that stocks Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection' in a platform bookshop? It looks pirated, which is another intellectual plus. Piracy is a tribute to popularity. Darwin is amidst honourable fellow pirates, an inch askance of 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' and within teardrop distance of 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', novels from the weeping pen of the Victorian romantic, Thomas Hardy. Is the purchase manager of A.H. Wheeler, the venerable platform bookstore chain, still emotionally enthralled by an age when English literature was an honourable degree? Unlikely. He would not survive if books sat placidly on shelves. Books must move. |
Fellow Victorian Rudyard Kipling, trumpet and bard of the Empire, sits nearby, smiling with justified pride through the thick flurry of his moustache. The British Raj has not been in vain after all. Charles Dickens is a shelf below. In the vicinity of this elite roam the myriad children of American and Indian English: the fiction of Ken Follett, Dan Brown, |
Mario Puzo, Chetan Bhagat, Amish Tripathi, et al. The popular fixation with murder, love and religion is the true eternal triangle. |
Any Indian railway station is heartland of the middle class. Howrah station, the alpha and omega of countless middle-class journeys, belongs to Bengalis who know the value of Shakespeare's heroes and the worth of Mario Puzo's villains. Salute! |
Howrah station remains the jigsaw puzzle of mess and manicure that it ever was. A thousand whispers coalesce into a middling roar. Dust rises every where and disappears into nowhere. This is how it was in the Sixties, and this is how it remains in the 21st century. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Nostalgia is comforting. But deja vu is another matter. |
My train to Ranchi arrives a comfortable 30 minutes before departure, and leaves on time. After the obligatory small talk with fellow passengers, I am asleep within three pages of my new purchase from platform. |
"The British Raj has not been in vain after all." Which of the following options you think justifies the above statement most, in context of the passage? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
Is Calcutta's Howrah the only railway station in the world that stocks Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection' in a platform bookshop? It looks pirated, which is another intellectual plus. Piracy is a tribute to popularity. Darwin is amidst honourable fellow pirates, an inch askance of 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' and within teardrop distance of 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', novels from the weeping pen of the Victorian romantic, Thomas Hardy. Is the purchase manager of A.H. Wheeler, the venerable platform bookstore chain, still emotionally enthralled by an age when English literature was an honourable degree? Unlikely. He would not survive if books sat placidly on shelves. Books must move. |
Fellow Victorian Rudyard Kipling, trumpet and bard of the Empire, sits nearby, smiling with justified pride through the thick flurry of his moustache. The British Raj has not been in vain after all. Charles Dickens is a shelf below. In the vicinity of this elite roam the myriad children of American and Indian English: the fiction of Ken Follett, Dan Brown, |
Mario Puzo, Chetan Bhagat, Amish Tripathi, et al. The popular fixation with murder, love and religion is the true eternal triangle. |
Any Indian railway station is heartland of the middle class. Howrah station, the alpha and omega of countless middle-class journeys, belongs to Bengalis who know the value of Shakespeare's heroes and the worth of Mario Puzo's villains. Salute! |
Howrah station remains the jigsaw puzzle of mess and manicure that it ever was. A thousand whispers coalesce into a middling roar. Dust rises every where and disappears into nowhere. This is how it was in the Sixties, and this is how it remains in the 21st century. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Nostalgia is comforting. But deja vu is another matter. |
My train to Ranchi arrives a comfortable 30 minutes before departure, and leaves on time. After the obligatory small talk with fellow passengers, I am asleep within three pages of my new purchase from platform. |
".....deja vu is another matter." What do you understand by 'deja vu' here? |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. |
The true gentleman is courteous and affable__his neighbours. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. |
He is descended _____a noble family. |
Given in question is a statement followed by two arguments. You are to identify which of the given arguments is a strong one. |
Statement: |
Should India make effort to harness solar energy to fulfil its energy requirements? |
Arguments: |
I: Yes. Most of the energy sources are in use at present is exhaustible. |
II: No. Harnessing solar energy needs lots of capital, which India cannot afford at present. |
Given below is a sentence in four parts. One of the parts contains a grammatical error. Find the part. |
He was the only influential (i)/ person to be impressed (ii)/by his scholarly (iii)/ deliberations (iv) |
Identify the figure of speech. |
You are telling me a fairy tale. |
Identify the parts of speech of the word underlined. |
They who live in glass house should not throw stones. |
Complete the sentence. |
_____ adequate pre-emptive action to avert this tragedy? |
Improve the sentence by changing its underlined part. |
If I were a millionaire I would have helped the poor. |
Find the analogy. |
Mudguard: Cycle |
Change the voice. |
You must look into the matter. |
Four sentences are given below on same theme. You are to identify the sentence which is grammatically most suitable for a formal writing in English. |
Direction: Give the exact meaning of the phrases/idioms underlined in the sentences below. |
The unexpected new difficulty put me on my mettle. |
Direction: Give the exact meaning of the phrases/idioms underlined in the sentences below. |
They all ran helter skelter down the hill. |
A sentence is given below with two blank spaces. |
Fill in the blanks with most appropriate pair of words given in options, in same order, to make the sentence meaningfully complete. |
An administrator must___ evalute his own views because his influence can be _____if he has personal prejudices. |
What comes next in the given series? |
IXT, MAV, QDX,..........? |
Give the antonym of the word underlined in the sentence below. |
An artisan well is dug upto an impervious layer of rocks. |
Fill in the blank as per subject-verb agreement. |
He asked me whether either of the applicants _____suitable. |
Three statements followed by two conclusions are given below. You are to find out which of the conclusions logically follow(s) the given statements. |
Statements: |
I: All glasses are rivers. |
II: All rivers are bottles. |
III: All bottles are plates. |
Conclusions: |
I: Some plates are rivers. |
II: Some bottles are glasses. |
Arrange P, Q, R, S to give the correct sequence of |
a movie review given below. |
P: In the way it unravels for us the street- smartness of a near-illiterate man intent on protecting his family at any cost, and how forgiveness can, sometimes, lead to a kind of acceptance. The movie is a pure entertainer and a great relief from the masala movies that Bollywood churns out in general. |
Q: The second half is where 'Paheli', and Arindam-both take time to get into their groove-come into their own, and we get an interesting view of the age-old theme of crime and punishment. How far can a man go to protect his family? Where does the line between right and wrong blur? |
R: Arindam Bagchi is a 'sixth class fail' self-made orphan who has climbed his way up to a modest little business of his own. He runs a cable outfit in a sleepy Digha village, with the help of a young assistant, and watches films with an obsessive passion, often spending nights in front a screen. His pretty wife, and two bubbly daughters vie for his attention, and we see them do stuff that regular folk do: outings to nearby town, joshing at the dinner table. Into this idyll, walks in a brash a teenage boy with an unconscionable demand, and ruin stares them in the face. |
S: The disappearance of the boy who turns out to be the son of top cop Anandi Basu and her wealthy businessman husband and the investigation that follows makes up for the rest of the film. Arindam is under the scanner, the beady eye of corrupt sub-inspector Amrit Paul fixed on him and his family. |
Given below is the body of a report with four blanks. Fill those blanks with P, Q, R, S, in correct order, to make the report readable and meaningful. |
On September 8, 1965, Pakistan had launched its ultimate offensive in Punjab's Khemkaran sector. The backbone of this attack -- the newly acquired Patton tanks from America. _____ (I) _____said Major Vikramaditya of 3rd cavalry regiment which took on the Pattons. "But despite all this, it is not the machine that wins you the war. It is the men behind those machines. ?The Indian |
_____ (II) _____tanks. |
The Pakistani army had met with initial success and captured Khemkaran. The Indian_____ (III) ____defensive position with Asal Uttar as its focal point. |
On September 9, Pakistani tanks were lured into this trap. By the next day, the Pakistani forces were in a disarray. On September 11, the Indian army completed victory formalities. ______ (IV) _____It lost 97 tanks -- including 72 Pattons; 32 tanks were captured in running condition -- some of them were kept as war trophies by the victor regiments. India lost only 5 tanks. |
P: Pakistan suffered a crushing defeat. |
Q: "The Patton tanks were the most advanced then...their fire power better, their armour thicker," |
R: contingent fell back, and as part of a tactical |
maneuver, assumed a horseshoe shaped |
S: Army took on the Pattons with World War II era |
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