Direction: Below given is a story in which the beginning and the ending, marked and 2 respectively, is given. The middle portion has been split into four parts, marked P, Q, R, S and is not in sequence. Arrange the four parts P, Q, R and S between 1 and 2 to make the story a sensible one. |
1: Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, grew up poor in a farm community in rural Missouri during the Great Depression. |
P: In 1962, he had the idea of opening bigger stores, sticking to rural areas, keeping costs low and discounting heavily. The management disagreed with his vision. |
Q: After attending the University of Missouri, he immediately worked for 1C. Penny where he got his first taste of retailing. He served in World War II, after which he became a successful franchiser of Ben Franklin five-and-dime stores. |
R: Undaunted, Walton pursued his vision, founded Wal-Mart and started a retailing success story. When Walton died in 1992, the family's net worth approached 25 billion. |
S: The poverty he experienced while growing up taught him the value of money and to persevere. |
2: Today, Wal-Mart is the world's #1 retailer, with more than 4,160 stores, including discount stores, combination discount and grocery stores, and membership-only warehouse stores. |
Direction: Find out, from the following description, the correct arrangement of completing the process to check in a hotel. |
P: Tell the hotel staff how long you intend to stay. If there's some uncertainty about the length of your stay inform the hotel of this so they can decide how to enter your room request into their system. |
Q: Grab your keys and head up to your room. Enjoy your stay. |
R: Greet the front desk person and communicate that you'd like a room. If you've already made a reservation, make sure you tell them the name the reservation was under. Specify how many rooms you need and how many people are in your party. |
S: Request any special services like help with your luggage, wake-up calls, room service. Sign the register, if there is one. Pay for your room if you're paying cash. Or give your credit card for an imprint if you're paying by credit. |
Direction: Find the analogy. |
Conference : Chairman : : Newspaper : ? |
Direction: Find the analogy. |
Poodle: Dog : : Moose : ? |
Direction: Below given is a report with four blanks marked I, II, III and IV which need to be filled in by the sentences given in P, Q, R ,S. Choose your option in order to make the report meaningful. |
New Delhi, July 13, 2011: The much talked about____I____, with the capacity to fly direct and non-stop to the U.S. and Australia from any Indian city touched down Indian soil on its maiden visit to India. Air India has ordered 27 'Dream liners' while Jet Airways have booked 10 aircrafts. |
The aircraft, said to be the most advanced in the world, flew into the national capital from Japan. Two ___II___ Air India, which will be amongst the first in the world to receive the jet early in 2012. Senior officials from the ____III____ to inspect the aircraft. |
The Boeing-787 aircraft is made of composite materials .Its newly-developed engine and advanced flight technologies make it highly fuel-efficient. The plane can ____IV____ non-stop. |
P: Trial flights will be conducted for flag carrier |
Q: Fly up to 16,000 km |
R: Boeing-787 'Dreamliner' is touted as the world's most advanced passenger jet |
S: Civil Aviation Ministry and Air India are also expected |
Direction: Find the appropriate meaning of the underlined words in context to the given sentences. |
The prisoner claimed the police had fabricated his confession. |
Direction: Find the appropriate meaning of the underlined words in context to the given sentences. |
Campaigners claim that the animals are not being kept in humane conditions. |
Direction: Rearrange the following five statements A, B, C, D and E in the proper sequence so as to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below them. |
[a] Out of which 92 are good. |
[b] His mother gave another 26 books. |
[c] Therefore his father gave his 70 books. |
[d] Chetan likes to read books. |
[e] Chetan now has 96 books. |
Direction: Rearrange the following five statements A, B, C, D and E in the proper sequence so as to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below them. |
[a] Out of which 92 are good. |
[b] His mother gave another 26 books. |
[c] Therefore his father gave his 70 books. |
[d] Chetan likes to read books. |
[e] Chetan now has 96 books. |
Direction: Complete the sentences given below. |
When we got to the cinema, the movie_____. |
Direction: Complete the sentences given below. |
______ a dictionary? |
Direction: In this question, the first and last parts of the sentence are 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence is split into four parts and marked P, Q, R and S. Arrange these parts in order to make a meaningful sentence by choosing an option. |
1. As we moved slowly |
P: Of the town we passed |
Q: Houses running at |
R: Row after row of little grey slum |
S: Through the outskirts |
6. Right angles to the embankment. |
Fill in the blanks with correct adjective. |
The patient is_____ better today. |
Fill in the blanks with correct adverb. |
He is______enough to pardon you. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate preposition. |
I could not control my displeasure ______ his behaviour. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate preposition. |
An army major ranks ____ a captain and colonel. |
Direction: Insert a verb in agreement with its subject. |
A new shop ______ started in this building, since last week. |
Direction: Insert a verb in agreement with its subject. |
Either man or nature _____ to control population. |
Direction: Give the correct synonym of the word written in capital letters. |
THRIFT |
Direction: Give the correct synonym of the word written in capital letters. |
LUMINARY |
Direction: Make a meaningful word from the jumbled letters. |
DORANICS |
Direction: Identify the sentence which is grammatically incorrect. |
[A] The men force their wives and children to work for them whereas the women do not have this luxury. |
[B] The plight of these people is not evident as they work late into the night and are not seen much during the day. |
[C] He asked me that who I was. |
[D] The Government is unable to see these people at all and thus is not aware of their existence. |
[E] None of these |
Direction: Fill in the blank with suitable pronoun. |
If I were ______, I would not do it. |
Direction: Identify the kind of tense for the given sentence. |
We shall have done the homework before evening. |
Direction: In this question, two statements I and II are given. Read both the statements and decide which of the following answer choice correctly depicts the relationship between these two statements. |
I. The literacy rate in the district has been increasing for the last four years. |
II. The district administration has conducted extensive training programme for the workers involved in the literacy drive. |
Direction: The question presents a situation and asks you to make a judgment regarding that particular situation. Choose an answer based on given information. |
The school principal has received complaints from parents about bullying in the school yard during recess. He wants to investigate and end this situation as soon as possible, so he has asked the recess aides to watch closely. Which situation should the recess aides report to the principal? |
Direction: Give the correct antonym of the word written in capital letter |
DEBAR |
Direction: Give the correct antonym of the word written in capital letter |
SUSPICIOUS |
Direction: Change the voice. |
No one can wonder at it. |
Direction: Fill in the blank with suitable modals. |
John ______ hear the speaker because the crowd was cheering so loudly. |
Direction: Give the one word substitution of the following. |
That which cannot be satisfied |
Direction: Change the direct sentence into indirect one. |
He said to me, "Will you please help me?" |
Direction: Select the option that represents the correct meaning of the following idiom/phrase. |
At wit's end |
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
Even as the debate over global warming and other climate change issues continues, and analyses has shown that floods and other weather-related disasters have been soaring during the past decade across the world. While the number of earthquakes, volcanoes and other geophysical disasters remained quite the same over the last 10 years, there was an increase in floods and other weather-related disasters. |
The loss of life and property due to weather-related disasters has also been on the increase in recent years. Though earthquakes proved to be the deadliest disasters, with much of it attributed to the killer-quake in Gujarat on January 26, over the 1990s, floods, windstorms, drought, famine and other hydro-meteorological hazards were responsible for as much as 71 per cent of all lives lost due to disasters. |
Disasters cannot remain within the area of disaster managers alone. Development experts must play a bigger role in disaster management and risk reduction. Climate change associated with global warming could give all sorts of disease-causing organisms the chance they need to cause harm to plant and animal species - including humans. |
For example, mosquito-borne infections, like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and certain tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis, appear to be spreading, possibly due to milder winters. |
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
Even as the debate over global warming and other climate change issues continues, and analyses has shown that floods and other weather-related disasters have been soaring during the past decade across the world. While the number of earthquakes, volcanoes and other geophysical disasters remained quite the same over the last 10 years, there was an increase in floods and other weather-related disasters. |
The loss of life and property due to weather-related disasters has also been on the increase in recent years. Though earthquakes proved to be the deadliest disasters, with much of it attributed to the killer-quake in Gujarat on January 26, over the 1990s, floods, windstorms, drought, famine and other hydro-meteorological hazards were responsible for as much as 71 per cent of all lives lost due to disasters. |
Disasters cannot remain within the area of disaster managers alone. Development experts must play a bigger role in disaster management and risk reduction. Climate change associated with global warming could give all sorts of disease-causing organisms the chance they need to cause harm to plant and animal species - including humans. |
For example, mosquito-borne infections, like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and certain tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis, appear to be spreading, possibly due to milder winters. |
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
Even as the debate over global warming and other climate change issues continues, and analyses has shown that floods and other weather-related disasters have been soaring during the past decade across the world. While the number of earthquakes, volcanoes and other geophysical disasters remained quite the same over the last 10 years, there was an increase in floods and other weather-related disasters. |
The loss of life and property due to weather-related disasters has also been on the increase in recent years. Though earthquakes proved to be the deadliest disasters, with much of it attributed to the killer-quake in Gujarat on January 26, over the 1990s, floods, windstorms, drought, famine and other hydro-meteorological hazards were responsible for as much as 71 per cent of all lives lost due to disasters. |
Disasters cannot remain within the area of disaster managers alone. Development experts must play a bigger role in disaster management and risk reduction. Climate change associated with global warming could give all sorts of disease-causing organisms the chance they need to cause harm to plant and animal species - including humans. |
For example, mosquito-borne infections, like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and certain tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis, appear to be spreading, possibly due to milder winters. |
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
Even as the debate over global warming and other climate change issues continues, and analyses has shown that floods and other weather-related disasters have been soaring during the past decade across the world. While the number of earthquakes, volcanoes and other geophysical disasters remained quite the same over the last 10 years, there was an increase in floods and other weather-related disasters. |
The loss of life and property due to weather-related disasters has also been on the increase in recent years. Though earthquakes proved to be the deadliest disasters, with much of it attributed to the killer-quake in Gujarat on January 26, over the 1990s, floods, windstorms, drought, famine and other hydro-meteorological hazards were responsible for as much as 71 per cent of all lives lost due to disasters. |
Disasters cannot remain within the area of disaster managers alone. Development experts must play a bigger role in disaster management and risk reduction. Climate change associated with global warming could give all sorts of disease-causing organisms the chance they need to cause harm to plant and animal species - including humans. |
For example, mosquito-borne infections, like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and certain tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis, appear to be spreading, possibly due to milder winters. |
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