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Directions (1-15): In the following question, sentences are given with blanks to be filed in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four as your answer.
Q1. Tina promised to come but she never turned ________.
(a) in
(b) off
(c) down
(d) up
Sol. Turn in: to go to one’s bed to sleep. Also to point, curve, or fold inwards
Turn off: to stop the operation, activity, or flow of something.
Turn down: to reject or refuse someone or something:
Turn up: put in an appearance; arrive.
Hence option D is the correct choice.
Q2. The river abounds _______ fish and crocodiles.
(a) with
(b) of
(c) at
(d) on
Sol. Abound with: to be brimming with something plentiful. Hence the correct idiomatic expression is ‘abound with’.
Q3. The Management gave us permission to ___________with the new curriculum.
(a) go fixed
(b) go about
(c) go ahead
(d) go around
Sol. Go ahead: proceed or be carried out or said to someone in order to give them permission to start to do something.
In the given context, the usage of ‘permission’ and ‘new curriculum’ implies that option C is the correct choice.
Q4. One should always set ________ some money for emergency.
(a) aside
(b) on
(c) down
(d) out
Sol. Set aside something: to save for a particular purpose.
Set on: to attack someone or something.
Set down: to state officially how something should be done.
Set out: to start an activity with a particular aim.
Hence option A is the most appropriate choice.
Q5. The authorities would not ____________ to the strikers’ demands.
(a) accept
(b) accede
(c) accession
(d) access
Sol. Accede means agree to a demand, request, or treaty and preposition ‘to’ is used after it.
Hence option is the correct choice.
Q6. We’ve had too little sleep and too ________ food, depriving our body on one hand and overloading it on the other!
(a) many
(b) more
(c) much
(d) None of the above
Sol. ‘Too much food’ is the correct usage. As ‘food’ is an ‘uncountable noun’ and will take ‘much’ before it.
Q7. The bitter debate in the newspapers seems oddly ____________ with the quiet, almost gentle argument between the two drivers.
(a) innocuous
(b) inclusive
(c) interesting
(d) incongruous
Sol. Innocuous: not harmful or offensive.
Inclusive: containing or including a particular thing.
Incongruous: unusual or different from what is around or from what is generally happening.
Hence option D is the most appropriate choice.
Q8. ___________ in a massive data breach following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has been reeling from a series of privacy scandals.
(a) exculpated
(b) embroiled
(c) endeared
(d) entreat
Sol. Exculpate: show or declare that (someone) is not guilty of wrongdoing.
Embroil: involve (someone) deeply in an argument, conflict, or difficult situation.
Endear: to cause to become beloved or admired.
Entreat: ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.
Hence option B is the most appropriate choice.
Q9. The gathering finished in _______ after the United States President abruptly rejected its general agreement statement.
(a) decorum
(b) truce
(c) congruity
(d) disarray
Sol. Decorum: behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety.
Truce: an agreement between enemies or opponents to stop fighting or arguing.
Congruity: a point of agreement.
Disarray: a lack of order: a confused or messy condition.
Hence option D is the correct choice.
Q10. It is not easy to ___________ a young horse.
(a) break forth
(b) break in
(c) bear out
(d) back down
Sol. Break forth: to burst out.
Break in: to accustom to a certain activity
Bear out: to confirm.
Back down: give up a claim.
Hence option B is the correct choice.
Q11. If the servers _________ when delivering orders, they will find themselves with a bunch of angry customers.
(a) peruse
(b) dawdle
(c) spearhead
(d) impound
Sol. Peruse: examine.
Dawdle: to waste time by moving slowly.
Spearhead: lead.
Impound: confine.
Hence option B is the correct choice.
Q12. Head coach Tom Higgins is _______ on his team and will go with the same 40 men he used last week.
(a) standing corrected
(b) steaming mad
(c) standing pat
(d) striking oil
Sol. Stand corrected (idiom): to admit that you were wrong.
Stand pat (idiom): stick stubbornly to your opinion or decision.
Steaming mad (idiom): to be very angry.
Strike oil (idiom): to suddenly become rich or successful.
Hence option C is the correct choice.
Q13. Movement ____________ a powerful tool for developing and practising mindfulness, in addition to the widely discussed health benefits.
(a) had been provided
(b) provided
(c) provides
(d) provide
Sol. Present indefinite Tense i.e. Base form of the verb is required. Also following subject-verb agreement rule, singular subject takes singular verb. Hence option C is the correct choice.
Q14. Mary and Peter hope counseling will help them repair the _________ in their marital union.
(a) rupture
(b) composition
(c) endearment
(d) rasp
Sol. Rupture: a breach of a harmonious relationship.
Hence option A is the correct choice.
Q15. The body is the_______ through which we absorb sensory perceptions of the world around us.
(a) victim
(b) conjecture
(c) interstellar
(d) conduit
Sol. Conjecture: an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.
Interstellar: occurring or situated between stars.
Conduit: something that carries or moves information; a way of connecting two systems, etc.
Hence option D is the correct choice.
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