Q1: Spotting Error:
The leopard was wildly (1)/ and that is the reason it was released (2)/ in the forest as soon as it was captured (3)/ by the team of zoo officials and staff (4)/ No error (5)
Answer: (1)
Correct: The leopard was *wild* (1)/ and that is the reason it was released (2)/ in the forest as soon as it was captured (3)/ by the team of zoo officials and staff (4)/ No error (5)
Explanation: 'Wild' should replace 'wildly' (an adjective)
Q2: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph :
A. India and its space agency, the ISRO, now proudly join their ranks.
B. After a journey of over 660 million kilometers that took 10 months, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission has swept with effortless ease into orbit around the Red Planet, marking this country to achieve such a feat in a maiden attempt.
C. Thus so far, only the United States, the former Soviet Union and the European Space Agency have succeeded in doing so.
D. Although ISRO could draw on its experience with the lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1, launched six years back, the challenges involved in sending a spacecraft all the way to Mars are far greater.
E. That includes propelling the spacecraft with sufficient velocity to escape Earth’s gravitational grasp, guiding it along the proper trajectory over vast distances, and then slowing it down sufficiently to go into orbit around that planet.
F. Probes dispatched to Earth’s sibling planet over the last half a century have often run into trouble of one kind or another, with only less than half of those spacecraft ending the voyage successfully.
Answer: The arrangement is : BFCADE
B. After a journey of over 660 million kilometers that took 10 months, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission has swept with effortless ease into orbit around the Red Planet, marking this country to achieve such a feat in a maiden attempt.
F. Probes dispatched to Earth’s sibling planet over the last half a century have often run into trouble of one kind or another, with only less than half of those spacecraft ending the voyage successfully.
C. Thus so far, only the United States, the former Soviet Union and the European Space Agency have succeeded in doing so.
A. India and its space agency, the ISRO, now proudly join their ranks
D. Although ISRO could draw on its experience with the lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1, launched six years back, the challenges involved in sending a spacecraft all the way to Mars are far greater.
E. That includes propelling the spacecraft with sufficient velocity to escape Earth’s gravitational grasp, guiding it along the proper trajectory over vast distances, and then slowing it down sufficiently to go into orbit around that planet.
Q3: COMPREHENSION:
What are the good parts of our civilization ? First and foremost there are order and safety. If today I have a quarrel with another man, I do not get beaten merely because I am physically weaker and he can kick me down. I go to law, and the law will decide as fairly as it can between the two of us. Thus in disputes between man and man right has taken the place of might. Moreover, the law protects me from robbery and violence. Nobody may come and break into my house, steal my goods or run off with my children. Of course, there are burglars, but they are very rare, and the law punishes them whenever it catches them.
It is difficult for us to realize how much this safety means. Without safety these higher activities of mankind which make up civilization could not go on. The inventor could not invent, the scientist find out or the artist make beautiful things. Hence, order and safety, although they are not themselves civilization are things without which civilization would be impossible. They are as necessary to our civilization as the air we breathe is to us; and we have grown so used to them that we do not notice them any more than we notice the air.
Another great achievement of our civilisation is that today civilised men are largely free from the fear of pain. They still fall ill, but illness is no longer the terrible thing it used to be.... Not only do men and women enjoy better health; they live longer than they ever did before, and they have a much better chance of growing up.... Thirdly, our civilisation is more secure than any that have gone before it. This is because it is much more widely spread.... Previous civilisations were specialised and limited, they were like oases in a desert.
Q: Now-a-days a physically weak man is provided protection by :
(A) The group whose membership he opts for
(B) The law
(C) His wit and wisdom
(D) His friend and supporters
Answer: (b) The law
Explanation: Now-a-days a physically weak man is provided protection by the law.
Please read the lines: "If today I have a quarrel with another man, I do not get beaten merely because I am physically weaker and he can kick me down. I go to law, and the law will decide as fairly as it can between the two of us." So, it's clear that now-a-days a physically weak man is provided protection by *the law.*
Q4: Which of the phrase/ word from the options (A), (B), (C) and (D) given below the sentence should replace the phrase in the asterisk to make the sentence grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (e) i.e., “No correction required” as the answer:
I read the paper every day *to keep into* with the news.
A) for keeping of
B) to keep for
C) to keep up
D) for keeping into
E) No Correction Required
Answer: C) To keep up
Correct: I read the paper every day *to keep up with* with the news.
Explanation: *To keep up with* means to be able to understand or deal with something that is happening or changing very fast.
Q5: The question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole:
The State shall ___________to organise agriculture and animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines and shall, in particular, take steps for _______and improving the breeds.
A) exploit, keeping
B) strive, guiding
C) Endeavour, preserving
D) attempt, annihilating
E) undertake, securing
Answer: C) Endeavour, preserving
Correct: The State shall *endeavour* to organise agriculture and animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines and shall, in particular, take steps for *preserving* and improving the breeds.
Explanation: Endeavour means to try to do something
Preserve means to keep something as it is, especially in order to prevent it from decaying or being damaged or destroyed.
Q6: Vocabulary word:
Their criticism, said Amarinder, was particularly *impertinent* in view of the fact that it was their misrule of 10 years that had plunged the state to such abysmal depths of despair on all fronts, with a mega debt burden compounding the problems of the Congress government.
Impertinent means?
Means: rude and not showing respect, especially towards someone older or in a higher position than you.
Real life example: New students are invited to join the batches and expected to maintain the same kind of bonhomie and environment which their seniors have created. The proper conducive environment can change even *impertinent* aspirant.
Q7: Vocabulary word:
Sridevi who made her comeback in Bollywood with 'English Vinglish'(2012) as a *demure* wife, is all set to rule the silver screen once again.
Demure means?
Means: (especially of women) quiet and well behaved.
Synonym: Cool, good, Humble
Real Life Example: Many actresses like Kajol, Aishwarya etc. have proved to become *demure* wives.
