English Language

Directions  Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given
below it.
A long time ago, on a big tree in the lap of the mountain, lived a bird named Sindhuka. It was a rather
special bird because its droppings turned into gold as soon as they hit the ground.
One day, a hunter came to the tree in search of prey and he saw Sindhuka's droppings hit the ground
and turn into gold. The hunter was struck with wonder. He though, "I have been hunting birds and
small animals since I was a boy, but in all my 80 years, I have never seen such a miraculous creature.
He decided that he had to catch the bird somehow. He climbed the tree and skillfully set a trap for the
bird.
The bird, quite unaware of the danger it was in, stayed on the tree and sang merrily. But it was soon
caught in the hunter's trap. The hunter immediately seized it and shoved it into a cage.
The hunter took the bird home joyfully. But as he had time to think over his good fortune later, he
suddenly realised, "If the king comes to know of this wonder, he will certainly take away the bird
from me and he might even punish me for keeping such a rare treasure all to myself. So it would be
safer and more honourable if I were to go to the king and present the unique bird to him," The next
day, the hunter took the bird to the king and presented it to him in court with great reverence. The
king was delighted t o receive such an unusual and rare gift. He told his courtiers to keep the bird safe
and feed it with the best bird food available.
The king's prime minister though, was reluctant to accept the bird. He said "O Rajah, how can you
believe the word of a foolish hunter accept this bird? Has anyone in our kingdom ever seen abird
dropping gold? The hunter must be either crazy or telling lies. I think it is best that you release the
bird from the cage." After a little thought, the king felt that his prime minister's words were correct.
So he ordered the bird to be released. But as soon as the door of the cage was thrown open, the bird
flew out, perched itself on a nearby doorway and defecated. To everyone's surprise, the dropping
immediately turned into gold. The king mourned his loss.

1. Which of the following is possible the most appropriate title for the story?
a) The Skilled Hunter
b) The King’s Prime Minister
c) The King’s Defeat
d) The Bird with the Gold Dropping
e) The Trials and Tribulations of the Foolish Bird Sindhuka

2. Which of the following emotions made the hunter gift the bird to the king?
a) Respect
b) Joy
c) Pride
d) Fear
e) Awe
3. Which of the following is true according to the story?
a) Birds like Sindhuka were very common in the area near the mountain
b) Sindhuka remained caged for the rest of its life
c) Sindhuka was unaware of the trap laid by the hunter
d) The King, when told to not accept the bird, did not listen to his Prime Minister
e) All are true
4. Why was the king’s Prime Minister reluctant to accept the bird?
a) He believed that the bird would die if caged
b) He know about the hunter ’s habit of lying
c) He believed that the bird would bring bad luck to the king
d) His sources had informed him that the hunter was crazy
e) None of these
5. How did the hunter find Sindhuka?
a) He had read stories about the bird and had set traps at various locations in the city
b) He followed the bird’s droppings
c) He was on the lookout for a prey when he chanced upon it
d) People from the city had informed him about the bird’s whereabouts
e) He was attracted by the birds calls
Directions (Q. 6-8) Choose the word which is most similar in meaning to the word/group of words
printed in bold as used in the passage.
6. Rather
a) Regular
b) Quite
c) Instead
d) But
e) Known
7. Release
a) Free
b) Vacate
c) Vent
d) Let expire
e) Make public
8. Reverence
a) Respect
b) Detail
c) Astonishment
d) Hope
e) Remembrance
Directions Choose the word which is most opposite in meaning to the word printed in
bold as used in the passage.
9. Reluctant
a) True
b) Clever
c) Averse
d) Hesitant
e) Keen
10. Skilfully
a) Angrily
b) Haphazardly
c) Highly
d) Cheaply
e) Deftly

Directions : Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the
proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
A. The researchers in these companies claim that they could do better by allowing their employees to
doze off at work place.
B. The dreams, while at work, are thus helpful to solve crucial problems.
C. Would you believe that some UK based companies are arranging for bed at the work place?
D. The reason, they claim, could be that dreams produce creative solutions.
E. We only hope that these crucial problems in UK are different from those of ours.
F. But it is true and is considered as a step to improve quality of their products.
11. Which of the following should be the First sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) None of these

12. Which of the following should be the Third sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) None of these.

13. Which of the following should be the Fourth sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) None of these

14. Which of the following should be the Fifth sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) None of these

15. Which of the following should be the Sixth sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) E
e) None of these

Directions (Q. 96-100) Read this sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical
mistake/error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the
error as your answer. If there is no error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer. (Ignore the errors of
punctuation if any).
16. Attributing rise in inflation partly for withholding of food stocks by traders/the minister said
that/he was committed/to easing this supply side bottleneck.
a) Attributing rise in inflation partly for withholding of food stocks by traders
b) The minister said that
c) He was committed
d) To easing this supply side bottleneck.
e) No error

17. India’s largest utility vehicle and tractor maker/is again in the race to acquire/for stake in Swedish
company/which is a premium car maker.
a) India’s largest utility vehicle and tractor maker
b) Is again in the race to acquire
c) For stake in Swedish company
d) Which a premium car maker
e) No error

18. With sale of branded or premium petrol becoming almost nil/due to high duties,/a government
appointed panel has recommended/slashing excise duty to make them at par with regular fuel.
a) With sale of branded or premium petrol becoming almost nil
b) Due to high duties
c) A government appointed panel has recommended
d) Slashing excise duty to make them at par with regular fuel
e) No error

19. Keeping in mind/that power cuts are on different days in different areas/the change in the factory
law would enable individual factories within an area/to determining their own weekly holidays.
a) Keeping in mind
b) That power cuts are on different days in different areas
c) The change in the factory law would enable individual factories within an area
d) To determining their own weekly holidays
e) No error

10.Police officers have refused on identify the bystander,/who is the only eyewitness to the
crime,/but have said that the investigating team would explore/if he could be a witness in the case.
a) Police officers have refused on identify the bystander
b) Who is the only eyewitness to the crime
c) But have said that the investigating team would explore
d) If he could be a witness in the case
e) No error

Directions : Below the four words are given. One of these four words may be wrongly
spelt.
Find out the word which is wrongly spelt, if there is any. The number of that word is your answer. If
all the words are correctly spelt mark All correct as the answer.
21.
Below the four words are given. One of these four words may be wrongly spelt. Find out
the word which is wrongly spelt, if there is any. The number of that word is your answer. If all the
words are correctly spelt mark All correct as the answer.
a) Adventure
b) Demonstration
c) Environment
d) Innosent
e) All Correct

22.Below the four words are given. One of these four words may be wrongly spelt. Find out
the word which is wrongly spelt, if there is any. The number of that word is your answer. If all the
words are correctly spelt mark All correct as the answer.
a) Limitasion
b) Dependable
c) Miniature
d) Qualitative
e) All Correct

23. Below the four words are given. One of these four words may be wrongly spelt. Find out
the word which is wrongly spelt, if there is any. The number of that word is your answer. If all the
words are correctly spelt mark All correct as the answer.
a) Lucrative
b) Ancestral
c) Performanse
d) Incidentally
e) All Correct

24. Below the four words are given. One of these four words may be wrongly spelt. Find out
the word which is wrongly spelt, if there is any. The number of that word is your answer. If all the
words are correctly spelt mark All correct as the answer.
a) Futility
b) Separasion
c) Embarrassment
d) Positively
e) All Correct

25. Below the four words are given. One of these four words may be wrongly spelt. Find out
the word which is wrongly spelt, if there is any. The number of that word is your answer. If all the
words are correctly spelt mark All correct as the answer.
a) Tournament
b) Enhancement
c) Amazingly
d) Continuation
e) All Correct

Directions : Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the
proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
A. Therefore, it is important to source a large part of economic growth in agriculture, in rural nonagricultural activities and in productive expansion of the informal sector which all have high
employment elasticities, as well as in an export strategy based on labour intensive exports.
B. It is important because it creates more resources and has the potential of creating more space for
the involvement of the poor.
C. If the growth is sourced upon those sectors of the economy or those activities that have a natural
tendency to involve the poor in their expansion, such growth helps poverty eradication.
D. Economic growth is important.
E. But this involvement depends on the sources of growth and the nature of growth.

DCEBA
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26 Which of the following should be the First sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E


27 Which of the following should be the Second sentence after rearrangement?
a) E
b) D
c) C
d) B
e) A

28 Which of the following should be the Third sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E

29 Which of the following should be the Fourth sentence after rearrangement?
a) E
b) D
c) C
d) B
e) A

30 Which of the following should be the Fifth sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E
Directions In the following passage there are blanks each of which has been numbered.
These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words have been suggested, one
of which fills the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (security) of a customer ’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (sanction) loans and operate in other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has changed – the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (luxury) and credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (Yet) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of banking system – after all aperson needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may be about to change as technocrats now (view) cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (obsolete). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and ( effectively). The World over cell phones are spreading at a (phenomenal) rate and in India alone new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month a rate of customer (expansion) that no bank can dream of.
31
a) confidentiality
b) guarantee
c) knowledge
d) security
e) presence.

32.
a) disburse
b) sanction
c) negotiate
d) advance
e) credit

33.
a) enable
b) engage
c) pursue
d) interact
e) operate

34.
a) luxury
b) innovation
c) drawback
d) hurdle
e) consequence

35.
a) Yet
b) Until
c) Despite
d) Although
e) Even

36.
a) engineer
b) assess
c) view
d) realize
e) display

37.
a) retreat
b) expired
c) essential
d) obsolete
e) extant

38.
a) indiscriminately
b) effectively
c) moderately
d) occasionally
e) compulsorily

39.
a) competitive
b) projected
c) phenomenal
d) gradual
e) proportionate

40.
a) satisfaction
b) relationship
c) discount
d) base
e) expansion