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The sentences (four/five/four between 1 and 6) given in each question, when properly sequenced form a
coherent paragraph. Each sentence in labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. (A) Never mind, even in decay the city looks better than any other metro.
(B) From left, the city-based Nigerian striker A.Bailey, actresses Raima Sen and Sreelekha Mitra, theatre personality
Suman Mukhopadhyaya, writer Buddhadev Guha and fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukerji.
(C) What is it that makes Kolkata special, ‘Kalchaar’ we are told, as well as Konstant state of Kollapse.
(D) Nostalgia rules and here we find a representative section of the city‘s bhadralok reliving the gracious past.
(1) CABD (2) CADB (3) CDBA (4) CBAD

2. (A) We will consult, but let there be no misunderstanding if Saddam Hussein does not fully disarm, we will lead a
coalition to disarm him.
(B) And we will prevail.”
(C) His jaw set and eyes narrowed, Bush declared in his state of the Union address : “The course of this nation does
not depend on the decision of others.
(D) In a week that began with anticipation around the UN inspector’s report and ended in great political theatre
starring President George Bush and his applauding fans on Capitol Hill, the world edged a little closer to war.
(1) DCBA (2) CBDA (3) DCAB (4) CBAD

3. 1. “People above 16 should not be allowed,” declared Freaky Chakra’s producer Sunil Mutreja, before the film’s
screening in Delhi.
(A) The film is also sure to strike a huge blow to the “small, one-crore, independent” film movement that has lately
been gaining ground in the industry.
(B) In fact Freaky Chakra is so asinine that any fun-loving youngster would run miles away from it.
(C) Mutreja should have been more guarded; what you see on screen certainly doesn’t measure upto his assertion.
(D) What he meant was that you needed to be equipped with a loopy sense of humour, typical of a youngster, to
appreciate the movie’s spirit.
6 . Because everything that can possibly go wrong goes wrong here, making even a crore seem too huge an amount
to waste.
(1) BADC (2) DBAC (3) ADCB (5) DCBA

4. 1 . The media launch of the Tata Indigo in Pune brought into focus a simple fact.
(A) The third largest-selling three-box sedan in India in the last few months has been ..... the Ambassador, with
1,000-1,200 units sold every month.
(B) Reborn as the Ambassador 1,800 MPFI, with Japanese engine and A.C.
(C) Even Amitabh Bachchan told ‘Autocar India’ not too long ago that his favourite car for the slog overs in moviedom,
would be the half-a-century-old Morris Oxford.
(D) And not just government and taxi sales either.
6 . The Indigo, therefore, apart from more modern competition, had to factor in this veteran challenger.
(1) BADC (2) ADCB (3) CDBA (4) ACDB

5. (A) Within minutes, Jain and his three colleagues were arrested by the local police.
(B) the episode shook the Indian software industry, which has demanded that policymakers initiate strong diplomatic
measures to get them freed.
(C) It was just another meeting to settle a commercial dispute with one of his customers.
(D) While two of them were later released, Jain and Rajiv Malhotra, who heads Polaris’ bankware products division,
continued to languish in Jakarta’s jail.
(E) But for Arun Jain, CEO of Polaris Software, the afternoon encounter with executives of the Bank Artha Graha
in Jakarta, turned out to be his worst nightmare.
(1) BCDEA (2) ABDEC (3) CEADB (4) CEDBA

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Choose the word or set of words for each blank in the following questions that best fits the meaning of the
sentence.

6. We have in America a ..... speech that is neither American, Oxford English, nor colloquial English, but ..... of all
three.
(1) motley, an enhancement (2) hybrid, a combination (3) nasal, a blend (4) mangled, a medley
(5) formal, a patchwork

7. It has been said that printing does as much harm as good, since it gives us bad books as well as good ones and .....
falsehood and error no less than ..... .
(1) displays, folly (2) flaunts, ignorance
(3) betrays, treachery (4) demonstrates, pedantry
(5) propagates, knowledge

8. Not only the ..... are fooled by propaganda; we can all be misled if we are not ..... .
(1) ignorant, cynical (2) gullible, wary
(3) credulous, headstrong (4) illiterate, mature
(5) fatuous, intelligent

9. The ..... of the apartment was unbelievable; it was difficult to realize that human beings could live in such ..... .
(1) disorder, isolation (2) squalor, filth (3) barrenness, confusion (4) stench, disarray
(5) spaciousness, proximity

10. While the disease is in ..... state it is almost impossible to determine its existence by ..... .
(1) a dormant, postulate (2) a critical, examination (3) an acute, analysis (4) a suspended, estimate
(5) a latent, observation

Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly similar in meaning to the word in capital letters.

11. ARDOR
(1) zeal (2) paint (3) proof (4) group
(5) excitement

12. FINITE
(1) bounded (2) established (3) affirmative (4) massive
(5) finicky

13. DELETERIOUS
(1) delaying (2) experimental (3) harmful (4) graduating
(5) glorious

14. WINSOME
(1) victorious (2) gracious (3) married (4) permanent
(5) pained

15. TEMPORAL
(1) priestly (2) scholarly (3) secular (4) sleepy
(5) sporadic

Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.

16. TURGID
(1) rancid (2) shrunken (3) cool (4) explosive
(5) painful

17. RUTHLESS
(1) merciful (2) majestic (3) mighty (4) militant
(5) maximum

18. PROTEAN
(1) amateur (2) catholic (3) unchanging (4) rapid
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19. BLANCH
(1) bleach (2) scatter (3) darken (4) analyse
(5) subdivide

20. DANK
(1) dry (2) guiltless (3) warm (4) babbling
(5) reserved

Select the lettered pair in the following analogy questions that best expresses a relationship similar to
that expressed in the original capitalised pair.

21. CHAFF : WHEAT

(1) mote : dust (2) gold : lead (3) dregs : wine (4) loaf : bread
(5) yolk : egg

22. OGLE : OBSERVE

(1) haggle : outbid (2) clamour : dispute (3) discern : perceive (4) flaunt : display
(5) glare : glower

23. ABSTEMIOUS : ABSTINENCE

(1) irascible : militancy (2) gregarious : reticence (3) truculent : dogmatism (4) comatose : sobriety
(5) pusillanimous : cravenness

24. INELUCTABLE : AVOID

(1) ineffable : utter (2) impalpable : desire (3) impermeable : endure (4) irascible : provoke
(5) irreconcilable : estrange

25. CLASP : BRACELET

(1) book : coat (2) buckle : belt (3) diamond : ring (4) wrist : watch
(5) cuff : trousers

Objective Key
1.(1) 2.(3) 3.(4) 4.(2) 5.(3) 6.(2) 7.(5) 8.(2) 9.(2) 10.(5)
11.(1) 12.(1) 13.(3) 14.(1) 15.(3) 16.(2) 17.(1) 18.(3) 19.(3) 20.(1)
21.(3) 22.(4) 23.(5) 24.(1) 25.(2)

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