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Directions (1-5): Identify the best way to improve the bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’.
Q1. As per the reports, womenin Pakistan are shut away of the formal financial system.
(a) No improvement
(b) Shut off
(c) Shut out
(d) Shut in
S1. Ans (c)
Sol. The correct answer is option c.
Replace ‘Shut away’ with ‘Shut out’ to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Shut out – to exclude someone or something
Shut off – To close off; isolate
Shut in – To force someone or something to be confined within an enclosed space.
Shut away – Imprison or remove someone’s freedom.
Q2.The 50 cars the German automaker wanted to sell by the end of 2021 were lapped up against in a month.
(a) Lapped over
(b) Lapped up
(c) No improvement
(d) Lapped against
S2. Ans (b)
Sol. The correct answer is option b.
Replace ‘were lapped up against’ with ‘lapped up’ to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Lap up – to buy, or do something very enthusiastically, to respond to enthusiastically or accept eagerly
Lap over – To lie partially on or over something; to overlap something.
Lap against (something) – Of water, to break, beat, or splash gently against something, as due to a current or tide.
lap (up) against something – [for waves] to splash gently against something
Q3. Let’s go to the circus tonight, shall we?
(a) No improvement
(b) Can we
(c) Didn’t we
(d) Shouldn’t we
S3. Ans (a)
Sol. The correct answer is option a.
The given sentence is grammatically and contextually correct.
A question tag is a special construction in English. It is a statement followed by a mini-question. We use questiontag to ask for confirmation. After “Let’s”, the tag begins with “Shall”.
Q4. With the creation of the internet, it gives us excess to information at a twenty-four-hour rate.
(a) Access to
(b) Access of
(c) No improvement
(d) Access for
S4. Ans (a)
Sol. The correct answer is option a.
Replace ‘excess to’ with ‘access to’ to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Access to – It is a phrase which means, “The ability to use or reach something or someone, through any number of means.”
I won’t have access to my work email while I’m away on vacation.
Q5. His grandmother was directed to take complete rest by the doctor.
(a) Advised
(b) Informed
(c) Told
(d) No improvement
S5. Ans (a)
Sol. The correct answer is option a.
Replace ‘directed’ with ‘advised’ to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
The given sentence is an ‘Imperative sentence’. The imperative sentence expresses a request, advice or order.
Q6. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank in the given sentence.
____________ he became a minister; he didn’t allow any of his relatives to live with him.
(a) As long as
(b) In case
(c) As soon as
(d) In order that
S6. Ans. (c)
Sol. The correct answer is option c.
The word that can be in the blank is, ‘As soon as.’
As soon as – It is a conjunction and it is used when something happens immediately after some other event.
For example – As soon as we got out of the car, it started raining.
Q7. Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.
She was unable to produce sufficient evidences for support her accusations.
(a)to produce
(b)She was unable
(c)sufficient evidences for
(d)support her accusations.
S7. Ans. (c)
Sol. ‘Evidence’ is an uncountable noun and hence its plural form remains the same. So, first we need to change ‘evidences’ into ‘evidence’. Now, since ‘support’ is in its base form hence, instead of using “for” we need to use “to” (to infinitive) before it. So, we can easily say that the error is in part C of the sentence.
Q8. Select the most appropriate word for the given group of words
A person who sells and arranges cut flowers
(a)nutritionist
(b)agriculturist
(c)florist
(d)botanist
S8. Ans. (c)
Sol. Nutritionist: a person who studies or is an expert in nutrition.
Agriculturist: someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil.
Florist: a person who sells and arranges cut flowers.
Botanist: an expert in or student of the scientific study of plants.
Q9.Select the most appropriate meaning of the given
Make short work of something
(a)reduce the size
(b)dispose of quickly
(c)edit carefully
(d)shorten some dress
S9. Ans. (b)
Sol. Make short work of: accomplish, consume, or destroy quickly.
Q10. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the bold segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select No improvement.
My professor gave me a lot of useful advices when I was writing my research paper.
(a)gave me a lots of useful advices
(b)gave me a lot of useful advice
(c)No improvement
(d)give me lots of useful advices
S10. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Advice’ is an uncountable noun and should not be made plural. Hence, option(b) correctly improves the given sentence.
Q11. Select the option that will improve the segment in bold of the given sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘No improvement.’
The hotels were heavy booked for the festival in Banaras.
(a) are heavy booked
(b) were heavily booking
(c) were heavily booked
(d) No substitution required
S11. Ans (c)
Sol. The correct answer is option c.
Replace ‘were heavy booked’ with ‘were heavily booked’ to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
In the given sentence, ‘Booked’ is a verb and to modify that we need an adverb. An adverb usually modifies by telling how, when, where, why, under what conditions, or to what degree. An adverb is often formed by adding – ‘Ly’ to an adjective.
Heavily (adverb) – to a great degree; in large amounts
For example – It was raining heavily.
Heavy (adjective) – more or worse than usual in amount, degree, etc.
For example – heavy rain/rainfall/snow
- There was heavy fighting in the capital last night.
Q12. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Detrimental
(a) Friendly
(b) Smart
(c) Intellectual
(d) Harmful
S12. Ans(d)
Sol. Detrimental: means causing harm or damage.
Let’s see the meaning of other given options:
Friendly means helpful to somebody or something; not harmful to something.
Smart means (used about a person) having a clean and tidy appearance.
Harmful means causing harm.
Intellectual means connected with a person’s ability to think in a logical way and to understand things.
Q13. 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.
Rival fans were involved in a __________ in Kilburn High Road when windows and the interior of a pub were damaged.
(a) truce
(b) red tape
© skirmish
(d) cryosphere
S13. Ans.(c)
Sol. Red tape: excessive bureaucracy or adherence to official rules and formalities.
Skirmish: a minor short-term fight.
Cryosphere is the frozen water part of the Earth system.
Hence option C fits in the context.
Q14. Select the CORRECTLY spelt word.
(a) Misionn
(b) Mision
(c) Mission
(d) Missan
S14. Ans.(c)
Sol. The correct answer is option c.
The correct spelling is ‘Mission’.
Q15. Identify the segment in the given sentence which contains the grammatical
error.
That house is built of bricks.
(a) That house
(b) is
(c) built of bricks.
(d) No error
S15. Ans.(c)
Sol. The correct answer is option c.
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