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Answer : 3. "C"
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Directions : In these questions , a part of the sentence is given in bold . Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (A) , (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence . Choose the correct alternative . In case no improvement is needed you answer is (D ) .

They have bought a new car, isn’t ?

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    Haven’t they?
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    Don’t they
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    have they?
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    No Improvement
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Answer : 1. "Haven’t they?"
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Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

One who is a boot licker and flatterer.

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    Gold-digger
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    Gregarious
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    Sycophant
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    Manipulative
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Answer : 3. "Sycophant"
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A sycophant is a person who acts obsequiously towards someone important to gain advantage, often by excessive flattery.


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Direction: In the question a sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expressed the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.

A meeting was proposed to be held. 

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    It was proposed to hold a meeting.
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    It proposed to hold a meeting.
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    It proposed that a meeting will be held.
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    Someone proposed to hold a meeting.
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Answer : 4. "Someone proposed to hold a meeting. "

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Direction: In questions, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive. Out of the four alternatives suggested select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice and mark answer in the Answer Sheet.

We waste much time on trifles. 

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    Much time is wasted by us on trifles.
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    Much time is wasted on trifles.
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    Much time was wasted on trifles.
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    Much time will be wasted on trifles.
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Answer : 1. "Much time is wasted by us on trifles. "

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Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language-so the argument runs-must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes. 
Now it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits, one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers. 

The author believes that –

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    English is become ugly
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    Bad language
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    Our thoughts are becoming uglier because we ae making the language uglier
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    Our civilization is decadent so nothing can be done to stop the decile of the language
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Answer : 3. "Our thoughts are becoming uglier because we ae making the language uglier "

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Directions :Read the following passage to answer the given questions based on it. Some words/phrases are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
During the reign of king Veer, there lived a wise magistrate. Haripant’s verdicts were always just and people from all over vast kingdom came to him in ordered to settle their disputes. In the city where Haripant lived, there was a greedy ghee merchant named Niranjan. He always kept twenty barrels of ghee. Of these, fifteen would contain good quality ghee and the remaining could be adulterated. He would mix the two and sell it. This went on for a long time, till finally the people fed up of being cheated, complained to Haripant.
Haripant had the ghee examined and found to it be adulterated. He gave Niranjan a choice of punishment-drink the five barrels of adulterated ghee from his shop, or receive a hundred lashings, or pay a thousand gold coins to the treasury. Niranjan thought for a while. Losing a thousand gold coins was too much and a hundred lashings too painful. So he decided to drink the five barrels of ghee. Though Niranjan sold adulterated goods in his shop, he made sure his own food was of the best quality. So after drinking one barrel of ghee he began to feel sick. By the second barrel, he was vomiting. At this point he decided to opt for the lashings instead. But he was pampered and his body was unused to any harsh treatment. After ten lashes, he started trembling and by twenty he was giddy. ‘Stop!’ he screamed. ‘I will pay the thousand gold coins!’ And he handed them over.
So he ended up suffering all three punishments, something he did not forget in a hurry and the people of the city got to use only the best quality in their food from then on.

Luke remained behind at the orchard because he

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    was greedy and wanted to collect more fruits
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    waited for the Emperor's men to arrest him
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    lost his composure and started expressing his feeling loudly
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    had waited for his uncle return
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Answer : 3. "lost his composure and started expressing his feeling loudly"

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