In the following questions, a sentence is divided into five parts with one of the parts of each sentence is highlighted in bold suggesting the grammatically correct part of the sentence. Out of the four other parts, choose the part of the sentence which contains grammatical or contextual error in it. If the given sentence is both grammatically correct and contextually meaningful, choose option (e) i.e., “No error” as your answer.
The move will be cost (A)/ the government ₹12,134 crore, (B)/ rail minister Piyush Goyal said (C)/ after a meeting of the (D)/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA).
Explanation :
There is an error in the part (a). The erroneous phrase is ’will be’. The correct phrase will be ’will cost’. So, the correct answer is option (a)
No wonder then that for some time now, (A)/ media and technology companies for the world (B)/ have looked at (C)/ Artificial Intelligence (AI)-led algorithms / as the saviour—the demon-slayers (D).
Explanation :
There is an error in the part (b), and the error is in the phrase ’companies for the world’. Incorrect preposition ’for’ is used in the phrase. The correct preposition to be used is ’around’. Hence, the correct answer is option (b)
The release of Manto (A)/ directed by Nandita Das /and with Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the lead (B)/, is momentous event in the life (C)/ of the great Urdu writer’s family (D).
Explanation :
There is an error in the part (d), and the erroneous part is ’is momentous event’. The correct phrase would be ’is a momentous event’.’Momentous event’ is a noun-phrase (noun typecommon noun) and should be preceded by an article.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d)
All six writers (A)/ who made it to the finals (B)/ of the Booker’s prize (C)/ are from the UK, (D)/ the US, and Canada.
Explanation :
The given sentence is grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. The correct answer is option (e)
Like every weekday (A)/ since the past two years, (B)/ she made her way / to platform number 7 (C)/and waited for the Churchgate-bound train from Virar (D).
Explanation :
There is an error in the part (B) of the sentence, and the erroneous phrase is ’since the past two years’. The usage of ’since’ is incorrect, and the correct word to be used here is ’for’. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).
Choose the word which is most similar in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Fathom
Explanation :
Option (e) is the best answer choice here. Fathom-understand (a difficult problem or an enigmatic person) after much thought All the given options are different in meaning except ’understand’
Perforce
Explanation :
Perforce- used to express necessity or inevitability.
Subliminally- below the threshold of sensation or consciousness
Equivocally- in a deliberately ambiguous or questionable way
Option (a) is the best answer choice here.
Gallop
Explanation :
Option (d) is the best answer choice here. Gallop- a very fast pace of running
All the given options are the antonyms of the given word ’gallop’ except option (d)
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Ecological ruin is on a gallop across South Asia, with life and livelihood of nearly a quarter of the world’s population affected. Yet, our polities are able to neither fathom nor address the degradation. The distress is paramount in the northern half of the subcontinent, roping in the swathe from the Brahmaputra basin to the Indus-Ganga plain.
Within each country, with politics dancing to the tune of populist consumerism, nature is without a guardian. The erosion of civility in geopolitics keeps South Asian societies apart when people should be joining hands across borders to save our common ground. Because wildlife, disease vectors, aerosols and river flows do not respect national boundaries, the environmental trends must perforce be discussed at the regional inter-country level. As the largest nation-state of our region, and the biggest polluter whose population is the most vulnerable, India needs to be alert to the dangerous drift. China has been resolutely tackling air pollution and promoting clean energy. But while Beijing’s centralised governance mandates environmentalism-by-decree, the subcontinental realities demand civic participation for sustainability to work. Unfortunately, despite being a vast democracy where people power should be in the driving seat, the Indian state not only neglects its own realm, it does not take the lead on cross-border environmentalism.
Thus, Bihar is helping destroy the Chure/Siwalik range of Nepal to feed the construction industry’s demand for boulders and conglomerate, even though this hurts Bihar itself through greater floods, desertification and aquifer depletion. Air pollution is strangling the denizens of Lahore, New Delhi, Kathmandu and Dhaka alike, but there is no collaboration. Wildlife corridors across States, provinces and countries are becoming constricted by the day, but we look the other way. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has chosen India to be the ’host country’ to mark World Environment Day today. But when will New Delhi rise to connect the dots between representative democracy and ecological sanity?
Truth be told, the environment ministry is invariably the least empowered in the major countries of South Asia, without clout vis-à-vis line ministries, and unable to coordinate the ecological response. Governments were content once to regard environmental protection as synonymous with wildlife protection. Today they stand unprepared when the challenges have greatly multiplied and deepened. There is distress across the ecological spectrum, but one need only study the rivers and the atmosphere to track the inaction of governments and our weakened activism. On water, the subcontinent is running out of the resource due to the demands of industrialisation and urbanisation, and continuation of the colonial-era irrigation model based on flooding the fields. The economic and demographic forces are arrayed against the rivers and their right-of-way. In the hills, the Ganga in Uttarakhand and the Teesta of Sikkim are representative of rivers that have been converted into dry boulder tracts by ’cascades’ of run-of-river hydroelectric schemes. The same fate now threatens the rivers of Nepal and India’s Northeast, while the tributaries of the Indus were ’done in’ decades ago through water diversion.
Everywhere, natural drainage is destroyed by highways and railway tracks elevated above the flood line, and bunds encircling towns and cities. Reduced flows and urban/industrial effluents have converted our great rivers into sewers. We refuse to consider drip irrigation as a solution just as we fail to acknowledge that the rivers are made to carry hundreds of tonnes of plastics daily into the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. While underground aquifers are exploited to exhaustion, the popular ’rivertraining’ prescription imprisons our rivers within embankments, according to the inherited Western engineering canon that does not factor in the natural silt carried by rivers of the Himalaya. The would-be high-dam builders have not adequately studied the phenomenon of Himalayan cloudbursts, nor do they find it necessary to address the question: how do you de-silt a deep reservoir when it fills up with sand and mud?
As we have seen, the highs of environmental movements are invariably followed by lows, and so to exit the cycle what is needed is an “environmental system” inbuilt into the infrastructure of state and society. Work towards ecological sustainability must go beyond ritual, with thepath seeming to lie in the empowerment of local government all over. Elected representatives in cities and districts must be challenged to emerge as the bulwark of environmentalism even as the provincial and national governments are asked to rise to their regulatory responsibilities. When ’organic environmentalism’ rises from the grassroots and makes state authority accountable, South Asia and its peoples will be protected. At that point, no force will be able to stop activism across the frontiers and South Asia will begin to tackle pollution and dislocation as one.
According to the passage, what is the drawback of the popular ’river-training’ prescription under inherited Western engineering canon?
Explanation :
Option (c) is the correct answer choice. Option (c) can be traced from the 5th paragraph of passage where it is stated as “While underground aquifers are exploited to exhaustion, the popular ’river training’ prescription imprisons our rivers within embankments, according to the inherited Western engineering canon that does not factor in the natural silt carried by rivers of the Himalaya.”
According to the passage why South Asian societies are unable to discuss the environmental trends at the regional inter-country level?
Explanation :
Option (b) is the correct answer choice. Option (b) can be traced from the 2nd paragraph of passage where it is stated as “The erosion of civility in geopolitics keeps South Asian societies apart when people should be joining hands across borders to save our common ground.”
Why author finds the government responsible for the paced ecological imbalance and destruction?
Explanation :
Option (d) is the correct answer choice. Option (b) can be traced from the 1st paragraph of passage where it is stated as “Ecological ruin is on a gallop across South Asia, with life and livelihood of nearly a quarter of the world’s population affected. Yet, our polities are able to neither fathom nor address the degradation.” Option (a) is stated in the first line of 2nd paragraph “Within each country, with politics dancing to the tune of populist consumerism, nature is without a guardian.” Option (c) can be traced from the last line of the 2nd paragraph where it is stated as “Unfortunately, despite being a vast democracy where people power should be in the driving seat, the Indian state not only neglects its own realm, it does not take the lead on cross-border environmentalism.”
What are the reasons that the subcontinent is running out of the water resources?
Explanation :
option (e) is the most suitable answer choice as all the given statements are true. Option (a), (b) and (c) can be traced from the 4th paragraph where it is given as “On water, the subcontinent is running out of the resource due to the demands of industrialization and urbanization, and continuation of the colonial-era irrigation model based on flooding the fields. The economic and demographic forces are arrayed against the rivers and their right-of-way. In the hills, the Ganga in Uttarakhand and the Teesta of Sikkim are representative of rivers that have been converted into dry boulder tracts by ’cascades’ of run-of-river hydroelectric schemes.” Option (d) can be traced from the 5th paragraph where it is given as “Everywhere, natural drainage is destroyed by highways and railway tracks elevated above the flood line, and bunds encircling towns and cities. Reduced flows and urban/industrial effluents have converted our great rivers into sewers.”
Which of the following options explain the most suitable meaning of the phrasal verb ’done in’ used?
Explanation :
option (b) is the most suitable answer choice. ’Done in’- extremely tired
In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five options are given. Four of the five words fit into the blank coherently. Find out the word which does not fit into the blank appropriately. It was a _____(81)_____ journey that these 166 passengers of Jaipur bound Jet Airways flight number 9W 697 from Mumbai on Thursday will never forget. When the _____(82)_____ took off at about 6 am on Thursday everything _____(83)_____ normal. However, after 10 minutes into the flight, the _____(84)_____ of these passengers began. Suddenly the oxygen masks came down from above their seats. By this time the aircraft was flying at a/an _____(85)_____ of about 28,000 feet. Suddenly the _____(86)_____ started feeling uncomfortable while some started to bleed from nose and ears. The panicked passengers _____(87)_____ putting oxygen masks onto themselves while many _____(88)_____ that they were not working. After about 10-15 minutes of _____(89)_____ and panic the oxygen started flowing into the masks, much to the _____(90)_____ of the passengers.
Q:88
Explanation :
The context of the sentence where the blankappears suggest that the oxygen masks weren’t working. So, the commuters would have ’complained’ about it.
The words ’criticized, whined and moaned’ are also appropriate for the blank, but the option (c) which is ’praised’ is completely irrelevant and a misfit.
Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.
The correct clause should have been ’while many complained…
Q:89
Explanation :
The correct words to describe the situation faced by the passengers when oxygen masks weren’t working, and the passengers were facing life-threatening inconvenience are ’hue and cry, disturbance, uproar, ruckus among others’. Option (d) ’enjoyment’ is a completely irrelevant option and is a mis-fit.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).
The correct phrase should have been ’After about 10-15 minutes of uproar’.
Q:81
Explanation :
The hint for the blank can be derived from a sentence of the third paragraph ’Suddenly the oxygen masks came down from above their seats.’ The sentence suggests that the journey wasn’t a happy journey. The words ’scary, horrifying, chilling and intimidating’ are synonyms. So, the correct mis-fit for the word is ’happy’. Hence, option (d) is the correct answer.
Q:85
Explanation :
Something was flying. That something would be flying at a height.
The correct phrase should have been ’was flying at an altitude’. Among the given options, ’building’which is the option (c) is a mis-fit option and is the correct answer.
Q:83
Explanation :
The sentence where the given blank appears seems to be composed of two clauses—one subordinate clause, starting with ’when’ and the other independent clause.
’everything __________ normal’ should be an independent clause. Among the given options, options (b), (c) and (d) seem to fit the blank appropriately, but the option (a) doesn’t and is irrelevant as per the context of the sentence. The correct clause should be ’everything seemed/appeared/looked normal’.
Q:86
Explanation :
The given passage talks about the suffering or tribulations of the passengers of the Jet Airways flight.
Option (a) ’soldiers’ is a mis-fit and is the correct answer.
The correct clause should have been ’Suddenly the passengers started feeling…’.
Q:90
Explanation :
Flowing of oxygen into the oxygen masks would and should have brought relief to the passengers.
Words like ’consolation, comfort, and ease’ are also appropriate.
The word ’problem’ is completely irrelevant and a misfit as per the context of the sentence. Hence, the correct answer is option (e).
The correct phrase would have been ’much to the relief of the passengers’
Q:84
Explanation :
The tone and the context of the paragraph suggests that the passengers of the airplane were in trouble and had a bad experience. So, option (b) ’pleasure’ is a completely misfit word. The correct clause should be ’the trouble of these passengers began’.
Q:87
Explanation :
The tone of the sentence and the context of the passage suggests that the passengers would have started putting on the oxygen mask. So, the option (e) which is ’stopped’ is a mis-fit word and is the correct answer.
The correct clause should have been ’The panicked passengers started putting oxygen masks’.
Q:82
Explanation :
Something took off. The given passage talks about an airplane belonging to the Jet Airways. A car is something which can’t took off. So, the correct misfit is the option (b) which is ’car’.
The correct phrase should have been ’When the flight took off’
Choose the word which is most opposite in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Fate
Explanation :
Fate- the development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power. All the given options are either the synonyms or altogether different in meaning to the given word ’fate’, except option (b).
Denizens
Explanation :
Denizens- a person, animal, or plant that lives or is found in a particular place. All the given options are the synonyms of the given word ’denizen’ except option (c), ’alien’
Each question below has two highlighted words. There are five pairs of words below the sentence. Each pair is lettered. Choose the pair of words which can replace the words in the sentence in the same order so as to complete the sentences meaningfully.
Jet Airways (India) Ltd said it would monetize its 49% stake in Jet Privilege Pvt. Ltd, the frequent-flyer loyalty programme subsidiary.
Explanation :
The word ’manages’ for the second blank doesn’t impart complete sense to the sense, but an incomplete sense. Jet Airways would manage its 49% stake… If the stakes were already belonged to Jet Airways, what is the need to state that it would manages its own stake. That’s already understood.
The option which provides correct and relevant alternatives to the blank is the option (d)
On Monday, the government announced that it would merge Bank of Baroda (Bank of Baroda), Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank to form the third largest lender in India.
Explanation :
Kindly focus on the clause ’it (government) would merge Bank of Baroda, Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank to form the third largest ______ in India’. Three banks would be merged to give a larger bank. Notice that the word ’lender’ is a synonym for the word ’bank’. For the first blank, both ’announced’ and ’decided’ are appropriate. Considering the above, the correct option which imparts correct and relevant words to the blanks is the option (a).
Hence, option (a) is the correct answer.
With just three months left in state assembly elections, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Rao Bhagwat will be on a 10-day tour of Rajasthan where he will camp in Jodhpur, Nagaur and Jaipur.
Explanation :
The context of the sentence suggests that RSS Sarsanghchalak will be visiting Rajasthan where he stay there for days. Among the given options, option (c) provides the best alternatives to the blank and is the correct answer
Solar capacity installations in the country is at 25,000 megawatts (MW), or one-fourth of the 2022 target of 100,000 MW, according to Mercom India research.
Explanation :
The context of the sentence suggests that the blank would be filled by a preposition to impart a correct relationship between ’Solar capacity installations is at 25,000 megawatts (MW)’ and ’the country’. The phrase ’______ the country’ is behaving as an adverb-phrase. Among the given alternatives for the first blank, the correct preposition to be used is ’in’.
Now, 25,000 megawatts (MW) is one-fourth of the 100,000 MW.
So, the correct answer is the option (b)
he Union cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal for the complete electrification of Indian Railways in the next four years, reducing dependance on imported fossil fuel and saving revenue for the national carrier.
Explanation :
The phrase ’reducing dependence on imported fossil fuel…’ suggests that the proposal was approved. For the second blank, the appropriate words are ’carrier’ and ’railways’.
From above, it can be derived that the correct answer is option (e).
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