English Language Ability Quiz for SNAP entrance exam

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This quiz consists of questions from past
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1.
Identify the incorrect one.

(a) The coach together with his team was
praised.

(b) Many a boy is tempted to sing.

(c) The king with all his sons were
imprisoned.

(d) Neither James nor his lawyers were
there.

2.
Identify the sentence that gives the same meaning as the following.

He
said, “Yes, I’ll come and see you.”

(a) He accepted that he will come and see
me.

(b) He said that he will come and see me.

(c) He agreed that he will come and see me.

(d) He said that he would come and see me.

Directions
(Questions 3-6): Choose one option to fill in the blanks in the following
sentences.

(a)
a                 (b) an              (c) the             (d) none

3.
I had met him ______ year ago.

4.
Can you see ______ moon?

5.
He is ______ honourable man.

6.
______ people with little patience rarely succeed.

7.
Choose the correct arrangement of the following jumbled sentences to make it a coherent
paragraph.

The
first sentence is:

Barely
a year had elapsed before the Pritzker clan began to squabble.

L.
Under the plan he has until 2011 to distribute the assets among the heirs.

M.
The family was no longer cohesive whole, they wrote, and therefore the business
needed the kind of transparency a public corporation might have.

N.
A year later the family agreed on a governing structure for the Pritzker
Organisation, requiring Tom to open the books, hold annual meetings of family
shareholders and issue regular financial reports.

O.
In summer 2000, Tom’s two brothers and a handful of his cousins sent a letter
asking him to restructure the holdings.

(a) NMOL        (b)
MLON        (c) OMNL       (d) ONML

8.
“Time to bust some myths about the EPF Organisation, India’s only social
security fund manager for non-government workers, though what follows is not
published on a regular basis. Active membership is just about 5 percent, and
only 17 percent of the members account for 84 percent of the balances. That’s
only Rs.20000/- each! Less than 7 percent have a deposit amount of more than 5
lacs!”

Choose
the statement closest to the idea expressed in this paragraph.

(a) EPF is an efficiently managed organisation
about which no one knows correctly.

(b) EPF is an inefficient organisation

(c) EPF Organisation takes care of future
fund requirements of investors adequately.

(d) EPF Organisation does not have enough
funds to take care of secure future.

9.
“Two recent World Bank studies on India’s rapidly depleting water resources
have caused quite a stir. More interesting is how water seems to have become
the new focus area for the Bank’s assistance: at $3.2 billion in 2005-08 from a
mere $700 million in 1999-04. Within water also, more money is going to rural
water, large hydropower projects, and water resource management in poorer
states.”

Choose
the statement that summarises the above paragraph best.

(a) India’s water resources are depleting.

(b) The two World Bank studies on India
have caused a stir.

(c) The World Bank assistance to India for
developing water resources has increased more than 4 times for 2005-08 as
compared to the prior period.

(d) Poorer states of India require water
resource management projects such as rural water, large hydropower projects.

10.
There are three underlined words below, followed by their usages. Determine the
sentences, in which the use of words is correct or appropriate:

Pray.
Prey. Prying

A.
If you pray with faith, they say, it will be answered

B.
He has fallen a prey to cheats

C.
Prying into the affairs of others is bad

(a) A and B                  (b) A and C                  (c)
A, B and C              (d) B and C

11.
Choose the option which is closest in meaning to the word SUBTLE

(a) Innocent

(b) Elusive

(c) Dangerous

(d) Insidious

12.
A single word equivalent for the statement “Speak falsely with deliberate
intent” is

(a) repudiate               (b) prevaricate               (c) disparage              (d) confront

13.
Identify the option with the incorrect spelling.

(a) paraphernalia        (b) programme           (c)
pediatrics                        (d) beserk

14.
Which two sentences in the following convey the same idea? Choose from the
combinations listed below:

1.
Wasn’t there any checking at the airport?

2.
I want to know if there was any checking at the airport.

3.
I wonder if there should have been any checking at the airport?

4.
There should have been checking at the airport.

(a) 1, 2            
(b) 1, 4            (c) 3, 4                         (d) 2, 4

15.
Choose the grammatically correct sentence.

(a) You should at once report it to the
concerned authority.

(b) You should report it at once, to the
authority concerned.

(c) You should report it at once, to the
concerned authority.

(d) You should at once report it to the
authority concerned.

MBA:

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Answers

1(c)    2(d)    
3(a)    4(c)     5(b)    
6(d)   7(c)    8(b)    
9(c)    10(b)    11(d)   
12(b)     13(d)    14(a)    
15(d)

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