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This quiz consists of questions from
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Directions for questions 1 to 4: Each
question consists of four sentences on a topic. Some sentences are
grammatically incorrect or inappropriate. Select the option that indicates the
grammatically correct and appropriate sentence(s).

1.

A. When virtuoso teams begin their work,
individuals are in and group consensus is out.

B. As project progresses, however, the
individual stars harness themselves to the product of the group.

C. Sooner or later, the members break
through their own egocentrism and become a plurality with single-minded focus
on the goal.

D. In short, they morph into a powerful
team with a shared identity.

(1) A&C           (2) A&D           (3)
B&D           (4) A, C&D

2.

A. Large reductions in the ozone layer, which sits about 15-30 km above the earth, take place each winter over the polar
regions, especially the Antarctic, as low temperatures allow the formation of
stratospheric clouds that assist chemical reactions breaking down ozone.

B. Industrial chemicals containing chlorine
and bromine have been blamed for thinning the layer because they attack the
ozone molecules, making them to break apart.

C. Many an offending chemicals have now
been banned.

D. It will still take several decades
before these substances disappear from the atmosphere.

(1) D                (2)
B&D           (3) A&D           (4) A&C

3.

A. The balance of power will shift to the
East as China and India evolve.

B. Rarely the economic ascent of two still
relatively poor nations has been watched with such a mixture of awe,
opportunism, and trepidation.

C. Postwar era witnessed economic miracles
in Japan and South Korea, but neither was populous enough to power worldwide
growth or change the game in a complete spectrum of industries.

D. China and India, by contrast, posses the
weight and dynamism to transform the 21st-century global economy.

(1) A, B&C       (2) A&D           (3)
C                (4) C&D

4.

A. People have good reason to care about
the welfare of animals.

B. Ever since Enlightenment, their
treatment has been seen as a measure of mankind’s humanity.

C. It is no coincidence that William
Wilberforce and Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton, two leaders of the movement to
abolish the slave trade, helped found the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals in 1820s.

D. An increasing number of people go
further: mankind has a duty not to cause pain to animals that have the capacity
to suffer.

(1) A&D           (2) B                (3)
A&C           (4) C&D

Directions for questions 5 to 8: Each of
the following questions has a paragraph with one italicized word that does not
make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the
options given below the paragraph.

5. Intelligent design derives from an early
19th-century explanation of the natural world given by an English clergyman,
William Paley. Paley was the populariser of the famous watchmaker analogy.
Proponents of intelligent design are crupping Paley’s argument with a new gloss
from molecular biology.

(1) destroying              (2) testing                    (3)
resurrecting                       (4)
questioning

6. Women squat, heads covered, beside huge
piles of limp fodder and blunk oil lamps, and just about all the cows in the
three towns converge upon this spot. Sinners, supplicants and yes, even
scallywags hand over a few coins for a crack at redemption and a handful of
grass.

(1) shining                  
(2) bright                    (3)
sputtering              (4) effulgent

7. It is klang to a sensitive traveler who
walks through this great town, when he sees the streets, the roads and cabin
doors crowded with beggars, mostly women, followed by three, four, or six
children, all in rags and importuning every passenger for alms.

(1) amusing                 (2) irritating               
(3) disgusting             (4) distressing

8. Or there is the most fingummy diplomatic
note on record: when Philip of Macedon wrote to the Spartans that, if he came
within their borders, he would leave not one stone of their city, they wrote
back the one word – “If”.

(1) witty          
(2) rude          (3) simple       (4) terse

Directions for questions 9 to 10: The
sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent
paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical
order of sentence from among the given choices to construct a coherent
paragraph.

9.

A. The two neighbours never fought each
other.

B. Fights involving three male fiddler
crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown.

C. They pushed or grappled only with the
intruder.

D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident
that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally.

E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males
until we saw them fighting a resident male.

(1) BEDAC       (2)
DEBAC       (3) BDCAE      (4) BCEDA

10.

A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought
their way through southern Italy as far as Rome.

B. 
In June 1944, Germany’s military position in World War II appeared
hopeless.

C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men
and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed.

D. Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis
back through Poland.

E. The situation on the eastern front was
catastrophic.

(1) EDACB       (2)
BEDAC       (3) BDECA       (4) CEDAB

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Answers

1(2)    2(3)    
3(2)    4(1)     5(3)    
6(3)   7(4)    8(4)    
9(1)    10(2)