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Direction for questions 1 to 5: Answer the questions
based on the following information.
In each of these questions, a related pair of words or
phrases is followed by a pair of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair
that best expresses a relationship that is least similar to the one expressed
in the original pair.
1. Germane: Pertinent
a. Apt : Appropriate
b. Quick : Urgent
c. Dull : Sluggish
d. Excited : Serene.
2. Sail : Ship
a. Propeller : Aeroplane
b. Radar : Satellite
c. Hydrogen : Balloon
d. Accelerator : Car
3. Cosmic : Universe
a. Terrestrial : Earth
b. Lunar : Moon
c. Connubial : Youth
d. Annular : Ring
4. Canine : Dog
a. Feline : Cat
b. Aquiline : Parrot
c. Serpentine : Cobra
d. Vulpine : Fox
5. Xenophobia : Foreigners
a. Claustrophobia : Height
b. Anglophobia : Englishmen
c. Bibliophobia : Book
d. Hemophobia : Blood
Direction for questions 6 to 10: Answer the questions
based on the following information.
Each of the questions consists of four sentences
marked A, B, C and D. You are required to arrange the sentences in a proper
sequence so as to make a coherent paragraph.
6. A. Where there is division there must be conflict,
not only division between man and woman, but also division on the basis of
race, religion and language.
B. We said the present condition of racial divisions,
linguistic divisions has brought out so many wars.
C. Also we went into the question as to why does this
conflict between man and man exist.
D. May we continue with what we were discussing last
evening?
a. ABCD b. DBCA c. BCAD d. BDAC
7. A. No other documents give us so intimate a sense
of the tone and temper of the first generation poets.
B. Part of the interest of the journal is of course
historical.
C. And the clues to Wordsworth’s creative processes
which the journal affords are of decisive
significance.
D. Not even in their own letters do Wordsworth and
Coleridge stand so present before us than they do through the references in the
journal.
a. BACD b. BDAC c. CBAD d. DABC
8. A. These high plans died, slowly but definitively,
and were replaced with the dream of a huge work on philosophy.
B. In doing whatever little he could of the new plan, the
poet managed to write speculations on theology, and political theory.
C. The poet’s huge ambitions included writing a
philosophic epic on the origin of evil.
D. However, not much was done in this regard either,
with only fragments being written.
a. ABCD b. CBAD c. CDAB d. CADB
9. A. We can never leave off wondering how that which
has ever been should cease to be.
B. As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of
the value of time.
C. Nothing else, indeed, seems to be of any
consequence; and we become misers in this sense.
D. We try to arrest its few last tottering steps, and
to make it linger on the brink of the grave.
a. ACDB b. BCDA c. BDCA d. ABCD
10. A. There is no complete knowledge about anything.
B. Our thinking is the outcome of knowledge, and
knowledge is always limited.
C. Knowledge always goes hand in hand with ignorance.
D. Therefore, our thinking, which is born out of
knowledge, is always limited under all circumstances.
a. BCAD b. BCDA c. DABC d. CBDA
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Answers
1(d) 2(b)
3(c) 4(b) 5(a)
6(b) 7(a) 8(d)
9(b) 10(d)