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Questions 1 to 5: Each of the following questions has
one or more blank spaces indicating where a word (or words) has been left out.
Following each sentence, four words or sets of words lettered a to d have been
given. You have to select the appropriate word or set of words to make the
sentence most meaningful.

1. The __________, those cellular bodies which contain
the __________ particles, the genes, provide us the basic facts of genetic
transmission.

(a)  protoplasm,
microscopic       (b) globules, fat          (c) cytoplasm, minute   

(d) chromosomes, hereditary

2. The insurance claim was __________ by the relevant
documents

(a) sustained               (b) backed out                (c) backed up                (d) proved

3. I should not have __________ to talk in such a
__________ strain especially when I had not studied the man to whom I was
talking.

(a) daring, commanding         (b) try, bold         (c) ventured, peremptory        (d) emboldened, reckless

4. High prices are often the __________ of __________
of goods.

(a) accompaniment, dearth          (b) concomitant, scarcity      (c) cause, destitution

(d) result, glut

5. The recent disturbances in the country will
__________ and peace will be restored.

(a) blow past              (b) blow over              (c) pass through              (d) come to pass

Questions 6 to 10: Choose the grammatically correct
sentence from among the four options given for each question

6.

(a) The Excel Company has greatly enhanced it’s
advertising expense.

(b) The Excel Company has greatly increased its
advertising expense.

(c) The Excel Company has greatly enhanced its
advertising expense.

(d) The Excel Company has greatly increased it’s
advertising expense.

7.

(a) Today we love, what tomorrow we hate; today we
seek, what tomorrow we shun, today we desire, what tomorrow we fear.

(b) Today, we love what tomorrow we hate, today, we
seek what tomorrow we shun, today, we desire what tomorrow we fear.

(c) Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek
what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear.

(d) Today we love what tomorrow we hate; today we seek
what tomorrow we shun; today we desire what tomorrow we fear.

8.

(a) There’s Mr. Som, whom they say is the best singer
in the country.

(b) There’s Mr. Som, who they say is the best singer
in the country.

(c) There is Mr. Som, whom they say is the best singer
in the country.

(d) There will be Mr. Som who, they say is the best
singer in the country.

9.

(a) I am not one of those who believe everything they
hear.

(b) I am not one of those who believes everything I
hear.

(c) I am not one of those who believes everything he
hears.

(d) I am not one of those who believes in everything
one hears.

10.

(a) The Board of Directors will hold its next meeting
in July.

(b) The Board of Directors will hold it’s next meeting
in July.

(c) The Board of Directors shall hold the next meeting
in July.

(d) The Board of Directors shall hold it’s next
meeting in July.

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Answers

1(d)    2(c)     3(c)    4(a)     5(b)     6(b)   7(d)    8(b)     9(a)    10(a)