The British retailer, M&S, today formally ______ defeat in its attempt to _____ King’s, its US subsidiary, since no potential purchasers were ready to cough up the necessary cash.
Which of the following is the correct form of expression for the underlined part of the sentence below?
Patna is not only the capital of Bihar, but it is also one of the oldest cities in the world and the
largest city in the state.
A. capital of Bihar, but it is also one of the oldest
B. capital of Bihar, nevertheless also one of the oldest
C. Bihar's capital city, and it is also one of the older
D. Bihar's capital, but it is also one of the older
E. capital of Bihar, but it is also one of the older
The defence proposes to show that the incident that the prosecution so _____ rejects as
_____ did indeed take place.
A. blithely, undesirable
B. cavalierly, apocryphal
C. vehemently, factual
D. persuasively, pointless
E. convincingly, inevitable
Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
Choose the best option:
1. The mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking is one of the most important issues in the present Particle Physics.
2. They are required to give masses for all quarks and leptons and to guarantee the absence of the gauge anomaly.
3. In the standard electroweak model a fundamental Higgs doublet is introduced to cause the spontaneous symmetry breaking.
4. Supersymmetry (SUSY), eliminating all quadratic divergences, may provide a better theoretical basis to describe a fundamental Higgs boson with a relatively small mass to a high energy cutoff scale, say the Planck scale for example.
5. In the minimal SUSY extension of the standard electroweak model the Higgs sector consists of two chiral superfields of Higgs doublets (H1 and H2 with opposite hypercharges).
A. 1, 3, 4, 5, 2
B. 1, 4, 3, 5, 2
C. 3, 4, 2, 5, 1
D. I, 5, 2, 3, 4
E. 5, 4, 2, 3, 1
Peter has suggested to me that the _____ of highly systematic and _____ planning techniques may have led to a substantial in firms' notions of what is likely to happen in the future, and thus to a in the incidence of mistakes, especially on the part of the ___ modern corporations.
A. progressive development, exact, decline, decrease, tiny
B. progress deterioration, exact, increase, decrease, tiny
C. progressive development, precise, improvement, reduction, large
D. progressive development, precise, increase, decrease, large
E. gradual growth, exact, increase, decline, large
Select the option that indicates the grammatically correct and appropriate sentence(s).
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, possess the weight and dynamism to transform the 21 st-century global economy.
A. A, B & C
B. A & D
C. C
D. C & D
From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Federer's fifth grand slam win prompted a reporter to ask whether he was the best ever. Federer is certainly not lacking in confidence, but he wasn't about to proclaim himselfthe best ever. "The best player ofthis generation, yes", he said, "But nowhere close to ever. Just look at the records that some guys have. I'm a minnow." _______ .
A. His win against Agassi, a genius from the previous generation, contradicts that.
B. Sampras, the king of an earlier generation, was as humble.
C. He is more than a minnow to his contemporaries.
D. The difference between 'the best of this generation' and 'the best ever' is a matter of perception.
Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of disparity, its impact is all the greater when the lower-caste families also happen to be poor.
B. Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women from less thriving classes.
C. It is the interactive presence ofthese two kinds of deprivation - being low class and being female - that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
D. A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer women very severely.
E. Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class.
A. EABDC B. EBDCA C. DAEBC D. BECDA
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Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.
A. When I returned to home, I began to read
B. everything r could get my hand on about Israel.
C. That same year Israel's Jewish Agency sent
D. a Shaliach a sort of recruiter to Minneapolis.
E. I became one of his most active devotees.
A. C & E B. C only C. E only D. B, C & E E. C, D & E
Read the each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
A. Several issues raising
B. in the meeting could
C. be amicably resolved
D. due to his tactful handling.
E. No error.
Read the each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
A. He deserted the path of honour
B.
in order to
C. satisfy his ambition
D. and then went down his doom very quickly.
E. No error.
Read the each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
A. Nitin's nephew, who lives
B.
in Bangalore, is eager to travel to
C. Delhi to have
D. a glimpse of the capital.
E. No error.
(solve as per the direction given below questions )
A. Bible
B. can be
C. regarded as
D. a great.
E. No error.
(solve as per the direction given in below questions)
A. While luminaries of the dance world
B. have a dearth of opportunities to display their art
C. upcoming dancers suffer from
D. an unfortunate lack of exposure.
E. No error.
The genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda, apart from being mis-described in
the most sinister and _________ manner as 'ethnic cleansing', were also
blamed, in further hand-washing rhetoric, on
something dark and interior to __________ and perpetrators alike.
(1) innovative; communicator
(2) enchanting; leaders
(3) disingenuous; victims
(4) exigent; exploiters
(5) tragic; sufferers
As navigators, calendar makers, and other __________ of the night sky accumulated evidence to the contrary, ancient astronomers were forced to __________ that certain bodies might move in circles about points, which in turn moved in circles about the earth.
(1) scrutinizers; believe (2) observers; agree
(3) scrutinizers; suggest (4) observers; concede
(5) students; conclude
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Every human being, after the first few days of his life, is a product of two factors: on the one hand,there is his __________ endowment; and on the other hand, there is the effect of environment,including _____
(1) constitutional; weather (2) congenital; education
(3) personal; climate (4) economic; learning
(5) genetic; pedagogy
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A manager went out to have dinner in a restaurant and found the food to be good. When asked to provide feedback on the quality of food, the manager rated the quality as "excellent".
Which of the following can be concluded from this?
A.The manager does not believe in karma.
B.The manager definitely has disconfirmation sensitivity.
C.It is not possible to comment on the disconfirmation sensitivity of the manager.
D.The manager does not have disconfirmation sensitivity.
E.None of the above.
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Read the following sentence and choose the best alternative which should replace the italicized part of the sentence.
Economic theory fails to explain the extent to which saving from personal income has shifted to short-term bonds, money-market funds, and other near-term investments by the instability in the futures market.
A.to which savings from personal income has shifted
B.of savings from personal income that has been shifted
C.of savings from personal income shifting
D.to which savings from personal income have shifted
E.to which savings from personal income have been shifted
Read the following sentence and choose the best alternative which should replace the italicized part of the sentence.
The tremendous insight of Einstein was that the passage of time does not appear to be the same while standing still as it does to a person traveling at a speed which is a significant fraction of the speed of light.
A.while standing still as it does to a person traveling
B.to a person standing still as to a person traveling
C.to a person who is standing still as a person who is traveling
D.while standing still as to traveling
E.to a person standing still as to a person who travels