10 Questions with Answers & Explanations
Set 24 of 38
encourage
request
oppose
compel
compel
The word 'compel' means to force or oblige someone to do something, which fits the context of not being forced to do unwanted things.
diverget
unravelled
integrated
invincible
integrated
In this context, 'integrated' means thoughts and actions are unified or combined in a harmonious way.
Context: Question No. (12-16) based on the following passage: Today perhaps your only association with the word 'polio' is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty five years ago this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain and spinal cord, causing stiffening and weakening of muscles, crippling and paralysis - which is Why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was born, that this would happen to me, no one would have believed it. I was seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with huge 23 year gap between the first and last. I was so fair and brown haired that I looked more look like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.
a foreign child
a very healthy boy
tell and smart
fair and brown haired
fair and brown haired
The passage states, 'I was so fair and brown haired that I looked more look like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri.'
see
had seen
saw
seeing
saw
The adverb 'yesterday' indicates that the action happened in the past, requiring the simple past tense form of the verb 'see', which is 'saw'.
Context: Study the following passage and answer the question which is based on it (10-14) The Indian middle class consist of so many strata that it defies categorisation under a single term class, which would imply a considerable degree of homogeneity. Yet two paradoxical features characterise its conduct fairly uniformly; extensive practice and intensive abhorrence of corruption. In the several recent surveys of popular perceptions of corruptions, politicians of course invariably and understandably top the list, closely followed by bureaucrats, policemen, lawyers, businessmen and others. The quintessential middle class. If teachers do not figure high on this priority list, it is not for lack of trying, but for lack of opportunities. Over the years, the sense of shock over acts of corruption in the middle class has witnessed a steady decline, as its ambitions for a better material life have soared but the resources for meeting such ambitions have not kept pace. What is fascinating, however, is the intense yearning of this class for a clean corruptionless politics and society, a yearning that has again and again surfaced with any figure public or obscure, focus on his mission of eradicating corruption. Even the repeated failure of this promise on virtually every man's part has not subjected it to the law of diminishing returns.
courage
opportunities
support
ambition
opportunities
The passage states that teachers not being high on the corruption list is not due to a lack of trying, but a 'lack of opportunities'.
Hit a golden spot
Come across gold
Come across the word "gold"
Uncover or find a valuable line of argument or information
Uncover or find a valuable line of argument or information
The idiom 'strike gold' in this context means to find or discover something very valuable or successful, such as a new line of research.
where she comes from
where does she come from
where from she comes
from where does she come
where she comes from
In an indirect question (noun clause), the word order should be subject-verb (statement form), not auxiliary-subject-verb (question form).
away
off
out
down
off
The phrasal verb 'cut off' is used here to mean being isolated or separated from nature.
Context: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
besides
along
at
beside
beside
'Beside' means 'at the side of' or 'next to', whereas 'besides' means 'in addition to'. Here, physical proximity (sitting next to) is implied.
Context: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
cleared out
cleared up
cleared away
cleared off
cleared up
The phrasal verb 'cleared up' means the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped, resulting in bright weather.
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