Directions (1-5): In the given passage several blanks are given and for each blank four alternatives are provided. Choose the option from which can fill in the blanks to make a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. If none of the given options can fit the blank then choose option (e) ‘None of these’ as your answer.
Annamalai vouches for the medium. In addition to documents, photographs, and objects, NGM has 100 hours of ______________ (1) related to Gandhi, including AK Chettiar’s 1941 documentary Mahatma Gandhi – 20th Century Prophet.
For a long time, Chettiar’s film was untraceable. It was available in its original 15 MM format but couldn’t be screened as the format had become ______________ (2). The film was digitised in 2014 in 4K.
The Partition Museum in Amritsar has hundreds of stories of its survivors. “We have collected thousands of oral histories. They are the stories of the ______________ (3) who lived through it. As this generation is getting old, there is a need to document their experiences and record their memories,” says Mallika Ahluwalia, the museum’s co-founder and CEO.
The museum also has archival ______________ (4) of the trains, kafilas, and camps during the Partition. The oldest AV material in the museum is footage from the ______________ (5) struggle from around 1920, covering the Non-Cooperation movement and the Khilafat movement.
Q1.
(a) Remembering
(b) Adversary
(c) Recordings
(d) Banish
(e) None of these
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Q2.
(a) Redundant
(b) Bluff
(c) Circumference
(d) Apprehensive
(e) None of these
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Q3.
(a) Aptitude
(b) Cunning
(c) Disdain
(d) Generation
(e) None of these
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Q4.
(a) Diminish
(b) Footage
(c) Emerge
(d) Fragrance
(e) None of these
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Q5.
(a) Freely
(b) Hasten
(c) Freedom
(d) Habitation
(e) None of these
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Directions (6-10): In the sentences given below, four words have been highlighted and placed in a sentence. Identify the correct sequence of the words in the sentence. Identify the correct sequence and mark that option as your answer. If the sequence is correct, mark your answer as option (e); No rearrangement required.
Q6. The government has been preferential (A) and supporting the sector through reservation (B) for preferential access to credit, policies (C) purchase policy and some encouraging (D) in manufacturing as well.
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) ABDC
(d) BDCA
(e) No rearrangement required
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Q7. Vacancies in the higher shortfall (A) threaten every aspect of the judiciary (B) delivery system and it is the courts, and very seldom (C) the government, that always take the blame for any justice (D) in justice.
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) ABDC
(d) BDCA
(e) No rearrangement required
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Q8. Our audio-visual recorded (A) are mostly directly (B) and are ethnographic (C) or captured collections (D) from the field as well as from in-house activities.
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) ABDC
(d) BDCA
(e) No rearrangement required
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Q9. Rising (A) per capita incomes transformed (B) social indicators of expectancy (C), as literacy rates and life development (D) rose everywhere.
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) ABDC
(d) BDCA
(e) No rearrangement required
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Q10. In some of these countries, the friendly (A) checks-and-balances of political democracies (B) were crucial to making institutionalised (C) more development-oriented and people- governments (D).
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) ABDC
(d) BDCA
(e) No rearrangement required
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Directions(11-15): In the sentences given below, four words have been highlighted and may be placed incorrectly in a sentence. Choose among the options having the correct interchange of the words. If all the words are placed correctly, mark your answer as option (e); No interchange required.
Q11. The most model (A) solution proposed (B) using a simplistic input-output common (C) is to increase the number (D) of judges.
(a) A-D
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-B
(e) No interchange required
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Q12. The ideological (A) issue of Government related (B) private ownership is versus (C) to the strategic issue about national (D) security.
(a) A-D
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-B
(e) No interchange required
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Q13. If the appoint (A) reiterates the names (B), the court said, the government (C) has no option but to collegium (D) the judges.
(a) A-D
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-B
(e) No interchange required
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Q14. Given that revenue (A) collections are not enough, the Government is perhaps planning (B) the sale of well-running PSUs to meet (C) the fiscal deficit (D) target.
(a) A-D
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-B
(e) No interchange required
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Q15. China allow (A) a market system but does not adopted (B) this to cloud its thinking when it comes to strategic (C) national issues; the control then remains (D) with the Government.
(a) A-D
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-B
(e) No interchange required
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Solutions
S1. Ans. (c)
Sol. Recordings fits in the blank (1) to make a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S2. Ans. (a)
Sol. Redundant fits in the blank (2) to make a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S3. Ans. (d)
Sol. Generation fits in the blank (3) to make a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.
S4. Ans. (b)
Sol. Footage fits in the blank (4) to make a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S5. Ans. (c)
Sol. Freedom fits in the blank (5) to make a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S6. Ans. (b)
Sol. The correct sequence of the words is DCAB; encouraging, policies, preferential, and reservation. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S7. Ans. (d)
Sol. The correct sequence of the words is BDCA; judiciary, justice, seldom, and shortfall. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.
S8. Ans. (b)
Sol. The correct sequence of the words is DCAB; collections, ethnographic, recorded, and directly. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S9. Ans. (c)
Sol. The correct sequence of the words is ABDC; rising, transformed, development, and expectancy. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S10. Ans. (a)
Sol. The correct sequence of the words is CBDA; institutionalised, democracies, governments, and friendly. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. A-C; ‘model-common’ will be interchange to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S12. Ans. (b)
Sol. B-C; ‘related-versus’ will be interchange to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S13. Ans. (a)
Sol. A-D; ‘appoint-collegium’ will be interchange to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S14. Ans. (e)
Sol. The given sentence is grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Also, the highlighted words are correctly placed. Hence, option (e); No interchange required is the right answer choice.
S15. Ans. (d)
Sol. A-B; ‘allow-adopted’ will be interchange to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.