Direction (1-5): From the options given below, select the option which states the correct combination of incorrect/correct sentences.
1)
a) Many countries from the world can testify to the bleakness that has set in on the issue.
b) Just this month, the regional council in Italy’s Veneto region, which includes Venice, reportedly rejected policy amendments that were being introduced to tackle climate change.
c) The same day, the council’s chamber was inundate by flood waters, a member, Andrea Zanoni, revealed in a Facebook post.
d) With patience fast running out, the WADA committee has called for a four-year suspension of Russia from international competition and a decision is likely on December 9.
A) both a and d are correct
B) both a and c are incorrect
C) all sentences are correct
D) both b and d are incorrect
E) both a and b are incorrect
1) Answer: (b)
Statement a is incorrect as ‘countries from the world’ should be replaced with ‘countries across the world’.
2)
a) We have taken inputs from members of an expert committee, comprising several top academics from across the country.
b) The committee were constituted to suggest measures to revamp the entire education system in the state.
c) The critics are just talk about English in 2020-21 academic year.
d) What proportion of migrants would prefer to draw their ration at the place of work rather than in their village is a key piece of the puzzle in understanding the extent to which portability of PDS benefits is valued by migrants.
A) both a and d are correct
B) both a and c are incorrect
C) all sentences are correct
D) both b and d are incorrect
E) both a and b are incorrect
2) Answer: (a)
Statement b is incorrect as ‘were’ should be replaced with ‘was’.
Statement c is incorrect as ‘talk’ should be replaced with ‘talking’.
3)
a) This is particularly true in the Subcontinent, where empires and kingdoms shaded into one another across ambiguous frontiers rather than be separated by boundaries marking sovereign jurisdictions.
b) The two sides agreed that these differences should be resolved though friend negotiations and their foreign secretaries were mandated to undertake this exercise.
c) Three recent events highlight Russia’s growing strategic interest in the Indian Ocean and should compel Delhi to think of its consequences for India’s own regional strategy.
d) Until now, Delhi’s discourse on the Indian Ocean has been focused in the growing competition with China, whose maritime profile has been growing in the littoral.
A) both a and d are correct
B) both a and c are incorrect
C) all sentences are correct
D) both b and d are incorrect
E) both a and b are incorrect
3) Answer: (d)
Statement b is incorrect as ‘friend’ should be replaced with ‘friendly’.
Statement d is incorrect as ‘focused in’ should be replaced with ‘focused on’.
4)
a) Out there training, it’s just you and the slap of your feet on the pavement, but otherwise life is full of other people: coaches, trainers, fans, competitors, from meet to meet a shifting and familiar cast.
b) Unlike the member of a symphony or chorus or quartet, you really are in your own.
c) Now play an intense piece of music for forty minutes or so (and for that span you are finally part of a group, in communion with the musicians on your left and the audience to your right), take the applause, shake hands again, head to green room, then your hotel room, jump in a taxi, sit in the airport lounge and so on.
d) The concert pianist is the Jack Reacher of musicians, more alone than even the Lone Ranger, who at least had Tonto – to say nothing of Silver.
A) both a and d are correct
B) both a and c are incorrect
C) all sentences are correct
D) both b and d are incorrect
E) both a and b are incorrect
4) Answer: (e)
Statement a is incorrect as ‘meet to meet a shifting and familiar cast’ should be replaced with ‘meet to meet a shifting but familiar cast’.
Statement b is incorrect as ‘in your own’ should be replaced with ‘on your own’.
5)
a) If I were a concert pianist, I would be grateful for an animal companion.
b) Richard Ford said in The Sportswriter, “Years of athletic training teach this: the necessity of relinquishing doubt and ambiguity and self-inquiry in favor of a pleasant, self-championing one-dimensionality which has instant rewards…”
c) I was grateful that the book’s short sections were not organized into neat categories.
d) In one brief section, for example, Hough goes from talking about the outside appearance of the Wigmore Hall, including the arts and crafts font on its awning, to the interior atmosphere, to the acoustics (the shoebox shape is evidently an ideal one), to a close description of “The Soul of Music” mural, to the green room and rehearsal spaces, concluding with the hall’s history: it was built by Bechstein, the piano makers, and confiscated as enemy property during the First World War.
A) both a and d are correct
B) both a and c are incorrect
C) all sentences are correct
D) both b and d are incorrect
E) both a and b are incorrect
5) Answer: (c)
All sentences are correct.