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English Usage Test 26

Description: English Usage Test - Free english verbal ability test for entrance examinations like mba entrance, gre, sat, gmat, toefl preparation and practice tests
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Directions: The following question consists of certain statements. You have to select the option representing the most logical sequencing of the given statements.

A. Stars radiate heat and light. B. Sun lies in the galaxy. C. Galaxy lies in the universe. D. Universe is a pulsating entity. E. Sun radiates heat and light. F. Sun is a star.

  1. ABF

  2. BCF

  3. AEF

  4. BEF

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

As stars and sun radiate heat and light, therefore, sun is a star. Hence, 3 is the correct answer.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. In India, Marxist theory did influence some scholars but as a whole failed to develop a scientific tradition of thinking and research. B. From its early Marxist form, the dialectical approach in sociology has undergone further refinements in concepts and propositions, its speculative elations of categories. C. Marxist sensibility, however, remains diffused in the thought patterns of modern Indian intellectuals. D. It dominates the minds of the leaders in the Communist Party, and a large membership of the Congress and other liberal parties is also influenced by its ideology. E. Among the early studies based on this model there were many studies of caste based on economic interpretation, interpretation of Indian history from a classical view-point in the 'chronological order of successive developments in the means and relations of production' and evolutionary formulation of the stages of social development in India, guided by economic institutions.

  1. ABCDE

  2. ABCED

  3. BAECD

  4. EBCDA

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

B begins the sequence as it introduces the subject - 'dialectical approach' according to Marxist' theory. A points out Marxist theory in reference to India which is further explained in E. ('this model' in E refers to Marxist theory in A), thus, we have BAE link. 'It' in D refers to 'Marxist sensibility' in C, thus, D follows C. This sequence is found in option (3), hence, it is the answer.

Directions: The following question consists of certain statements. You have to select the option representing the most logical sequencing of the given statements.

A. One can see through glass. B. Some glasses are shaded. C. Shaded glasses are translucent. D. Some glasses are opaque. E. One can see through transparent surfaces. F. Glass is transparent.

  1. ABC

  2. ACF

  3. ACD

  4. AEF

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

As one can see through glass and transparent surfaces, therefore, glass is transparent. So, option 4 is the right answer.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. The different phases merely represent differences in emphasis at different historical periods. B. For example, truth is dharma in Satyayuga, yajna (sacrifice) in Tratayuga, jnana (knowledge) in Dvaparayuga, and dana (alms) in Kaliyuga. C. It seeks to achieve homogeneity and harmony of thought.D. The Hindu's respect for tradition has a purpose. E. The Hindu philosophy believes in the continuity of the present with the past in which it is rooted, and its projection into the future.

  1. EDCAB

  2. DEACB

  3. ABEDC

  4. ABDEC

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

AB link is most obvious from this para jumble as examples in B support the thought in A. Now, the point is that whether A begins the sequence or not. But on close scrutiny, it is E that begins the sequence as it introduces the subject - 'The Hindu Philosophy'. This leaves us with only one option i.e. (1) which is the answer.

Directions: The following question consists of certain statements. You have to select the option representing the most logical sequencing of the given statements.
A. Flowers have attractive colours.
B. Colours of flowers attract insects.
C. Insects pollinate the flowers.
D. Flowers have pollen.
E. Colour of flower helps in pollination. F. Pollination is done by insects.

  1. ABC

  2. BCE

  3. AEF

  4. DEF

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Option (2), BCE B à Colours of flowers attract insects. C à Insects pollinate the flowers From B and C, we can infer that colours of flowers help to attract insects which in turn pollinate the flowers, thereby, colours help in pollination. This idea is expressed in statement E. Therefore, option (2) is correct answer.

Directions: In the question below, a capitalized word is followed by four words under options (1), (2), (3) and (4). Select the word that has most nearly the same meaning as the capitalized word.

AGILE

  1. Nimble

  2. Elephantine

  3. Heavy

  4. Accord

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'AGILE' is a term used to define quick and easy movement as of gymnasts. This word is synonymous to 'nimble'(moving quickly and lightly) which has been given among various answer choices. So, option (1) is the correct answer.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.
A. A sense of life is a pre-conceptual equivalent of metaphysics, an emotional, subconsciously integrated appraisal of man and of existence. It sets the nature of a man's emotional responses and the essence of his character. B. That myth is true, not existentially, but psychologically. C. One of such allegories, which men find particularly terrifying, is the myth of a supernatural recorder from whom nothing can be hidden, who lists all of a man's deeds - the good and the evil, the noble and the vile - and who confronts a man with that record on judgement day. D. Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy, an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality, many of its myths are distorted, dramatized allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man's existence. E. The merciless recorder is the integrating mechanism of a man's subconscious, the record is his sense of life.

  1. ECDBA

  2. ABCDE

  3. DCBEA

  4. AEBDC

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

There might be a little confusion in finding the starting sequence. Therefore, let's look for the links. 'Such allegories' in C is a reference to 'dramatized allegories' in D, thus, we have DC link. This narrows down our approach to 2 options - (3) and (4). 'That myth' in B is a reference to 'the myth of a supernatural recorder' in C, hence, we have DCB link. As A elaborates on 'sense of life' in E, thus, we have EA link. Only option (3) explicates this link, hence, it is the answer.

Directions: The question given below contains four options expressing the same idea in a different manner. Choose the most concise and correct statement.

  1. On the whole, on food front, one may say that we can enjoy festivals in the consciousness that, though some things are dear, the basic foods are better in quality and still low in price.

  2. We can enjoy festivals knowing that though some things are dear, the basic foods are of better quality and still low price.

  3. Although we know that some things are dear, we can still enjoy festivals because the basic foods are better in quality and low in price.

  4. On the whole food front, although some things are dear, we can still enjoy festivals as basic foods are of better quality and quite cheap.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(4) is incorrect because not whole food front is being discussed instead it is discussed in relation to festivals. (1) can be rejected on account of its length. Among (2) and (3), (3) is better in quality on account of usage of word although which perfectly matches the tense being used, though both of them are of same length.

Directions: The following question consists of certain statements. You have to select the option representing the most logical sequencing of the given statements.

A. Ram is Mahesh's son. B. Kavita is Ram's wife. C. Ravi is Mahesh's father. D. Maya is Ravi's daughter. E. Ravi is Ram's grandfather. F. Maya is Mahesh's sister.

  1. ADF

  2. DEF

  3. ACE

  4. AEF

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Ravi is Mahesh's father and Mahesh's son is Ram. Therefore, Ravi is Ram's grandfather.So, option 2 is the answer.

Directions: The question given below contains four options expressing the same idea in a different manner. Choose the most concise and correct statement.

  1. His definition of reality has first to be made coincident with the point of view adopted by the author whom he is discussing.

  2. His definition of reality has first to be made coincident with the point of view adopted by the author who he is discussing.

  3. His definition of reality has to first agree with the point of view adopted by the author he is discussing.

  4. His definition of reality has first to coincide with the point of view of the author he is discussing.

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Sentence (2) can be rejected because a comma is required between the author and who. Sentence (1), (3) as well as (4) are all correct and make sense. But the idea has been presented most concisely in sentence (4). This marks option (4) as the correct answer.

Directions: In the question below, a capitalized word is followed by four words/phrases under options (1), (2), (3) and (4). Select the word/phrase that has most nearly the same meaning as the capitalized word.

INFRINGE

  1. Transgress

  2. Keep within bounds

  3. adept

  4. candid

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'Infringe' means to break or violate. So, does the meaning of word 'transgress', which implies to overstep or break a law. This marks option (1) as correct answer.

Directions: In the question below a capitalized word is followed by four words under options (1), (2), (3) and (4). Select the word that has most nearly the same meaning as the capitalized word.

BANQUET

  1. Abstinence

  2. Festivity

  3. Mockery

  4. Beaming

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

'Banquet' is a term used to refer to a formal dinner for many people, usually with toasts and speeches. Only term among given answer choices, which match with the term, is in option (2) 'festivity'. This marks option (2) correct.

Directions: In the question below, a capitalized word is followed by four words under options (1), (2), (3) and (4). Select the word that has most nearly the same meaning as the capitalized word.

CUFF

  1. Thrash

  2. Punch

  3. Strap

  4. Whip

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

'Cuff' implies blow or slap. This marks option (2) 'punch' as correct for our answer choice.

Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Choose the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.

Commensurate: Barter

  1. Anomalous : Tower over

  2. Tenable : Raid

  3. Flamboyant : Squander

  4. Twin : Reciprocate

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(Effect) something which is commensurate (meaning equivalent) can be bartered (meaning exchanged). Something which is twin (meaning indistinguishable) can be reciprocated (meaning interchanged).

Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Choose the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.

Cavil : Solecism

  1. Perjury : Testimony

  2. Eminence : Opprobrium

  3. Caprice : Inkling

  4. Quirk : Dereliction

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(Degree). Solecism (meaning a fault) is a higher degree of cavil (a minor fault). On the same lines, dereliction (meaning a fault or a wrong doing) is a higher degree of quirk (meaning a small fault).

Directions: The following question consists of certain statements. You have to select the option representing the most logical sequencing of the given statements.

A. Humans need energy. B. Energy is provided by food. C. Food needs to be digest. D. Enzymes help in digestion. E. Food is digested by enzymes. F. Enzymes are released in intestines.

  1. ABE

  2. BCD

  3. CDE

  4. DEF

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

As food needs to be digest and enzymes help in digestion, therefore, food is digested by enzymes. Hence, option 3 is the correct answer.

Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Choose the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.

Pry: Inquiry

  1. Importune : Implore

  2. Thwart : Obstacle

  3. Upbraid : Tacit

  4. Disconcert : Overture

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(Undesirable form) Pry means to make an inquiry in an annoying manner. Similarly, importune means to beg (implore) or request in an annoying manner.

Directions: The question given below contains four options expressing the same idea in a different manner. Choose the most concise and correct statement.

  1. I request you to kindly deliver to me a tin of milk power.

  2. Could you please send me a tin of milk powder?

  3. May I request you to please send me a tin of milk powder?

  4. Can I have milk powder sent to me please?

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Option (1) is incorrect as the words, kindly and request both need not occur together in one sentence as they both denote repetition. Option (3) can be neglected on account of its length. Option (4) doesn't specify the packaging (tin) required of milk power. Most valid and concise of given sentence is option (2).

Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pair of words. Choose the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.

Maunder: Talk

  1. Flaccid : Walk

  2. Scrawl : Write

  3. Lug : Yank

  4. Quill : Swim

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(Spurious form). When one maunders, one talks indistinctly or unclearly. When one scrawls, one writes quickly and messily.

Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Choose the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.

Mill: Cereal

  1. Jacquard : Cloth

  2. Mart : Stocks

  3. Manufactory : Furniture

  4. Forge : Metal

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(Place of action). Mill is a place where cereal is ground, forge is a place (or a tool) in which metal is heated before being made into a finished product.

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follows. Would you believe that the first outstanding deaf teacher in America was a Frenchman? His name was Laurent Clerc. He became a friend of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and together they founded America's first school for the deaf. At the age of 12, Laurent entered the Royal Institution for the Deaf in Paris where he excelled in his studies. After he graduated, the school asked him to stay on as an assistant teacher. He was a dedicated teacher; and consequently, was promoted to teach the highest class. Meanwhile, in America, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was studying to be a minister when he met a young deaf girl, Alice Cogswell. He was upset to learn that there were no schools for the deaf in America. He was very concerned about the lack of educational opportunities for the deaf. Therefore, in 1815, Gallaudet sailed to London, England to seek ideas on how to teach deaf people. However, he was unable to get help and he became frustrated. While he was there, he met a French educator of the deaf who invited him to go to Paris to spend three months learning at the Royal Institution for the Deaf, the school where Laurent Clerc was teaching. Gallaudet accepted the offer, and went to the Royal Institution for the Deaf, where Clerc became his Sign Language teacher. At the school, Clerc led a busy life. He taught signs to Principal Gallaudet; he taught the pupils; and he taught hearing men who came to the school to study deaf education. At that time, the state would only pay for each student to stay at the school for five years. Therefore, Clerc had to teach his pupils as much as he could as quickly as possible.

How could the main idea of this passage be best stated?

  1. Clerc managed his time well, and he was able to teach a lot of information in a short period of time.

  2. Thomas Gallaudet was indebted to Clerc for all that he taught him.

  3. Clerc preferred teaching deaf students to hearing students.

  4. Clerc, an educated Frenchman, had a great impact on American Deaf Education.

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The answer is (4), because the passage focuses on Clerc and the impact he had on deaf education in America. Option (4) is true, and it is a general enough response to function as a main idea statement. Option (1) is too narrow. It focuses only on Clerc's teaching, not the overall impact he had on deaf education. Option (2) is off the point, because the passage does not focus on Thomas Gallaudet, it focuses on Clerc. The answer is not (3) because the passage never talks about Clerc's preference as a teacher.

Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Choose the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.

Neutralization: Acid

  1. Billow : Current

  2. Pabulum : Reduction

  3. Purification : Ore

  4. Detoxification : Poison

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(Process of removal). Neutralization is the process of acid removal. Detoxification is the process of poison removal.

Directions: In the question below, a capitalized word is followed by four words under options (1), (2), (3) and (4). Select the word that has most nearly the same meaning as the capitalized word.

FINICAL

  1. Affected

  2. Pristine

  3. Slender

  4. Emblem

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'Finical' is a term used for very nice and neat, so as to be artificial. Among given answer options, the word 'affected' is most near to meaning of finical as it means full of affection, assumed for effect. Hence, option (1) is the answer.

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follows. There are two distinct vantage points from which a piece of work may be evaluated: according to the aesthetics of its medium, or according to its popularity in the market... That these distinctions are rarely made explicit causes no small mischief. As the economy grows more fiercely competitive, commercial evaluation (“Two thumbs up!”) can all but silence aesthetic criticism. Several decades ago, before competition began to intensify, there were arbiters of taste — art critics, reviewers, essayists, educators, and graybeards — within the professions who continually passed judgement on the quality of work being done. They presided over a continuing discussion about standards, which reminded society about the difference between the good and the popular. But in a world of intensifying competition in which consumers can get exactly what they want — where software can even analyse their past purchases and advise them on what else they will enjoy or find interesting — such standard-bearers seem increasingly irrelevant.
According to you, what is the theme of the passage?

  1. Consumers face so many choices that they place ever - greater value on advice about what they will enjoy or find satisfying.

  2. Aesthetic criticism means what consumers should or would like, were their tastes more finely honed.

  3. When it is all marketing, there is less space for professional or artistic integrity.

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Option (1) tends to satisfy one of the two vantage points discussed in first sentence of the passage - “according to its popularity in the market”. As this option is incomplete, hence, it can be ruled out. The explanation of aesthetic criticism in (2) is not the main idea of the passage, it is simply an elaboration of the phrase - 'aesthetic criticism', hence it is ruled out. Option (3) satisfies both the points discussed in the passage, hence, it is the answer.

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Imagine for a moment that each of us is entrusted at birth with a hope diamond in the rough, a precious and sacred particle of the Divine Will. Through us, the will of the creator can enter the material world. We bear the seed, we are the seed, the growing tip of the universal will. In a vast and incomprehensible process, the unconditioned will gradually spiritualises the material universe, drawing it more directly into its service. We may recognise this difficult and uncertain process in ourselves, if we endeavor to cooperate with this great work of the spirit. We cut and polish our diamond will, returning it to the service of the divine will from which it originates…

What does service to the divine will consist of? In partial response we envision an immense ecology of energies. Within the Earth’s living ecosystem we witness the exchange, transformation, and recycling of the energies of heat, light, and molecular bonds in the food chain.
Similarly, the sacred, universal ecosystem harmonises the exchange and transformation of the energies of sensation, consciousness, and the rest, within the great chain of being. Human beings naturally use, convert, and store energies.

According to you, what is the theme of the passage?

  1. The Will of the Creator experiences the material world in form of human beings.

  2. Serving the universal will means not only conducting our lives creatively in accordance with conscience and kindness, but also transforming energies as well.

  3. Through spiritual practices, we directly and powerfully transform energies, raising the quality and quantity of energies at work in us.

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Let’s scrutinise each option: (1) This option is contrary to the passage. (“Through us……… world” gives the clue). Hence, (1) can be ruled out. (2) This is the answer. 'Service to the divine will' is the main idea of the passage (“we may…….originates” in first paragraph and third paragraph gives the clue). (3) This statement is true but it narrows down our approach. It satisfies only the third paragraph. Therefore, (3) is ruled out. Hence, (2) is the answer.

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