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SC Integrated Test Step - 3

Description: Integrated Test - 8
Number of Questions: 12
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The author's remarkable first book is the story of her meandering journey up the river Indus from its mouth near Karachi to its source in Tibet.

  1. remarkable first book is the story of her meandering journey up

  2. first book remarkably is the story of her meandering journey up

  3. remarkably first book is the story of her meandering journey on

  4. remarkably first book was the story of her meandering journey on


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The sentence is correct as given. Hence no change is required.

The most interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature are undoubtedly those among 1588 and 1603, within which limit all of Shakespeare's poems and the majority of his plays were written.

  1. The most interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature are undoubtedly those among

  2. An interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature are undoubtedly those among

  3. The interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature is undoubtedly those between

  4. The most interesting and important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature are undoubtedly those between


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The original sentence bears the errors of article and preposition. Repetition of article implies two different things but in the sentence 'important' and 'interesting' both are used for single subject '15 years'. So use of article 'the' before important 15 years is incorrect. Also preposition 'among' is incorrect because the period is 'between' two limits: 1588 and 1603. This option corrects all the errors.

As a part of their vocational training, petty criminals trying to rehabilitate themselves were helped to learn dealing with rejection during the 1990s, so that they could learn to handle disappointments without getting depressed.

  1. As a part of their vocational training, petty criminals trying to rehabilitate themselves were helped to learn dealing with rejection during the 1990s,

  2. As a part of their vocational training, petty criminals trying to live during the 1990s rehabilitation were helped to learn dealing with rejection,

  3. Petty criminals trying to rehabilitate themselves during the 1990s were helped to learn to deal with rejection as a part of their vocational training,

  4. During the 1990s, as a part of their vocational training, petty criminals trying to rehabilitate themselves were helped to learn dealing with rejection,

  5. During the 1990s, as a part of vocational training, petty criminals were helped to rehabilitate themselves and deal with rejection,


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Correct. The option corrects the error of missing modifier by replacing 'their' with 'petty criminals'. Also, the option removes the repetitiveness that would come in if 'learn' were used twice.

None of those little naughty boys have turned up today.

  1. None of those little naughty boys have turned up today.

  2. Neither of those little naughty boys have turned up today.

  3. None of those little naughty boys has turned up today.

  4. No one of those little naughty boys has turned up today.

  5. Neither of those little naughty boys has turned up today.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Option rectifies subject-verb agreement error. 'None of' is followed by singular verb 'has' and not plural verb 'have'.

Although this theory was known in the East to the ancient Vedanta philosophers, Buddhists and Greeks, still it has received a new impetus and grown with new strength since the introduction of the Darwinian theory of the evolution of species.

  1. the ancient Vedanta philosophers, Buddhists and Greeks, still it has received

  2. the ancient Vedanta philosophers, the Buddhists and the Greeks, it has received

  3. the ancient Vedanta philosophers, Buddhists and the Greeks, still it has received

  4. ancient Vedanta philosophers, the Buddhists and Greeks, it has received

  5. ancient Vedanta philosophers, Buddhists and Greeks, still it has received


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The sentence has error of coordinating conjunction and parallel construction. Although is followed by 'yet' (or no coordinate) and not by 'still'. Buddhists and Greeks should also take the definitive article 'the'. This option corrects the error of parallelism and coordinating conjunction. Thus, it is the correct answer.

In addition to providing energy and nutrition, certain foods trigger the production of sleep hormones in the human body, just as circadian rhythms do, and these have a relaxing effect like a tranquilizer.

  1. certain foods trigger the production of sleep hormones in the human body, just as circadian rhythms do, and these have a relaxing effect like a tranquilizer

  2. certain foods trigger the production of sleep hormones in the human body, like circadian rhythms do, and these have a relaxing effect like a tranquilizer

  3. certain foods and circadian rhythms both trigger the production of sleep hormones in the human body, and they have a relaxing effect like a tranquilizer

  4. the production of sleep hormones in the human body is triggered both by certain foods and by circadian rhythms, and they have a relaxing effect like a tranquilizer

  5. the production of sleep hormones in the human body is triggered by certain foods, just as with circadian rhythms, and these have a relaxing effect like that of a tranquilizer


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct. The sentence contains no error.

The magazine contains a considerable number of words, and a few consecutive texts transcribed partly or wholly in the new system of spelling and these necessarily will have to be assessed as evidence of contemporary English pronunciation by students of the subject.

  1. and a few consecutive texts transcribed partly or wholly in the new system of spelling and these necessarily will have

  2. along with a few consecutive texts partly or as a whole in the new system of spelling and these are

  3. which have a few consecutive texts, transcribed in part or wholly in the new system of spelling and these have

  4. and consecutive texts which are transcribed as a part or in whole in the new system and might have

  5. and a couple of consecutive texts, transcribed partly or wholly in the new system of spelling and these necessarily would


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The sentence is correct as given.

As the college tuition fees and other expenses skyrocket, students self-financing their studies are caught in a dilemma, these students can no longer afford to pay exorbitant college fees, and high aspirations do not allow them to drop out.

  1. these students can no longer afford to pay exorbitant college fees, and

  2. in that these students can no longer afford exorbitant college fees to be paid, and

  3. for these students can no longer afford to pay college fees, yet

  4. and these students can no longer afford to pay college fees, nevertheless

  5. and these students can no longer afford to pay college fees, for


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct. The use of 'for' gives an explanation of why the students are caught in a dilemma. The use of 'yet' provides the required contrast.

Home owners who insulate their walls and windows properly can substantially reduce their homes' power bills, since improper insulation can waste upto ten percent of electricity.

  1. Home owners who insulate their walls and windows properly can substantially reduce their homes' power bills, since improper insulation can waste upto ten percent of power.

  2. Because improper insulation can waste upto ten percent of electricity of a home through heat loss, home owners can substantially reduce their homes' power bills by properly insulating walls and windows of their homes.

  3. Their homes' electricity bills are substantially reduced by home owners by proper insulation of walls and windows which, when improperly insulated, can waste upto ten percent electricity.

  4. The proper insulation of walls and windows by the home owners, due to the fact that improper insulation can waste upto ten percent of a home's energy by increase in heat loss, can reduce the power bills of homes.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct. The option corrects the error of misplaced modifier and the missing antecedent by rearranging the modifying clauses.

Physicists believe that the limit of the forward swing of a pendulum, is dictated as much by momentum as by gravity, unfailingly bring it back to equilibrium.

  1. is dictated as much by momentum as by gravity unfailingly bring it back to equilibrium

  2. dictated as much by momentum as by gravity, unfailingly bring it back to equilibrium

  3. dictated as much by momentum as gravity unfailingly brings the pendulum back to equilibrium

  4. dictated as much by momentum as by gravity, unfailingly brings the pendulum back to equilibrium

  5. is responsible for bringing it back to equilibrium due to the action of momentum and gravity


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct. The option removes the error of pronoun ambiguity by referring to 'pendulum' and not its swing as coming back to equilibrium.

Either Foreign Institutional Investors buying in or Mutual Fund Houses selling out can, along with the degree of Federal Reserve intervention, be the reasons contributing to the performance of the Capital Market.

  1. can, along with the degree of Central Bank intervention, be the reasons contributing to

  2. along with the degree of Federal Reserve intervention, can be the contributing reasons in

  3. can, along with the degree of Federal reserve intervention, contribute as reasons to

  4. can be the contributing reason to, along with the degree of Federal Reserve intervention

  5. can contribute, along with the degree of Federal Reserve intervention, to


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Correct. The option removes the error of subject-verb agreement by referring to 'reason' rather than 'reasons'.

The hulls of modern nuclear powered submarines differ from those of diesel powered ones because they are covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating instead of normal paint.

  1. because they are covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating instead of

  2. because of being covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating rather than

  3. the hulls of nuclear powered submarines being covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating instead of being coated with

  4. in that the hulls of nuclear powered submarines are covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating rather than

  5. in their being covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating instead of


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct. The option corrects the unidiomatic usage of 'differ because' by using 'in that' instead. The option also removes the error of pronoun ambiguity by substituting 'they', which could have meant either 'hulls of nuclear powered submarines' or 'hulls of diesel powered submarines', with the proper noun.

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