Online Verbal Ability Test - Verbal Ability Test - Random
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Direction (Q.No. 1)
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
Each sentences below consist of a word or a phrase which is bold. It is followed by four words or phrases. Select the word or pharse which is closes to the OPPOSITE in meaning of the bold word or phrase.
In each question below a sentence broken into five or six parts. Join these parts to make a meaningful sentence. The correct order of parts is the answer.
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'E' as the answer.
13.
As there was no time, the remaining items were deferred into the next meeting.
In questions below, each passage consist of six sentences. The first and sixth sentence are given in the begining. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order for the four sentences.
14.
S1:
Forecasting the weather has always been a difficult business.
P :
During a period of drought, streams and rivers dried up, the cattle died from thirst and were ruined.
Q :
Many different things affect the weather and we have to study them carefully to make accurate forecast.
R :
Ancient Egyptians had no need of weather in the Nile Valley hardly ever changes.
S :
In early times, when there were no instruments, such as thermometer or the barometer, man looked for tell-tale signs in the sky.
S6:
He made his forecasts by watching flights of the birds or the way smoke rose from fire.
Read the following five sentences and rearrange them to make a coherent and logical paragraph. After deciding the sequence, answer the questions given below.
In his literacy work he spoke of that province of human life which mere intellect does not speak.
He has also given innocent joy to many children by his stories like 'Kabuliwalah'
These songs are sung not only in bengal but all over the country.
Rabindranath's great works sprang from intensity of vision and feelings.
He sang of beauty and heroism, nobility and charm.
15.
Which sentence should come first in the paragraph?
The North-East India is Asia in miniature, a place ...(1)... the brown and yellow races ...(2)... and mingle. There are at least 262 ...(3)... ethnic groups and the region is home to more than 150 million people, if one includes Bangladesh. Take ...(4)... example the state of Manipur, which ...(5)... Burma, with a population of 1.8 million people. It is home to about 30 separate linguistic and ethnic groups including the Taraos, ...(6)... number less than 400 individuals ...(7)... the ages and the mountains, the people of this winding trail ...(8)... an anthropological and sociological ...(9)... to South East Asia, where the roots of many ...(10)...
Parents spend to much time worrying about their adolescents wasting time. But for an adolescent, many activities, parents consider wasteful, are, in fact, worthwhile. Parents complain that teenagers spend too much daydreaming. Yet ...(1)... has important functions in teenagers' development ...(2)... daydreams, all adolescents try out various ...(3)... as they search for the direction ...(4)... want to take in their lives. Many daydreams are ways of ...(5)... escaping the streets of everyday life ...(6)... even they have some immediate-tension-reducing ...(7)... Some parents also complain about the ...(8)... conversation the teenagers have with one ...(9)... over the telephone. In fact, these ...(10)... pointless conversations are often a means ...(11)... which adolescents check out their own ...(12)... of the world with others, gaining ...(13)... view of themselves and others. For parents, the issue is the ...(14)... of the fact that any kind of significant achievement ...(15)... hard work which the adolescents do not fully appreciate.
Some scholars were exploring the forest of Middle America. They discovered some buildings which were in ruins. These buildings were ...(1)... ruined by the encroaching forest. It was also clear that these buildings were no ordinary structures. They were remnants of a ...(2)... civilisation. The scholars got interested. They excavated more and discovered ...(3)... their utmost surprise the remains of flourishing civilization-the Maya's ...(4)... they named it. Thus it was as late in ...(5)... 19th that the secrets of new civilization were ...(6)... For sometime the scholars believed that the Mayan's must have ...(7)... the descendants of ancient Egyptians or one of the lost tribes of Israel; or perhaps a brand of the South East Asia's immigrants. However they could not come to an unanimous decision. Nonetheless the fact remains that even-to day the Mayan is one of ...(8)... most ancient cicilizations. This civilisation was situated in the ...(9)... of Middle America. It covered an area equivalent to France, ...(10)... spread across Guatemala, Belize and some part of Mexico Honduras. It started in 2500 B.C and continued its progress till 34 ...(11)... later. Throughout its period of progress, the people struggled against the invading ...(12)... They used to burn the plants and make the land ...(13)... for civilization. Their staple food was maize. but even while ...(14)... for existence, they found time to build remarkable buildings for ...(15)... they used mortar, sandstone and volcanic rock. The buildings do tell us about the technological advances they had attained.
Male lions are rather reticent about expanding their energy in hunting more than three quarters of kills are made by lionesses are in front, tensely scanning ahead, the cubs lag playfully behind and the males bring up the rear, walking slowly, their massive heads nodding with each step as if they were bored with the whole matter. But slothfulness may have survival value. With lionesses busy hunting, the males function as guard for the cubs, protecting them particularly from hyenas.
20.
When the lionesses go in search for their prey, they are very