Online Verbal Ability Test - Verbal Ability Test - Random

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  • Total number of questions: 20.
  • Time allotted: 30 minutes.
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Total number of questions
20
Number of answered questions
0
Number of unanswered questions
20
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Direction (Q.Nos. 1 - 3)

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).

1.

(solve as per the direction given above)

You will get
all the information
if you read this booklet carefully.
No error.
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option
Explanation:
you can get

2.

(solve as per the direction given above)

It is time
we should accept all our people as equals
and as partners in the task of building a strong and united nation.
No error.
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option
Explanation:
we should accept all our people as equal

3.

(solve as per the direction given above)

As much as I admire him for his sterling qualities.
I cannot excuse him for
being unfair to his friends.
No error.
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option
Explanation:
Much as I admire him for his sterling qualities.

Direction (Q.Nos. 4 - 5)

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).

4.

(solve as per the direction given above)

Jayant told me
that Mihir expect
every friend to meet him
once in a week.
No error.
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option
Explanation:
that Mihir expects

5.

(solve as per the direction given above)

He served
the country with
heart and soul
but got nothing in return.
No error.
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option
Explanation:
the country

Direction (Q.Nos. 6 - 7)

In the following the questions choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

6.
TURN UP
Land up
Show up
Crop up
Come up
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

7.
WARRIOR
Soldier
Sailor
Pirate
Spy
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 8)

In each of the sentences given below a word is printed in bold. Below it four choices are given. Pick up the one which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word printer in bold and can replaces it without altering the meaning of the sentence.

8.
The indiscriminate demand for mass consumption goods is deplorable.
desperate
undifferentiated
discreet
insensitive
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 9)

In the following questions choose the word which is the exact OPPOSITE of the given words.

9.
ARTIFICIAL
Red
Natural
Truthful
Solid
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 10)

Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

10.
He lives near a lovely ...... of countryside.
length
piece
section
stretch
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 11)

Find the correctly spelt words.

11.

(solve as per the direction given above)

Vetarinary
Veteninary
Vetinary
Veterinary
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option
Explanation:
Veterinary - pertaining to the medical treatment of animals

Direction (Q.No. 12)

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.

12.
1. medicine 2. a 3. Neeta
4. given 5. was  
51423
25431
15423
42531
35421
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option
Explanation:
"Neeta was given a medicine."

Direction (Q.No. 13)

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.
"Friends and comrades, the light has gone away from our lives and there is darkness everywhere"
off
out of
out from
out off
No correction required
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.Nos. 14 - 15)

In questions given below, a part of the sentence is italicised and underlined. Below are given alternatives to the italicised part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, option 'D' is the answer.

14.
Mr. Smith arrived at India in June last year.
to
by
in
No improvement
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

15.
hoping not to be disturbed, I sat down in my easy chair to read the book. I won as a prize.
I had won as a prize
I have won as prize
I had to win as a prize
No improvement
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 16)
Rearrange the following six sentences in proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions given below.
  1. A case in point is the programme involving the Sardar Sarovar Dam which would displace about 2, 00, 000 people.
  2. Critics decry the fact that a major development institution appears to absorb more capital than it distributes to borrowers.
  3. For all its faults critics however, concede that the bank remains a relatively efficient instrument for distribution of development-aid money.
  4. One of the key complaint focuses on this non-profit bank's recent "profitability"
  5. Although the lives of millions of people around the globe have been improved by the bank's activities, it is now under fire.
  6. The bank is also being blamed for large-scale involuntary resettlement to make way for dams and other construction projects.
16.
Which sentence should come fourth in the paragraph?
6
3
5
2
1
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 17)
From that moment his life became intolerable. He passed his days in apprehension of each succeeding night; and ...(1)... night the vision ...(2)... back again. As room he ...(3)... locked himself up in his room he ...(4)... to struggle; but in vain. An ...(5)... force lifted him up and pushed him ...(6)... the glass, as if to call the phantom, and before long he saw it ...(7)... in the spot where the crime was ...(8)... lying with arms and legs outspread the way of body ...(9)... found. Then the dead girl ...(10)... and came toward him with the little steps just as the child had dome when she came out of river.
17.

(solve as per the direction given above)

upon
towards
against
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 18)
Many parents greet their children's teenage years with needless dread. While teens ...(1)... assault us with heavy metal music ...(2)... outlandish clothes and spend all ...(3)... time with friends, such behaviour ...(4)... adds up to full scale revolt teenage ...(5)... according to psychologist laurence steinberg, has been ...(6)... exaggerated. Sociologist Sanford Dornbusch agrees. "The ...(7)... teenagers inevitably rebel is a ...(8)... that has the potential for great family ...(9)..." say Dornbusch. He believes the notion can ...(10)... communication during this critical time for parents to influence youngsters.
18.

(solve as per the direction given above)

put
show
dress
flaunt
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 19)
Today perhaps your only association with the word 'polio' is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty five years ago this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain ans spinal cord, causing stiffening and weakening of muscles, crippling and paralysis - which is Why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was born, that this would happen to me, no one would have believed it. I was seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with huge 23 year gap between the first and last. I was so fair and brown haired that I looked more look like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.
19.
In this passage, the narrator is a patient of
heart disease
polio
paralysis
nervous weakness
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 20)
In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.
20.
A place that provides refuge
Asylum
Sanatorium
Shelter
Orphanage
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

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