Online Verbal Ability Test - Verbal Ability Test - Random

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  • Total number of questions: 20.
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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)

What does Professor Dhavan
spend so many hours
in the laboratory?
No error.
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option
Explanation:
why does Professor Dhavan

2.

(solve as per the direction given above)

The Sharmas
are living in this colony
for the last eight years.
No error.
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option
Explanation:
have been living in this colony

3.

(solve as per the direction given above)

I have got
my M.Sc. degree
in 1988.
No error.
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option
Explanation:
I got

Direction (Q.Nos. 4 - 5)

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.

4.
Manish neglected to remit the fees in time and therefore had to pay a fine.
refused
failed
promised
obstructed
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

5.
The angry villagers have lynched two suspected child-lifters already.
beaten up
captured
killed
mutilated
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.Nos. 6 - 7)

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

6.
COMMON
Rare
Small
Petty
Poor
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

7.
HYPOCRITICAL
Gentle
Sincere
Amiable
Dependable
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 8)

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.

8.
Nothing has been organised properly and confusion seems inevitable.
inevident
inefficient
ineligible
uncertain
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.Nos. 9 - 10)

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

9.
This book is a useful ...... to our library.
discovery
asset
addition
arrival
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

10.
We shall not to be able to use your ability in court unless we can find someone to ...... to statements.
corroborate
avouch
verify
approve
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 11)

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.

11.
1. him 2. the 3. to
4. charge 5. handover  
42531
51342
41352
45231
52431
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option
Explanation:
"Handover the charge to him."

Direction (Q.Nos. 12 - 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.

12.
He should not had done it.
had not
should had not
should not have
should have
No correction required
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

13.
I need not offer any explanation regarding this incident - my behaviour is speaking itself.
will speak to itself
speaks for itself
has been speaking
speaks about itself
No correction required
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 14)

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.
Practically every part of the banana tree is used by man.
each part
any part
most part
No improvement
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 15)
Students of cognitive development have shown that the child's ...(1)... to use generalised ...(2)... develops more slowly in history than in any other schools subjects. This ...(3)... development of reasoning in historical ...(4)... makes it necessary for the historian to ...(5)... upon events that may be included in the text. In many cases, the historian may needs to ...(6)... with special effort a generalised understanding of key concepts to be used in a ...(7)... This ...(8)... may well mean that school history cannot cover as many events as it does at present. Also, school histories may have to provide for topic work or theme based ...(9)... rather than merely observe ...(10)... conformity.
15.

(solve as per the direction given above)

necessity
requirement
understanding
rationale
fact
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 16)
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.
16.
According to the passage male lions generally do not go for huntings because
they don not like it.
they want lioness to get training
they wish to save their vigour for other things
they are very lazy
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 17)
There was a marked difference of quality between the personages who haunted near bridge of brick and the personages who haunted the far one of stone. Those of lowest character preferred the former, adjoining the town; they did not mind the glare of the public eye. they had been of no account during their successes; and though they might feel dispirited, they had no sense of shame in their ruin. Instead of sighing at their adversaries they spat, and instead of saying the iron had entered into their souls they said they were down in their luck.The miserable's who would pause on the remoter bridge of a politer stamppersons who did not know how to get rid of the weary time. The eyes of his species were mostly directed over the parapet upon the running water below. While one on the town ward bridge did not mind who saw him so, and kept his back to parapet to survey the passer-by, one on this never faced the road, never turned his head at coming foot-steps, but, sensitive on his own condition, watched the current whenever a stranger approached, as if some strange fish interested him, though every finned thing had been poached out of the rivers years before.
17.
People belonging to lower strata in their moments of distress
remembered the days of glory
dressed shabbily to earn sympathy
visited the brick made bridge
felt ashamed of their failures
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 18)
There is modicum of truth in the assertion that "a working knowledge of ancient history is necessary to the intelligent interpretaion of current events". But the sage who uttered these words of wisdom might well have added something on the benefits of studying, particularly, the famous battles of history for the lessons they contain for those of us who lead or aspire to leadership. Such a study will reveal certain qualities and attributes which enabled the winners to win and certain deficiencies which caused the losers to lose. And the student will see that the same patterns recurs consistently, again and again, throughout the centuries.
18.
In this context, "intelligent interpretation of current event" means
rational explanation of events
appropriate understanding of events
intellectual outlook on events
skilful interpretation of events
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 19)
In the following questions four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase italicised and underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.
19.
I cannot get along with a man who plays fast and loose.
behaves in an unreliable and insincere way
has a loose tongue
lives a life of ease and luxury
does not know how to behave himself
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

Direction (Q.No. 20)
In the questions below the sentences have been given in Direct/Indirect speech. From the given alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
20.
She said to her friend, "I know where is everyone"
She told that she knew where was everyone.
She told her friend that she knew where was everyone.
She told her friend that she knew where is everyone.
She told her friend that she knows where was everyone.
Your Answer: Option
(Not Answered)
Correct Answer: Option

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