2
5
3
1
4
3
1
5
4
2
4
1
2
6
3
5
3
1
4
2
4
2
1
3
4
2
3
OMO 1
1
4
2
OMO 3
3
4
1
OMO 2
EXPROPRIATE
Attempts to expropriate lands from landlords having more lands than
prescribed under the ceiling Act have not been very successful.
a)
usurp
b)
seize
c)
misappropriate
d)
withdraw
B
SPLEEN
You may be annoyed with me but it doesn't mean that you vent your spleen on me.
a)
discomfort
b)
reproach
c)
brawn
d)
spite
D
The attack on Godi was the first time scientists witnessed a group of
chimps raiding (a)/ raging (b) another territory and attacking a
member of a rival band for arguably (a)/ apparently (b) no reason than
that he belonged to a different group.
It was also the start of a process through which the Kaskela chimps
effectively (a) / evidently (b) wiped out the Khama.
The killings are a terrible illustration of the evolutionary roots of
humanity's preponderance (a) / propensity (b) for violence.
The killings undermine (a) / underscore (b) the explanations for
extreme violence in terms of such uniquely human attributes as
culture, brain power.
a)
aabba
b)
abbab
c)
ababa
d)
baaba
C
It is still a fairly astounding notion to consider that atoms are
mostly empty space, and that the stolidity (a) / solidity (b) we
experience all around us is an illusion.
When two objects come together in the real world, they don't actually
strike each other; rather the negatively charged fields repeal (a)/
repel (b) each other.
Were it not for their electrical charges, they could like galaxies,
pass right through each other unscathed (a) / unspoilt (b).
When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there but
levitating (a) / lingering (b) above it at a height of one angstram,
your electrons, and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer
intimacy (a) / intricacy (b).
a)
baaab
b)
bbaaa
c)
ababa
d)
aabbb
B
The unpredictable, volatile rulers forced the viceroy to contend (a) /
contemplate (b) the nightmare that had haunted India for centuries.
If India's politicians could divide her, her princes could detract (a)
/ destroy (b) her.
They menaced (a) / endangered (b) the subcontinent, not with partition
but with a fatal fragmentation into a score of states.
They threatened to unleash (a) / unload (b) abruptly all the
fissiparous tendencies of race, religion, region and language which
lurked (a) / lured (b) just below the fragile surface of Indian unity.
a)
aaaaa
b)
bbbbb
c)
abbba
d)
bbaaa
D
The amazing expansion (a) / extension (b) of Indian culture and art to
other countries has led to some of the finest expressions of this art
being found outside India.
To know Indian art in India alone is to know but half its story. To
appreciate (a) / apprehend (b) it to the full, we must follow it in
the wake of Buddhism, to central Asia, China and Japan; we must watch
it assuming (a) / morphing (b) new forms and breaking into new
beauties as it spreads over Tibet and Burma and Siam; we must gaze in
awe at the unabated (a) / unexampled (b) grandeur of its creation in
Combodia and Java.
In each of these countries, Indian art empowers (a) / encounters (b) a
different racial genius, a different local environment and under their
modifying influence it takes on a different garb.
a)
aaabb
b)
abbaa
c)
aabba
d)
baaab
A
Not only is much of India's economic success not reaching many of its
poor citizens but its political _____ at home and abroad seem to make
very little difference to their ______ lives.
a)
successes… embittered
b)
advancements … bettered
c)
aspirations … battered
d)
turmoils … abject
C
While there is _______ at India's desire to reinvest in the bilateral
and strategic relationship, Paris is worried that New Delhi's
rapprochement with Washington could ________ its own importance.
a)
dismay . . . belittle
b)
elation . . . diminish
c)
consternation . . . undermine
d)
B
Considering the fact that early childhood nutritional _______ set
limits to the quality of health in adulthood, it is _______ to imagine
the bleak future from the fact that though India accounts for only
about 20 per cent of the world's child population, it ends up with 40
per cent of the malnourished children of the world.
a)
defects . . . dreadful
b)
deformities . . . disgusting
c)
inadequacies . . . difficult
d)
deficiencies . . . disquieting
D
EASY
a)
Instilling civic sense in people is easy said than done.
b)
Doctors asked him to take things easy after the heart attack.
c)
It is not as easy to practise as it is to preach.
d)
Life is not easy for anyone – rich or poor.
A
The manner in which Wodehouse deals with his (11) plots reveals his
supremacy as the greatest English humorist.
laughter
b)
pathos
c)
apathy
d)
jocundity
A
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