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Question 79 MCQ · 2.0 marks
**Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.**
My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had
settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My
father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather
Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hatkhola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child
of my parents.
In these days of rapid communication, a night’s journey by train southwards along the eastern
coast takes one from Calcutta to Cuttack and on the way there is neither adventure nor romance.
But things were not quite the same sixty years ago. One had to go either by cart and encounter
thieves and robbers on the road, or by sea and brave the wrath of the winds and the waves. Since
it was safer to trust in God than in brother man, it was more common to travel by boat. Sea-going
vessels would carry passengers up to Chandbali where transhipment would take place and from
Chandbali, steamers would get to Cuttack through a number of rivers and canals. The description I
used to hear from my mother since childhood of the rolling and pitching and the accompanying
discomfort during the voyage would leave no desire in me to undergo such an experience. At a
time when distances were long and journey by no means safe, my father must have had plenty of
pluck to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career. Fortune favours the brave
even in civil life and, by the time I was born, my father had already made a position for himself and
was almost at the top of the legal profession in his new domicile.
Though a comparatively small town with a population in the neighbourhood of 20,000, Cuttack
had an importance of its own owing to a variety of factors. It had an unbroken tradition since the
days of the early Hindu Kings of Kalinga. It was the de facto capital of Orissa which could boast of
such a famous place of pilgrimage as Puri (or Jagannath) and such glorious art-relics as those of
Konarak, Bhuvaneswar, and Udaigiri. It was the headquarters not only for the British
administration in Orissa, but also for the numerous ruling chiefs in that province. Altogether,
Cuttack afforded a healthy environment for a growing child, and it had some of the virtues of both
city and country life.
Ours was not a rich, but what might be regarded as a well-to-do, middle-class family. Naturally, I
had no personal experience of what want and poverty meant and had no occasion to develop
those traits of selfishness, greed, and the rest which are sometimes the unwelcome heritage of
indigent circumstances in one’s early life. At the same time, there was not that luxury and
lavishness _____ our home which has been the ruin _____ so many promising but pampered young
souls or has helped to foster a supercilious, highbrow mentality in them. In fact, considering their
worldly means, my parents always erred– and, I daresay, rightly too– on the side of simplicity in
the upbringing of their children.
Excerpted from: Bose, Subhas Chandra. An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography and
Collected Letters 1897-1921.
In the sentence given below, the word in bold is used as _____.
Naturally, I had no personal experience of what **want** and poverty meant.
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A verb
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A noun
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An adverb
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An adjective
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Want can be a verb meaning desire or a noun meaning lack or poverty. Here it is coordinated with the noun poverty after of.
**2. Apply it:** Want names a condition of deprivation, so it functions as a noun.
**Answer: B — A noun.**
A: **Incorrect:** It is not expressing the action of desiring here.
B: **Correct:** It names lack or deprivation.
C: **Incorrect:** It does not modify a verb.
D: **Incorrect:** It does not modify another noun.
**Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.**
My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had
settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My
father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather
Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hatkhola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child
of my parents.
In these days of rapid communication, a night’s journey by train southwards along the eastern
coast takes one from Calcutta to Cuttack and on the way there is neither adventure nor romance.
But things were not quite the same sixty years ago. One had to go either by cart and encounter
thieves and robbers on the road, or by sea and brave the wrath of the winds and the waves. Since
it was safer to trust in God than in brother man, it was more common to travel by boat. Sea-going
vessels would carry passengers up to Chandbali where transhipment would take place and from
Chandbali, steamers would get to Cuttack through a number of rivers and canals. The description I
used to hear from my mother since childhood of the rolling and pitching and the accompanying
discomfort during the voyage would leave no desire in me to undergo such an experience. At a
time when distances were long and journey by no means safe, my father must have had plenty of
pluck to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career. Fortune favours the brave
even in civil life and, by the time I was born, my father had already made a position for himself and
was almost at the top of the legal profession in his new domicile.
Though a comparatively small town with a population in the neighbourhood of 20,000, Cuttack
had an importance of its own owing to a variety of factors. It had an unbroken tradition since the
days of the early Hindu Kings of Kalinga. It was the de facto capital of Orissa which could boast of
such a famous place of pilgrimage as Puri (or Jagannath) and such glorious art-relics as those of
Konarak, Bhuvaneswar, and Udaigiri. It was the headquarters not only for the British
administration in Orissa, but also for the numerous ruling chiefs in that province. Altogether,
Cuttack afforded a healthy environment for a growing child, and it had some of the virtues of both
city and country life.
Ours was not a rich, but what might be regarded as a well-to-do, middle-class family. Naturally, I
had no personal experience of what want and poverty meant and had no occasion to develop
those traits of selfishness, greed, and the rest which are sometimes the unwelcome heritage of
indigent circumstances in one’s early life. At the same time, there was not that luxury and
lavishness _____ our home which has been the ruin _____ so many promising but pampered young
souls or has helped to foster a supercilious, highbrow mentality in them. In fact, considering their
worldly means, my parents always erred– and, I daresay, rightly too– on the side of simplicity in
the upbringing of their children.
Excerpted from: Bose, Subhas Chandra. An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography and
Collected Letters 1897-1921.
What was the vocation of the narrator’s father?
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Lawyer
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Doctor
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Merchant
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Teacher
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** The passage identifies Janakinath Bose’s occupation when describing his move to Cuttack.
**2. Apply it:** He settled there to work as a lawyer.
**Answer: A — Lawyer.**
A: **Correct:** Lawyer is the explicitly stated profession.
B: **Incorrect:** Doctor is not the profession given.
C: **Incorrect:** Merchant is not the profession given.
D: **Incorrect:** Teacher is not the profession given.
**Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.**
My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had
settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My
father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather
Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hatkhola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child
of my parents.
In these days of rapid communication, a night’s journey by train southwards along the eastern
coast takes one from Calcutta to Cuttack and on the way there is neither adventure nor romance.
But things were not quite the same sixty years ago. One had to go either by cart and encounter
thieves and robbers on the road, or by sea and brave the wrath of the winds and the waves. Since
it was safer to trust in God than in brother man, it was more common to travel by boat. Sea-going
vessels would carry passengers up to Chandbali where transhipment would take place and from
Chandbali, steamers would get to Cuttack through a number of rivers and canals. The description I
used to hear from my mother since childhood of the rolling and pitching and the accompanying
discomfort during the voyage would leave no desire in me to undergo such an experience. At a
time when distances were long and journey by no means safe, my father must have had plenty of
pluck to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career. Fortune favours the brave
even in civil life and, by the time I was born, my father had already made a position for himself and
was almost at the top of the legal profession in his new domicile.
Though a comparatively small town with a population in the neighbourhood of 20,000, Cuttack
had an importance of its own owing to a variety of factors. It had an unbroken tradition since the
days of the early Hindu Kings of Kalinga. It was the de facto capital of Orissa which could boast of
such a famous place of pilgrimage as Puri (or Jagannath) and such glorious art-relics as those of
Konarak, Bhuvaneswar, and Udaigiri. It was the headquarters not only for the British
administration in Orissa, but also for the numerous ruling chiefs in that province. Altogether,
Cuttack afforded a healthy environment for a growing child, and it had some of the virtues of both
city and country life.
Ours was not a rich, but what might be regarded as a well-to-do, middle-class family. Naturally, I
had no personal experience of what want and poverty meant and had no occasion to develop
those traits of selfishness, greed, and the rest which are sometimes the unwelcome heritage of
indigent circumstances in one’s early life. At the same time, there was not that luxury and
lavishness _____ our home which has been the ruin _____ so many promising but pampered young
souls or has helped to foster a supercilious, highbrow mentality in them. In fact, considering their
worldly means, my parents always erred– and, I daresay, rightly too– on the side of simplicity in
the upbringing of their children.
Excerpted from: Bose, Subhas Chandra. An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography and
Collected Letters 1897-1921.
Indigent means _____.
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Very rich
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Very skilled
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Very angry
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Very poor
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Indigent means lacking the resources needed for ordinary living.
**2. Apply it:** Its use alongside poverty and deprivation points to very poor.
**Answer: D — Very poor.**
A: **Incorrect:** Very rich is the opposite meaning.
B: **Incorrect:** Skill is not the quality described.
C: **Incorrect:** Anger is unrelated to indigence.
D: **Correct:** Very poor captures the intended meaning.
**Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.**
My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had
settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My
father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather
Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hatkhola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child
of my parents.
In these days of rapid communication, a night’s journey by train southwards along the eastern
coast takes one from Calcutta to Cuttack and on the way there is neither adventure nor romance.
But things were not quite the same sixty years ago. One had to go either by cart and encounter
thieves and robbers on the road, or by sea and brave the wrath of the winds and the waves. Since
it was safer to trust in God than in brother man, it was more common to travel by boat. Sea-going
vessels would carry passengers up to Chandbali where transhipment would take place and from
Chandbali, steamers would get to Cuttack through a number of rivers and canals. The description I
used to hear from my mother since childhood of the rolling and pitching and the accompanying
discomfort during the voyage would leave no desire in me to undergo such an experience. At a
time when distances were long and journey by no means safe, my father must have had plenty of
pluck to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career. Fortune favours the brave
even in civil life and, by the time I was born, my father had already made a position for himself and
was almost at the top of the legal profession in his new domicile.
Though a comparatively small town with a population in the neighbourhood of 20,000, Cuttack
had an importance of its own owing to a variety of factors. It had an unbroken tradition since the
days of the early Hindu Kings of Kalinga. It was the de facto capital of Orissa which could boast of
such a famous place of pilgrimage as Puri (or Jagannath) and such glorious art-relics as those of
Konarak, Bhuvaneswar, and Udaigiri. It was the headquarters not only for the British
administration in Orissa, but also for the numerous ruling chiefs in that province. Altogether,
Cuttack afforded a healthy environment for a growing child, and it had some of the virtues of both
city and country life.
Ours was not a rich, but what might be regarded as a well-to-do, middle-class family. Naturally, I
had no personal experience of what want and poverty meant and had no occasion to develop
those traits of selfishness, greed, and the rest which are sometimes the unwelcome heritage of
indigent circumstances in one’s early life. At the same time, there was not that luxury and
lavishness _____ our home which has been the ruin _____ so many promising but pampered young
souls or has helped to foster a supercilious, highbrow mentality in them. In fact, considering their
worldly means, my parents always erred– and, I daresay, rightly too– on the side of simplicity in
the upbringing of their children.
Excerpted from: Bose, Subhas Chandra. An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography and
Collected Letters 1897-1921.
Which, according to the passage, is NOT a glorious art-relic that Orissa could boast of?
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Konarak
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Bhuvaneswar
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Chandbali
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Udaigiri
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** The question asks which place is not included among the passage’s named art-relics.
**2. Apply it:** Konarak, Bhuvaneswar and Udaigiri appear in that list. Chandbali is instead the port where passengers change vessels.
**Answer: C — Chandbali.**
A: **Incorrect:** Konarak is expressly included among the art-relic locations.
B: **Incorrect:** Bhuvaneswar is expressly included.
C: **Correct:** Select it: Chandbali is a travel-transfer location, not part of that list.
D: **Incorrect:** Udaigiri is expressly included.
**Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.**
My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had
settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My
father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather
Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hatkhola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child
of my parents.
In these days of rapid communication, a night’s journey by train southwards along the eastern
coast takes one from Calcutta to Cuttack and on the way there is neither adventure nor romance.
But things were not quite the same sixty years ago. One had to go either by cart and encounter
thieves and robbers on the road, or by sea and brave the wrath of the winds and the waves. Since
it was safer to trust in God than in brother man, it was more common to travel by boat. Sea-going
vessels would carry passengers up to Chandbali where transhipment would take place and from
Chandbali, steamers would get to Cuttack through a number of rivers and canals. The description I
used to hear from my mother since childhood of the rolling and pitching and the accompanying
discomfort during the voyage would leave no desire in me to undergo such an experience. At a
time when distances were long and journey by no means safe, my father must have had plenty of
pluck to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career. Fortune favours the brave
even in civil life and, by the time I was born, my father had already made a position for himself and
was almost at the top of the legal profession in his new domicile.
Though a comparatively small town with a population in the neighbourhood of 20,000, Cuttack
had an importance of its own owing to a variety of factors. It had an unbroken tradition since the
days of the early Hindu Kings of Kalinga. It was the de facto capital of Orissa which could boast of
such a famous place of pilgrimage as Puri (or Jagannath) and such glorious art-relics as those of
Konarak, Bhuvaneswar, and Udaigiri. It was the headquarters not only for the British
administration in Orissa, but also for the numerous ruling chiefs in that province. Altogether,
Cuttack afforded a healthy environment for a growing child, and it had some of the virtues of both
city and country life.
Ours was not a rich, but what might be regarded as a well-to-do, middle-class family. Naturally, I
had no personal experience of what want and poverty meant and had no occasion to develop
those traits of selfishness, greed, and the rest which are sometimes the unwelcome heritage of
indigent circumstances in one’s early life. At the same time, there was not that luxury and
lavishness _____ our home which has been the ruin _____ so many promising but pampered young
souls or has helped to foster a supercilious, highbrow mentality in them. In fact, considering their
worldly means, my parents always erred– and, I daresay, rightly too– on the side of simplicity in
the upbringing of their children.
Excerpted from: Bose, Subhas Chandra. An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography and
Collected Letters 1897-1921.
Choose the incorrect statement.
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The narrator’s father was one of the top lawyers in Cuttack
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Hearing stories of boat journeys from his mother, the narrator had a strong
desire to go on a voyage
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The narrator came from a well-to-do, middle-class family
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Cuttack afforded a healthy environment for a growing child
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** The narrator says that his mother’s accounts of the voyage left him without a desire to experience it.
**2. Apply it:** The claim that those stories created a strong wish for a voyage reverses the passage, so B is the incorrect statement.
**Answer: B — Hearing stories of boat journeys from his mother, the narrator had a strong .**
A: **Incorrect:** The father was near the top of the local legal profession, so do not select this true statement.
B: **Correct:** Select it: the voyage stories discouraged rather than encouraged him.
C: **Incorrect:** The family is described as comfortable and middle-class, so this is true.
D: **Incorrect:** The passage explicitly describes Cuttack’s environment as healthy for a child.
**Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.**
My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had
settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My
father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather
Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hatkhola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child
of my parents.
In these days of rapid communication, a night’s journey by train southwards along the eastern
coast takes one from Calcutta to Cuttack and on the way there is neither adventure nor romance.
But things were not quite the same sixty years ago. One had to go either by cart and encounter
thieves and robbers on the road, or by sea and brave the wrath of the winds and the waves. Since
it was safer to trust in God than in brother man, it was more common to travel by boat. Sea-going
vessels would carry passengers up to Chandbali where transhipment would take place and from
Chandbali, steamers would get to Cuttack through a number of rivers and canals. The description I
used to hear from my mother since childhood of the rolling and pitching and the accompanying
discomfort during the voyage would leave no desire in me to undergo such an experience. At a
time when distances were long and journey by no means safe, my father must have had plenty of
pluck to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career. Fortune favours the brave
even in civil life and, by the time I was born, my father had already made a position for himself and
was almost at the top of the legal profession in his new domicile.
Though a comparatively small town with a population in the neighbourhood of 20,000, Cuttack
had an importance of its own owing to a variety of factors. It had an unbroken tradition since the
days of the early Hindu Kings of Kalinga. It was the de facto capital of Orissa which could boast of
such a famous place of pilgrimage as Puri (or Jagannath) and such glorious art-relics as those of
Konarak, Bhuvaneswar, and Udaigiri. It was the headquarters not only for the British
administration in Orissa, but also for the numerous ruling chiefs in that province. Altogether,
Cuttack afforded a healthy environment for a growing child, and it had some of the virtues of both
city and country life.
Ours was not a rich, but what might be regarded as a well-to-do, middle-class family. Naturally, I
had no personal experience of what want and poverty meant and had no occasion to develop
those traits of selfishness, greed, and the rest which are sometimes the unwelcome heritage of
indigent circumstances in one’s early life. At the same time, there was not that luxury and
lavishness _____ our home which has been the ruin _____ so many promising but pampered young
souls or has helped to foster a supercilious, highbrow mentality in them. In fact, considering their
worldly means, my parents always erred– and, I daresay, rightly too– on the side of simplicity in
the upbringing of their children.
Excerpted from: Bose, Subhas Chandra. An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography and
Collected Letters 1897-1921.
At a time when distances were long and journey by no means safe, my father must have had plenty of
**pluck** to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career.
What does the word in bold mean in this context?
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Poverty and desperation
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Courage and determination
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Hunger and hardship
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Love and support
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Pluck in this context means courage, especially when facing difficulty or risk.
**2. Apply it:** Leaving home for a distant career despite dangerous travel calls for courage and determination.
**Answer: B — Courage and determination.**
A: **Incorrect:** The context concerns bravery, not poverty.
B: **Correct:** It captures the courage needed for the decision.
C: **Incorrect:** Hardship helps explain the challenge but is not the meaning of pluck.
D: **Incorrect:** Support and affection are not the quality named here.
**Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.**
My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had
settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My
father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather
Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hatkhola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child
of my parents.
In these days of rapid communication, a night’s journey by train southwards along the eastern
coast takes one from Calcutta to Cuttack and on the way there is neither adventure nor romance.
But things were not quite the same sixty years ago. One had to go either by cart and encounter
thieves and robbers on the road, or by sea and brave the wrath of the winds and the waves. Since
it was safer to trust in God than in brother man, it was more common to travel by boat. Sea-going
vessels would carry passengers up to Chandbali where transhipment would take place and from
Chandbali, steamers would get to Cuttack through a number of rivers and canals. The description I
used to hear from my mother since childhood of the rolling and pitching and the accompanying
discomfort during the voyage would leave no desire in me to undergo such an experience. At a
time when distances were long and journey by no means safe, my father must have had plenty of
pluck to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career. Fortune favours the brave
even in civil life and, by the time I was born, my father had already made a position for himself and
was almost at the top of the legal profession in his new domicile.
Though a comparatively small town with a population in the neighbourhood of 20,000, Cuttack
had an importance of its own owing to a variety of factors. It had an unbroken tradition since the
days of the early Hindu Kings of Kalinga. It was the de facto capital of Orissa which could boast of
such a famous place of pilgrimage as Puri (or Jagannath) and such glorious art-relics as those of
Konarak, Bhuvaneswar, and Udaigiri. It was the headquarters not only for the British
administration in Orissa, but also for the numerous ruling chiefs in that province. Altogether,
Cuttack afforded a healthy environment for a growing child, and it had some of the virtues of both
city and country life.
Ours was not a rich, but what might be regarded as a well-to-do, middle-class family. Naturally, I
had no personal experience of what want and poverty meant and had no occasion to develop
those traits of selfishness, greed, and the rest which are sometimes the unwelcome heritage of
indigent circumstances in one’s early life. At the same time, there was not that luxury and
lavishness _____ our home which has been the ruin _____ so many promising but pampered young
souls or has helped to foster a supercilious, highbrow mentality in them. In fact, considering their
worldly means, my parents always erred– and, I daresay, rightly too– on the side of simplicity in
the upbringing of their children.
Excerpted from: Bose, Subhas Chandra. An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography and
Collected Letters 1897-1921.
Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions.
At the same time, there was not that luxury and lavishness _____ our home which has been the ruin _____
so many promising but pampered young souls or has helped to foster a supercilious, highbrow
mentality in them.
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in…of
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on…in
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of…at
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with…through
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Use in for conditions existing within a home and the ruin of to connect a damaging influence to the people affected.
**2. Apply it:** The complete phrases are luxury and lavishness in our home and the ruin of so many … souls.
**Answer: A — in … of.**
A: **Correct:** Both prepositions produce the established constructions.
B: **Incorrect:** On our home and ruin in do not fit these meanings.
C: **Incorrect:** Of our home and ruin at do not express the intended relations.
D: **Incorrect:** With and through do not form the required phrases here.
**Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.**
My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had
settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My
father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather
Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hatkhola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child
of my parents.
In these days of rapid communication, a night’s journey by train southwards along the eastern
coast takes one from Calcutta to Cuttack and on the way there is neither adventure nor romance.
But things were not quite the same sixty years ago. One had to go either by cart and encounter
thieves and robbers on the road, or by sea and brave the wrath of the winds and the waves. Since
it was safer to trust in God than in brother man, it was more common to travel by boat. Sea-going
vessels would carry passengers up to Chandbali where transhipment would take place and from
Chandbali, steamers would get to Cuttack through a number of rivers and canals. The description I
used to hear from my mother since childhood of the rolling and pitching and the accompanying
discomfort during the voyage would leave no desire in me to undergo such an experience. At a
time when distances were long and journey by no means safe, my father must have had plenty of
pluck to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career. Fortune favours the brave
even in civil life and, by the time I was born, my father had already made a position for himself and
was almost at the top of the legal profession in his new domicile.
Though a comparatively small town with a population in the neighbourhood of 20,000, Cuttack
had an importance of its own owing to a variety of factors. It had an unbroken tradition since the
days of the early Hindu Kings of Kalinga. It was the de facto capital of Orissa which could boast of
such a famous place of pilgrimage as Puri (or Jagannath) and such glorious art-relics as those of
Konarak, Bhuvaneswar, and Udaigiri. It was the headquarters not only for the British
administration in Orissa, but also for the numerous ruling chiefs in that province. Altogether,
Cuttack afforded a healthy environment for a growing child, and it had some of the virtues of both
city and country life.
Ours was not a rich, but what might be regarded as a well-to-do, middle-class family. Naturally, I
had no personal experience of what want and poverty meant and had no occasion to develop
those traits of selfishness, greed, and the rest which are sometimes the unwelcome heritage of
indigent circumstances in one’s early life. At the same time, there was not that luxury and
lavishness _____ our home which has been the ruin _____ so many promising but pampered young
souls or has helped to foster a supercilious, highbrow mentality in them. In fact, considering their
worldly means, my parents always erred– and, I daresay, rightly too– on the side of simplicity in
the upbringing of their children.
Excerpted from: Bose, Subhas Chandra. An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography and
Collected Letters 1897-1921.
Based on your reading of the text, match the adjectives to their fitting nouns.
[1] Worldly
6406535109737.
Heritage
6406535109738.
Communication
6406535109739.
Means
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Worldly describes material or financial possessions in the passage.
**2. Apply it:** Worldly means therefore refers to the family’s material resources.
**Answer: C — Means.**
A: **Incorrect:** The adjective attached to heritage here is unwelcome.
B: **Incorrect:** The adjective attached to communication is rapid.
C: **Correct:** Worldly means is the stated phrase.
**Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.**
My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had
settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My
father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather
Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hatkhola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child
of my parents.
In these days of rapid communication, a night’s journey by train southwards along the eastern
coast takes one from Calcutta to Cuttack and on the way there is neither adventure nor romance.
But things were not quite the same sixty years ago. One had to go either by cart and encounter
thieves and robbers on the road, or by sea and brave the wrath of the winds and the waves. Since
it was safer to trust in God than in brother man, it was more common to travel by boat. Sea-going
vessels would carry passengers up to Chandbali where transhipment would take place and from
Chandbali, steamers would get to Cuttack through a number of rivers and canals. The description I
used to hear from my mother since childhood of the rolling and pitching and the accompanying
discomfort during the voyage would leave no desire in me to undergo such an experience. At a
time when distances were long and journey by no means safe, my father must have had plenty of
pluck to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career. Fortune favours the brave
even in civil life and, by the time I was born, my father had already made a position for himself and
was almost at the top of the legal profession in his new domicile.
Though a comparatively small town with a population in the neighbourhood of 20,000, Cuttack
had an importance of its own owing to a variety of factors. It had an unbroken tradition since the
days of the early Hindu Kings of Kalinga. It was the de facto capital of Orissa which could boast of
such a famous place of pilgrimage as Puri (or Jagannath) and such glorious art-relics as those of
Konarak, Bhuvaneswar, and Udaigiri. It was the headquarters not only for the British
administration in Orissa, but also for the numerous ruling chiefs in that province. Altogether,
Cuttack afforded a healthy environment for a growing child, and it had some of the virtues of both
city and country life.
Ours was not a rich, but what might be regarded as a well-to-do, middle-class family. Naturally, I
had no personal experience of what want and poverty meant and had no occasion to develop
those traits of selfishness, greed, and the rest which are sometimes the unwelcome heritage of
indigent circumstances in one’s early life. At the same time, there was not that luxury and
lavishness _____ our home which has been the ruin _____ so many promising but pampered young
souls or has helped to foster a supercilious, highbrow mentality in them. In fact, considering their
worldly means, my parents always erred– and, I daresay, rightly too– on the side of simplicity in
the upbringing of their children.
Excerpted from: Bose, Subhas Chandra. An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography and
Collected Letters 1897-1921.
Based on your reading of the text, match the adjectives to their fitting nouns.
[2] Unwelcome
6406535109740.
Heritage
6406535109741.
Communication
6406535109742.
Means
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Unwelcome describes something undesirable that is received or inherited.
**2. Apply it:** The text calls certain adverse traits an unwelcome heritage of poverty.
**Answer: A — Heritage.**
A: **Correct:** Unwelcome heritage is the phrase in the passage.
B: **Incorrect:** Communication is paired with rapid.
C: **Incorrect:** Means is paired with worldly.
**Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.**
My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had
settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My
father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather
Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hatkhola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child
of my parents.
In these days of rapid communication, a night’s journey by train southwards along the eastern
coast takes one from Calcutta to Cuttack and on the way there is neither adventure nor romance.
But things were not quite the same sixty years ago. One had to go either by cart and encounter
thieves and robbers on the road, or by sea and brave the wrath of the winds and the waves. Since
it was safer to trust in God than in brother man, it was more common to travel by boat. Sea-going
vessels would carry passengers up to Chandbali where transhipment would take place and from
Chandbali, steamers would get to Cuttack through a number of rivers and canals. The description I
used to hear from my mother since childhood of the rolling and pitching and the accompanying
discomfort during the voyage would leave no desire in me to undergo such an experience. At a
time when distances were long and journey by no means safe, my father must have had plenty of
pluck to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career. Fortune favours the brave
even in civil life and, by the time I was born, my father had already made a position for himself and
was almost at the top of the legal profession in his new domicile.
Though a comparatively small town with a population in the neighbourhood of 20,000, Cuttack
had an importance of its own owing to a variety of factors. It had an unbroken tradition since the
days of the early Hindu Kings of Kalinga. It was the de facto capital of Orissa which could boast of
such a famous place of pilgrimage as Puri (or Jagannath) and such glorious art-relics as those of
Konarak, Bhuvaneswar, and Udaigiri. It was the headquarters not only for the British
administration in Orissa, but also for the numerous ruling chiefs in that province. Altogether,
Cuttack afforded a healthy environment for a growing child, and it had some of the virtues of both
city and country life.
Ours was not a rich, but what might be regarded as a well-to-do, middle-class family. Naturally, I
had no personal experience of what want and poverty meant and had no occasion to develop
those traits of selfishness, greed, and the rest which are sometimes the unwelcome heritage of
indigent circumstances in one’s early life. At the same time, there was not that luxury and
lavishness _____ our home which has been the ruin _____ so many promising but pampered young
souls or has helped to foster a supercilious, highbrow mentality in them. In fact, considering their
worldly means, my parents always erred– and, I daresay, rightly too– on the side of simplicity in
the upbringing of their children.
Excerpted from: Bose, Subhas Chandra. An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography and
Collected Letters 1897-1921.
Based on your reading of the text, match the adjectives to their fitting nouns.
[3] Rapid
6406535109743.
Heritage
6406535109744.
Communication
6406535109745.
Means
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Rapid means fast, and the passage opens its discussion of travel with modern rapid communication.
**2. Apply it:** Communication is the corresponding noun.
**Answer: B — Communication.**
A: **Incorrect:** Heritage is paired with unwelcome.
B: **Correct:** Rapid communication is the stated phrase.
C: **Incorrect:** Means is paired with worldly.
Which of the given consonant-vowel sequences correctly illustrates the consonant cluster/clusters
in the word exhibit?
6406535109746.
VCCCVCVC
6406535109747.
VCCVCVC
6406535109748.
VCCVCCVC
6406535109749.
VCVCVC
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Exhibit is commonly /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/. Written x contributes two consonant sounds /ɡz/, while the h is not separately pronounced.
**2. Apply it:** The sound sequence is /ɪ/ V, /ɡ/ C, /z/ C, /ɪ/ V, /b/ C, /ɪ/ V, /t/ C: VCCVCVC.
**Answer: B — VCCVCVC.**
A: **Incorrect:** It incorrectly adds a third consecutive consonant after the initial vowel.
B: **Correct:** VCCVCVC matches all seven phonemes.
C: **Incorrect:** It inserts another consonant not present in the pronunciation.
D: **Incorrect:** It misses one of the two consonants represented by x.
In which word does the underlined part have a different sound?
6406535109750.
Vision
6406535109751.
Azure
6406535109752.
Measure
6406535109753.
Prison
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** In the intended pronunciations, vision, azure and measure contain the voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ in the marked part.
**2. Apply it:** Prison contains the voiced alveolar fricative /z/, which is a different sound.
**Answer: D — Prison.**
A: **Incorrect:** Vision has /ʒ/, shared with the first group.
B: **Incorrect:** Azure has /ʒ/ in the pronunciation used by the question.
C: **Incorrect:** Measure has /ʒ/, shared with the first group.
D: **Correct:** Prison has /z/ rather than /ʒ/.
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Quiet is commonly /ˈkwaɪət/, with the consonant glide /w/ directly after /k/.
**2. Apply it:** The letters qu correspond to /kw/ here, so the semivowel is /w/.
**Answer: A — /w/.**
A: **Correct:** It is the glide in the initial /kw/ sequence.
B: **Incorrect:** The palatal glide /j/, written /y/ in this paper, is not the target.
Which among the following words has the same sound as underlined in “foe”?
6406535109756.
Gown
6406535109757.
Flow
6406535109758.
Brow
6406535109759.
Brown
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Foe has the diphthong /əʊ/ in the intended British-style transcription.
**2. Apply it:** Flow shares that vowel, whereas gown, brow and brown have /aʊ/.
**Answer: B — Flow.**
**Convention note:** American transcriptions often write the matching foe/flow vowel as /oʊ/; the correct word remains flow.
A: **Incorrect:** Gown contains /aʊ/.
B: **Correct:** Flow contains the same vowel as foe.
C: **Incorrect:** Brow contains /aʊ/.
D: **Incorrect:** Brown contains /aʊ/.
Which among the following is a word without a diphthong?
6406535109760.
Ply
6406535109761.
Clay
6406535109762.
Buy
6406535109763.
Clue
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** A diphthong changes vowel quality within one syllabic nucleus.
**2. Apply it:** Ply and buy contain /aɪ/; clay contains /eɪ/. Clue /kluː/ instead has the long monophthong /uː/.
**Answer: D — Clue.**
A: **Incorrect:** Ply has /aɪ/.
B: **Incorrect:** Clay has /eɪ/.
C: **Incorrect:** Buy has /aɪ/.
D: **Correct:** Clue has /uː/, not a diphthong.
Identify the part of speech of the underlined word:
“The dog ran into the glass door.”
6406535109764.
Noun
6406535109765.
Pronoun
6406535109766.
Verb
6406535109767.
Conjunction
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** The PDF underlines The dog. Dog is the common noun naming the animal, and the whole expression is a noun phrase with the determiner the.
**2. Apply it:** Among the offered part-of-speech labels, noun correctly identifies its head word dog.
**Answer: A — Noun.**
**Convention note:** Strictly, The dog is a noun phrase rather than a single word. The question’s intended label refers to its noun head.
A: **Correct:** Dog is a noun and heads the underlined noun phrase.
B: **Incorrect:** Dog is not a pronoun replacing a noun.
C: **Incorrect:** Ran is the verb; dog is not.
D: **Incorrect:** The underlined expression does not join words or clauses.
Identify the part of speech of the underlined word:
“The bread was stale; it had been left outside overnight.”
6406535109768.
Noun
6406535109769.
Pronoun
6406535109770.
Verb
6406535109771.
Conjunction
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** The PDF underlines it, which refers back to the bread.
**2. Apply it:** A word used to refer to a previously named thing without repeating its noun is a pronoun.
**Answer: B — Pronoun.**
A: **Incorrect:** Bread is a noun, but the underlined word is it.
B: **Correct:** It refers back to the bread.
C: **Incorrect:** Had been left is the verb phrase, not it.
D: **Incorrect:** It does not connect clauses.
Choose the correct option:
“Out of all the girls in the basketball team, Tina was the _______.”
6406535109772.
Taller
6406535109773.
Tallest
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** A comparative normally contrasts two entities; a superlative identifies the highest degree within an entire group.
**2. Apply it:** Out of all the girls sets up a group comparison, so the tallest is required.
**Answer: B — Tallest.**
A: **Incorrect:** Taller is comparative and does not fit the group-superlative construction here.
B: **Correct:** Tallest identifies the maximum height within the group.
Identify the adjective in the following sentence:
“Stop at the house with the yellow scooter parked outside.”
6406535109774.
Stop
6406535109775.
House
6406535109776.
Yellow
6406535109777.
Scooter
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** An adjective modifies a noun by specifying a quality such as color.
**2. Apply it:** Yellow describes the scooter, so it is the requested adjective.
**Answer: C — Yellow.**
A: **Incorrect:** Stop is the imperative verb.
B: **Incorrect:** House is a noun.
C: **Correct:** Yellow gives the scooter’s color.
D: **Incorrect:** Scooter is a noun.
“I reached Chennai yesterday.” The word “yesterday” is an adverb of ____.
6406535109778.
Time
6406535109779.
Place
6406535109780.
Frequency
6406535109781.
None of these
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** An adverb of time tells when an event happens.
**2. Apply it:** Yesterday tells when the speaker reached Chennai.
**Answer: A — Time.**
A: **Correct:** It identifies the time of arrival.
B: **Incorrect:** Chennai supplies the place, not yesterday.
C: **Incorrect:** Frequency would describe how often the event occurs.
D: **Incorrect:** Time is already the correct category.
Choose the appropriate option:
“I couldn’t reach Chennai on time; my car fell ____ a ditch.”
6406535109782.
Onto
6406535109783.
Above
6406535109784.
Into
6406535109785.
About
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Into expresses motion from outside to the interior of a place or space.
**2. Apply it:** The car fell into a ditch, ending inside the depression.
**Answer: C — Into.**
A: **Incorrect:** Onto means movement to a surface rather than into an interior.
B: **Incorrect:** Above describes a higher position and does not complete the motion meaning.
C: **Correct:** Into correctly expresses the car’s movement into the ditch.
D: **Incorrect:** About does not express the required spatial movement.
Which one of the following words is a preposition?
6406535109786.
Tile
6406535109787.
Teal
6406535109788.
Until
6406535109789.
Hunting
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Until can introduce a time noun phrase, as in until Monday, functioning as a preposition.
**2. Apply it:** It is the preposition among these conventional lexical choices.
**Answer: C — Until.**
**Convention note:** Until can also function as a conjunction before a clause, as in until the rain stops. The question asks which word can serve as a preposition, not which has only that function.
A: **Incorrect:** Tile is ordinarily a noun or verb.
B: **Incorrect:** Teal is ordinarily a color noun or adjective.
C: **Correct:** Until is a preposition before a time complement.
D: **Incorrect:** Hunting is a verb form or an activity noun, not the preposition sought.
Identify the conjunction in the following sentence:
“The food at the canteen was neither tasty nor nutritious.”
6406535109790.
Food
6406535109791.
Canteen
6406535109792.
Tasty
6406535109793.
Neither/nor
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Neither … nor is a paired or correlative conjunction joining two negatively presented alternatives.
**2. Apply it:** It links the parallel adjective descriptions tasty and nutritious.
**Answer: D — Neither/nor.**
A: **Incorrect:** Food is a noun.
B: **Incorrect:** Canteen is a noun.
C: **Incorrect:** Tasty is an adjective.
D: **Correct:** Neither/nor jointly connects the two descriptions.
Choose the appropriate option:
____! Stop pulling my hair!
6406535109794.
Wow
6406535109795.
Oops
6406535109796.
Ouch
6406535109797.
Hi
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** An interjection should fit the emotion or immediate sensation in context.
**2. Apply it:** Someone pulling the speaker’s hair causes pain, so Ouch is the natural reaction.
**Answer: C — Ouch.**
A: **Incorrect:** Wow usually expresses surprise or admiration.
B: **Incorrect:** Oops acknowledges a mistake or mishap rather than directly expressing pain.
C: **Correct:** Ouch expresses pain.
D: **Incorrect:** Hi is a greeting.
Choose the correct option:
Can you get me _____ cup of curd when you go to the supermarket?
6406535109798.
An
6406535109799.
A
6406535109800.
The
6406535109801.
None of these
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** The indefinite article depends on the following sound, not the written letter alone. Cup begins with consonant /k/.
**2. Apply it:** A cup of curd asks for one unspecified cup, making a the natural choice.
**Answer: B — A.**
A: **Incorrect:** An is used before a vowel sound, not /k/.
B: **Correct:** A introduces one unspecified cup.
C: **Incorrect:** The would require an identifiable particular cup not established by this context.
D: **Incorrect:** A suitable article is available.
Fill in the blanks in List A using appropriate idioms from List B
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
“Kathy Stevens.” Does the name _____?
6406535109802.
Threw in the towel
6406535109803.
Face the music
6406535109804.
Through thick and thin
6406535109805.
Ring a bell
6406535109806.
Blow off some steam
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Ring a bell means sound familiar or bring a vague memory to mind.
**2. Apply it:** Does the name ring a bell? asks whether the listener recognizes Kathy Stevens.
**Answer: D — Ring a bell.**
A: **Incorrect:** Threw in the towel means gave up and cannot follow does in that form.
B: **Incorrect:** Face the music means accept consequences.
C: **Incorrect:** Through thick and thin means through good and bad circumstances.
D: **Correct:** Ring a bell asks whether the name seems familiar.
E: **Incorrect:** Blow off some steam means release tension.
Fill in the blanks in List A using appropriate idioms from List B
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
For several years, he was trying unsuccessfully to emigrate to the UAE, but eventually he _____.
6406535109807.
Threw in the towel
6406535109808.
Face the music
6406535109809.
Through thick and thin
6406535109810.
Ring a bell
6406535109811.
Blow off some steam
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Throw in the towel means stop trying or admit defeat. The narrative describes repeated unsuccessful attempts followed by a final change.
**2. Apply it:** The past form threw in the towel expresses his eventual decision to give up.
**Answer: A — Threw in the towel.**
A: **Correct:** It supplies both the intended meaning and past-tense form.
B: **Incorrect:** Face the music concerns accepting consequences, not necessarily abandoning an attempt.
C: **Incorrect:** Through thick and thin describes loyal endurance and does not complete this verb slot.
D: **Incorrect:** Ring a bell means seem familiar.
E: **Incorrect:** Blow off some steam means release stress, not give up the effort.
Fill in the blanks in List A using appropriate idioms from List B
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
After a long day, he goes cycling to _____.
6406535109812.
Threw in the towel
6406535109813.
Face the music
6406535109814.
Through thick and thin
6406535109815.
Ring a bell
6406535109816.
Blow off some steam
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** To blow off some steam is to release pent-up stress or energy.
**2. Apply it:** Cycling after a long day is presented as a way to relax and discharge tension.
**Answer: E — Blow off some steam.**
A: **Incorrect:** Threw in the towel means gave up, and its past form cannot follow to here.
B: **Incorrect:** Face the music means confront consequences.
C: **Incorrect:** Through thick and thin describes continued loyalty, not relaxation.
D: **Incorrect:** Ring a bell means seem familiar.
E: **Correct:** It means release tension through an activity.
Fill in the blanks in List A using appropriate idioms from List B
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
She has suffered a great deal of personal loss, but her husband stayed with her _____.
6406535109817.
Threw in the towel
6406535109818.
Face the music
6406535109819.
Through thick and thin
6406535109820.
Ring a bell
6406535109821.
Blow off some steam
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Through thick and thin means through difficult as well as favorable circumstances.
**2. Apply it:** The husband remained supportive despite serious personal losses, so that phrase matches his continued loyalty.
**Answer: C — Through thick and thin.**
A: **Incorrect:** Threw in the towel would suggest abandoning effort rather than staying supportive.
B: **Incorrect:** Face the music concerns dealing with consequences.
C: **Correct:** It describes unwavering support through good and bad times.
D: **Incorrect:** Ring a bell concerns familiarity.
E: **Incorrect:** Blow off some steam concerns releasing tension.
Fill in the blanks in List A using appropriate idioms from List B
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Make sure that you have sufficient attendance in your courses, or you will have to _____.
6406535109822.
Threw in the towel
6406535109823.
Face the music
6406535109824.
Through thick and thin
6406535109825.
Ring a bell
6406535109826.
Blow off some steam
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Face the music means accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions.
**2. Apply it:** Insufficient attendance can bring consequences, so the warning is that the student will have to face the music.
**Answer: B — Face the music.**
A: **Incorrect:** Threw in the towel means gave up and is not the required base-form completion.
B: **Correct:** It expresses having to confront the consequences.
C: **Incorrect:** Through thick and thin does not fit the verb position or warning.
D: **Incorrect:** Ring a bell means seem familiar.
E: **Incorrect:** Blow off some steam means release stress rather than face a penalty.
Replace the bold word in the sentence with one of the phrasal verbs given below to convey the
same meaning.
He promised to contribute towards the fund but later **withdrew**.
6406535109827.
Backed out
6406535109828.
Backed on
6406535109829.
Backed away
6406535109830.
Backed off
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** To back out is to withdraw from a commitment or agreement.
**2. Apply it:** The man originally promised a contribution but later withdrew from that promise, so backed out is the closest replacement.
**Answer: A — Backed out.**
A: **Correct:** It denotes withdrawing from the commitment.
B: **Incorrect:** Backed on is not the appropriate standard expression.
C: **Incorrect:** Backed away more directly suggests retreating from a person, object or situation.
D: **Incorrect:** Backed off usually means stopped pressuring or retreated, less specifically a withdrawn promise.
“Run into” is an example of an inseparable phrasal verb.
6406535109831.
TRUE
6406535109832.
FALSE
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Run into in the sense meet unexpectedly keeps its object after into: run into a friend or run into her.
**2. Apply it:** The idiomatic meaning cannot be retained by saying run her into. Therefore it is inseparable in this sense.
**Answer: A — TRUE.**
**Convention note:** Literal or causative constructions such as run a vehicle into a wall have a different structure and meaning. The answer concerns the usual idiomatic encounter sense.
A: **Correct:** The object follows the complete expression in the intended encounter sense.
B: **Incorrect:** It incorrectly treats the encounter expression as separable.
Fill in the blank with the most suitable phrasal verb.
The old man _____ his beliefs.
6406535109833.
Held up
6406535109834.
Held onto
6406535109835.
Held off
6406535109836.
Held out
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Hold onto something means retain it or refuse to give it up.
**2. Apply it:** The old man held onto his beliefs means he continued to maintain them.
**Answer: B — Held onto.**
A: **Incorrect:** Held up usually means delayed, supported or robbed, not retained a belief.
B: **Correct:** It conveys keeping or maintaining his beliefs.
C: **Incorrect:** Held off means delayed or kept at a distance.
D: **Incorrect:** Held out commonly means resisted or offered something and does not give the required complement pattern.
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** The head noun is grains, a plural countable noun, even though sand by itself is uncountable. A few can quantify countable items.
**2. Apply it:** There are a few grains of sand is the source’s intended positive statement that a small number are present.
**Answer: B — Intended answer: A few.**
**Convention note:** The question gives no context that uniquely excludes few or some: A, B and D can all form grammatical sentences with different meanings. B is retained as the supplied key’s intended small-positive-quantity answer, not as the only grammatical possibility. Little grains could mean physically small grains if little were an adjective, a different reading from the quantifier exercise.
A: **Correct:** Few is grammatically valid with plural grains and means hardly any; the context does not rule this out. It is an alternative grammatical answer, although B is the keyed intended response.
B: **Correct:** A few gives the intended small, nonzero count.
C: **Incorrect:** Little as a quantity determiner selects an uncountable noun, as in little sand, rather than plural grains.
D: **Correct:** Some is grammatically valid with plural grains and means an unspecified quantity; the context does not rule this out. It is an alternative grammatical answer, although B is the keyed intended response.
The customer complained that the vegetables are ___.
6406535109841.
Overcooked
6406535109842.
Undercooked
6406535109843.
Both Overcooked and Undercooked
6406535109844.
Enough cooked
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Overcooked means cooked too much; undercooked means cooked too little. Both are standard adjectives for an unsatisfactory cooking result.
**2. Apply it:** Either word can complete the customer’s complaint. The combined option identifies both available possibilities.
**Answer: C — Both Overcooked and Undercooked.**
**Convention note:** Both means that overcooked and undercooked are alternative grammatical completions. It does not assert that the same vegetables were simultaneously cooked too much and too little in the same respect.
A: **Incorrect:** Overcooked is a valid complaint, but it is not the only valid adjective offered.
B: **Incorrect:** Undercooked is also valid, so this alone gives an incomplete set of possibilities.
C: **Correct:** It correctly recognizes that either adjective can complete the sentence.
D: **Incorrect:** Enough cooked has the wrong usual order; sufficiently cooked or cooked enough is natural.
**Complete the telephonic conversation given below with the most polite and correct**
**responses in the given subquestions.**
Ravi: Hello, Sneha. It’s Ravi. Are you free? (1)_________________________________
Sneha: Yes, Ravi. I’m free now, please tell me.
Ravi: I need to reschedule our project meeting. Something urgent has come up.
Sneha: I understand. (2) _______________________________
Ravi: Instead of tomorrow morning, how about we have the meeting on Thursday at 2 PM?
Sneha: Let me check... Yes, I’m available then. But we need to make sure everyone else can make it
too.
Ravi: (3) _________________ I’ll send an email to confirm with the rest of the team.
Sneha: Sounds good. I’ll tentatively block my calendar for Thursday at 2 PM.
Ravi: Yes, Sneha. (4) ______________________________
Sneha: No problem, Ravi. Just let me know if the time works for everyone.
Ravi: (5) ______________________________
Fill in blank [1] with the appropriate option.
6406535109845.
Could we discuss the upcoming meeting now?
6406535109846.
Wanna talk about the upcoming meeting?
6406535109847.
Would you care enough to discuss the upcoming meeting?
6406535109848.
The upcoming meeting has been rescheduled
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** A polite request asks whether the other person is available to discuss the relevant subject rather than assuming agreement.
**2. Apply it:** Could we discuss the upcoming meeting now? fits Sneha’s response that she is free and invites the conversation.
**Answer: A — Could we discuss the upcoming meeting now?.**
A: **Correct:** It is polite, specific and consistent with the reply.
B: **Incorrect:** Wanna is more informal than the requested professional wording.
C: **Incorrect:** Would you care enough sounds accusatory about her level of concern.
D: **Incorrect:** It announces a decision instead of asking for a discussion.
**Complete the telephonic conversation given below with the most polite and correct**
**responses in the given subquestions.**
Ravi: Hello, Sneha. It’s Ravi. Are you free? (1)_________________________________
Sneha: Yes, Ravi. I’m free now, please tell me.
Ravi: I need to reschedule our project meeting. Something urgent has come up.
Sneha: I understand. (2) _______________________________
Ravi: Instead of tomorrow morning, how about we have the meeting on Thursday at 2 PM?
Sneha: Let me check... Yes, I’m available then. But we need to make sure everyone else can make it
too.
Ravi: (3) _________________ I’ll send an email to confirm with the rest of the team.
Sneha: Sounds good. I’ll tentatively block my calendar for Thursday at 2 PM.
Ravi: Yes, Sneha. (4) ______________________________
Sneha: No problem, Ravi. Just let me know if the time works for everyone.
Ravi: (5) ______________________________
Fill in blank [2] with the appropriate option.
6406535109849.
When do you want to send the reports?
6406535109850.
When are you available for the meeting?
6406535109851.
When do you want to meet the officer?
6406535109852.
When do you want to take leave?
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Ravi has asked to reschedule a project meeting, so Sneha should ask about a suitable meeting time.
**2. Apply it:** When are you available for the meeting? naturally leads to Ravi’s suggestion of Thursday at 2 PM.
**Answer: B — When are you available for the meeting?.**
A: **Incorrect:** Reports are not the subject of the scheduling discussion.
B: **Correct:** It asks the relevant availability question.
C: **Incorrect:** Meeting an officer is not the proposed project meeting.
D: **Incorrect:** Taking leave is not the topic.
**Complete the telephonic conversation given below with the most polite and correct**
**responses in the given subquestions.**
Ravi: Hello, Sneha. It’s Ravi. Are you free? (1)_________________________________
Sneha: Yes, Ravi. I’m free now, please tell me.
Ravi: I need to reschedule our project meeting. Something urgent has come up.
Sneha: I understand. (2) _______________________________
Ravi: Instead of tomorrow morning, how about we have the meeting on Thursday at 2 PM?
Sneha: Let me check... Yes, I’m available then. But we need to make sure everyone else can make it
too.
Ravi: (3) _________________ I’ll send an email to confirm with the rest of the team.
Sneha: Sounds good. I’ll tentatively block my calendar for Thursday at 2 PM.
Ravi: Yes, Sneha. (4) ______________________________
Sneha: No problem, Ravi. Just let me know if the time works for everyone.
Ravi: (5) ______________________________
Fill in blank [3] with the appropriate option.
6406535109853.
Sure, whatever!
6406535109854.
Yeah, whatever!
6406535109855.
Yes, definitely.
6406535109856.
Ok!
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Sneha says the time must work for the whole team. Ravi should acknowledge that concern and agree to check.
**2. Apply it:** Yes, definitely expresses cooperation before he promises to email the others.
**Answer: C — Yes, definitely..**
A: **Incorrect:** Whatever sounds indifferent to the concern.
B: **Incorrect:** Whatever again sounds dismissive.
C: **Correct:** It gives a clear positive acknowledgment.
D: **Incorrect:** Ok can acknowledge the point, but C is more explicit and courteous in this exchange.
**Complete the telephonic conversation given below with the most polite and correct**
**responses in the given subquestions.**
Ravi: Hello, Sneha. It’s Ravi. Are you free? (1)_________________________________
Sneha: Yes, Ravi. I’m free now, please tell me.
Ravi: I need to reschedule our project meeting. Something urgent has come up.
Sneha: I understand. (2) _______________________________
Ravi: Instead of tomorrow morning, how about we have the meeting on Thursday at 2 PM?
Sneha: Let me check... Yes, I’m available then. But we need to make sure everyone else can make it
too.
Ravi: (3) _________________ I’ll send an email to confirm with the rest of the team.
Sneha: Sounds good. I’ll tentatively block my calendar for Thursday at 2 PM.
Ravi: Yes, Sneha. (4) ______________________________
Sneha: No problem, Ravi. Just let me know if the time works for everyone.
Ravi: (5) ______________________________
Fill in blank [4] with the appropriate option.
6406535109857.
Thank you for understanding
6406535109858.
I will attend the team dinner tonight
6406535109859.
I will meet the team head
6406535109860.
Fine!
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Sneha has accommodated the proposed change and tentatively reserved the time. A relevant response should appreciate that flexibility.
**2. Apply it:** Thank you for understanding directly acknowledges her cooperation.
**Answer: A — Thank you for understanding.**
A: **Correct:** It expresses gratitude relevant to the rescheduling request.
B: **Incorrect:** The team dinner is unrelated to the scheduling exchange.
C: **Incorrect:** Meeting the team head is unrelated to the required reply.
D: **Incorrect:** Fine sounds curt and does not express the relevant appreciation.
**Complete the telephonic conversation given below with the most polite and correct**
**responses in the given subquestions.**
Ravi: Hello, Sneha. It’s Ravi. Are you free? (1)_________________________________
Sneha: Yes, Ravi. I’m free now, please tell me.
Ravi: I need to reschedule our project meeting. Something urgent has come up.
Sneha: I understand. (2) _______________________________
Ravi: Instead of tomorrow morning, how about we have the meeting on Thursday at 2 PM?
Sneha: Let me check... Yes, I’m available then. But we need to make sure everyone else can make it
too.
Ravi: (3) _________________ I’ll send an email to confirm with the rest of the team.
Sneha: Sounds good. I’ll tentatively block my calendar for Thursday at 2 PM.
Ravi: Yes, Sneha. (4) ______________________________
Sneha: No problem, Ravi. Just let me know if the time works for everyone.
Ravi: (5) ______________________________
Fill in blank [5] with the appropriate option.
6406535109861.
Wow!
6406535109862.
Yeah, whatever!
6406535109863.
No!
6406535109864.
Sure, Sneha
**System commands**
**Section Id :** 640653105940
**Section Number :** 7
**Section type :** Online
**Mandatory or Optional :** Mandatory
**Number of Questions :** 16
**Number of Questions to be attempted :** 16
**Section Marks :** 50
**Display Number Panel :** Yes
**Section Negative Marks :** 0
**Group All Questions :** No
**Enable Mark as Answered Mark for Review and**
No
**Clear Response :**
**Section Maximum Duration :** 0
**Section Minimum Duration :** 0
**Section Time In :** Minutes
**Maximum Instruction Time :** 0
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or evidence:** Sneha asks Ravi to report whether the time works for everyone. The reply should acknowledge that request.
**2. Apply it:** Sure, Sneha is an appropriate agreement to follow up. The section-heading text appended in the export is not part of the spoken response.
**Answer: D — Sure, Sneha.**
A: **Incorrect:** Wow expresses surprise rather than agreement to follow up.
B: **Incorrect:** Yeah, whatever sounds dismissive.
C: **Incorrect:** No rejects the reasonable follow-up request.
D: **Correct:** It politely acknowledges her request and agrees to respond.
