ENGLISH - Online Test
Q1. Direction: 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. If the given sentence is correct as it is, ‘No error’ as the answer.
The individualist feminist tradition (1)/emphasizes individual human rights (2)/ and celebrate women’s quest (3)/ for personal autonomy. (4)/ No error. (5)
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
The sentence talks about individualistic feminist tradition and thus uses all the verbs in singular form except 'celebrate' in the third part. It should be replaced with 'celebrates'.
Q2. Below in each question are given two statements (A) and (B). The statements may be either independent causes or may be effects of independent causes or a common cause. One of these statements may be the effect of the other statement. Read both the statements and decide which of the following answer choices correctly depicts the relationship between these two statements.
(A) There is a significant drop in the number of people travelling by air during the last quarter.
(B) There is a significant drop in the number of people travelling by long-distance trains during the last quarter.
(B) There is a significant drop in the number of people travelling by long-distance trains during the last quarter.
Answer : Option E
Explaination / Solution:
There is a significant drop in the number of people travelling by air as well as long-distance trains during the last quarter hence both statements are effects of same common cause (unknown).
Q3. Direction: 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. If the given sentence is correct as it is, mark ‘No error’ as the answer.
I think sustainability / agenda, energy efficiency/ mobile banking and infrastructure / sharing are important issues. / No Error
Answer : Option E
Explaination / Solution:
The sentence is grammatically and systematically correct.
Q4. Women who have a poor diet during their pregnancies will have children who are more susceptible to age related diseases than those who have a healthier diet, scientists say. The warning comes after the research found that rats that had poor nutrition during pregnancy gave birth to young with a high risk of type 2 diabetes which is an illness that typically strikes in the middle age.
Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the conclusion above?
Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the conclusion above?
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
(d) (a) weakens the conclusion by saying that there could be other factors for the onset of diabetes. (b) is irrelevant. (c) the modal "may" makes it less certain and hence is not strong enough. (d) provides the strongest support. Hence (d)
Q5. Direction: 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. If the given sentence is correct as it is, mark E as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)
The largest single source of man-made radiation A/ is medical X rays, yet most scientists agree that hazards from B/ this source are not as great as those from weapons test fallout, C./ hence delivering radiation for an entire lifetime. D/ No error. E
Answer : Option E
Explaination / Solution:
The sentence is grammatically and systematically correct and so the correct response is option E.
Q6. Direction: Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Answer : Option E
Explaination / Solution:
Options A, C and E in the absence of a proper subject add the ‘bag’ automatically to the verb ‘racing for the bus’. So, it does not make any sense as it would mean that the bag is racing for the bus. Option B is incorrect because of the fragment ‘making the documents lose’. Option D doesn't convey a proper meaning.
Q7.
Directions :Questions in the form of inference/conclusions are based on the passages given below. Each passage is followed by five inferences. You are required to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.
Passage:
There is no disputing the fact that one part of globalization is the information revolution. But like all revolutions, this one has its winners and losers. Even on the Pacific Rim, home of so many economic “miracles”, the vast majority of people live on less than two dollars a day. That is what nearly half the world’s population subsists on, while the poorest 1.2 billion get by on less than one dollar. In the face of these grim realities, talk of a global information age takes on a perverse, ‘let them eat cake’ quality. What possible benefit could this “other half” derive from expanded web-based technology?
The notion that the internet will mainstream the world’s underprivileged fits a pattern of technological fantasy that reaches back at least to the mid-nineteenth century. A more immediate effect, unfortunately, has been an expanding communications gap between the rich and poor. With 90% of internet traffic in English, and native language skills eroding among non-Western internet addicts, 95% of the world’s Web users reside in developed countries. Only 0.08% of Latin Americans had Web access in 1999, which is double that of South Asia. In so far as rapid information flow translates into power, this great divide is integral to the knowledge-based and culturally driven geopolitics that Joseph S. Nye terms “soft power”.
During the mid-nineteenth century, there was a notion that the internet would make the world's poor become part of the mainstream.
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
The first sentence talks about a "pattern of technological fantasy"; that there was an actual notion might not be true, and is most probably false, given the timeline being spoken of here.
Q8. Which of the following is the antonym of the word “Renaissance ”?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
Renaissance- a revival of or renewed interest in something
Invigoration- to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize
Resurgence- rising or tending to rise again; reviving
Awakening- a revival of interest or attention/ a recognition, realization, or coming into awareness of something:
Destruction- the condition of being destroyed; demolition; annihilation
Q9. Direction: Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
Option D- ‘complied into by’ is incorrect.
Q10.
Directions :Questions in the form of inference/conclusions are based on the passages given below. Each passage is followed by five inferences. You are required to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.
Passage:
There is no disputing the fact that one part of globalization is the information revolution. But like all revolutions, this one has its winners and losers. Even on the Pacific Rim, home of so many economic “miracles”, the vast majority of people live on less than two dollars a day. That is what nearly half the world’s population subsists on, while the poorest 1.2 billion get by on less than one dollar. In the face of these grim realities, talk of a global information age takes on a perverse, ‘let them eat cake’ quality. What possible benefit could this “other half” derive from expanded web-based technology?
The notion that the internet will mainstream the world’s underprivileged fits a pattern of technological fantasy that reaches back at least to the mid-nineteenth century. A more immediate effect, unfortunately, has been an expanding communications gap between the rich and poor. With 90% of internet traffic in English, and native language skills eroding among non-Western internet addicts, 95% of the world’s Web users reside in developed countries. Only 0.08% of Latin Americans had Web access in 1999, which is double that of South Asia. In so far as rapid information flow translates into power, this great divide is integral to the knowledge-based and culturally driven geopolitics that Joseph S. Nye terms “soft power”.
Perhaps due to the use of English as the predominant language over the internet, there has arisen an expanding communication gap between the rich and the poor.
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
The second para talks of a communications gap, but it does not state English as the clear and specific reason for the same
