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English — Set 38

9 Questions with Answers & Explanations

Set 38 of 38

1

An employment advertisement should ...... the number of vacancies.

Context: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Options

A

provide

B

specify

C

contain

D

declare

Correct Answer

specify

Explanation

The word 'specify' means to state exactly and clearly, which is the most appropriate verb to use when referring to the exact count of job openings in an ad.

2

Sonika is quite intelligent but rather ......

Options

A

idealistic

B

generous

C

lazy

D

optimistic

Correct Answer

lazy

Explanation

The conjunction 'but' introduces a contrast; since 'intelligent' is positive, a negative trait like 'lazy' is required to complete the sentence.

3

The communalist represents the ...... of everything noble that we have inherited from our culture and history.

Options

A

antithesis

B

antidote

C

immorality

D

antagonism

Correct Answer

antithesis

Explanation

'Antithesis' refers to a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else, fitting the context of a communalist opposing noble cultural values.

4

Walking at 3'o clock, I heard the ...... of thunder.

Options

A

crackle

B

rumble

C

ripple

D

clank

Correct Answer

rumble

Explanation

'Rumble' is the specific sound associated with thunder. Other options like crackle (fire), ripple (water), and clank (metal) are incorrect contexts.

5

Policy decision in organization would involve

Context: Study the following passage and answer the given questions (5 - 9). Organisations are institutions in which members compete for status and power. They compete for resource of the organisation, for example finance to expand their own departments, for career advancement and for power to control the activities of others. In pursuit of these aims, grouped are formed and sectional interests emerge. As a result, policy-decisions may serve the ends of political and career systems rather than those of the concern. In this way, the goals of the organisation may be displaced in favour of sectional interests and individual ambition. These preoccupations sometimes prevent the emergence of organic systems. Many of the electronic firms in the study had recently created research and development departments employing highly qualified and well paid scientists and technicians. Their high pay and expert knowledge were sometimes seen as a threat to the established order of rank, power and privilege. Many senior managers had little knowledge of technicality and possibilities of new developments and electronics. Some felt that close cooperation with the experts in an organic system would reveal their ignorance and show their experience was now redundant.

Questions

A

cooperation at all levels in the organization

B

modernization of the organization

C

attracting highly qualified personnel

D

keeping in view the larger objectives of the organizations

Correct Answer

keeping in view the larger objectives of the organizations

Explanation

The passage critiques that policy-decisions currently serve sectional interests, implying they should ideally focus on the overall organizational goals.

6

Namrata was found to ...... the required qualifications for the job.

Options

A

contain

B

disclose

C

posses

D

acquire

Correct Answer

posses

Explanation

In the context of professional qualifications, the correct verb is 'possess' (misspelled as 'posses' in the option), meaning to have or own.

7

It is evident from the passage that the strength of a country's industry depends upon

Context: Read the following passage and answer the following questions. Not only does the lace of education among women make the dissemination of nutrition education The strength of the electronics industry in Japan is the Japanese ability to organise production and marketing rather than their achievements in original research. The British are generally recognised as a far more inventive collection of individuals, but never seem able to exploit what they invent. There are many examples, from the TSR Z hovercraft, high speed train and Sinclair scooter to the Triumph, BSA and Norton Motorcycle which all prove this sad rule. The Japanese were able to exploits their strengths in marketing and development many years ago, and their success was at first either not understood in the West or was dismissed as something which could have been produced only at their low price. They were sold because they were cheap copies of other people's ideas churned out of a workhouse which was dedicated to hard grind above all else.

Questions

A

original research

B

international cooperation

C

dedicated workforce

D

electronic development

Correct Answer

dedicated workforce

Explanation

The passage suggests that Japan's industrial strength comes from a workhouse dedicated to 'hard grind' and the ability to organize production effectively.

8

In his childhood, the narrator was

Context: Question No. (12-16) based on the following passage: Today perhaps your only association with the word 'polio' is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty five years ago this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain and spinal cord, causing stiffening and weakening of muscles, crippling and paralysis - which is Why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was born, that this would happen to me, no one would have believed it. I was seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with huge 23 year gap between the first and last. I was so fair and brown haired that I looked more look like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.

Questions

A

a weakling

B

very healthy

C

tall and slim

D

short and stout

Correct Answer

very healthy

Explanation

The narrator explicitly states in the passage that he was considered to be the healthiest of the brood.

9

From the passage it is clear that it is the legislature that

Context: Study the following passage and answer the question based on it (36-40) The object underlying the rules of natural justice "is to prevent miscarriage of justice" ans secure "fair play in action" As pointed out earlier the requirement about recording of reasons for its decision by an administrative authority exercising quasi-judicial functions achieves his object by excluding changes of arbitrariness and ensuring a degree of fairness in the process of decision making. Keeping in view the expanding horizon of the principle of natural justice which govern exercise of power by administrative authorities. The rules of natural justice are not embodied rules. The extent of their application depends upon the particularly statutory framework where under jurisdiction has been conferred on the administrative authority. with regard to the exercise of particular power by an administrative authority including exercise of judicial or quasi-judicial functions the legislature, while conferring the said power, may feel that it would not be in the larger public interest that the reasons for the order passed by the administrative authority be recorded in the order and be communicated to the aggrieved party and it may dispense with such a requirement.

Questions

A

invests the administrative authority with enormous powers

B

embodies rules

C

has the larger interests of public welfare

D

leaves administrative authority enough discretion to interpret rules

Correct Answer

invests the administrative authority with enormous powers

Explanation

The passage mentions the legislature 'conferring the said power' to the administrative authority within a statutory framework.

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