English Usage

Set 21

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The sentences (four/five/four between 1 and 6) given in each question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence in labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. The inheritors of an ocean-removed bicultural legacy, the Generation Next of the diaspora finally appears to be coming to terms with its jumbled self. (A) And its time to repay where India is concerned. (B) As confidence levels of NRIs soar, so have their incomes. (C) It is like a pleasant hand-me-down, to be assumed or to be extolled, and India is like a comfortable notion, a homeland that once was but will never be again. (D) Indianness is no longer a burden or badge they have to carry, nostalgically saluting every time they go out into the adopted world, like their parents had to. 6 . This year, as exports took a beating, remittances from global Indians catapulted the forex reserves past $50 billion. (1) ADCB (2) DCBA (3) DACB (4) CDBA (A) Several NRIs have made India proud by their remarkable achievements as doctors, physicists, academicians, entrepreneurs, lawyers and leaders of global organisations. (B) about 3,00,000 Indian Americans work in technology firms in California is Silicon Valley. (C) I started by talking about Indian Americans because I am one of them, but I am not discounting the large numbers of Indians in Canada, Europe, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries, who are equally successful, talented and influential. (D) More than 5000 Indian Americans are faculty members in leading academic institutions in the US. (1) DCBA (2) ADCB (3) ACBD (4) DBAC (A) And then the controversy over Deepa Mehtas film Fire erupted. (B) Anand Kurian, 44, has a ready answer. (C) Why would an ad filmmaker who has tasted the bounty of such multinationals as Coke and Frito Lay give up all that and spend two years writing a book ? (D) Apprehensive that his dream project might meet the same fate, Kurian moulded his script to a novel about love in the time of communal riots. (E) But the film script he began writing took on a life of its own, becoming more and more political. (1) CBEAD (2) ADCBE (3) CBADE (4) CEBAD The National Telecom Policy of 1999, the last one we had, specified two types of phone services : fixed and mobile. (A) Now, suppose a fixed phone provider wired up the entire country, you could carry your handset everywhere. (B) At some point of time, several fixed service providers figured out that using a technology called wireless in local loop (WLL), your fixed phone could be turned into a mobile. (C) That is, you could carry around a handset which you could use within the area in which this fixed provider was offering its services. (D) Thus was born the concept of limited mobility. 6 . This is the idea Reliance Infocomm has poured Rs. 25,000 crore into the last two years. (1) DABC (2) BCDA (3) CDAB (4) DCBA (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) The aural leitmotif is that of Thumri, that elegiac genre of singing. Original, traditional, yet avant-garde, this is definitely the most mystifying music made this year. If the film is fast becoming the talk of the town, can its music be far behind ? Lets Talks OST stands out because of its experimentation with the classical idiom superimposed onto a modern world. Young director Ram Sampath has used a blend of Thumris parked in a marketplace of electronically-generated soundsno matter where you walk, the thumri followssung by Channulal Mishra, Zarina Begum, Sipra Bose and Aruna Sairam, these are a excellent improvisations in a most moving form of Indian music. (1) EDCBA (2) DECBA (3) CDABE (4) CDBAE 1. 1.

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Choose the word or set of words for each blank in the following questions that best fits the meaning of the sentence. 6. Though the laws ..... purpose was to curtail false advertising its actual result was to ..... free speech. (1) potential, preclude (2) mendacious, eschew (3) ostensible, circumscribe (4) illicit, reconcile (5) recalcitrant, repress When the two opposing sides failed to reach a ....., the long-anticipated strike became ..... . (1) consensus, impossible (2) transition, general (3) compromise, inevitable (4) rationale, culpable (5) precedent, potential The particular economist ..... that government regulation ..... leads to higher prices. (1) teaches, unavailably (2) knows, insistently (3) feels, dubiously (4) (5) believes, inevitably

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8.

sees, blindly

9.

Because the poet Emily Dickinson led a ..... life, she used her ..... to explore the outside world. (1) gregarious, talent (2) sociable, books (3) fast-paced, telephone (4) secluded, imagination (5) gracious, friends

10. The ..... of the plan ensured its success; the enemy did not ..... such a recklessly bold attempt. (1) urbanity, presume (2) levity, elude (3) audacity, anticipate (4) protocol, preclude (5) truculence, discern Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly similar in meaning to the word in capital letters. 11. FRANCHISE (1) subway (5) fashion 12. INVEIGH (1) speak violently (5) whisper 13. AVERT (1) entertain (5) displease 14. CONTINENCE (1) humanity (5) self-restraint 15. INDOLENCE (1) sloth (5) anger

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discount

(3)

license

(4)

reason

(2)

orate

(3)

disturb

(4)

apply

(2)

transform

(3)

turn away

(4)

lead forward

(2)

research

(3)

embryology

(4)

bodies of land

(2)

poverty

(3)

latitude

(4)

aptitude

Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters. 16. JOCULAR (1) arterial (5) blind 17. OSTENTATIOUS (1) inactive (5) irrational 18. PROPITIOUS (1) rich (5) unfavourable

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bloodless

(3)

verbose

(4)

serious

(2)

unassuming

(3)

impolite

(4)

illicit

(2)

induced

(3)

promoted

(4)

indicative

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OBJECTIVE (1) indecisive (5) authoritative

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apathetic

(3)

markedly inferior

(4)

emotionally involved

20. PRISTINE (1) cultivated (5) critical

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condemned

(3)

irreligious

(4)

cautious

Select the lettered pair in the following analogy questions that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original capitalised pair. 21. BRONZE : PATINA (1) wood : veneer (5) lead : tin 22. MELLIFLUOUS : CACOPHONY (1) dulcet : euphony (3) fragrant : noisomeness (5) thrifty : parsimony 23. HOBBLE : WALK (1) gallop : run (5) amble : stroll 24. DETECTIVE INFORMER (1) spy : counterspy (5) sailor : mutineer 25. SCULPTOR : STONE (1) essayist : words (5) etcher : acid

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plaque : honour

(3)

mold : yeast

(4)

iron : rust

(2) (4)

compliant : obsequiousness florid : embellishment

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stammer : speak

(3)

stumble : fall

(4)

sniff : smell

(2)

reporter : source

(3)

author : editor

(4)

architect : draftsman

(2)

painter : turpentine

(3)

composer : symphony (4)

logger : timber

Objective Key
1.(2) 11.(3) 21.(4)
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2.(4) 12.(1) 22.(3)

3.(1) 13.(3) 23.(2)

4.(2) 14.(5) 24.(2)

5.(3) 15.(1) 25.(1)

6.(3) 16.(4)

7.(3) 17.(2)

8.(5) 18.(5)

9.(4) 19.(4)

10.(3) 20.(1)

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