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English Language and Comprehension Test form No. 777 QI 8

PASSAGE-I
Fingerprints are the marks made by the ridges on the ends of the fingers and thumbs.
(D) accurate
(A) every individual has a unique set of fingerprints.
(C) The Chinese
(B) 100
(A) on a white card
Passage-II
An old man with steel-rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road.
(D) Steel-rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes
(C) Carts and trucks
(D) Soldiers
(C) By the side of the road
(C) Because he was so tired that he couldn’t go any further.
Passage-III
Most authorities agree that St. Valentine is “the love’s saint”.
(B) Valentine was put in prison and he died a martyr to love.
(A) The did not want to leave their families.
(C) Young Lovers
(C) he died for the sake of young lovers
(B) Invitation cards
Passage-IV
The ease with which democratic Governments have given way to authorisation regimes in one Asian Country
(C) Asians cannot read and write and can hardly know how to vote.
(A) Breed corruption
(D) were too incompetent to speed up social and economic change
(C) lacks the safeguard of being peacefully overthrown by the people if it does not fulfil promises.
(A) it makes people protest in a raised voice.
Passage-V
When flowers bloom in the lush bamboo plantations in the hills of the northeast, the tribesmen are thrown into a state of panic.
(B) causes an increase
(A) in September
(B) in Kameng
(D) panicky
(A) Sympathetic
Passage-VI
Nasiruddin was the cleverest man in Khorasan. One of his neighbours was a merchant.
(C) He wanted his neighbour to hear his prayer.
(B) He found Nasiruddin’s prayer interesting.
(D) His neighbour had thrown it into his house to see what he would do.
(C) Nasiruddin said that he would return the money if it was not exactly 9999 dinars.
(B) was mad
(B) have passed
(A) On the time
(D) No error.
(C) were at home.
(C) repeated the word again.
(A) It was me who was
(B) why are you tinkering with the wire
(A) No sooner she had realized
(C) can we?
(D) No error.
(B) are living in Gulmohar Park
(A) Two lakhs of people
(C) at 6 p.m. this evening.
(B) lay down to rest
(C) movie called ‘Deewaar’.
(C) pounce upon a rat.
(C) which invade the human body.
(D) No error.
(B) has left
(C) like you did my brother.
(D) from
(B) humane
(B) result
(A) inquisitive
(D) of
(C) lazy
(D) wavering
(C) modest
(C) encouragement
(D) Original
(D) grammatical error
(B) substantiate
(D) excited
(A) immoral
(B) waste
(C) Entrepreneur
(A) Promiscuous
(A) Onomatopoeia
(D) bureaucracy
(C) millionaire
(C) to make unpleasant remarks
(D) anticipated
(D) an unexpected winner
(A) to change for the better
(C) to keep up an outward show of prosperity.
(C) to run away
(C) occasionally
(D) to accept with misgiving
(C) to talk nonsense
(B) details and complexities
(B) RPSQ
(C) PSQR
(D) RSPQ
(B) QSPR
(C) QSRP
(A) QPSR
(D) RQPS
(B) SQPR
(C) RQPS
(C) QSPR
(A) QSPR
(B) RPSQ
(B) SRQP
(B) QPSR
(D) SQPR
(D) SRQP
(D) SRPQ
(D) PSRQ
(B) RPSQ
(A) QSRP
(D) insolvent
(C) circumlocution
(C) Subpoena
(D) Pseudonym
(D) Fratricide
(C) Claustrophobia
(A) epitaph
(D) alimony
(B) Espionage
(A) jurisdiction
(D) Let the door be opened.
(A) Nobody was trusted by me.
(C) Were the date and time remembered by him?
(D) A hole was being dug by the boys in the ground.
(A) These problems must now be dealt with by us
(A) The leader’s speech was loudly cheered by the audience.
(B) We are being followed by someone.
(A) His bed hasn’t been slept in.
(C) Somebody recommended me another lawyer.
(D) These hunters have saved many a person from the man-eaters.
(B) Must this tree be cut?
(A) They will look after you well.
(A) Weren’t you told to be here by six O’clock?
(B) This switch must not be touched.
(B) Grapes cannot be gathered from thistles.
(B) The work will have been completed by the time we get there.
(A) This sky-scraper will have to be pulled down as the town planning regulations have not been complied with.
(A) A poem has been written by him
(B) Shall I ever forgot these happy days?
(A) Please permit him.
(B) Facade
(B) a quarter of an hour
(B) canvass
(B) levelled
(B) bade
(B) Prevented
(D) no improvement
(C) Do you know how to prepare
(D) No improvement
(B) remedial
(D) no improvement
(A) flared
(A) No action has been taken.
(B) had left
(B) underlying
(D) no improvement
(D) no improvement
(A) sold
(C) Squints
(D) No improvement
(C) Socrates said that virtue is its own reward.
(D) He requested the interviewer if he could repeat the question.
(C) He said that there used to be a lovely, quiet street.
(A) The Prime Minister said, “We shall not allow any one to disturb the peace”.
(C) The spectators applauded the players saying that they had done well.
(B) I wished my friend good morning and proposed that we should go for a picnic that they
(A) The new student asked the old one if he knew his name.
(B) I said to her, “I can no longer tolerate your coming late.”
(B) I told my mother that I would certainly take her to Bangalore that week.
(D) My co-passenger asked me how long the journey did take.
(A) The mother exclaimed admiringly that it was very clever of him to have solved the puzzle so quickly
(B) He said, “I go far a walk every morning”.
(C) I reiterated that I did not care about the job.
(B) I suggested to my brother that we should go to some hill station for a change.
(D) I said, “How many discoveries go unheeded?”
(A) Gopan asked me if I could do those sums for him.
(B) The boss said that it was time we had begun planning our work.
(C) He told the judge that he had not committed that crime.
(C) Rahul said that he would do it then or never.
(B) My father once told me that if he couldn’t trust his people then he didn't want to be doing that.
(A) Doshi requested his wife to select one of these necklaces.
(D) He reported that the rainfall had been scanty till then.
(A) The manager sternly told Govind that he commanded him to tell him what the old man had said.
(B) I asked him where he had lost the pen I had brought for him the previous day.
(C) She requested Rita to helper with her homework.
(D) against
(B) despite
(A) filed
(C) poaching
(D) relentless
(A) waged
(A) running
(B) ensure
(A) existence
(D) needed
(A) useless
(C) could
(B) years
(D) enemies
(A) stepped
(C) young
(A) cannot
(B) live
(B) where
(B) but
(D) Developing
(C) inability
(A) import
(C) carried
(B) ago