COMPLETION OF SENTENCE
Directions: Each of the following items features one part of a sentence followed by four alternatives. Complete the sentence by choosing the correct alternative.
101. They were informed that the inaugural version of the scheme
(a) had three parts.
(b) was three parts.
(c) have three parts.
(d) had has three parts.
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102. What would you do
(a) if you would won a lot of money?
(b) if you have won a lot of money?
(c) if you will win a lot of moneys?
(d) if you won a lot of money?
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103. If it stopped raining
(a) we had gone out.
(b) we could go out.
(c) we should go out.
(d) we ought to go out.
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104. Let me know
(a) if you have any further news.
(b) if you had any further news.
(c) if you has any further news.
(d) if you had have any further news.
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105. We stayed
(a) at the cheap hotel in the town.
(b) at the cheaper hotel in the town.
(c) at the cheapest hotel in the town.
(d) at a cheapest hotel in the town.
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106. Julia got married
(a) as she was 22.
(b) when she was 22.
(c) because she was 22.
(d) since she was 22.
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107. What time
(a) does this train get at London?
(b) does this train get in London?
(c) does this train get into London?
(d) dose this train get to London?
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108. How are you
(a) getting on in your new job?
(b) getting of in your new job?
(c) getting along your new job?
(d) getting off in your new job?
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109. I am trying to
(a) shut down on coffee.
(b) cut down on coffee.
(c) break down on coffee.
(d) turn down on coffee.
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110. Many accidents
(a) cause careless driving.
(b) have caused careless driving.
(c) are caused by careless driving.
(d) will cause careless driving.
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COMPREHENSION
Directions: In this section, you have two short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read a passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author only.
Passage-I
The third great defect of our civilization is that it does not know what to do with its knowledge. Science has given us powers fit for the gods, yet we use them as small children. For example, we do not know how to manage our machines. Machines were made to be humanity’s servants, yet man has grown so dependent on them that they are in a fair way to become his masters. Already most people spend most of their lives looking after and waiting upon machines. And the machines are very stern masters. They must be kept at the right temperature. And if they do not get their meals when they expect them, they grow sulky and refuse to work or burst with rage and blow up and spread ruin and destruction all around. So we have to wait upon them very attentively and do all that we can to keep them in a good temper. Already we find it difficult either to work or play without the machines and a time may come when they will rule us all together, just as we rule the animals.
And this brings me to the point at which I asked, “What do we do with all the time which the machines have saved for us, and the new energy they have given us?” On the whole, it must be admitted, we do very little. For the most part, we use our time and energy to make more and better machines which will give us still more time and still more energy, and what are we to do with them? The answer, I think, is that we should try to become more civilized. For the machines themselves, and the power which the machines have given us, are not civilization but aids to civilization. But you will remember that we agreed at the beginning that being civilized meant making and linking beautiful things, thinking freely and living rightly and maintaining justice equally among people. A person has a better chance today to do these things than he/she ever had before; he/she has more time, more energy, less to fear and less to fight against. If he/she will give his/her time and energy which his/her machines have won for him/her to make more beautiful things, to find out more and more about the Universe, to remove the cause of quarrels between nations, to discover how to prevent poverty, then I think our civilization would undoubtedly be the greater as it would be more lasting than it has ever been.
111. The general tone of the passage is
(a) critical
(b) descriptive
(c) demonstrative
(d) informational
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112. The use of machines has failed to bring us
(a) spiritual freedom
(b) more leisure and more energy
(c) slavery and destruction
(d) culture and civilization
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113. According to the passage, our civilization would be made greater
(a) if man devotes his time to make more beautiful things
(b) if man looks after and waits upon machines
(c) if machines are made man’s servants
(d) if man discovers how to prevent poverty
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114. According to the passage, which one of the following descriptions about machines is true?
(a) They already rule us like we rule animals.
(b) They wait upon us attentively.
(c) They are inexorable masters.
(d) They have made man more civilized.
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115. According to the passage, how do we use the powers bestowed upon us by science?
(a) Judiciously
(b) Temperamentally
(c) Divinely
(d) Irrationally
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Passage – II
Plastic is an essential commodity with multiple uses based on its key qualities of malleability, flexibility, and durability. Plastics are omnipresent in agriculture, fisheries, renewable energy, transport, technology, retail, textiles, personal care products, and all the other sectors and industries that directly or indirectly affect our daily life. Plastic has indeed made our lives more convenient, but it has come at a higher price than we imagined. The plastic pollution overflowing our landfills, clogging waterways, and infiltrating the ocean is primarily made of discarded items and packaging. Plastic lasts for hundreds of years, slowly disintegrating into smaller and smaller pieces, but never fully degrading. Indeed, one of the key perks of plastic is its longevity. And yet, the plastic packaging of nearly every product we purchase and many plastic products themselves are intended to be discarded after a single use. Throwaway plastic is an oxymoron, but it has become our sad, increasingly dangerous reality.
Plastic pollution should make everyone angry. This is a crisis we can see with the naked eye, day in and day out. Plastic has been found on even the most remote, uninhabited islands, and in the deepest parts of the ocean. Because we can see it, we are more keenly aware of it, unlike some other forms of pollution. In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for further studies on the impacts of microplastics on human health. An initial study, hampered by a lack of adequate data, concluded microplastics pose no danger at current levels (WHO, 2019). Although the WHO report was inconclusive about the effects of plastic on human health, other studies have linked the chemicals in plastic to negative health outcomes including endocrine disruption (Dabre 2020). Plastic particles have been detected in drinking water and in the food we eat, with a 2019 study commissioned by WWF estimating humans consume about five grams (or one credit card in weight) of plastic every week.
We have seen the devastating effects plastic has on marine life. For instance, unable to process ingested plastic waste pieces, seabirds and other sea creatures starve to death. We have seen sca turtles and other animals tangled in fishing nets or trapped in plastic pack rings. Plastic pollution also wreaks havoc on land, clogging drains and preventing rainwater from soaking into the soil, which leads to flooding. Terrestrial creatures also suffer the effects of plastic waste, with some getting trapped in discarded plastic bags and suffocating to death.
116. Plastic has distressing effects on
(a) only humans
(b) only marine life
(c) both humans and marine life
(d) None of the above
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117. Plastic and plastic particles can be found
(a) in the oceanic depths
(b) on mountain tops
(c) in metals and minerals
(d) All of the above
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118. Plastic pollution appears to be
(a) an epidemic
(b) a pandemic
(c) a small menace
(d) a temporal health issue
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119. Plastic is considered an essential commodity because
(a) it has made our lives easier
(b) it causes health hazard
(c) it clogs natural ecosystem
(d) it has multiple uses in our everyday lives
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120. The word ‘clogging’ in the passage means
(a) obstruction
(b) flow
(c) opening
(d) clearing
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