Wednesday 6 January 2016

LIC AAO | English Quiz

Directions for questions 1 to 5, each of the following sentences are divided into parts, marked as a, b, c, d and e. One of these parts may contain error or may not be acceptable in standard written communication. Select the part which contains error and mark it as your answer, if no error mark your answer as part e.

1. (a) It is said that / (b) the state of his affairs / (c) are such as to cause anxiety / (d) to his creditors like me. / (e) No Error.

2. (a) When Vrinda said that / (b) she is coming to see me the next day / (c) I wondered / (d) what problems she would bring / (e) No Error.

3. (a) You must know / (b) who Akbar was / (c) even if you have no / (d) special liking to history / (e) No Error.

4. (a) No less than / (b) twenty persons / (c) were killed in / (d) the air crash / (e) No Error.

5. (a) In India / (b) malnutrition is the / (c) cause for / (d) many diseases / (e) No Error.




Directions for questions 6 to 10: Choose the pair of words among the given options that will meaningfully fit the blanks.

6. The columnist was almost ______ when he mentioned his friends but he was unpleasant and even ______ when he discussed people who irritated him.
(a) recalcitrant, sarcastic
(b) reverential, acrimonious
(c) sensitive, remorseful
(d) insipid, militant
(e) joyous, apathetic

7. The meaning of this line seems clear: The Poet, though not denigrating the concept of _____, nonetheless emphasizes the importance of man's role in humanity in the _____ .
(a) independence, abstract
(b) community, extreme
(c) unity, synthesis
(d) individuality, aggregate
(e) capitalism, world

8. Although Shakespeare received little formal education, scholars have in recent years _______ the view that he was ______ the work of classical authors.
(a) substantiated, unimpressed by
(b) eroded, obsessed by
(c) supported, oblivious to
(d) undetermined, unfamiliar with
(e) declined, unethical to

9. As a staunch _______ of our right to leisure time, Krishna had few ______ .
(a) proponent, friends
(b) advocate, defenders
(c) disciple, rivals
(d) defender, equals
(e) avenger, foes

10. Ideas ______ to us and gradually _______  into behaviour.
(a) happen, occur
(b) strike, form
(c) occur, coalesce
(d) shape, recede
(e) come alive, decline


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