English - Verbal - 2

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English – Verbal – 2

Each sentence below has one or two blanks. There are four alternatives given. Choose the word or set of words that best fit in the blanks so as to make the sentence complete.

1.    Like a furnace and its controlling thermostat, which produces more heat when the room gets too cool and less when the temperature warms up, the body’s endocrines are a -------------- system.

a)    Self sufficient              b) well planned            c) well adjusted           d) self-regulating 

2.    The first world war was ----------- to alter all previous concepts of war and to render the idea of armed conflict so horrible that ---------- man hoped it would never occur again.

a)    Fated …..Fighting       b) destined ….rational     c) geared … sensible   

d) made .. horrified

3.    Britain’s greatest achievement was also perhaps her most ironic; out of the welter of disparate regions, castes, languages and traditions of India, Britain managed to fashion a ------------ nation, only to have it ---------- her. 

a)    Fledgling …. Turn on    b)  strong ……. Turn to,    c)  mighty …… back out on

d)  Nascent ….. co-operate with

4.    No one person invented jazz; but two men do ----------- out as great ------------

a).Come ……discoverers      b) level ……..originators   c)  stand……..pioneers   

d) hold ….. inventors

5.    It would be a great mistake to continue your ----------- to the ways things have always been done; in fact, it would consign you to the ---------- of the market place. 

a)    Imagination …….. mediocrity    b)  thinking ……tedium     c)  actions …… routine

d)   deeds ……..dullness

6.   For thousands of years men have been beguiled by the twinkling stars, seeing them in their minds’ eye as ------------ of destiny, and as the abode of gods.

a)  masters      b)   arbiters      c)   directors      d)   administrators

7.  Some men do not think; they jump from one observation to a ---------- without any  --------------whatever.

a)  premises ….. effort    b)  conclusion …. Reasoning    c)  decision….. consideration

d)  consideration …. Decision

8. Productivity primarily depends upon knowledge and upon its --------------

a) exploitation    b)  possibilities    c)   significance      d)   implications

9. Let us be clear about one point; growth does not proceed in clear-cut, discrete --------- steps; sometimes it occurs in inexplicable spurts; at other times with agonizing-------------.

a)  small ….. speed       b) calculable …..pain     c)  logical …… slowness  

d) predictable …….. disorder

10. A man is ------- of his own destiny in the sense that he takes charge of his own development if he wants to ------------.

a)  master …… grow     b)   maker …… learn    c)  destroyer – prosper    

d) onlooker … succeed

 

Answers:

1.    (d)   2.  (b)     3.  (a)     4.   (c)     5.  (a)    6.  (b)    7.  (b)    8.  (a)    9.   (c)   10.  (a)