iGATE - English Verbal

iGATE – English Verbal

Instructions for Questions 1-5 Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:

The Grass that Build Asia

A thousand years ago, Korean monks made medical salts with bamboo called Chukyom. Dissolved in water, bamboo salt is still taken as a curative for stomach ailments today. Dr. Sang-Park of the Nambu Forestry Experimental Station in Chinju, South Korea, has pioneered the use of bamboo charcoal as a glittering agent for Jinro Soju, the most popular liquor in Korea, distilled in part from sweet potatoes. He is now studying bamboo sap as a potential health-drink and skin moisturizer.

It's the same story of progress in Thailand, where Somyot  Tasalee's factory in Mae Sot, in the northern province of Tak, makes compressed barbecue charcoal by recycling 15 tons of bamboo waste daily. The by product comes from 300 villages in surrounding provinces, where people make handicrafts, chopsticks, toothpicks, and other products.

With the push to harness bamboos unique qualities on an industrial scale for new products and uses, many bamboo lovers fear old skills are being lost. But artistry still has its rewards. I see this in a courtyard in Thailand's Chon Buri province. Pradup Suskai sitting with a dozen other women, weaving in bamboo strips into extraordinary handbags - each of which can sell for $200 in Japan. "It takes up to ten years to learn these skills" she says. So perfect is the women's working that one customer complained the handbags did not look handmade. As the warm afternoon light kisses the feathery, nodding   groves across the Wos River in Linda Garland's Bali estate, I think of the countless artists and poets captivated by bamboo's haunting timelessness. Garland, meanwhile, ponders the modern industrial future planned for bamboo while telling me there should always be room to appreciate its ancient arts and simple beauty.

1. Which is the plant referred to in this passage?
(a) China grass   (b) Elephant grass            (c) Cockscomb   (d) Bamboo

Ans: (d)

2. Which ailment does the medicinal salt bamboo cure?
(a) Stomach                        (b) Liver                               (c) Intestines                     (d) Kidneys

Ans: (a)

3. What use is bamboo sap for human beings?
(a) Ointment      (b) Mosquito repel lent                 (c) Aphrodisiac                  (d) Health drink

Ans: (d)

4. What would the cost of a bamboo-strip handbag be in Japan?
(a) $100                                (b) $200                                c) $500                  (d) $300

Ans: (b)

5. What kind of plant is bamboo?
(a) Shrub                             (b) Grass                              (c) Tree                                                (d) Creeper

Ans: (b)

6. Choose appropriate articles for the given sentence:

…young lady walked into….. lobby of Martin Hotel and enquired at …front desk for directions to Connaught Place.
(a) The, a, the                    (b) The, the, a                   (c) A, the, the                    (d) The, a, a

Ans: (c)

7. Choose the correct sentence from the sentences given below:

(a) The President would be re-elected to the post for another five-year term by the
existing national and provincial assemblies in October next year

(b) As the new Medicare drug benefit nears its second year, nearly eight in ten large
employers expect to continue to offering drug coverage to their retirees and accept
subsidies from the federal government.

(c) Chimney sweeps in Germany enjoy a near-perfect monopoly, a situation that is not
approved of Brussels.

(d) Climate change was seen as a vitally important economic issue and the government
had to act immediately of they were to counter the impact.

Ans: (b)

8. Choose the incorrect sentence from the sentences given below:

(a) But in the mad world of competitive populism, it suddenly mattering that they could
not turn on the TV.

(b) Renowned photographers went looking for images that dispel the rural stereotype.

(c) Less than five years ago, writers were lamenting the lack of good non-fiction in
India.

(d) A hundred rupee note is coming to have the same value as the ten rupee note.

Ans: (a)

9. Choose the option that correctly sequences the following phrases:
1. reserving books           2. for example,                 3. About               4. the Service Desk
5. deals with any enquiries,

(a) 45321 (b) 43125(c) 23451 (d) 45231

Ans: (d)

10. Choose appropriate prepositions for the given sentence:
The instructions must be followed…… the semester……. exception.

(a) in, with          (b) throughout, without                               (c) at, at               (d) with, without

Ans: (b)

11. Complete the sentence choosing the right option:
a match to light the candle.

(a) Hit                    (b) Rub                 (c) Strike                              (d) Fire

Ans: (c)

12. Complete the sentence choosing the right option:
12. The contained all the information about the drama company.

(a) manifesto     (b) repertoire    (c) ring side view              (d) redress

Ans: (a)

13. Choose the correct form of tense for the given sentence:
…………..the water clear, but also prevent the river rom overflowing.
(a) Not only the hippo's eating habits keep
(b) Keep not only the hippo'e eating habit
(c) The hippo's eating habits not only keep
(d) Not only keep to hippo's eating habits

Ans: (c)

14. Choose the correct form of verb for the given sentence:
Mohan………. along the road.

(a) ran                   (b) fell                   (c) sat                    (d) stopped

Ans: (a)

15. Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the word highlighted in the following
sentence:

They carried out a desultory conversation, jumping from one subject to another.

(a) methodical                   (b) impolite        (c) independent               (d) aimless

Ans: (a)