Directions (Q.1 - 10): Read each sentences to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)
1. The news of the disturbance (a)/ was broadcasted (b)/ the same evening. (c)/ No error. (d)
2. Everyone visiting the house asked the young girl (a)/ how could she kill the wolf (b)/ single handed and without a weapon. (c)/ No error.
3. While walking slowly in the park (a)/ on a quiet summer afternoon (b)/ a mad dog suddenly attacked him from behind (c)/ No error. (d)
4. Since the attachment of air-conditional sleeping cars to all important trains (a)/ travelling became very pleasant (b)/ especially during the summer season. (c)/ No error. (d)
5. It is the newspapers (a)/ that exposes us to the widest range (b)/ of human experiences and behavior. (c)/ No error. (d)
6. The method suggested in the lecture (a)/ enables a student to learn more quickly (b)/ and to have remembered for a longer period of time. (c)/ No error. (d)
7. Last month we celebrated (a)/ the wedding of our sister for whom (b)/ we have been looking for suitable alliance for three years. (c)/ No error. (d)
8. A leading textile manufacturer, one of the fastest growing in the industry (a)/ is looking for a marketing manager (b)/ to look up the marketing network of the company. (c)/ No error. (d)
9. There was very heavy rain last night (a)/ and the rivers have over flown their banks (b)/ causing severe hardship to the people living by them. (c)/ No error. (d)
10. The government warned the shopkeepers (a)/ that if they persist in charging unfair prices (b)/ their licenses would be cancelled. (c)/ No error. (d)
Directions (Q.11 - 15): Each sentence in the questions has two blanks, each blank indicates that something has omitted. Beneath the sentence there are five alternatives. Choose the alternatives that best fits into the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
11. Hungarians may gamble about the difficulty of acquiring cars, but they point quickly to a compensation: the ______________ look of their tree-lined avenues and the absence of _____________ exhaust fumes.
a) calm, superfluous
b) otiose, poisonous
c) tranquil, copious
d) anamalous, fetid
e) uncluttered, noxious
12. In architecture, much more than in any of the other fine arts, there is a marked time leg between the ______________ of ideas and their ________________ in the shape of completed building.
a) settlement, fruition
b) creation, welcoming
c) tradition, modernization
d) dawn, practicability
e) emergence, application
13. In analyzing the ______________ teenage population, Madison Avenue has decided that it is eminently receptive to the _____________ of advertising.
a) proliferation, buncombe
b) ubiquitous, mystique
c) diminishing, fantasy
d) burgeoning, blandishments
e) viable, syndrome
14. No matter how ______________ the Russians are of wish to appear, they, as well as we, know that to survive it is necessary to reach agreements which may ___________ mutual sacrifices.
a) fatuous, necessitate
b) bellicose, evade
c) refractory, obliterate
d) indifferent, subsume
e) intransigent, entail
15. Into the limited space given him a headline writer must compress the _______________ of the news and he must do it without _____________.
a) synopsis, reservations
b) gist, ambiguity
c) magnitude, distortion
d) totality, hedging
e) bias, apology
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