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Test 1:
A good percentage of the population of India is tribal. The
tribals live in the hills and forests of the country and have been little (1)
by the (2) currents of the plains. Practically all the states of
India have their tribal population. The tribes are numerous, computed to be
about 200, some living in (3) regions in dense forests, and others on
the borders of villages. Some tribes are (4) to a few souls, while
others like the Santhals, run into millions and are steadily (5) in numbers.
During the British period some of them were known as ‘criminal tribes’ for they
showed (6) respect for the Indian Penal Code. After independence they have
been named Scheduled Tribes. Under modern conditions isolation, however, has
become (7) and the hill tribes are getting (8). The cultural
traffic is twoway. Social reformers are taking civilization to the hills, and
the tribes, (9) their old occupations of hunting and (10) farming,
are settling in villages, towns and cities as labourers and industrial workers.
1. 1) affected 2) domiciled 3) motivated 4) deprived 5) favoured
2. 1) financial 2) proud 3) cultural 4) unruly 5) swift
3. 1) comfortable 2) marshy 3) wild 4) unpopulated 5) inhospitable
4. 1) devoted 2) confined 3) susceptible 4) related 5) attached
5. 1) constant 2) deteriorated 3) developing 4) increasing 5)
decreasing
6. 1) abundant 2) genuine 3) superficial 4) exorbitant 5) scant
7. 1) crucial 2) necessary 3) difficult 4) convenient 5)
indispensable
8. 1) civilized 2) demoralized 3) wiped-out 4) entertained 5) reduced
9. 1) escaping 2) with 3) enhancing 4) leaving 5) continuing
10. 1) productive 2) primitive 3) profitable 4) cultivable 5)
scientific
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Test 2:
India’s (1) over the past half century since independence
has been unique and (2) in many ways. Yet the record is (3) in
relation to what the country set out to achieve and could certainly have been (4).
It is (5) to look at both sides; the alternative is to be (6) down
by unrelieved gloom or unwarranted (7). The fact is that after eight
5-year plans, about 40 per cent of population is (8) below the poverty
line. The human development indices are (9) low, placing India at the 126th
position in the world table, far below many countries that came into (10) much
later than it did.
1. 1) development 2) domination 3) predicament 4) history 5)
excellence
2. 1) dubious 2) insignificant 3) desperate 4) special 5) commendable
3. 1) outshining 2) broken 3) disappointing 4) brighter 5) played
4. 1) underplayed 2) accomplished 3) tampered 4) noteworthy 5)
exaggerated
5. 1) proposed 2) futile 3) impracticable 4) necessary 5) suggested
6. 1) laid 2) struck 3) cooled 4) weighed 5) brought
7. 1) progress 2) debating 3) meticulousness 4) haste 5) complacency
8. 1) much 2) still 3) obviously 4) found 5) far
9. 1) deplorably 2) admirably 3) surprisingly 4) not 5) amusingly
10. 1) world 2) being 3) independence 4) compete 5) India
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Test 3:
Passage 7
In the thirties and forties, geography was (1) subject in
schools. Children spent hours tracing maps and (2) about strange places,
peoples and customs. Harvard University (3) its geography department
after World War II. A string of leading universities in the United States (4)
suit. Geography has been tarred with the racist brush, and no one wants to
be (5). David S Landes, professor of history and economics at Harvard
University, makes a forceful (6) for geography in his book, The
Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Geography, he says, tells the unpleasant
truth that nature is unfair, unequal in its (7) and that its unfairnesses
are not easily (8). For Landes, there is nothing racist in a geography
that links (9) and group behaviour to nature, no one can be praised or (10)
for the temperature of the air, the volume or timing of rainfall, or the
topography.
1. 1) full-fledged 2) resourceful 3) decent 4) boring 5) famous
2. 1) knowledge 2) drawings 3) ignored 4) learned 5) figures
3. 1) established 2) nurtured 3) intensified 4) developed 5)
abolished
4. 1) followed 2) cleared 3) prepared 4) wore 5) filed
5. 1) learned 2) contaminated 3) neglected 4) prepared 5)
knowledgeable
6. 1) decision 2) impeachment 3) lesson 4) plea 5) plan
7. 1) behaviour 2) favours 3) sources 4) deal 5) functions
8. 1) sensed 2) placated 3) remedied 4) over-ruled 5) understood
9. 1) expediency 2) sentiments 3) performance 4) acquisition 5)
obedience
10. 1) credited 2) implored 3) admired 4) flattered 5) blamed
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Test 4:
Fourteen centuries ago when the world was much younger, the ruler
of all India, Rajah Balhait, was (1) about his people. A new game of
dice, called nard, had (2) the imagination of his subjects.
Teaching them that chance alone - a roll of the dice - guided the (3) of
men. All who played this game of fortune lost their (4) in the virtues
of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was (5) the
spirit of the kingdom. Rajah Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent
courtier, at his court, to find an answer to this (6). After
much (7) the clever Sissa invented another game, chaturanga,
the exact (8) of nard, in which the four elements of the
Indian army were the key pieces. In the game these pieces - chariots,
horses, elephants and foot soldiers - joined with a royal counsellor to
defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful (9) was demanded of
the players not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than nard,
and the (10) to the kingdom was over.
1. 1) concerned 2) confident 3) ignorant 4) indifferent 5) partisan
2. 1) propelled 2) enshrined 3) captured 4) activated 5) enhanced
3. 1) communities 2) ways 3) abnormalities 4) destinies 5) groups
4. 1) bravado 2) interest 3) peace 4) wealth 5) faith
5. 1) appalling 2) crushing 3) moistening 4) promoting 5)
overwhelming
6. 1) apprehension 2) risk 3) problem 4) game 5) destiny
7. 1) deliberation 2) absorption 3) insight 4) hesitation 5)
reluctance
8. 1) nature 2) equivalent 3) picture 4) opposite 5) replica
9. 1) prediction 2) concentration 3) manipulation 4) attack 5)
fortune
10. 1) devastation 2) anxiety 3) impeachment 4) nuisance 5) threat
ANSWERS:
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Test 1
1. 1 2. 3 3.
2 4. 2 5. 4 6. 5 7. 3 8. 5 9. 4 10. 2
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1. 4 2. 5 3.
3 4. 2 5. 4 6. 4 7. 5 8. 2 9. 1 10. 2
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1. 3 2. 4 3. 5 4. 1 5. 2 6. 4 7. 1 8. 3 9. 2 10. 5
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Test 4
1. 5 2. 4 3.
1 4. 3 5. 3 6. 5 7. 2 8. 1 9. 2 10. 2
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