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Test 1:
A friend in need is a friend indeed. A man who stands (1) his
friend in (2) is a true friend, Selfless love is the base of true
friendship. True friends share each other’s joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure.
They do not fall (3) in adversity. They have full confidence in each
other. They never (4) each other. (5) makes friends, adversity
tries them. A selfless friend is (6); a selfish friend is a curse. The
first is an angel and the second is a devil. One makes your career while the other
(7) it. True friendship means great self-sacrifice on the part of both.
A true friend (8) pleasure and convenience. He goes cut of his way and
faces difficulties in his way with joy and even with pride. Joy and sorrow,
success and failure, good fortune and misfortune, are equally (9) by a
pair of true friends. They (10) the burden of life equally for they feel
that they sail in the same boat and that they have to sink and swim together.
1. 1) to 2) with 3) for 4) by 5) of
2. 1) adversity 2) commotion 3) change 4) happiness 5) growth
3. 1) by 2) to 3) off 4) with 5) through
4. 1) postulate 2) commit 3) danger 4) deplete 5) betray
5. 1) Wealth 2) Prosperity 3) Man 4) Providence 5) Well-bring
6. 1) boon 2) force 3) blessing 4) calamity 5) message
7. 1) throws 2) develops 3) constructs 4) mars 5) lacks
8. 1) foregoes 2) mitigates 3) evolves 4) appraises 5) prospers
9. 1) built 2) pleased 3) admired 4) advocated 5) shared
10. 1) expect 2) shoulder 3) dislike 4) propose 5) project
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2:
The Government seems to be in right earnest to ensure more (1) in
governance. The Prime Minister’s announcement that his Government is (2) drafting
legilsation to (3) the citizen’s right to information is indeed welcome.
Though the talk on the right to information is not new, we may (4) the
bill to be brought early this time. The previous Government had set up a
high-level committee to (5) a draft bill. But nothing has been heard
about the matter since, (6) the committee did quite some work. The
issue, however, has come to such a pass that a solution cannot be (7) further.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, a foreign judge once said, while (8) the
unwarranted secrecy in an administrative system. When those in authority know
that people have the right to ask questions and the government is under the (9)
to provide them with answers, (10) of authority, or of public
finances, for personal or party ends is less likely to happen.
1. 1) strictness 2) rudeness 3) leniency 4) economy 5) transparency
2. 1) personally 2) busy 3)
not 4) reluctantly 5) absolutely
3. 1) presumption 2) absolve 3) curb 4) question 5) establish
4. 1) expect 2) wait 3) try 4) frustrate 5) appeal
5. 1) level 2) regard 3) prepare 4) enact 5) unearth
6. 1) even 2) as 3) because 4) until 5) though
7. 1) found 2) expected 3) delayed 4) looked 5) longed
8. 1) nurturing 2) criticizing 3) demanding 4) appreciating 5)
upholding
9. 1) pretentious 2) affect 3) substance 4) obligation 5) property
10. 1) misuse 2) governance 3) dishonour 4) curbing 5) breach
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Test 3:
Man in his (1) of nature and universe has made the world (2),
polluted. The air we breathe is polluted, the water we drink is (3).
There is (4) felling of trees, clearing of jungles, (5) natural
barriers like the mountains and drying up the oceans by way of (6). This
(7) of nature by man is a grave mistake for which mankind has to pay the
price. Rapid industrialization means (8) the industrial effluents into
the rivers and seas. The river water has turned murky. Marine life has been (9).
The toxic chemicals have made the air that we breathe polluted. Pesticides and
insecticides sprayed on plants and the chemicals and fertilizers used for (10)
plant yield have poisoned our food. Hence what we eat today has high toxic (11).
Nature’s plentifulness is a heritage not to be (12) with impunity. It
must be conserved for future generations or its (13) will extinguish
all.
1. 1) pursuit 2) view 3) conquest 4) victim 5) want
2. 1) foul 2) diluted 3) poor 4) precarious 5) critical
3. 1) disturbed 2) pure 3) counterproductive 4) suffocated 5)
contaminated
4. 1) dubious 2) wanton 3) careful 4) planned 5) useless
5. 1) attacking 2) projecting 3) cutting 4) blasting 5) sizing
6. 1) reclamation 2) inhabitation 3) stabilisation 4) destruction 5)
damage
7. 1) provocation 2) adventure 3) vandalism 4) abundance 5) evasion
8. 1) relocating 2) divulging 3) menacing 4) culminating 5) diverting
9. 1) evaporated 2) endangered 3) devalued 4) eliminated 5)
forfeiting
10. 1) managing 2) developing 3) maintaining 4) doubling 5) minimising
11. 1) damage 2) variable 3) content 4) yield 5) refuge
12. 1) squandered 2) preserved 3) doubled 4) engulfed 5) coerced
13. 1) equilibrium 2) existence 3) failure 4) proportion 5) bankruptcy
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Test 4:
Once Gurudev Tagore asked Gandhiji: “Gandhiji,are you (1) unromantic?
When in the early (2) the morning sun rises does it not (3) your
heart with joy to see its reddish glow? When the birds (4) does not your
heart thrill with its (5) music? When the rose opens its petals and
blooms in the garden, does its sight not bring (6) to your heart?” The
Mahatma replied, “Gurudev, I am not so dumb or (7) as not to be moved by
the beauty of the rose or the morning rays of the sun or the music of the
birds. But what can I do? My one (8), my one anxiety, my one ambition
is: When shall I see the red tint of the rose on the cheeks of (9) (10) millions
of my people? When shall I hear the sweet and melodious song of the birds in
place of their (11) sighs - when will such music (12) out of their
soul? And when will that (13) come, when the light of the morning sun
will (14) the heart of the common man in India? When will I see its
lustre and (15) on his face?”
1. 1) not 2) genuinely 3) seldom 4) so 5) fairly
2. 1) season 2) dawn 3) monsoon 4) climate 5) days
3. 1) involve 2) impeach 3) move 4) fill 5) penetrate
4. 1) fly 2) nestle 3) flock 4) cry 5) sing
5. 1) alarming 2) fearful 3) divine 4) irritating 5) loud
6. 1) aroma 2) cheer 3) fragrance 4) agony 5) fear
7. 1) insensitive 2) lethargic 3) ambitious 4) idle 5) romantic
8. 1) slogan 2) request 3) interpretation 4) desire 5) demand
9. 1) old 2) rich 3) happy 4) noble 5) hungry
10. 1) naked 2) fashioned 3) poor 4) fellow 5) playful
11. 1) encouraging 2) flourishing 3) prosperous 4) agonizing 5)
cheerful
12. 1) play 2) bring 3) come 4) drop 5) sing
13. 1) light 2) day 3) authority 4) person 5) sun
14. 1) scorch 2) shine 3) bright 4) burn 5) illuminate
15. 1) brightness 2) shade 3) dullness 4) strength 5) stairs
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Test 1
1. 4 2. 1 3. 3 4. 5 5. 2 6. 3 7. 4 8. 1 9. 5 10. 2
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Test 2
1. 5 2. 2 3. 5 4. 1 5. 3 6. 5 7. 3 8. 2 9. 4 10. 1
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Test 3
1. 3 2. 1 3. 5 4. 2 5. 3 6. 1 7. 3 8. 5 9. 2 10. 2 11. 3 12. 1 13. 5
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Test 4
1. 4 2. 2 3. 3 4. 5 5. 3 6. 2 7. 1 8. 4 9. 5 10. 1 11.
4 12. 3 13. 2 14. 5 15. 1
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