Selecting Words

Sometimes the messages are sent with

In the following passage, at certain points you are given a choice of three words, one of which fits the meaning of the passage. Choose the best word.

Sometimes the messages are sent with 1. (a) many (b) few (c) no accompanying words and we speak in 2. (a) body (b) signal (c) foreign language alone. But what gestures make 3. (a) with body (b) up (c) into language? Most of us are 4. (a) easy (b) familiar (c) efficient with the common hand gestures. Some 5. (a) students (b) people (c) officers cannot talk without using their hands. 6. (a) We (b) Arms (c) They reach out as they explain almost 7. (a) exacting (b) shaping (c) changing their words, emphasizing and exaggerating and 8. (a) teaching (b) holding (c) punctuating their hands. Other people hardly 9. (a) adjust (b) use (c) wave their hands at all when they 10. (a) lecture (b) unite (c) talk.

One of the most interesting new books published recently

In the following passage, at certain points you are given a choice of three words, one of which fits the meaning of the passage. Choose the best word.

One of the most interesting new books published recently is "Spaceship' by Prof. E.C. Walker, Our earth he says 1. (a) is (b) have been (c) will be like a spaceship, and all the 400 million people 2. (a) over (b) on (c) upon earth are passengers on it. And we are heading 3. (a) about (b) to (c) towards a disaster. The levels of atmospheric pollution 4. (a) increasing (b) arriving (c) coming in the cities and industrial areas of the world could in time change the weather patterns of the earth, raising the temperature 5. (a) in (b) of (c) for the whole planet. If this rose a few 6. (a) degrees (b) steps (c) miles the deserts of the world would expand to double their size. The polar ice caps would start inching. If the polar ice caps melted, the 7. (a) water (b) ice (c) sea level all over the world would rise 8. (a) in (b) by (c) to about 60 meters. Prof. Walker's 9. (a) idea (b) thought (c) book is not at all about gloom and doom. He admits that the 10. (a) ideas (b) changes (c) solutions he describes could take thousands of years.

I was engaged in many activities and I wanted a proper reconciliation

In the following passage, at certain points you are given a choice of three words, one of which fits the meaning of the passage. Choose the best word.

I was engaged in many activities and I wanted a proper reconciliation between my activity and thought. Thought without 1. (a) wish (b) action (c) idea is undeveloped thought. Action without 2. (a) thought (b) wish (c) idea is folly. Of course we 3. (a) never (b) belatedly (c) sometimes act on some impulse or 4. (a) peaceful (b) uncontrollable (c) indisputable urge. If suddenly you through 5. (a) no (b) an (c) a brick at me and my 6. (a) hand (b) wrist (c) finger goes up in front to 7. (a) stimulate (b) rescue (c) protect myself, it is an automatic 8. (a) uncontrollable (b) instinctive (c) impulsive action and not a result 9. (a) to (b) in (c) of deliberate thought. Over living is 10. (a) made (b) conditioned (c) developed by a series of automatic 11. (a) thoughts (b) actions (c) wishes from morning till night. Anything 12. (a) we (b) I (c) they do outside that common range of 13. (a) thoughts (b) ideas (c) actions, however, has to be 14. (a) proceeded (b) preceded (c) followed by some measure of thinking. 15. (a) Some (b) If (c) The more action and thought are 16. (a) developed (b) allied (c) hostile and integrated, the more effective 17. (a) they (b) thoughts (c) we become and the happier you 18. (a) appear (b) develop (c) grow. There will then be no 19. (a) reconciliation (b) conflict (c) inflict between a wish to do something and 20. (a) inability (b) probability (c) plausibility to act.

According to a report in yesterday's newspaper

In the following passage, at certain points you are given a choice of three words, one of which fits the meaning of the passage. Choose the best word.

According to a report in yesterday's newspaper 1. (a) once (b) a (c) new police dog was taken to Raj Bhavan 2. (a) at (b) next (c) on Monday. This was to trace the 3. (a) killers (b) dogs (c) police of the "very important horse" which 4. (a) has (b) were (c) was reported missing on Sunday. The dog picked 5. (a) on (b) at (c) up the scent on some traces of 6. (a) those (b) blood (c) report and ran a few yards before losing the 7. (a) bet (b) track (c) game. The police have launched a vigorous 8. (a) search (b) investigation (c) campaign into the whole affair. They have 9. (a) given up (b) requisitioned (c) report the services of a forensic expert, 10. (a) a (b) an (c) two fingerprint expert and a photographer. 11. (a) There (b) We (c) So are now fourteen horses at Raj Bhavan 12. (a) who (b) where (c) which are kept in a large shed near the gate.