Direction (Qs.1 to 5): Each question below contains a statement with three blanks followed by four options. Choose the option that can fill the three blanks and mark it as your answer.
Question No : 1
The page turner, “a little old lady,” had _____ her reading glasses. She exhorted Owen to “do a very big nod” to signal the turn backwards for the repeat of the _____. When the time came, Owen nodded _____ and, seemingly involuntarily, she shouted “BACK!”
(1) top up, nimbly, vigorously
(2) forgotten, exposition, vigorously
(3) top up, nimbly, doltish
(4) forgotten, exposition, doltish
(5) None of these
Question No : 2
Coleridge _____ needed this reminder. Only a year or so earlier, when still a _____ at Eton, he had co-founded a _____ arts society with the motto Lumines Nomine Noscere-‘To get to know the stars by their Christian names’. Brian Eno, Angie Bowie and Elton John were among its first guests.
(1) petulant, fractious, contemporary
(2) hardly, pupil, insouciant
(3) petulant, fractious, insouciant
(4) hardly, pupil, contemporary
(5) None of these
Question No : 3
These pieces of advice were combined _____ thoughts from evolutionary biologist Pamela Yeh and are presented here. McCarthy’s most important tip is to keep it simple while telling a coherent, _____ story. The following are more of McCarthy’s words of _____, as told by Savage and Yeh.
(1) with, compelling, promulgate
(2) to, undergo, promulgate
(3) with, compelling, wisdom
(4) to, undergo, wisdom
(5) None of these
Question No : 4
Your paper is not a _____ with the readers’ potential questions, so don’t go overboard _____ them. Don’t say the same thing in three different ways in any single section. Don’t say both ‘anticipating’ and ‘_____’. Just choose one, or you risk that your readers will give up.
(1) dialogue, anticipating, elaborate
(2) dialogue, harmonize, estrange
(3) disseminate, harmonize, estrange
(4) disseminate, anticipating, elaborate
(5) None of these
Question No : 5
He chaired Fashion Rocks, a couture and music _____ that raised millions for the Prince’s Trust, and is now chair of the Victoria and Albert Museum. In his holidays he writes bestselling novels. The _____ work involved, which would break most people, is described with the _____ vim that Coleridge brings to everything in life.
(1) satellite, erode, expedite
(2) satellite, strenuous, gleeful
(3) extravaganza, erode, expedite
(4) extravaganza, strenuous, gleeful
(5) None of these
