PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

PHRASE/WORDS REPLACEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-07 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): In each of the following questions, a sentence is given with a phrase or idiom highlighted. Select the option given below that can replace the highlighted phrase and mark that as your answer.

Question No : 1

Although I love children, but having even 3-4 of them, together, at one place, doesn’t seem to be something which I can put up to.

(1) Put over with

(2) Put down to

(3) Put up with

(4) Put of with

(5) No replacement required

Question No : 2

When it comes to patience and not taking undue credit for things, I let on my mother.

(1) Make up

(2) Take after

(3) Get together

(4) Carry out

(5) No replacement required

Question No : 3

Andrea dropped off to third place when she fell off her bike and at that very moment she realized that it would not be possible for her to win the race.

(1) Grew in

(2) Kept off

(3) Dropped back

(4) Put down

(5) No replacement required

Question No : 4

No matter how much planning you do, I can clearly articulate how this whole venture is going to fall apart.

(1) Fall of

(2) Fall under

(3) Fall by

(4) Fall beneath

(5) No replacement required

Question No : 5

I cannot say I have had a very successful career and when I get back on my youth, I wish I had done more than just studying

(1) Think back

(2) Let up

(3) Catch on

(4) Run up

(5) No replacement required