PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

PHRASE/WORDS REPLACEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-47 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): In each sentence below, a word/ group of words has been given in bold. From the five answer choices given below each sentences, pick out the one which can substitute the bold word/group of words correctly, without changing the meaning of the sentence.

 

Question No : 1

They came from breaking homes in Nepal desperate for money.

(1) to breaking homes

(2) in break-up homes

(3) for breaking

(4) from broken homes

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

As much as seven crore voters in the state will vote on five days in October to elect the new Vidhan Sabha

(1) As good as

(2) As many as

(3) As well as

(4) So far as

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

From the statement of the two women, it was discovered that they were not allowed to go out of the house

(1) uncovered

(2) identified

(3) disclosed

(4) invented

(5) No correction required

Question No : 4

Till the time you come to notify the forest land under the Act, there will be no forest left,” commented the court

(1) By the time

(2) While

(3) Until

(4) Before the time

(5) No correction required

Question No : 5

The cash-strapped North municipal corporation has been struggling to pay its bill since the end of February this year

(1) is struggling

(2) has to struggle

(3) was being struggled

(4) has struggled

(5) No correction required