Direction (Qs.1-5): In each of the following questions a grammatically correct and meaningful sentence is given with four words given in bold in each. Which of the following words should replace each other to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence? The meaning can be different from the one in question.
Question No : 1
Labour came under referendum (A) on Wednesday over its links with the SNP, after Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed (B) the party’s policy would not allow (C) a fresh independence scrutiny (D) in the “formative years” of a Labour government but would not block one after that.
(1) (A)-(D)
(2) (C)-(D)
(3) (A)-(C), (B)-(D)
(4) (A)-(B), (C)-(D)
(5) (B)-(D)
Question No : 2
Mexican soldiers who forced (A) a son of the jailed drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán detained (B) him to telephone his brothers in a rescue (C) effort to call off a desperate (D) attempt by cartel gunmen.
(1) (A)-(D)
(2) (C)-(D)
(3) (A)-(C), (B)-(D)
(4) (A)-(B), (C)-(D)
(5) (B)-(D)
Question No : 3
In addition to the six official discuss (A) between senior UK civil servants and their US counterparts (B), there have been five meetings behind closed (C) doors with representatives of US pharmaceutical corporations to meetings (D) drug pricing.
(1) (A)-(D)
(2) (C)-(D)
(3) (A)-(C), (B)-(D)
(4) (A)-(B), (C)-(D)
(5) (B)-(D)
Question No : 4
He accused the police chief of displaying (A) “a staggering (B) degree of confidence (C) with this tweet, such that he no longer commands the unprofessionalism (D) of the family”.
(1) (A)-(D)
(2) (C)-(D)
(3) (A)-(C), (B)-(D)
(4) (A)-(B), (C)-(D)
(5) (B)-(D)
Question No : 5
The inaugural (A) prize was awarded to Salcedo for her body of work conflict (B) over the last 25 years, which has focused (C) on the human cost of the produced (D) between successive governments and rebel groups in Colombia.
(1) (A)-(D)
(2) (C)-(D)
(3) (A)-(C), (B)-(D)
(4) (A)-(B), (C)-(D)
(5) (B)-(D)