PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

PHRASE/WORDS REPLACEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-63 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): In each of the following questions, some parts of the sentence have been highlighted. You need to identify which of the given option can both grammatically and contextually replace the highlighted part. In case the highlighted part is correct, choose (5) as your answer.

 

Question No : 1

We are made to keep our eyes open and hoping that the blood tests will prove negative.

(1) kept on ground

(2) keeping our fingers crossed

(3) keeping our nose blocked

(4) kept on our legs

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

Just last week he was an elephant in water who had made a disastrous career move that saw his legacy as one of England’s greatest ever strikers in tatters at departures.

(1) a frog in a well

(2) a fish out of water 

(3) a duck in shooting range

(4) All of the above

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

Most Physics professors have never crashed a book on learning theory and don’t understand different learning styles.

(1) cracked a book

(2) closed a book

(3) carved a book

(4) caressed a book

(5) No correction required

Question No : 4

Trying to get him angry with an increasingly cruel set of stunts, our newly cool as an ice bandleader learns that staying calm has some sensational fringe benefits.

(1) warm as a blanket

(2) cool as a cucumber

(3) strict as a teacher

(4) caring as a parent

(5) No correction required

Question No : 5

Progress is necessary, but by responsibly development, we will be the agents of our own destruction.

(1) without responsible development

(2) despite of responsible development

(3) for responsible develop

(4) following responsibility development

(5) No correction required