Verbal Part-II

Directions (1 to 5):
Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom, If there is no correct meaning given, E (i.e.) 'None of these' will be the answer.

To make clean breast of

To keeps one's temper

To catch a tartar

To drive home

To have an axe to grind

Directions to solve(6-15):

Fill in the blanks with correct Articles.

New York is ----- large city

Are you attending ----- reception today

----- Oranges are grown in Nagpur

She wants to become ----- engineer

----- lion is a ferocious animal

----- unit means a measurement

He is ----- honest official.

Taj mahal is built of ----- marble

He is ----- European

Let us play ----- chess

Directions(16 to 20):
The reading passage is accompanied by a set of questions based on the passage and any introductory material that is given. Answer the questions according to what is stated or implied in the passage.
By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential
avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the care of a
younger child. And she also develops a number of simple
techniques. She learns to weave firm square balls from palm
leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,
to climb a coconut tree by walking up the trunk on flexible little
feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of
a knife as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games
and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house by
picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the
sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help gather it in when
rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a
lighted faggot for the chief's pipe or the cook-house fire.

But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely
supplementary to the main business of baby-tending. Very small
boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or
nine years of age they are usually relieved of it. Whatever rough
edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for
younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys.
For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities
only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful. Where
small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be
patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves
useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the
important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels,
organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy
holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke
eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still
another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava. The small girls,
burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are
too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility
of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have
little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work
and play. So while the little boys first undergo the
chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many
opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision
of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They
have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the
community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one
another. This is particularly apparent in the activities of young
people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in
bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient
cooperation.


The primary purpose of the passage with reference to the society under discussion is to

The word 'brusquely' (line 22) most nearly means

The list of techniques in paragraph one could best be described as

It can be inferred that the 'high standard of individual responsibility' (line 38) is

The expression 'innocent of' (line 42) is best taken to mean

Directions(21 to 25):
Mr. Harding was not a happy man as he walked down
the palace pathway, and stepped out into the close. His
position and pleasant house were a second time
gone from him; but that he could endure. He had been
schooled and insulted by a man young enough to be
his son; but that he could put up with. He could even
draw from the very injuries which had been inflicted
on him some of that consolation which, we may
believe, martyrs always receive from the injustice of
their own sufferings. He had admitted to his daughter
that he wanted the comfort of his old home, and yet he
could have returned to his lodgings in the High Street,
if not with exultation, at least with satisfaction, had
that been all. But the venom of the chaplain's
harangue had worked into his blood, and sapped the
life of his sweet contentment.

'New men are carrying out new measures, and
are carting away the useless rubbish of past centuries!'
What cruel words these had been- and how often are
they now used with all the heartless cruelty of a
Slope! A man is sufficiently condemned if it can only
be shown that either in politics or religion he does not
belong to some new school established within the last
score of years. He may then regard himself as rubbish
and expect to be carted away. A man is nothing now
unless he has within him a full appreciation of the
new era; an era in which it would seem that neither
honesty nor truth is very desirable, but in which
success is the only touchstone of merit. We must
laugh at everything that is established. Let the joke be
ever so bad, ever so untrue to the real principles of
joking; nevertheless we must laugh - or else beware
the cart. We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit
of the times, or else we are nought. New men and new
measures, long credit and few scruples, great success
or wonderful ruin, such are now the tastes of
Englishmen who know how to live! Alas, alas! Under
such circumstances Mr. Harding could not but feel
that he was an Englishman who did not know how to
live. This new doctrine of Mr. Slope and the rubbish
cart sadly disturbed his equanimity.

'The same thing is going on throughout the
whole country!' 'Work is now required from every
man who receives wages!' And had he been living all
his life receiving wages, and doing no work? Had he
in truth so lived as to be now in his old age justly
reckoned as rubbish fit only to be hidden away in
some huge dust-hole? The school of men to whom he
professes to belong, the Grantlys, the Gwynnes, are
afflicted with no such self-accusations as these which
troubled Mr. Harding. They, as a rule, are as satisfied
with the wisdom and propriety of their own conduct
as can be any Mr. Slope, or any Bishop with his own.
But, unfortunately for himself, Mr. Harding had little
of this self-reliance. When he heard himself
designated as rubbish by the Slopes of the world, he
had no other resource than to make inquiry within his
own bosom as to the truth of the designation. Alas,
alas! the evidence seemed generally to go against him.


The main cause of Mr. Harding’s unhappiness as he leaves the Bishop’s Palace is

It can be inferred that Slope is

The word ‘equanimity’ (line 41) most nearly means

It can be inferred that Mr Harding is especially disturbed because he

Mr. Harding differs from others of his ‘school’ (line 49) because they

Direction (26 to 35):In each question, an incomplete statement (Stem) followed by fillers is given. Pick out the best one which can complete incomplete stem correctly and meaningfully

Despite his best efforts to conceal his anger ......

Even if it rains I shall come means ......

His appearance is unsmiling but ......

She never visits any zoo because she is strong opponent of the idea of ......

I felt somewhat more relaxed ......

It is not easy to remain tranquil when those around you ......

"The food in this hotel is no match to what were forced at late hours in Hotel Kohinoor " means ......

Although initial investigations pointed towards him ......

The weather outside was extremely pleasant and hence we decided to ......

"It is an uphill task but you will have to do it" means ......

Directions(36 to 45):

Kathleen apologized ________________ her brother’s poor behaviour

There is no doubt that Adam is very good ___________ telling jokes

These dresses were ____________ sale last week

There is a bridge _____________ the river.

Amanda hasn’t seen her older sister _______________ last April.

Their relationship was ______________ because of jealousy

Julia came all the way _______________ Russia to see her boyfriend

The detective chased the killer ______________ the streets.

Ai Ling is worried ________the test because she thinks that she will fail the test.

Jeanne was texting her boyfriend ___________the teacher was teaching