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Question 171.


In each question, the word mentioned below is used in five different ways, labeled A to E. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate
INVESTED


  1.     The cancer cells may invest other parts of the body.
  2.     I have invested in mutual funds
  3.     I wonder how you could have invested in such an organization.
  4.     By virtue of the authority invested in the president, he granted amnesty to many prisoners.
  5.     Everyone admitted that the speaker’s words were invested with intelligence and wit.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> The cancer cells may invest other parts of the body.
:
A

Option A. Cancer cells invade not invest.


Question 172.


In each question, the word mentioned below is used in five different ways, labeled A to E. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate
INTIMATE


  1.     Are you sure you have an intimate knowledge of our country?
  2.     Journalists should not reveal the intimate details about the family life of celebrites.
  3.     In the urban jungle few of us are in intimate terms with our neighbours.
  4.     Did you intimate them of your plans?
  5.     They share an intimate relationship
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> In the urban jungle few of us are in intimate terms with our neighbours.
:
C

option C .We are on intimate terms with someone not in intimate terms.


Question 173.


(A) The users must also accept the realities [A] / the reality [B] that enjoying world – class facilities comes with [A] / comes for [B] a price.
(B) Italian fashion icon Giorgio Armani’s namesake corporation has entered in [A] / entered into [B] a joint venture with DLF to TAP India’s expanding luxury consumer market.
(C) It’s true that past promises are no guarantee against [A] / guarantee of [B] future performance.
(D) The affiliating system in India is a curse for [A] / curse on [B] higher education.


  1.     BAABB
  2.     ABABA
  3.     BBAAB
  4.     BABBB
  5.     BABAA
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> BABBB
:
D

In the first part of the sentence ‘the reality’ is suitable. In the next part of the sentence the verbal phrase ‘comes with a price’ means expensive. ‘Enter into’ is correct as it suggests joining or getting into a venture. Into indicates motion. If one thing generates another it is a guarantee of the other. ‘Curse on’ is acceptable. It is a curse on something.


Hence BABBB.


ANS:option D


Question 174.


(A) When the waiver is announced each one of the fifteen thousand farmers, who has [A] /have[B] land holdings upto 15 acres would [A] / will [B] heave a sigh of relief.
(B) Every man and every woman of the entire village know [A] / knows [B] that it is a political move to divide farmers.
(C) Neither the Prime Minister nor the congress President have [A] / has [B] heard the farmer’s pleas.
(D) Almost every-one of the infrastructure companies has [A] / have [B] discounted ambient factors like construction risks.


  1.     BBBAA
  2.     ABBBA
  3.     ABABB
  4.     AAABB
  5.     BABAA
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> ABBBA
:
B

‘Who has’ refers to the singular subject of each farmer and ‘will heave a sigh of relief' refers to each one of them. Hence AB is acceptable. Each,every, neither, either take singular verbs. Hence BBBA is correct. In the first sentence as ‘will’ is the present form it is suitable in the context. ABBBA.

ANS:option B


Question 175.


(B) On entering certain kinds of wild country, I have an instinctive feeling about[A] /of [B] home-coming
(C) What most clearly marks [A] / marks off [B] cognitivism from behaviorvism is the belief that there are hidden causes of behavior.
(D) The state government has expressed considerable concern for [A] / about [B] the rapid rise in the latest crime figures in the capital city.


  1.     ABBBB
  2.     BAAAB
  3.     BAABB
  4.     AABBA
  5.     ABABA
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> ABBBB
:
A

Since ‘pleasure’ is derived from something,option A is correct and ‘in the house keeper’s’


room is correct. In sentence 2 feeling ‘of’ home coming is correct. In sentence 3 marks


means ‘distinguishes’ hence option B is suitable. In sentence 4 ‘concern for’ is incorrect


for it is used for a person. For a situation ‘concern about’ is used. Hence ABBBB.


ANS:option A


Question 176.


(A) In the past few years the imaginative [A] / imaginary [B] distinctions between [A] / among [B] urban life and the natural world have crumbled.
(B) The decision of the election commission of India to hold Assembly elections in Karnataka before the expiry of the six-month [A] / six-months [B] term of the President’s rule ends  a period of political uncertainty.
(C) Now Hamlet is primarily [A] / primary [B] a drama of revenge, one of the most dislikeable of all human passions.
(D) The winds blow unceasingly sapping your energy, blighting your hopes and producing energy, blighting your hopes and producing [A] / produce [B] a conviction that nothing is worth an effort.


  1.     BBBAA
  2.     ABBBA
  3.     ABBAA
  4.     BAAAA
  5.     BABAA
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> BAAAA
:
D

‘Imaginary’ describes something that is created by and exists only in the mind, that is not real whereas imaginative means new, original and clever. Hence, option ‘B’ imaginary’ is correct. In sentence 2 the compound word 'six-month' is used as an adjective and therefore it should be in the singular. In sentence 3 primarily means ‘mainly’ and primary means ‘most important’. Hence ‘A’ ‘primarily is correct. In sentence 4 to maintain parallelism in construction production [A] should be used. Hence BAAAA is the right choice.


ANS:option D


Question 177.


(A) If the Videocon group’s bid for Motorola Inc’s mobile-phone business, would go [A] / goes [B] through, it would [A] / it will [B] become the world’s third largest handset producer.
(B) If he had brought [A] / brought [B] the movie to Broadway, he would have put Lenny Kravitz in it
(C) If Mr. Putin’s Russia is accepted as an emerging democracy,it will be [A] / would be [B] difficult to justify the new containment policy.
(D) If he won a lottery, he would donate [A] / would have donated [B] the major part of it to a worthy cause.


  1.     AAABB
  2.     ABAAA
  3.     ABBAB
  4.     BBAAB
  5.     AABBA
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> BBAAB
:
D

‘Would’ cannot be used in the conditional clause, hence goes is correct. If the ‘if clause’ has present tense (goes through) it should be followed by ‘will’. In sentence 2 the main clause has ‘would have’ therefore the ‘if clause’ must be in the past perfect tense (had brought).

In sentence 3 present tense (is) should be followed by ‘will be’. In 4 the conditional clause is in the simple past tense, hence it should be followed by ‘would have donated’. Hence BBAAB.

ANS: option D


Question 178.


LITTLE


  1.     If you insist on my accompanying you, give me a little coffee.
  2.     Maggie gave a little smile, when John proposed to her
  3.     You have little or no choice, as far as appearing for the exam is concerned.
  4.     Do not disturb the General Manager, he is in a little mood to talk
  5.     ABABA
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Do not disturb the General Manager, he is in a little mood to talk
:
D

Little means ‘not much’ (negative) whereas ‘a little’ means to a small degree (positive). The Manager is in little mood (meaning no mood) to talk-


ANS:option D


Question 179.


Famed for his masterful use of irony, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics due to the author slowly revealing at the end of each piece a tragic twist of fate.


  1.     Famed for his masterful use of irony, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics due to the author slowly revealing at the end of each piece a tragic twist of fate.
  2.     Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of how he famously and masterfully uses irony, evident in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece
  3.     Famed for using irony in a masterful way, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of the author slowly revealing a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
  4.     Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of the author's famed and masterful use of irony, evidenced in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
  5.     ABABA
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of the author's famed and masterful use of irony, evidenced in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
:
D

The original sentence begins with the modifier "Famed for his masterful use of irony," which requires a person as its subject. However, in the original sentence, "many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories" is the subject. Moreover, the phrase "due to the author slowly revealing" is awkward.
(A) This choice is incorrect as it repeats the original sentence.


(B) The pronoun "he" must have a person as its antecedent, yet there is no person in the sentence. Remember that "he" cannot refer to "Guy de Maupassant" here, since the name is part of a possessive phrase: "Guy de Maupassant's short stories". The author himself is not grammatically present in the sentence.


(C) The opening modifier "famed for using irony in a masterful way" incorrectly modifies "short stories" instead of Guy de Maupassant himself. It also contains the awkward phrase "because of the author slowly revealing."


(D) CORRECT. This choice remedies the flawed modifier by rewriting the sentence to avoid it. This choice also replaces the awkward phrase "due to the author's revealing" with "evidenced in the slow revelation."


Question 180.


LIFT


  1.     I am sure the presence of our captain will lift our hearts.
  2.     What will really give me a lift is your success in the exam.
  3.     If you lift ideas from my book, you will end up a plagiarist.
  4.     We could not lift mangoes of good quality, this year as there were no rains.
  5.     ABABA
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> We could not lift mangoes of good quality, this year as there were no rains.
:
D

The phrase ‘to lift something’ means to steal (as in shoplift). Hence ‘lift mangoes’ is wrong, it should be get or obtain. However we can ‘lift potatoes’ meaning to dig up from the ground.

ANS:option D


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