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ENGLISH USAGE MCQs
(A) The balance of power will shift to the East as China and India evolve.
(B) Rarely the economic ascent of two still relatively poor nations has been watched with such a mixture of awe, opportunism, and trepidation.
(C) Postwar era witnessed economic miracles in Japan and South Korea, but neither was populous enough to power worldwide growth or change the game in a complete spectrum of industries.
(D) China and India, by contrast, possess the weight and dynamism to transform the 21st-century global economy.
(2005)
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B
OPTION : (b)
Statements (A) and (D) are grammatically correct.
Statement (B) should be "Rarely has the economic ascent of two still relatively poor nations been watched".
Statement (C) should begin with "The postwar era".
(A) When virtuoso teams begin their work, individuals are in and group consensus is out.
(B) As project progresses, however, the individual starts harness themselves to the product of the group.
(C) Sooner or later, the members break through their own egocentrism and become a plurality with single-minded focus on the goal.
(D) In short, they morph into a powerful team with a shared identity.
(2005)
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B
Option: (b)
Statement (B) is wrong because the word 'harness' cannot be used with individuals. Moreover, "individual starts"to is the correct usage. Statement (C) is wrong because the word 'own' cannot be used with 'egocentrism'. Statements (A) and (D) are correct.
(A) People have good reason to care about the welfare of animals.
(B) Ever since Enlightenment, their treatment has been seen as a measure of mankind's humanity.
(C) It is no coincidence that William Wilberforce and Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton, two leaders of the movement to abolish the slave trade, helped found the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1820s.
(D) An increasing number of people go further: mankind has a duty not to cause pain to animals that have the capacity to suffer.
(2005)
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C
Option: (c)
Statement (D) is wrong because it does not convey any meaning. It does not form a coherent paragraph. Statement (B) is wrong because the use of the word "mankind's" is redundant.
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D
Option: (d)
'Fallout' as used in choice (a) refers to the after-effects of nuclear radiation. The word as used in choices (b) and (c) refers to 'political impact' and 'environmental impact' in the respective sentences. The usage is appropriate in all these choices. However, it has been used inappropriately in choice (d). The word that should have been used instead of 'fallout' is 'failure'.
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A
Option: (a)
Statements A and D are correct. The statement B should have correctly framed as "After she woke up".Statement C is wrong because it should be "she took a shower"?
(A) Large reductions in the ozone layer, which sits about 15-30 km above the Earth, take place each winter over the polar regions, especially the Antarctic, as low temperaturesallow the formation of stratospheric clouds that assist chemical reactions breaking down ozone.
(B) Industrial chemicals containing chlorine and bromine have been blamed for thinning the layer because they attack the ozone molecules, making them to break apart.
(C) Many an offending chemicals have now been banned.
(D) It will still take several decades before these substances have disappeared from the atmosphere.
(2005)
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C
Option: (c)
Statement (A) is grammatically correct. Statement (D) does not have any mistake either. Statement (C) is incorrect because of the wrong usage of the adjective 'offending' with chemicals. Moreover, when "an" is used, "chemical" and not "chemicals" should be used.
In Statement (B) "making them to break apart" is wrong usage
Thus answer option (c) is the right answer choice.
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B
Option: (b)
Statements A and C are absolutely correct. The correct form of statement B would have been "Raj pleaded guilty to".Similarly, the correct form of statement D would have been "He was sentenced to three."
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C
Option: (c)
Statements A and D are grammatically correct. Statement B should be reframed as "Slowly her efforts bore fruit" Statement C is also incorrect. Its correct form would be "Everyone complimented her on her good work."
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B
Option: (b)
The adjective that best describes the 'nerves' in this particular scenario is 'damaged' since the statement talks about bypassing them to help paralyzed people.
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C
Option: (c)
If you observe the two blanks, you need words with opposite meanings to fill both the blanks. Among the options, only option (c) satisfies this.