Mock Test No.

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ENGLISH
A - Choose the best word to complete the following sentence.

Q. No. 1 The public relations agency_____ out all the stops to ensure a _____
attendance at the gala.

(a) Gave, phenomenal

(b) Took, marvelous
(c) Pulled, spectacular
(d) Forked, staggering

B - A sentence has been divided into four parts. Choose the part that has an
error.

Q. No. 2

(a) Although there has been growing of

(b) interest in popular fiction over the last few years,
(c) one could not claim that it has been established
(d) in colleges as a central component of literary studies.

Q. No. 3

(a) These developments, of course, produce

(b) a renewed waves of criticism of

(c) advertising and in particular,

(d) ridicule of its confident absurdities.

C – In each of these questions, you are given a sentence a part of which is

underlined. This is followed by four of phrasing the underline part. Select the
version that best rephrases the underlined part.
Q. No. 4

She wished that her career could be as glamorous as the other women but not
willing to word as they had.

(a) as glamorous as the other women’s

(b) more glamorous than the career of the other women
(c) Glamorous
(d) No change

Q. No. 5

No matter what experience you have had with forest fires, if you would have
witnessed the fore roaring down through the canyon, you would have been
terrified.

(a) if you witnessed

(b) if you had witnessed
(c) if you could witness
(d) No change

D – In the following few questions are given which are grammatically correct
and meaningful. Connect them by the word given above the statements in the
best possible way without changing its real meaning. Choose your answer
accordingly form the options to form a correct, coherent sentence.

Q. No. 6

BECAUSE

(A) The federal department has twice rejected Lepage’s request for
centralization.
(B) Lepage had been in a tug of war with the regional boards for control of the
federal money for several years.
(C) Lepage didn’t work in collaboration with federal department as required.
(D) The organization claims that Lepage had broken federal law by refusing to
release the funds within 30 days of them having become available in
August.
 (1) Only B-D
(2) Only D-A
(3) Both C-B and D-A
(4) Only A-C
(5) None of these

Q. No. 7

WHEREAS

(A) BJP had been routed in these elections having managed to win mere 56% of
all seats.
(B) The opposition, especially independent candidates, have walked away with
flying colors.
(C) If Independents were a party they would have got a thumping majority in
these elections.
(D) Out of 29 Mayrol positions they have captured 25 and that is the end of
their success story.

(1) Only C-D

(2) Only A-B
(3) Only D-A
(4) Only B-C
(5) None

E – In each of these questions, a disarranged sentence if given in which

words or phrases are lettered A, B, C and D. You have to arrange these to
form a meaningful sentence.

Q. No. 8

(A) Almost a century ago, when the father of the modern automobile industry,
Henry Ford, sold the first Model T car, he decided that only the best would
do for his customers.
(B) Today, it is committed to delivering the finest quality with over six million
vehicles a year in over 200 countries across the world.
 (C) And for over 90 years, this philosophy had endured in the Ford Motor
company.
(D) Thus, a vehicle is ready for the customers only, if it passes the Ford Zero
Defect Programme.
(1) ABCD
(2) ACBD
(3) CDAB
(4) ACDB

Q. No. 9

Arrange the sentences, A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between

sentences 1 and 6.

(1) The list of horrors goes on.

(A) And one in every five is malnourished.
(B) This is because local clinics, ill-equipped to deal with even small things,
either don’t work or simply don’t exist.
(C) Nobody has been able to figure out a way to reduce the speed that is at
the root of India’s over population problems: a baby born every second.
(D) These is such an acute shortage of treatment centers that premier
hospitals are choked with patients who show up to treat their coughs
and colds.
(5) Kalyan Banerjee, a consultant at the hospital at the worried.
(a) DACB
(b) CDAB
(c) DBAC
(d) CADB

F – Reading Comprehension

Q. No. 10

Strange Bedfellows!” lamented the title of a recent letter to Museum News, in

which a certain Harriet Sherman excoriated the National Gallery of Art in
Washington for its handling of tickets to the much-ballyhooed “Van Gogh’s van
Goghs” exhibit. A huge proportion of the 200,000 free tickets were snatched up by
homeless opportunists in the dead of winter, who then scalped those tickets at $85
apiece to less hardy connoiseurs.
Yet, Sherman’s bedfellows are far from strange. Art, despite its religious and
magical origins, very soon became a commercial venture. From bourgeois patrons
funding art they barely understood in order to share their protegee’s prestige, to
museum curators stage-managing the cult of artists in order to enhance the market
value of museum holdings, entrepreneurs have found validation and profit in big-
name art. Speculators, thieves, and promoters long ago created and fed a market
where cultural icons could be traded like commodities.
This trend toward commodification of high-brow art took an ominous, if
predictable, turn in the 1980s during the Japanese “bubble economy.” At a time
when Japanese share prices more than doubled, individual tycoons and industrial
giants alike invested record amounts in some of the West’s greatest masterpieces.
Ryoei Saito, for example, purchased van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet for a
record-breaking $82.5 million. The work, then on loan to the Metropolitan
Museum of Modern Art, suddenly vanished from the public domain. Later learning
that he owed the Japanese government $24 million in taxes, Saito remarked that he
would have the paining cremated with him to spare his heirs the inheritance tax.
This statement, which he later dismissed as a joke, alarmed and enraged many. A
representative of the Van Gogh museum, conceding that he had no legal redress,
made an ethical appeal to Mr. Saito, asserting, “a work of art remains the
possession of the world at large.”
Ethical appeals notwithstanding, great art will increasingly devolve into big
business. Firstly, great art can only be certified by its market value. Moreover, the
“world at large” hasn’t the means of acquisition. Only one museum currently has
the funding to contend for the best pieces–the J. Paul Getty Museum, founded by
the billionaire oilman. The art may disappear into private hands, but its transfer
will disseminate once static fortunes into the hands of various investors, collectors,
and occasionally the artist.
1. Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?
A. Art of Art’s Sake: A Japanese Ideal
B. Van Gogh: Breaking New Ground
C. Museums and the Press: Strange Bedfellows
D. Money vs. Art: An Ethical Mismatch
E. Great Art: Business as Usual
 SOLUTION
(1) Pulled, spectacular.
(2) Use ‘a growth’ in place of growing.
(3) Use ‘a renewed wave’ or ‘renewed waves’.
(4) In comparative and positive degrees comparison should be made
between equal qualities. So after second ‘as’ either ‘that of’ or ‘other
women’s’ (career is hidden here) is required.
(5) If you had witnessed.
(6) Option D is correct. BECAUSE is used to introduce a word or phrase that
stands for a clause expressing an explanation or reason.
(7) Option B is correct. WHEREAS is used while taking a fact into
consideration.
(8) D
(9) D
(10) A