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This section includes 1600 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Verbal Ability knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 101. |
The attitude of lowly and genteel towards strangers was |
| A. | virtually the same |
| B. | entirely different |
| C. | completely indifferent |
| D. | virulently hostile |
| Answer» C. completely indifferent | |
| 102. |
A person who aspires to lead could learn from the history of battles |
| A. | what led the previous leaders win a battle |
| B. | what made them lose a battle |
| C. | the qualities and deficiencies of commanders of these battles |
| D. | the strategies that they have evolved in course of these battles |
| Answer» D. the strategies that they have evolved in course of these battles | |
| 103. |
In this context, "intelligent interpretation of current event" means |
| A. | rational explanation of events |
| B. | appropriate understanding of events |
| C. | intellectual outlook on events |
| D. | skilful interpretation of events |
| Answer» B. appropriate understanding of events | |
| 104. |
The expression "more than a modicum of truth" means |
| A. | some truth |
| B. | much truth |
| C. | more than a small amount of truth |
| D. | nothing but truth |
| Answer» D. nothing but truth | |
| 105. |
Negative national feeling can make a nation |
| A. | selfish |
| B. | self-centred |
| C. | indifferent |
| D. | dangerous |
| Answer» C. indifferent | |
| 106. |
According to the writer, a study of famous battles of history would |
| A. | be beneficial to wise men |
| B. | provide food to modern leaders for reflection |
| C. | be more useful than a general knowledge of ancient history |
| D. | help us understand the art of modern warfare |
| Answer» C. be more useful than a general knowledge of ancient history | |
| 107. |
A knowledge of history is necessary to interpret current problems because |
| A. | they have roots in the past |
| B. | they can be contrasted with the past events |
| C. | they may be repetitions of past events |
| D. | only then they can be put in a proper context |
| Answer» D. only then they can be put in a proper context | |
| 108. |
Suitable title for this passage can be |
| A. | Nationalism breeds unity |
| B. | Nationalism - a road to world unity |
| C. | Nationalism is not enough |
| D. | Nationalism and national problems |
| Answer» D. Nationalism and national problems | |
| 109. |
The greatest problem in the middle of the passage refers to the question |
| A. | how to mitigate hardship to human beings |
| B. | how to contain the dangers of aggressive nationalism. |
| C. | how to share the economic burden equally |
| D. | how to curb international hatred |
| Answer» C. how to share the economic burden equally | |
| 110. |
'Others' in the last sentence refers to |
| A. | other people |
| B. | other nations |
| C. | other communities |
| D. | other neighbours |
| Answer» B. other nations | |
| 111. |
The passage mention James McCain |
| A. | as an author of detective stories |
| B. | as brave, smart, and successful with women |
| C. | as tough cunning and courageous |
| D. | as being more impressive than others |
| Answer» B. as brave, smart, and successful with women | |
| 112. |
Murderers, gangsters and crooks referred to in the passage given above |
| A. | always manage to get away |
| B. | are often glorified in detective stories |
| C. | are wiser than their victims |
| D. | know how to escape from law |
| Answer» C. are wiser than their victims | |
| 113. |
Aggressive nationalism |
| A. | breeds threat to international relations |
| B. | leads to stunted growth |
| C. | endangers national unity |
| D. | isolates a country |
| Answer» E. | |
| 114. |
According to this passage, a criminal in a detective story generally gets caught |
| A. | for the crimes he has committed |
| B. | because of his careless mistakes |
| C. | because the police is smarter than the criminals |
| D. | for the crimes he has not committed |
| Answer» E. | |
| 115. |
According to be passage given above, detective stories |
| A. | make interesting reading |
| B. | are hardly worth reading |
| C. | encourage readers to content crimes |
| D. | tend to create wrong notion about crimes and punishment |
| Answer» E. | |
| 116. |
The passage emphasis that modern technology |
| A. | is an unmixed blessing |
| B. | has caused serious hazards to life |
| C. | has produced powerful chemicals |
| D. | has benefited highly developed nations |
| Answer» C. has produced powerful chemicals | |
| 117. |
According to the passage the increasing use of fertilisers is responsible for |
| A. | abundance of food |
| B. | disturbance in the ecological system |
| C. | water pollution |
| D. | increase in diseases |
| Answer» D. increase in diseases | |
| 118. |
The widespread use of insecticides has |
| A. | reduced the number of wild animals |
| B. | caused imbalance in the relationship between living beings and their environment |
| C. | eliminated diseases by killing mosquitoes and flies |
| D. | caused biological hazards |
| Answer» C. eliminated diseases by killing mosquitoes and flies | |
| 119. |
The harmful effects of modern technology are |
| A. | widespread but short-lived |
| B. | widespread and long-lasting |
| C. | limited and long-lasting |
| D. | severe but short-lived |
| Answer» C. limited and long-lasting | |
| 120. |
Radioactive pollutants |
| A. | are limited in their effect |
| B. | will infect the atmosphere for thousands of years |
| C. | will be on the surface of earth for a very long time |
| D. | will dissipate in short span of time |
| Answer» D. will dissipate in short span of time | |
| 121. |
According to the passage, the life of a criminal |
| A. | is exciting |
| B. | is hardly worth the risk |
| C. | is seldom presented in the right perspective |
| D. | ends in a triumph of justice |
| Answer» D. ends in a triumph of justice | |
| 122. |
Dantes was planning to |
| A. | carve his name |
| B. | make his escape |
| C. | tease the guard |
| D. | call for breakfast |
| Answer» C. tease the guard | |
| 123. |
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate pair of phrases:The passage suggests that while a modern economist, considers it uneconomic to use ...... form of fuel, a Buddhist economist considers it uneconomic to use ...... form a fuel |
| A. | a cheap, a renewable |
| B. | an irrational, an essential |
| C. | an expensive, an non-renewable |
| D. | a rational, an unessential |
| Answer» D. a rational, an unessential | |
| 124. |
The Buddhist economist's attitude implies that fuels like coal and oil must be used only if |
| A. | there is a plentiful supply |
| B. | wood and water can be dispensed with |
| C. | the relative cost of each is than of wood and water |
| D. | there is no alternative fuel available |
| Answer» E. | |
| 125. |
In this passage, the phrase "God in man" implies |
| A. | God having assumed the shape of man |
| B. | neither fully godly nor fully human |
| C. | man being transformed into God |
| D. | the divine qualities in man |
| Answer» E. | |
| 126. |
The author uses the expression 'ugly deformities' to show his indignation at |
| A. | political organisations |
| B. | the liberation of human consciousness |
| C. | selfishness and materialism of the people |
| D. | the drunken orgies of power |
| Answer» D. the drunken orgies of power | |
| 127. |
According to the author, "salvation" of human beings lies in the |
| A. | extended trade relations |
| B. | spiritual transformation of life |
| C. | orgy of national pride |
| D. | wholehearted participated in political organisations |
| Answer» C. orgy of national pride | |
| 128. |
In the phrase "the birth of Man in the consciousness of men", AMn stands for |
| A. | power and arrogance |
| B. | egocentricity |
| C. | noble human qualities |
| D. | an idealistic notion of the human self |
| Answer» E. | |
| 129. |
People jeer at the 'birth of Man' in the human consciousness when they |
| A. | begin to think of themselves as God |
| B. | become power hungry |
| C. | restructure the social system |
| D. | become mentally deranged |
| Answer» C. restructure the social system | |
| 130. |
In his childhood, the narrator looked "more like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri" This was because he was |
| A. | a foreign child |
| B. | a very healthy boy |
| C. | tell and smart |
| D. | fair and brown haired |
| Answer» E. | |
| 131. |
Modern medicine is primarily concerned with |
| A. | promotion of good health |
| B. | people suffering from imaginary illness |
| C. | people suffering from real illness |
| D. | increased efficiency in work |
| Answer» C. people suffering from real illness | |
| 132. |
The passage suggests that |
| A. | health is an end in itself |
| B. | health is blessing |
| C. | health is only means to an end |
| D. | we should not talk about health |
| Answer» D. we should not talk about health | |
| 133. |
Talking about the health all time makes people |
| A. | always suffer from imaginary illness |
| B. | sometimes suffer from imaginary illness |
| C. | rarely suffer from imaginary illness |
| D. | often suffer from imaginary illness |
| Answer» E. | |
| 134. |
The passage tells us |
| A. | how medicine should be manufactured |
| B. | what healthy man should or should not do |
| C. | what television programmes should be about |
| D. | how best to imagine illness |
| Answer» C. what television programmes should be about | |
| 135. |
A healthy man should be concerned with |
| A. | his work which good health makes possible |
| B. | looking after his health |
| C. | his health which makes work possible |
| D. | talking about health |
| Answer» B. looking after his health | |
| 136. |
What does science liberate s from? It is liberate us from |
| A. | fears and destructive passions |
| B. | slavery to physical nature and from passions |
| C. | bondage to physical nature |
| D. | idealistic hopes of glorious future |
| Answer» C. bondage to physical nature | |
| 137. |
Should human sciences be developed because they will |
| A. | provide more knowledge of the physical word |
| B. | make us conscious of the changing world |
| C. | make us conscious of the changing in ourselves |
| D. | eliminate the destruction caused by a superficial knowledge of the physical world |
| Answer» E. | |
| 138. |
If man's bestial yearning is controlled |
| A. | the future will be tolerable |
| B. | the future will be brighter than the present |
| C. | the present will be brighter than the future |
| D. | the present will become tolerable |
| Answer» C. the present will be brighter than the future | |
| 139. |
Fears and hopes according to the author |
| A. | are closely linked with the life of modern man |
| B. | can bear fruit |
| C. | can yield good results |
| D. | are irrational |
| Answer» B. can bear fruit | |
| 140. |
To carve out a bright future man should |
| A. | analyse dangers that lie ahead |
| B. | try to avoid dangers |
| C. | overcome fear and dangers |
| D. | cultivate a positive outlook |
| Answer» E. | |
| 141. |
"The rules of the natural justice are not embodies rules" means that these rules |
| A. | are left deliberately vague |
| B. | cannot be satisfactorily interpreted |
| C. | are flexible |
| D. | cannot be visualised |
| Answer» D. cannot be visualised | |
| 142. |
From the passage it is clear that it is the legislature that |
| A. | invests the administrative authority with enormous powers |
| B. | embodies rules |
| C. | has the larger interests of public welfare |
| D. | leaves administrative authority enough discretion to interpret rules |
| Answer» B. embodies rules | |
| 143. |
According to the passage, there is always a gap between |
| A. | rules of natural justice and their application |
| B. | conception of a rule and its concretisation |
| C. | demand for natural justice and its realisation |
| D. | intention and execution |
| Answer» B. conception of a rule and its concretisation | |
| 144. |
"To dispense with a requirement" means |
| A. | to do without the demand |
| B. | to drop the charge |
| C. | to cancel all formal procedure |
| D. | to alter the provisions of the case |
| Answer» B. to drop the charge | |
| 145. |
The sad rule mentioned in this passage refers to |
| A. | the inability of the Japanese to be inventive like the British |
| B. | the inability of the British to be industrious like the Japanese |
| C. | the lack of variety in Japanese inventions |
| D. | the poorer marketing ability of British |
| Answer» E. | |
| 146. |
A man of courage is |
| A. | cunning |
| B. | intelligent |
| C. | curious |
| D. | careful |
| Answer» E. | |
| 147. |
It is evident from the passage that the strength of a country's industry depends upon |
| A. | original research |
| B. | international cooperation |
| C. | dedicated workforce |
| D. | electronic development |
| Answer» D. electronic development | |
| 148. |
Physical courage is an expression of |
| A. | emotions |
| B. | deliberation |
| C. | uncertainty |
| D. | defiance |
| Answer» B. deliberation | |
| 149. |
According to the passage, natural justice can be brought about by |
| A. | administrative authority remaining vigilant |
| B. | administrative authority upholding rules of natural justice |
| C. | administrative authority farming rules suitably |
| D. | administrative authority observing the rules of fair play |
| Answer» E. | |
| 150. |
A man with moral courage can |
| A. | defy his enemies |
| B. | overcome all difficulties |
| C. | face a situation boldly |
| D. | be very pragmatic |
| Answer» D. be very pragmatic | |