Explore topic-wise MCQs in Verbal Ability.

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1.

Mahinda Rajapaksa’s decision to resign as Prime Minister, an office to which he was controversially installed by President Maithripala Sirisena, is the first sign that the dragging constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka is heading slowly towards a resolution.
Which among the following will correctly explain the opinion of the author regarding the ongoing political turmoil in Sri Lanka?

A. Presbyopic
B. Biased
C. Optimistic
D. Careless
E. None of the above
Answer» D. Careless
Discussion
2.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a trust vote on her Conservative party stewardship. But there is little sign that the bitter infighting within the ruling party will abate. Nor is there any assurance that Parliament will back her government’s controversial Brexit deal with the European Union.
Which among the following can explain the road lying ahead for the British Prime Minister Theresa May in the Brexit front?

A. Rambunctious
B. Restrained
C. Scurrilous
D. Opprobrious
E. None of the above
Answer» B. Restrained
Discussion
3.

The Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel has cited personal reasons for resigning with immediate effect, but anyone who has followed the events of the last couple of months will know it was anything but that. It was a period during which the Centre and the RBI were engaged in an unseemly tussle over a clutch of issues that had a bearing on the RBI’s autonomy, something that Mr. Patel had sought to preserve.
Which among the following can be said about Mr. Urjit Patel’s character from the given passage?

A. Autocratic
B. Synthetic
C. Apathetic
D. Functional
E. None of the above
Answer» F.
Discussion
4.

Post-poll alliances between parties, shaped as they are by intractable realities, are easier to form than pre-poll alliances that have to reconcile competing expectations of the prospective partners. Soon after the results of the Assembly elections were out, the Bahujan Samaj Party, which had played hard-to-get with the Congress in pre-election alliance talks, announced its support to the party in both Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Which among the following can be said regarding the style of writing in the given passage above?

A. Political
B. Commentary
C. Explanatory
D. Excruciating
E. None of the above
Answer» D. Excruciating
Discussion
5.

The days when inflation could topple governments appear to be gone. It is now time for the government to worry about falling prices, especially of food. Retail inflation dropped to a 17-month low of 2.33% in November, as compared to 3.31% in October, primarily due to the fall in the prices of various essential food items.
Which among the following can be inferred from the above passage?

A. The government should not leave inflation at the hands of the RBI in order to take all the calls regarding the set of its target.
B. The government should understand that the RBI is the main organization to control the autonomy and economy of the inflation targeting framework of the country.
C. The situations of the economy in the past and the present have changed completely with respect to the governance of economy in the country.
D. The government does not have any response to the falling inflation rates in the country though others would have jumped at it.
E. None of the above
Answer» D. The government does not have any response to the falling inflation rates in the country though others would have jumped at it.
Discussion