GATE CE topic:verbal-aptitude PYQs & Answers

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‘The shopkeeper sells lemons.’

In this sentence, the word ‘lemons’ is the ________.

Your answerChoose one option.

object

subject

predicate

verb

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‘The team ______ more than 300 runs in 20 overs ______ rains. However, some players needed to improve their batting skills.’

Choose the option with the correct sequence of words to fill the blanks.

Your answerChoose one option.

score; despite

scoring; instead of

scored; despite

scoring; in spite of

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‘If Anish had scored hundred runs in today’s match, he would have been made the captain of his team. He would have then become the youngest captain in his team’s history. Unfortunately, he got out without scoring any runs. Hence, there won’t be any change in the captaincy for now.’

Based on the paragraph above, which one of the following statements is true?

Your answerChoose one option.

Anish made hundred runs but was denied captaincy.

Anish was the captain of his team before the game today.

The current captain is older than Anish.

Anish is the youngest player in his team.

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Match the words in Column I with their synonyms in Column II.

Column I: (i) Lonely; (ii) Literal; (iii) Lousy; (iv) Lethal Column II: (p) Verbatim; (q) Solitary; (r) Deadly; (s) Terrible

Your answerChoose one option.

(i)-(q); (ii)-(p); (iii)-(s); (iv)-(r)

(i)-(q); (ii)-(s); (iii)-(r); (iv)-(p)

(i)-(s); (ii)-(p); (iii)-(q); (iv)-(r)

(i)-(r); (ii)-(s); (iii)-(p); (iv)-(q)

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‘People are crowding around ___ pit into which ___ elephant has fallen. I have never seen an elephant looking more bewildered ___ miserable. Here it is in a most undignified position, thrust into a pit and made to look up ___ a vast, curiosity-stricken crowd.’

Choose the option with the correct sequence of words to fill the blanks.

Your answerChoose one option.

an; a; at; and

a; an; and; at

and; a; an; at

at; a; an; and

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Is there any good show ______ television tonight?

Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.

Your answerChoose one option.

within

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Even though I had planned to go skiing with my friends, I had to __________ at the last moment because of an injury.

Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.

Your answerChoose one option.

back up

back of

back on

back out

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As the police officer was found guilty of embezzlement, he was ______ dismissed from the service in accordance with the Service Rules.

Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.

Your answerChoose one option.

sumptuously

brazenly

unintentionally

summarily

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The President, along with the Council of Ministers, __________ to visit India next week.

Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.

Your answerChoose one option.

wish

wishes

will wish

is wishing

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“Why do they pull down and do away with crooked streets, I wonder, which are my delight, and hurt no man living? Every day the wealthier nations are pulling down one or another in their capitals and their great towns: they do not know why they do it; neither do I. It ought to be enough, surely, to drive the great broad ways which commerce needs and which are the life-channels of a modern city, without destroying all history and all the humanity in between: the islands of the past.”

(From Hilaire Belloc’s “The Crooked Streets”)

Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true.

Your answerChoose one option.

The author of the passage takes delight in wondering.

The wealthier nations are pulling down the crooked streets in their capitals.

In the past, crooked streets were only built on islands.

Great broad ways are needed to protect commerce and history.

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