GATE XE Verbal Aptitude PYQs & Answers — Page 3

Questions 21–26 of 26. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.

While teaching a creative writing class in India, I was surprised at receiving stories from the students that were all set in distant places: in the American West with cowboys and in Manhattan penthouses with clinking ice cubes. This was, till an eminent Caribbean writer gave the writers in the once-colonised countries the confidence to see the shabby lives around them as worthy of being “told”.

The writer of this passage is surprised by the creative writing assignments of his students, because ____________.

Your answerChoose one option.

Some of the students had written stories set in foreign places

None of the students had written stories set in India

None of the students had written about ice cubes and cowboys

Some of the students had written about ice cubes and cowboys

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X is an online media provider. By offering unlimited and exclusive online content at attractive prices for a loyalty membership, X is almost forcing its customers towards its loyalty membership. If its loyalty membership continues to grow at its current rate, within the next eight years more households will be watching X than cable television.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the above paragraph?

Your answerChoose one option.

Most households that subscribe to X’s loyalty membership discontinue watching cable television

Non-members prefer to watch cable television

Cable television operators don’t subscribe to X’s loyalty membership

The X is cancelling accounts of non-members

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“Going by the ______ that many hands make light work, the school ______ involved all the students in task.” The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are

Your answerChoose one option.

principle, principal

principal, principle

principle, principle

principal, principal

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“Her ______ should not be confused with miserliness; she is ever willing to assist those in need.” The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is

Your answerChoose one option.

cleanliness

punctuality

frugality

greatness

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The event would have been successful if you __________ able to come.

Your answerChoose one option.

are

had been

have been

would have been

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There was no doubt that their work was thorough.

Which of the words below is closest in meaning to the underlined word above?

Your answerChoose one option.

pretty

complete

sloppy

haphazard

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