GATE XH-C5 Verbal Aptitude PYQs & Answers — Page 2

Questions 11–20 of 21. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.

Select the correct option to fill in the blanks to complete the passage:

The (i)_______ factor and this turbulence has been the (ii)_______ of high-octane, action-oriented films such as RRR, K.G.F: Chapter 2 and Pushpa from film industries in the south of the country. Traditionally, films made in the south have done well in their own (iii). But increasingly, their dubbed versions have performed well in the Hindi heartland, with collections (iv) those of their Bollywood counterparts.

Your answerChoose one option.

(i) disheartening (ii) failure (iii) channels (iv) matching

(i) redeeming (ii) outperformance (iii) geographies (iv) eclipsing

(i) shocking (ii) underperformance (iii) cinemas (iv) below

(i) humbling (ii) bombing (iii) theatres (iv) falling behind

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The following passage consists of 6 sentences. The first and sixth sentences of the passage are at their correct positions, while the middle four sentences (represented by 2, 3, 4, and 5) are jumbled up. Choose the correct sequence of the sentences so that they form a coherent paragraph:

Most obviously, mobility is taken to be a geographical as well as a social phenomenon.

Much of the social mobility literature regarded society as a uniform surface and failed to register the geographical intersections of region, city and place, with the social categories of class, gender and ethnicity.

The existing sociology of migration is incidentally far too limited in its concerns to be very useful here.

Further, I am concerned with the flows of people within, but especially beyond, the territory of each society, and how these flows may relate to many different desires, for work, housing, leisure, religion, family relationships, criminal gain, asylum seeking and so on.

Moreover, not only people are mobile but so too are any ‘objects’.

I show that sociology’s recent development of a ‘sociology of objects’ needs to be taken further and that the diverse flows of objects across social borders and their intersections with the multiple flows of people are hugely significant.

Your answerChoose one option.

3, 2, 5, 4

2, 3, 4, 5

5, 4, 3, 2

4, 2, 5, 3

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The words Thin: Slim: Slender are related in some way. Identify the correct option(s) that reflect(s) the same relationship:

Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.

Fat: Plump: Voluptuous

Short: Small: Petite

Tall: Taller: Tallest

Fair: Dark: Wheatish

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Five segments of a sentence are given below. The first and fifth segments are at their correct positions, while the middle three segments (represented by 2, 3, and 4) are jumbled up. Choose the correct order of the segments so that they form a coherent sentence:

Consumed multitudes are jostling and shoving inside me

and guided only by the memory of a large white bedsheet with a rough circular hole some seven inches in diameter cut into the center,

clenching at the dream of that hole, mutilated square of linen, which is my talisman, my open-sesame,

I must commence the business of remaking my life from the point at which it really began,

some thirty-two years before anything as obvious, as present, as my clock-ridden, crime-stained birth.

Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.

2 – 3 – 4

3 – 2 – 4

4 – 2 – 3

4 – 3 – 2

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Select the odd word and write the option number as answer:

(1) Lek (2) Zloty (3) Diner (4) Drachma (5) Real

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Inhaling the smoke from a burning ________ could ________ you quickly.

Your answerChoose one option.

tire / tier

tire / tyre

tyre / tire

tyre / tier

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A passage consists of 6 sentences. The first and sixth sentences of the passage are at their correct positions, while the middle four sentences (represented by P, Q, R, and S) are jumbled up.

First sentence: Smoke oozed up between the planks.

P: Passengers were told to be ready to quit the ship.

Q: The rising gale fanned the smouldering fire.

R: Everyone now knew there was fire onboard.

S: Flames broke out here and there.

Sixth sentence: Most people bore the shock bravely.

The most logically CORRECT order for the given jumbled up sentences is

Your answerChoose one option.

QSRP

QPSR

RSPQ

PQRS

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Consider the following sentences: (i) After his surgery, Raja hardly could walk. (ii) After his surgery, Raja could barely walk. (iii) After his surgery, Raja barely could walk. (iv) After his surgery, Raja could hardly walk. Which of the above sentences are grammatically CORRECT?

Your answerChoose one option.

(i) and (ii)

(i) and (iii)

(iii) and (iv)

(ii) and (iv)

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The first (P1) and the last (P6) parts of a single sentence are given to you. The rest of the sentence is divided into four parts and labelled (L,M,N,O). Reorder these parts so that the sentence can be read through correctly and select one of the options given.

P1: Studies of several Sahitya Akademi award winners show that...

L: or encounter professional M: and invariably develop a strained relationship with other literary figures N: they often publish very little O: after winning the prize

P6: ...envy and rivalry.

The correct order is:

Your answerChoose one option.

NOLM

MLON

ONML

MOLN

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Reorder the sentences in (1) – (5) such that they form a coherent paragraph. (1) In fact, dozens of languages today have only one native speaker still living, and that person's death will mean the extinction of the language: It will no longer be spoken, or known, by anyone on earth. (2) Many languages are falling out of use and are being replaced by others that are more widely used in the region or nation, such as English in Australia or Portuguese in Brazil. (3) Many other languages are no longer being learned by new generations of children or by new adult speakers. (4) An endangered language is one that is likely to become extinct in the near future. (5) Unless the trends are reversed, these endangered languages will become extinct by the end of the century. (Adapted from What is an Endangered Language by A. Woodbury.)

Your answerChoose one option.

2 3 1 4 5

2 3 5 4 1

4 1 5 2 3

4 2 3 1 5

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