GATE XL topic:verbal-aptitude PYQs & Answers

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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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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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“His life was divided between the books, his friends, and long walks. A solitary man, he worked at all hours without much method, and probably courted his fatal illness in this way. To his own name there is not much to show; but such was his liberality that he was continually helping others, and fruits of his erudition are widely scattered, and have gone to increase many a comparative stranger’s reputation.”

(From E. V. Lucas’s “A Funeral”)

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

Your answerChoose one option.

The solitary man described in the passage is dead.

Strangers helped create a grand reputation for the solitary man described in the passage.

The solitary man described in the passage found joy in scattering fruits.

The solitary man worked in a court where he fell ill.

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If ‘→’ denotes increasing order of intensity, then the meaning of the words [walk → jog → sprint] is analogous to [bothered → ________ → daunted]. Which one of the given options is appropriate to fill the blank?

Your answerChoose one option.

phased

phrased

faded

fused

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Sequence the following sentences in a coherent passage.

P: This fortuitous geological event generated a colossal amount of energy and heat that resulted in the rocks rising to an average height of 4 km across the contact zone.

Q: Thus, the geophysicists tend to think of the Himalayas as an active geological event rather than as a static geological feature.

R: The natural process of the cooling of this massive edifice absorbed large quantities of atmospheric carbon dioxide, altering the earth’s atmosphere and making it better suited for life.

S: Many millennia ago, a breakaway chunk of bedrock from the Antarctic Plate collided with the massive Eurasian Plate.

Your answerChoose one option.

QPSR

QSPR

SPRQ

SRPQ

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The village was nestled in a green spot, ______ the ocean and the hills.

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through

between

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Disagree : Protest :: Agree : ______ (By word meaning)

Your answerChoose one option.

Refuse

Pretext

Recommend

Refute

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The movie was funny and I ________.

Your answerChoose one option.

could help laugh

couldn’t help laughed

couldn’t help laughing

could helped laughed

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Gauri said that she can play the keyboard ______ her sister.

Your answerChoose one option.

as well as

as better as

as nice as

as worse as

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Listening to music during exercise improves exercise performance and reduces discomfort. Scientists researched whether listening to music while studying can help students learn better and the results were inconclusive. Students who needed external stimulation for studying fared worse while students who did not need any external stimulation benefited from music. Which one of the following statements is the CORRECT inference of the above passage?

Your answerChoose one option.

Listening to music has no effect on learning and a positive effect on physical exercise.

Listening to music has a clear positive effect both on physical exercise and on learning.

Listening to music has a clear positive effect on physical exercise. Music has a positive effect on learning only in some students.

Listening to music has a clear positive effect on learning in all students. Music has a positive effect only in some students who exercise.

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