English Test for NIACL 2018 Prelim Exam Set – 1

Directions: In each of the following questions there are sentences. There is error in one of the parts. Mark the option which contains error parts as your answer. If no part contains error mark option E as your answer.

1. (A) The frail old man who ailed his way for a slow death bore no resemblance to the colossus /(B) who bestrode the politics of Tamil Nadu from the time he started writing /(C) the script and dialogues for movies that challenged the social order to when he ended his fifth term as chief minister. Muthuvel Karunanidhi was /(D) the last of the giants of the Indian polity in the turbulent years of nation-building in the wake of Independence.
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   B
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   Option A
   for = to

    

2. (A) Banks are reportedly planning to defend their existing and retired employees as they are hounded /(B) by investigating agencies. Legal and financial support to bonafide bankers is welcome. /(C) Lending decisions involve judgement of risks and some calls can go wrong. Punishing an individual banker for a call taken in good faith is unfair. /(D) Banks must make a distinction between individual bankers colluding and defrauding the system and those facing charges for judgement calls on credit decisions that went wrong but were not malafide.
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   B
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   Option A
   as = when

    

3. (A) The response to India’s first open acreage auction for hydrocarbon exploration and development /(B) has not quite set the Yamuna on fire. No foreign oil major responded. Reliance kept away. /(C) Vedanta-Cairn has been recommended by an empowered committee of secretaries for award of 41of the 55 blocks on offer, /(D) and state-owned ONGC for two blocks.
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   Option E
   

    

4. (A) Nooyi is famous for saying that a woman cannot have it all, meaning women have to sacrifice personal /(B) life for achieving professional success. This would remain the case, so long as stereotypes of men’s /(C) and women’s roles within /(D) the family remains intact.
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   B
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   NE
   Option D
   remains = remain

    

5. (A) The Supreme Court is an adjudicator of the law, its implementation is not its remit. /(B) The NCLT is the right body to resolve corporate insolvency and the court /(C) did the right thing to let go of a resolution process that it had taken on account of the homebuyers’ interest, now that /(D) Parliament has amended the law to incorporate homebuyers as financial creditors.
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   B
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   Option C
   taken up

    

6. (A) While the GOP can relish at the thought of exposing fence-sitters after Thursday’s election, /(B) what it has to face up to, and perhaps correct, is have someone who can pick up the phone and get the numbers. /(C) Clean-cut battlelines mean /(D) little if army behind you is unprepared.
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   B
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   Option D
   the army

    

7. (A) We need to avoid having multiple regulators for the same activity, besides different regulations for different actors engaged /(B) in the same activity. With the NFRA coming into being, the auditing profession has a /(C) self-regulatory body, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), /(D) and the statutory regulator, NFRA.
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   B
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   NE
   Option E
   

    

8. (A) An algorithm medical researchers use to track the speed of virus propagation has been modified to calculate how fast any /(B) item of fake news could spread to every person worldwide: 45 minutes. /(C) And fake news travels six times faster /(D) than genuine news.
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   B
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   NE
   Option B
   could = can

    

9. (A) Addressing the 56th convocation of IIT Bombay, the prime minister charge institutions and faculty /(B) with the task of improving the quality of engineering and science education, /(C) bemoaning the fact that of the 7 lakh engineering graduates that India produced, /(D) quite a few did not possess the right sets of skills. He was on target only in part.
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   B
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   Option A
   charged

    

10. (A) The Opposition charge that more centralised licensing norms for taxi aggregators would bypass /(B) state governments is disingenuous; we do need standardised guidelines /(C) for national operations. The claim that stiff on-the-spot fines for violating traffic rules would be beyond the pocket of most is plain lame. /(D) We do need hefty fines to deter unruly or unlawful traffic behaviour.
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    B
    C
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    NE
    Option E