English Test for NIACL 2018 Prelim Exam Set – 11

Direction (1-5): In each question below a sentence is given with two blanks in each. Each question is followed by four options with two words in each. You have to select that option as your answer which can fill both the blanks of the sentence.

1. The Bank of England reports that consumer credit grew by 8.5% in July, with debt the only way to _____________ the gap between wages and staying alive. Rent _____________ with housing cuts means private landlords refuse universal credit tenants. Now No 10 has just stamped on plans to give tenants three-year leases, bowing to property company protests.
   socket, account
   bridge, arrears
   severance, wages
   bridge, advance
   All are Correct
   Option B
   

    

2. That scratching sound you can hear are the _____________ snatching their bags – and what’s left of their reputation – before _____________ off their pirate president’s ship. It’s only slightly surprising the panic has set in before they even reached the half-way point on their voyage towards his promised treasure.
   dogs, rushing
   cats, scooting
   rats, scampering
   lions, scurrying
   All are Correct
   Option C
   

    

3. One of the first people to work through this _____________ was scholar Manuel Chrysoloras. In the 1400s, he argued that even though looking at real naked bodies is “licentious and base”, viewers are not admiring the bodies themselves, but the “mind of their maker”. This idea formed the basis _____________ Italian Renaissance art theory, which posited painting and sculpture as primarily mental activities, rather than manual ones.
   enigma, at
   problem, to
   mystery, of
   conundrum, for
   All are Correct
   Option D
   

    

4. A decade later, a new intellectual _____________ can be found on the left. Meanwhile, a panicked right flips between recognising that the social order is broken – but offering no credible solutions – to believing it just hasn’t made the case for its profoundly unpopular ideology with enough _____________ . When Jeremy Corbyn became odds-on favourite to win the Labour leadership in 2015, most of the British right collapsed into paroxysms of laughter, some even urging Tories to join Labour to vote for him to “help consign the party to electoral oblivion”.
   ferment, vigour
   quiet, spirit
   alleviate, spirit
   tranquilize, verve
   All are Correct
   Option A
   

    

5. Commentators may _____________ about “chips and cheese in Styrofoam containers, and behind them is a massive fucking TV”, or claim that “the demand for food banks only exists because they are there” while _____________ about smartphones and Sky TV, but I had none of these when I was living in poverty. Neither do thousands of others. I sold my tiny secondhand TV and the iPhone I had bought myself when I had a decent job, to pay the rent.
   deride, substantial
   mock, admiring
   flout, approving
   scoff, sneering
   All are Correct
   Option D
   

    

Directions: Which of the phrases (A), (B), (C), (D) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold to make the sentence grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (E) ie ‘No correction required’ as the answer.

6. He wants a start a new business but he did not have any money.
   thought to start
   want to started
   wanted to start
   wants for start
   No correction required
   Option C
   

    

7. The smoke if inhaled proves to be more fatal than the burn itself.
   be most fatal
   kill more fatal
   be additional fatal
   be greater fatal
   No correction required
   Option E
   

    

8. He covered the expensive furniture at sheet before he started painting the ceiling.
   with sheet ahead
   with sheet before
   in sheet prior
   in sheet earlier
   No correction required
   Option B
   

    

9. As Rohan was already late, he had his breakfast while walk down the road.
   walking down the
   walking at the
   walked on the
   walked down the
   No correction required
   Option A
   

    

10. The poor bullock do not move since the cart was overloaded with heavy goods.
    cannot move
    unable to move
    was not moved
    could not move
    No correction required
    Option D