English Test for NIACL AO Prelims Exam Set – 7

Directions(1-5): In each question a sentence is given followed by a blank. Each blank is followed by three options and you have to determine which option can be used in place of blank to make it a meaningful sentence and mark it as your answer.

1. It is quite an experience, watching people repeatedly yell at each other about trade tariffs before they have had their lunch. Even after Martin had ____________ his microphone, a fierce debate continued. Meanwhile, very familiar mutterings punctuated the argy-bargy, and took the argument out of the realms of politics, into a mish-mash of culture and history: the second world war, the supposedly perfidious Germans, the idea that if we prospered before 1972, why can we not do so again? a. build up b. put down c. take down
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only b
   All are Correct
   Option B
   

    

2. Finally, there are questions about no-dealism that are bound up with England, and national traits that go back centuries. One is a tendency to indulge in futile, inexplicable gestures, evident in everything from 18th-century riots to 1970s punk rock, and perfectly ____________ in a sentiment mewled by a young man named Johnny Rotten, in the midst of a hit single titled Anarchy in the UK: “Don’t know what I want, but I know how to get it.” a. toted up b. rocked up c. summed up
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only a
   All are Correct
   Option C
   

    

3. When I was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2013, aged 22, I was shocked to ____________ how little survival rates had improved among young people with cancer in recent decades. Research had left us “forgotten in the middle” between children and older adults, as one study put it, with improvements in outcomes among teens and twentysomethings lagging behind the dramatic advances seen among the general population. a. find out b. ferret out c. inform of
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only c
   All are Correct
   Option A
   

    

4. In 2018, I finally celebrated my five-year-survival milestone. I’m thrilled, but I’m also ____________ – the end of cancer treatment was just the beginning of a complicated recovery and often a battle to get urgent medical care. For many of us young survivors, it’s easy to feel like a ticked box in the eyes of the health system and the world around us, while we mourn lost opportunities and struggle to recover a semblance of normality. a. well behaved b. worn out c. run-down
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only b
   All are Correct
   Option B
   

    

5. Such depictions will always be queried for their accuracy, but whatever really happened in the years ____________ to Mary’s execution, the intoxicating mix of gender, politics and religion that defined her relationship with Elizabeth enabled subsequent generations to rewrite history according to their own beliefs and prejudices. a. running up b. leading up c. coming up
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only a
   All are Correct
   Option E
   

    

Directions(6-10): 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. It is not a good thing that only high officials have access to the Governor.
   are accessible to
   have acceded to
   have acceed to
   have accessibility for
   No correction required
   Option E
   

    

7. A dam was proposed to be build at that site.
   built at that sight
   build at that sight
   built at that site
   built at that cite
   No correction required
   Option C
   

    

8. He had accused of various offences by his colleagues.
   was being accused for
   accused of
   accused for
   was accused of
   No correction required
   Option D
   

    

9. You should not lie the blame for the accident upon the driver.
   lay the blame for
   lie the blame of
   impose the blame with
   laid the blame for
   No correction required
   Option A
   

    

10. The innocence and playfulness of a child exists in all human beings.
    a child exist in
    the child existence in
    child does exist in
    a child exist with
    No correction required
    Option C