Directions (1-5): In the following questions, you have two passages with five questions following each passage. Read the following two passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also if we use it carelessly make our attitudes completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word or of an ambiguous word may create an enemy where we have hoped to win a friend. Again different classes of people use different vocabularies and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as showing pride; unwillingly we may use a word which bears a different meaning to our listeners from what it does to men of our own class. Thus speech is not -a gift to use lightly without thought but one which demands careful handling, only a fool will express himself alike to all.
Q.1 Speech is a great blessing,
A. if we use it indiscriminately
B. if we use it carefully
C. if we use it to please others
D. if we use it to play one against the other
Q.2 Speech can also be a great curse
A. if we express ourselves alike to all
B. if we adopt different vocabularies to different classes of people
C. if we always try to please every one with it
D. if we always try to win friends with it
Q.3 A slip of the tongue means
A. biting the tongue while speaking
B. telling lies to defend oneself
C. using words carelessly
D. incurring loss of profit in hasty bargain.
Q.4 What can create enemies?
A. the use of ambiguous and unusual words brings us friends.
B. careless use of words creates enemies.
C. careful use of words may bring us profit but not friends.
D. speech always reflects one’s attitudes
Q.5 A fool will express himself alike to all kinds and conditions of the men because
A. he want to play with people.
B. he want to deceive every one.
C. he wants to amuse every one.
D. he lacks the power of discrimination in the use of words.
Directions (6-10): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Q.6 Abstemious
A. Sober
B. Gluttonous
C. Greedy
D. Hungry
Q.7 Tottering
A. Harmony
B. Peace
C. Lurch
D. Calmness
Q.8 Audacious
A. Gentle
B. Valiant
C. Humble
D. Meek
Q.9 Eccentric
A. Common
B. Regular
C. Usual
D. Bizzare
Q.10 Snooty
A. Snobbish
B. Modest
C. Shy
D. Inferior
Answers :-
Q.1 (B)
Q.2 (A)
Q.3 (C)
Q.4 (B)
Q.5 (D)
Q.6 (A)
Q.7 (C)
Q.8 (B)
Q.9 (D)
Q.10 (A)
