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.
Q.6 In the following question a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given to make the passage complete and coherent.
————————————————————, child counsellors suggest them to mend the same in order to keep a check on their wards behavioural development and outlook towards life in general. With the younger generation spending a good amount of their time on virtual space, parents have much to catch up on their kid’s life. Until and unless that gap between the kid and the parents isn’t bridged, wherein parents are supposed to talk about anything and everything with their children, kids will never ever confide themselves.
01. While teenage girls are easy to communicate with, boys are usually a hard nut to crack.
02. Citing communication gap as a major reason of divide between children and their parents
03. They should not impose opposing views directly on to the kids
04. The idea is to make the kid talk first and then take them on the path of persuasion
05. We need to be their friends and then engage in an open communication with them
Q.7 Choose the word most SIMILAR in meaning to the word given.
Sprawl
01. Houses
02. Migrate
03. Mind-set
04. Focus
05. Spread
Q.8 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given.
Haphazard
01. Aimless
02. Planned
03. Fragile
04. Delayed
05. Accidental
Q.9 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given.
Aiding
01. Intruding
02. Relieving
03. Offering
04. Offering
05. Covering
Q.10 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given.
Integration
01. Attention
02. Mention
03. Separation
04. Retention
05. Conspiracy
Answers :-
Q.1 (B)
Q.2 (A)
Q.3 (C)
Q.4 (B)
Q.5 (D)
Q.6 (2)
Q.7 (5)
Q.8 (2)
Q.9 (1)
Q.10 (3)
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