English Verbal Ability and Reasoning Test

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. The further the separate spheres, which act on one another, extend in the course of this development and the more the original isolation of the separate nationalities is destroyed by the advanced mode of production, by intercourse and by the natural division of labour between various nations arising as a result, the more history becomes world history.

B. History is nothing but the succession of the separate generations, each of which uses the materials, the capital funds, the productive forces handed down to it by all preceding generations, and thus, on the one hand, continues the traditional activity in completely changed circumstances and, on the other, modifies the old circumstances with a completely changed activity.

C. This can be speculatively distorted so that later history is made the goal of earlier history, e.g., the goal ascribed to the discovery of America is to further the eruption of the French Revolution.

D. Thus, for instance, if in England a machine is invented which deprives countless workers of bread in India and China, and overturns the whole form of existence of these empires, this invention becomes a world-historical fact.

E. Thereby, history receives its own special goals and becomes 'a person reanking with other persons', while what is designated with the words 'destiny', 'goal', 'germ', or 'idea' of earlier history is nothing more than an abstraction from later history, from the active influence which earlier history exercises on later history.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. The life of Aristotle coincides then with that confused and cheerless period when the proud Greek cities, that had once so valiantly defended their freedom against the countless hosts of Persia, now, through their inability to submerge their differences and co-operate with one another, were losing that freedom and sinking into the state of inglorious subjection that, but for a few short intervals, was to last until the nineteenth century.

B. For all the information we get from him, we might suppose the state of Greece in his time to be as usual, with the customary petty wrangling going on between the cities, and the imperial powers of Egypt, Persia, and Carthage lying off on the horizon, and no new cyclonic force crashing through the world, creating such havoc with the old order that nothing could ever bring it back.

C. Why, we wonder, this deliberate averting of the eyes, this refusal to speak of the earth-shaking revolution going on around him?

D. His discourse on politics has all to do with the management of the small, independent city-state, as if the day of that state were not already gone.

E. He lived in the thick of these events, knew personally some of the chief actors, left behind a mass of profoundly thoughtful writings on many topics, yet no word of comment on the fateful thing that was happening or on the men responsible for it.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

1.     We have seen that the truth of an analytic proposition, or statement, can, in principle be established without the need to make even the simplest of empirical observations, it follows that whatever we may observe can make no difference to the truth of such a proposition.
   

A. One can see at once that this is an analytic proportion, because its truth follows immediately from the meanings in this context of the words 'nought' and 'duck' and so can be established by reference to the language of cricket, without any need to wait for somebody actually to score nought and see what happens then.

B. Take, for example, the proposition 'Anyone who makes nought at cricket, makes a duck'.

C. No matter how many cricket matches one attended, one would and could never come across a case of a man making nought without making a duck.

D. But it is not just that there is no need to go and watch cricket matches to establish this truth, there could be no point in doing so.

6.     There is no score whatsoever that a batsman might make that could make any difference to this sad and simple truth. And one knows this in advance, precisely because it is analytic.
   

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

1.     The Hindu as a national newspaper of high standing, with its chequered history that has unfolded the ups and downs of the great freedom struggle and after 1947, it took pains to portray a nation in transition with an unbiased view.
   

A. The assault on this prestigious newspaper was indeed a blatant assault on the Fourth Estate and the entire nation condemned it.

B. The people all over the country saw the attack on 'The Hindu' as a virtual attack on the freedom of speech and expression of total media in the country.

C. It had the boldness to expose where the policies have gone wrong, where people at the top were found to be corrupt, it had the equipoise to commend the achievements in different regions.

D. There was a mass upsurge in almost every part of the country that showed that freedom of Press has to be defended at all costs.

6.     The supreme court of India issued a verdict in favour of the newspaper and stayed the arrests of the senior journalists.
   

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

1.     The relations of different nations among themselves depend upon the extent to which each has  developed its productive forces, the division of labour and internal intercourse.
   

A. But not only the relation of one nation to others, but also the whole internal structure of the nation itself depends on the stage of development reached by its production and its internal and external intercourse.

B. The division of labour inside a nation leads at first to the separation of industrial and commercial from agricultural labour, and hence, to the separation of town and country and to the conflict of their interests.

C. Each new productive force, insofar as it is not merely a quantitative extension of productive forces already known (For instance, the bringing into cultivation of fresh land), causes a further development of the division of labour.

D. How far the productive forces of a nation are developed is shown most manifestly by the degree to which the division of labour has been carried.

6.     Its further development leads to the separation of commercial from industrial labour.
   

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

1.     The Government of India has mounted a major technology demonstration project for fly ash utilization.
   

A. The construction of four dwelling units at the abandoned fly ash pond of the National Fertilizers Ltd (NFL) at Panipat has been successful, and they have been tested through a monsoon season.

B. In many parts of India, there are successful examples of the use of fly ash, first being Okhla Flyover bridge which is operating successfully.

C. The results indicate that a structure up to four storey high can be safely and economically erected at abandoned ash ponds.

D. This mission mode project was the result of earlier work by TIFAC and is now being implemented by it along with many national and sate government agencies as well as industries and institutions.

6.     However, initial testing of the site is required as it is usually done for regular soils as well.
   

Directions: Choose the word that fills the blanks, the maximum number of times.

(A) He was quarantined because his disease was _____.
(B) The ______ response he received filled his heart with joy.
(C) His enthusiasm was _______; the others soon caught it.
(D) The _______ victory of Sri Lanka over Australia once again emphasised its potential.

Directions: Choose the word that fills the blanks, the maximum number of times.

(A) In a clock the ________ hand travel faster than the hours hand.
(B) The ________ of the meeting gave interesting insights into the problems faced by the company.
(C) The _________ of inaction proved costly for the company because during that time, their main competitor managed to sweep the market with their attractive schemes.
(D) The ________ are hot and long in summer.