English Language Proficiency Test - 2

Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option.
Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (iii).

Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option.
Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (v).

Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option.
Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (i).

Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option.
Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (ii).

Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option.
Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (iv).

Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option.
Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (vii).

Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option.
Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (vi).

Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option.
Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (xi).

Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option.
Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (x).

Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option.
Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (viii).

Directions: The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. The error, if there is one, is underlined and lettered. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, select choice (E).

Limbaugh lost his job for saying in public (A) what many football fans and analysts have been saying privately for (B) the past couple of seasons and though he pretty much told (C) the truth he had to pay a huge price (D). No error (E)

Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option.
Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (ix).

Directions: The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. The error, if there is one, is underlined and lettered. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, select choice (E).

Jane was by no means (A) popular with the other women, taking far too much upon (B) herself, the strength of her father's rank, and giving herself airs as (C) if she was better (D) than those around her. No error (E)

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below:
A. The debt American intellectual growth owes to the revolutionary exiles has never been fully appreciated.
B. The seed disseminated by them, though so little understood at the time, has brought a rich harvest.
C. It is difficult for the average man to form an adequate conception what strength, energy, and perseverance are necessary to absorb the unfamiliar language, habits, and customs of a new country, without the loss of one's own personality.
D. They have at all times held aloft the banner of liberty, thus impregnating the social vitality of the Nation.
E. But very few have succeeding in preserving their European education and culture while at the same time assimilating themselves with American life.

Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below:
A. The debt American intellectual growth owes to the revolutionary exiles has never been fully appreciated.
B. The seed disseminated by them, though so little understood at the time, has brought a rich harvest.
C. It is difficult for the average man to form an adequate conception what strength, energy, and perseverance are necessary to absorb the unfamiliar language, habits, and customs of a new country, without the loss of one's own personality.
D. They have at all times held aloft the banner of liberty, thus impregnating the social vitality of the Nation.
E. But very few have succeeding in preserving their European education and culture while at the same time assimilating themselves with American life.

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below:
A. The debt American intellectual growth owes to the revolutionary exiles has never been fully appreciated.
B. The seed disseminated by them, though so little understood at the time, has brought a rich harvest.
C. It is difficult for the average man to form an adequate conception what strength, energy, and perseverance are necessary to absorb the unfamiliar language, habits, and customs of a new country, without the loss of one's own personality.
D. They have at all times held aloft the banner of liberty, thus impregnating the social vitality of the Nation.
E. But very few have succeeding in preserving their European education and culture while at the same time assimilating themselves with American life.

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below:
A. The debt American intellectual growth owes to the revolutionary exiles has never been fully appreciated.
B. The seed disseminated by them, though so little understood at the time, has brought a rich harvest.
C. It is difficult for the average man to form an adequate conception what strength, energy, and perseverance are necessary to absorb the unfamiliar language, habits, and customs of a new country, without the loss of one's own personality.
D. They have at all times held aloft the banner of liberty, thus impregnating the social vitality of the Nation.
E. But very few have succeeding in preserving their European education and culture while at the same time assimilating themselves with American life.

Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Which of the phrases (1), (2), (3) and (4) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentences to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and 'No correction is required', mark (5) as the answer.

I am aware that there are difficulties, quite few of them of his own creation.

Directions: Which of the phrases (1), (2), (3) and (4) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentences to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and 'No correction is required', mark (5) as the answer.

The projections prepared in this study imply that growth will continue and result in an even greater share of production.

Directions: Which of the phrases (1), (2), (3) and (4) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentences to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and 'No correction is required', mark (5) as the answer.

After singing for many musical shows, he tasted success.

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below:
A. The debt American intellectual growth owes to the revolutionary exiles has never been fully appreciated.
B. The seed disseminated by them, though so little understood at the time, has brought a rich harvest.
C. It is difficult for the average man to form an adequate conception what strength, energy, and perseverance are necessary to absorb the unfamiliar language, habits, and customs of a new country, without the loss of one's own personality.
D. They have at all times held aloft the banner of liberty, thus impregnating the social vitality of the Nation.
E. But very few have succeeding in preserving their European education and culture while at the same time assimilating themselves with American life.

Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Which of the phrases (1), (2), (3) and (4) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentences to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and 'No correction is required', mark (5) as the answer.

I have not still read it, but would like to.

Directions: Which of the phrases (1), (2), (3) and (4) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentences to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and 'No correction is required', mark (5) as the answer.

If any one dared to suggest that he or she was not against women but only against reservation, nobody was willing to listen.

Which of the following support(s) the notion of 'aesthetic jumboism'?
I. The painting of a sunflower is appreciated more than a painting of a violet.
II. Big oxen have been proved to perform better than the dwarfs.
III.Tall people are aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
IV. A disbelief in the notion that God is in the details.
V. All the accolades are reserved for the best; the next best only becomes the also ran.

PASSAGE

There is hardly a composer concerning whom so many erroneous notions are current as concerning Chopin, and of all the histories of music I have seen that very few critics devote to Chopin an amount of space approximately proportionate to his importance. One of the most absurd of the misconceptions is that Chopin's genius was born in full armour, and that it did not pass through several stages of development, like that of other composers. Chopin did display remarkable originality at the very beginning, but the apparent maturity of his first published works is due to the fact that he destroyed his earliest efforts and disowned those works which are known as posthumous, and which may have created confusion in some minds by having received a higher opus number than his last works.
Another misconception regarding Chopin is that his latest works are morbid and unintelligible. The same charge was brought by philistines against the best works of Beethoven, Schumann, and Wagner. The fact is that these last works are of an almost matchless harmonic depth and originality, as superior to his earlier works as Wagner's last music dramas are to his first operas. Schumann was the first to recognize the revolutionary significance of Chopin's style. "Chopin's works," he says, "are cannons buried in flowers;" and in another place he declares that he can see in "Chopin's G minor Nocturne a terrible declaration of war against a whole musical past."
Chopin was quiet and retiring in his personal disposition so much so that his small voice was lost in the din of musical warfare. He warmly defended the principles of the romantic school, if necessary, and had decided opinions of other musicians, especially of the popular pianists of his day who vitiated the public taste with their show pieces; but he generally kept them to himself or confided them only to his friends.
The world is yet to acknowledge that Chopin is one of the very greatest explorers and pioneers in the domain of art. This can be explained by, for want of a better term, aesthetic Jumboism. When the late lamented Jumbo was in New York he attracted so much attention that his colleagues, although but little inferior in size, had "no show" whatever. Everybody crowded around Jumbo, stuffing him with bushels of oranges and apples, while the other elephants were entirely ignored. As elephants are intelligent animals, is it not probable that Pilot, the next in size to Jumbo, went mad and had to be shot because he was jealous of the exclusive attentions bestowed on his rival? In aesthetics, this Jumboism, this exaggerated desire for mammoth dimensions, seems to be a trait of the human mind which it is difficult to eradicate. It cannot be said that the critics of art or literature follow the popular disposition to measure genius with a yard-stick; but in music there seems to be a general tendency to do this. Liszt remarks, apropos, in his work on Chopin: "The value of the sketches made by Chopin's extremely delicate pencil has not yet been acknowledged and emphasized sufficiently. It has become customary in our days to regard as great composers only those who have written at least half a dozen operas, as many oratorios, and several symphonies."

What is the nearest meaning of the word 'cannon' as used in the passage?

PASSAGE

There is hardly a composer concerning whom so many erroneous notions are current as concerning Chopin, and of all the histories of music I have seen that very few critics devote to Chopin an amount of space approximately proportionate to his importance. One of the most absurd of the misconceptions is that Chopin's genius was born in full armour, and that it did not pass through several stages of development, like that of other composers. Chopin did display remarkable originality at the very beginning, but the apparent maturity of his first published works is due to the fact that he destroyed his earliest efforts and disowned those works which are known as posthumous, and which may have created confusion in some minds by having received a higher opus number than his last works.
Another misconception regarding Chopin is that his latest works are morbid and unintelligible. The same charge was brought by philistines against the best works of Beethoven, Schumann, and Wagner. The fact is that these last works are of an almost matchless harmonic depth and originality, as superior to his earlier works as Wagner's last music dramas are to his first operas. Schumann was the first to recognize the revolutionary significance of Chopin's style. "Chopin's works," he says, "are cannons buried in flowers;" and in another place he declares that he can see in "Chopin's G minor Nocturne a terrible declaration of war against a whole musical past."
Chopin was quiet and retiring in his personal disposition so much so that his small voice was lost in the din of musical warfare. He warmly defended the principles of the romantic school, if necessary, and had decided opinions of other musicians, especially of the popular pianists of his day who vitiated the public taste with their show pieces; but he generally kept them to himself or confided them only to his friends.
The world is yet to acknowledge that Chopin is one of the very greatest explorers and pioneers in the domain of art. This can be explained by, for want of a better term, aesthetic Jumboism. When the late lamented Jumbo was in New York he attracted so much attention that his colleagues, although but little inferior in size, had "no show" whatever. Everybody crowded around Jumbo, stuffing him with bushels of oranges and apples, while the other elephants were entirely ignored. As elephants are intelligent animals, is it not probable that Pilot, the next in size to Jumbo, went mad and had to be shot because he was jealous of the exclusive attentions bestowed on his rival? In aesthetics, this Jumboism, this exaggerated desire for mammoth dimensions, seems to be a trait of the human mind which it is difficult to eradicate. It cannot be said that the critics of art or literature follow the popular disposition to measure genius with a yard-stick; but in music there seems to be a general tendency to do this. Liszt remarks, apropos, in his work on Chopin: "The value of the sketches made by Chopin's extremely delicate pencil has not yet been acknowledged and emphasized sufficiently. It has become customary in our days to regard as great composers only those who have written at least half a dozen operas, as many oratorios, and several symphonies."

What is 'opus number' in the passage?

PASSAGE

There is hardly a composer concerning whom so many erroneous notions are current as concerning Chopin, and of all the histories of music I have seen that very few critics devote to Chopin an amount of space approximately proportionate to his importance. One of the most absurd of the misconceptions is that Chopin's genius was born in full armour, and that it did not pass through several stages of development, like that of other composers. Chopin did display remarkable originality at the very beginning, but the apparent maturity of his first published works is due to the fact that he destroyed his earliest efforts and disowned those works which are known as posthumous, and which may have created confusion in some minds by having received a higher opus number than his last works.
Another misconception regarding Chopin is that his latest works are morbid and unintelligible. The same charge was brought by philistines against the best works of Beethoven, Schumann, and Wagner. The fact is that these last works are of an almost matchless harmonic depth and originality, as superior to his earlier works as Wagner's last music dramas are to his first operas. Schumann was the first to recognize the revolutionary significance of Chopin's style. "Chopin's works," he says, "are cannons buried in flowers;" and in another place he declares that he can see in "Chopin's G minor Nocturne a terrible declaration of war against a whole musical past."
Chopin was quiet and retiring in his personal disposition so much so that his small voice was lost in the din of musical warfare. He warmly defended the principles of the romantic school, if necessary, and had decided opinions of other musicians, especially of the popular pianists of his day who vitiated the public taste with their show pieces; but he generally kept them to himself or confided them only to his friends.
The world is yet to acknowledge that Chopin is one of the very greatest explorers and pioneers in the domain of art. This can be explained by, for want of a better term, aesthetic Jumboism. When the late lamented Jumbo was in New York he attracted so much attention that his colleagues, although but little inferior in size, had "no show" whatever. Everybody crowded around Jumbo, stuffing him with bushels of oranges and apples, while the other elephants were entirely ignored. As elephants are intelligent animals, is it not probable that Pilot, the next in size to Jumbo, went mad and had to be shot because he was jealous of the exclusive attentions bestowed on his rival? In aesthetics, this Jumboism, this exaggerated desire for mammoth dimensions, seems to be a trait of the human mind which it is difficult to eradicate. It cannot be said that the critics of art or literature follow the popular disposition to measure genius with a yard-stick; but in music there seems to be a general tendency to do this. Liszt remarks, apropos, in his work on Chopin: "The value of the sketches made by Chopin's extremely delicate pencil has not yet been acknowledged and emphasized sufficiently. It has become customary in our days to regard as great composers only those who have written at least half a dozen operas, as many oratorios, and several symphonies."

According to the passage, what do worldly pleasures lead us to?

PASSAGE
Every potent phenomenon is bound between the law of cause and effect. Though the cause is not visible, effect can be seen. An apple falls due to gravitation but we can’t just perceive it. So this force which is subtle, which is invisible can be felt only when we witness the gross object of this force i.e. the result. Every change that takes place is due to this hidden unseen subtle force. Our body too is an expression of this subtle force. Our body’s birth, growth, decay and death all revolve around this invisible concept. Even our rebirth or reincarnation depends on this subtle force. We gather many ideas, tendencies, desires which initiate a subtle body. When a person dies these feelings lie deep - untouched, undeciphered in the mind. These are stored as impressions in our mind but slowly they rise as physic waves and magnetize new desires. These desires lead to manufacture of a new body. The unfulfilled longing of “worldly pleasure”, the lust or cravings become the cause of rebirth. Till these retain themselves in the body they as a subtle force lead to hundreds of births. So, desires need to be accomplished if one wants to break free of the vicious circle of birth & death.

What is the central idea of the passage?

PASSAGE
Every potent phenomenon is bound between the law of cause and effect. Though the cause is not visible, effect can be seen. An apple falls due to gravitation but we can’t just perceive it. So this force which is subtle, which is invisible can be felt only when we witness the gross object of this force i.e. the result. Every change that takes place is due to this hidden unseen subtle force. Our body too is an expression of this subtle force. Our body’s birth, growth, decay and death all revolve around this invisible concept. Even our rebirth or reincarnation depends on this subtle force. We gather many ideas, tendencies, desires which initiate a subtle body. When a person dies these feelings lie deep - untouched, undeciphered in the mind. These are stored as impressions in our mind but slowly they rise as physic waves and magnetize new desires. These desires lead to manufacture of a new body. The unfulfilled longing of “worldly pleasure”, the lust or cravings become the cause of rebirth. Till these retain themselves in the body they as a subtle force lead to hundreds of births. So, desires need to be accomplished if one wants to break free of the vicious circle of birth & death.