Directions: Read the following passage and answer the given question.

Passage: A profound terror, increased still by the darkness, the silence and his waking images, froze his heart within him. He almost felt his hair stand on end, when by straining his eyes to their utmost, he perceived through the shadows two faint yellow lights. At first, he attributed these lights to the reflection of his own pupils, but soon the vivid brilliance of the night aided him gradually to distinguish the objects around him in the cave, and he beheld a huge animal lying but two steps from him.

Question: The person in the story

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the given question.

Passage: The avowed purpose of the exact sciences is to establish complete intellectual control over experience in terms of precise rules which can be formally set out and empirically tested. Could that ideal be fully achieved, all truth and all error could henceforth be ascribed to an exact theory of the universe, while we who accept this theory would be relieved of any occasion for exercising our personal judgement. We should only have to follow the rules faithfully. Classical mechanics approaches this ideal so closely that it is often thought to have achieved it. But this leaves out of account the element of personal judgement involved in applying the formulae of mechanics to the facts of experience.

Question: An exact theory of the universe is

Which of the following words is the most similar in meaning to the word given below.

KINDLE

Which of the following words is the most similar in meaning to the word given below.

AMBIGUOUS

Which of the following words is the most similar in meaning to the word given below.

VORACIOUS

Directions: Which part of the sentence given below has an error?

This hardly won freedom /(a) should not be lost /(b) so soon. /(c) No error /(d)

Directions: Which of the following parts of the sentence given below has an error?

We looked after the thief /(a) but he was nowhere /(b) to be found. /(c) No error /(d)

Fill in the blank with an appropriate word.

The mounting pressure was so overwhelming that he ultimately ________ to her wish.

Fill in the blank with an appropriate word.

Authority ________ when it is not supported by the moral purity of its user.

Fill in the blank with an appropriate word.

Creative people are often ________ with their own uniqueness.

In the sentence given below, choose the better substitution for the underlined part.

The police accused him for theft.

In the sentence given below, choose the better substitution for the underlined part.

They took away everything that belong to him.

In the sentence given below, choose the better substitution for the underlined part.

The maid was layed the table for dinner.

Re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence given below and mark your response accordingly.

1. that he already has
2. buying things
3. that rich man
4. goes on

Re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence given below and mark your response accordingly.

1. quickly
2. he gave orders
3. to catch the thief
4. to his men

Re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence given below and mark your response accordingly.

1. to give a definition
2. if I were
3. I would begin
4. like this

Re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence given below and mark your response accordingly.

1. while some live.
2. to eat and drink
3. many do not have enough
4. in luxury

Re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence given below and mark your response accordingly.

1. Man is a biological being
2. his physical and material needs
3. confined to
4. not merely

Directions: This passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as A, B, C and D. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 : Once upon a time there was a king who had awonderfully nice garden.

1. In the middle of the garden there was a lovely forestwith tall trees and deep lakes.
2. In this garden were to be seen the most wonderfulflowers with silver bells tied to them.
3. The garden was so large that even the gardenerhimself did not know where it began and where itended.
4. These bells always sounded so that nobody shouldpass by without noticing the flowers.

S6 : In the trees lived a nightingale that sang so sweetlythat all who passed by stood still and listened.