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2022 157 questions

1. Q962022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 1

   In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. One’s options in this world are as (1)________ as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus (2)________ broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with (3)________ caution, for the footprints we leave (4)________ are as important as the (5)________ we will follow. They’re part of the same journey: our story. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.

   
   1. A.narrow
   2. B.slight
   3. C.contracted
   4. D.vast
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   Answer: D

2. Q972022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 1

   Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

   1. A.rigorously
   2. B.severely
   3. C.strictly
   4. D.infinitely
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   Answer: D

3. Q982022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 1

   Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

   1. A.utmost
   2. B.slack
   3. C.unmindful
   4. D.inattentive
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   Answer: A

4. Q992022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 1

   Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

   1. A.discarded
   2. B.surplus
   3. C.behind
   4. D.excessive
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   Answer: C

5. Q1002022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 1

   Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

   1. A.approach
   2. B.path
   3. C.manner
   4. D.custom
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   Answer: B

6. Q962022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 2

   In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank The British king, Charles I, had (1) ______ a very difficult financial situation from his father. His period saw a very high rate of inflation. He wanted to (2) ______ money. Therefore, he (3) ______ creating the title of Baronet and selling it to (4) ______ candidates. However, his decision was (5) ______ by the British parliament. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.

   
   1. A.owned
   2. B.inherited
   3. C.devised
   4. D.genetic
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   Answer: B

7. Q972022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 2

   Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

   1. A.raise
   2. B.upraise
   3. C.bring
   4. D.lift
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   Answer: A

8. Q982022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 2

   Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

   1. A.ventured
   2. B.started
   3. C.continued
   4. D.appeared
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   Answer: B

9. Q992022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 2

   Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

   1. A.resourceful
   2. B.opulent
   3. C.healthy
   4. D.wealthy
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   Answer: D

10. Q1002022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 2

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

    1. A.banished
    2. B.rejected
    3. C.unaccepted
    4. D.abandoned
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    Answer: B

11. Q962022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 3

    In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. The thing nodded vigorously; as it nodded, the left button-eye fell off and (1) ______ (2) ______ the concrete floor. The thing looked around (3) ______ with its one eye, as if it had lost her. The thing twisted bonelessly (4) ______ its one eye was again facing her. And it (5) ______ across the cellar towards her then. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.

    
    1. A.clattered
    2. B.hissed
    3. C.fizzed
    4. D.buzzed
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    Answer: A

12. Q972022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 3

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

    1. A.up
    2. B.to
    3. C.at
    4. D.on to
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    Answer: D

13. Q982022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 3

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

    1. A.wittily
    2. B.ferociously
    3. C.vacantly
    4. D.involuntarily
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    Answer: C

14. Q992022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 3

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

    1. A.unless
    2. B.until
    3. C.ever after
    4. D.even so
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    Answer: B

15. Q1002022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 3

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

    1. A.hung
    2. B.rung
    3. C.lunged
    4. D.flung
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    Answer: C

16. Q962022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 4

    In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Our beautiful ecosystem is being systematically (1)_______ by industrial pollution channelled into rivers like the Ganga and the Yamuna, nuclear wastes from atomic plants muted into the world's oceans, and (2)______ gases such as carbon dioxide mixed with the ozonosphere. Besides, tropical rainforests and green pastures are disappearing (3)______ the pressure of a proliferating population. Dams are being (4)_______ over the rivers like the Narmada to change nature's well-balanced surface equations between flora and fauna, and sloping mountainous terrain is being converted into mini oceans to supply electricity to the ever-starving industrial stomach of our age. Elephants, tigers, the wild rhinos of South Africa and many other forest creatures have become (5)_____ species. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.

    
    1. A.damaged
    2. B.oriented
    3. C.glorified
    4. D.designed
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    Answer: A

17. Q972022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 4

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

    1. A.poisonous
    2. B.useful
    3. C.nuclear
    4. D.hygienic
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    Answer: A

18. Q982022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 4

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

    1. A.in
    2. B.to
    3. C.on
    4. D.under
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    Answer: D

19. Q992022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 4

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

    1. A.validated
    2. B.built
    3. C.detected
    4. D.associated
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    Answer: B

20. Q1002022 · 7 Dec 2022 · Shift 4

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

    1. A.accumulated
    2. B.specified
    3. C.endangered
    4. D.granted
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    Answer: C

21. Q962022 · 6 Dec 2022 · Shift 1

    In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not (1) ______ that in which I no longer believe, (2) ______ it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to (3) ______ myself in some mode of life or art as (4) ______ as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I (5) ______myself to use: silence, exile and cunning. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.

    
    1. A.serve
    2. B.drain
    3. C.lag
    4. D.debit
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    Answer: A

22. Q972022 · 6 Dec 2022 · Shift 1

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2

    1. A.sometimes
    2. B.nevertheless
    3. C.whether
    4. D.presumably
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    Answer: C

23. Q982022 · 6 Dec 2022 · Shift 1

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

    1. A.express
    2. B.disappear
    3. C.collect
    4. D.sterilise
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    Answer: A

24. Q992022 · 6 Dec 2022 · Shift 1

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

    1. A.morbidly
    2. B.bleakly
    3. C.pithily
    4. D.freely
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    Answer: D

25. Q1002022 · 6 Dec 2022 · Shift 1

    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

    1. A.behave
    2. B.allow
    3. C.caution
    4. D.effeminate
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    Answer: B