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DIRECTIONS : (Question No. 1 to 15) Read the passage and 2. At the end of the meal, the unnamed protagonist
answer the questions that follow: mentions that he feels:
(A) like royalty
They did not have to go a thousand miles but the journey never
(B) very well fed
seemed to end. They set out in utmost secrecy and took the
(C) proud
country bus several miles away on the country road; this took (D) offended
them to the junction where they changed to a bus going north
to the river; then by ferry across the river and by bullock cart 3. At the very beginning of the journey they travelled:
north-east along the river over barren land with monstrous (A) On a small country road
black basalt boulders strewn all around, as though demons had (B) In a bus going north
tried to build toy houses and failing had scattered their building (C) By ferry on the river
blocks in disgust. (D) In a bullock cart

They arrived at the bride’s village at dusk and were put up in a 4. In the sentence ‘along the river over barren land’ the
neat mud hut, away from the in-laws, on the other side of the word barren means:
village. The hut had freshly whitewashed walls decorated with (A) land on which entry is barred
floral patterns in red and blue chalk and the roof had the (B) land on which nothing grows
pleasant green smell of newly-cut palmyra fronds. The bride’s (C) land on which large stones are found
people fussed over the two of them and plied them with the (D) land which is along a river
best food he had ever tasted: chicken fried in and dripping with 5. In this sentence ‘... as though demons had tried to
butter, prawns that melted in one’s mouth, mutton pulav made build toy houses and failing had scattered their
of the finest rice and mutton pieces as soft as cheese, building blocks in disgust’, the suggestion is that:
flavoured with bark of cinnamon, garlic cloves, black pepper, (A) the landscape was frightening
cardamom, cloves, shredded onion and other spices he could (B) the place was haunted by demons
not even identify. All cooked in pure ghee. There were (C) huge rocks were strewn all over
sweetmeats, too, (laddus, the size of cannon shot), and fruit, (D) small houses could be seen here and there
even grapes, real grapes, and grapes the like of which he had
6. When do the travellers arrive at the bride’s village?
seen only in the Raja’s palace and that too in a picture hung on
a wall. He felt like a prince. (A) The next day at sunrise
(B) The same day, at sunset
The wedding itself was a wonderful spectacle. He wished (C) After many days
several times that it could have taken place in his own village (D) In a short while
so that all the people there could have seen his good fortune,
7. The phrase ‘mutton pieces as soft as cheese’ is an
admired his bride and envied him.
example of:
The whole village turned up for the occasion [of the wedding]. (A) Metaphor
Later, they put the couple in a palanquin and formed a wedding (B) Simile
procession. Every family in the village behaved as though the (C) Symbol
wedding was in their own family, the bride their own daughter. (D) Metonym
They looked at him with eyes full of admiration and kept
8. How are the travellers treated when they arrive at the
congratulating his uncle on arranging the match. There were no
bride’s village?
urchins with runny noses in this village and the mongrel dogs -
not too many, he noticed -were well-behaved. There simply (A) As respected and favoured guests
were no elders, everyone was like an elder, dressed in gold- (B) As unwanted guests, kept at a distance
bordered dhoti and silk tunic and gold-bordered turbans. But (C) With great disdain
nobody was more gorgeously dressed than the bridegroom. (D) With great affection
The in-laws showed their wealth by providing him at once with
six sets of Indian clothes and six sets of English clothes, shorts 9. Why do you think the travelers are fed so well?
and shirts and even a necktie. (A) Because in this village all guests are well looked after
1. The journey mentioned in the first paragraph was: (B) Because in this village the residents are all noble and
(A) A distance of almost a thousand miles rich
(B) A distance that seemed very short (C) Because the travellers are from the bride’s party
(C) A distance that seemed never ending (D) Because the travellers are the bridegroom and his
(D) None of the above friends

UDC–I (Dept.) [B-1]

10. The style of narration in this extract is an example of: DIRECTIONS : (Question No. 18 & 19) In each of the following
(A) Autobiographical/ first person narrative questions, an idiomatic expression/a proverb has been given
(B) Omniscient narrative followed by some alternative. Choose the one which best
(C) Lyrical narrative expresses the meaning of the given idiom or proverb.
(D) Unreliable narrative
18. To keep the wolf away from the door:
11. ‘The wedding itself was a wonderful spectacle’. The (A) To keep alive
italicized word means: (B) To hold the difficulties and dangers in check
(A) A sight to behold (C) To keep away from extreme poverty
(B) Something to be viewed through glasses (D) To keep off an unwanted and undesirable person
(C) An amusing or ridiculous sight
19. His boss was always breathing down his neck:
(D) A sight which was unbelievable
(A) Shouting loudly at him
12. The bridegroom wished the wedding had taken place (B) Giving him strenuous work
in his village because: (C) Abusing and ill-treating him
(A) he wanted to be envied (D) Watching all his actions closely
(B) the wedding was a grand affair
20. Reticent is to Talk , what:
(C) his bride was very beautiful
(D) all of the above (A) Abstemious is to Devour
(B) Tasteless is to Savor
13. From the last paragraph, what impression do you get
(C) Likely is to Conjecture
of the bride’s village and its residents?
(D) Cranky is to Conjecture
(A) The residents are well off
(B) The residents are stiff and formal 21. Quinquennial is ......... anniversary:
(C) The residents are arrogant
(A) 150th
(D) The residents are urbane
(B) 50th
14. From a reading of this extract what do you think (C) 5th
about the status of the bridegroom? (D) 15th
(A) he is as rich as the bride’s family
(B) he is richer than the bride’s family DIRESTIONS: (Question No. 22 to 25) Find the one word
(C) he is poorer than the bride’s family substitution in the following questions.
(D) he is dependent on the bride’s family
22. The act of violating the sanctity of the church is:
15. The emphasis on food and clothes shows that the
(A) Blasphemy
bridegroom:
(B) Heresy
(A) is a connoisseur (C) Sacrilege
(B) is enamoured of the pomp displayed (D) Desecration
(C) is very jealous of the bride’s family
(D) is very dejected 23. A child born after the death of his/her father is called:
(A) Orphan
DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 16 & 17) In each of the following
(B) Postulant
questions, choose the alternative which can replace the word
(C) Postilion
printed in bold and italic without changing the meaning of the
(D) Posthumous
sentence.
24. A school boy who cuts classes frequently is a:
16. When he returned he was accompanied by a
sprightly young girl: (A) Defeatist
(B) Sycophant
(A) Lively (B) Beautiful
(C) Truant
(C) Sportive (D) Intelligent
(D) Martinet
17. The art movie I watched this evening has put me in a 25. A person who creates disorder in a state:
pensive mood:
(A) Rebel
(A) Confused (B) Militant
(B) Depressed (C) Anarchist
(C) Cheerful (D) Fifth columnist
(D) Reflective

UDC–I (Dept.) [B-2]

DIRESTIONS: (Question No. 26 to 28) Against each key word DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 37 to 43) Choose the correct
are given four suggested meanings. Choose the word or spelt word.
phrase which is most nearly the same to the keyword.
37.
26. BOURGEOIS: (A) Deliberation
(A) Aristocratic (B) Animated (B) Deleberation
(C) Lively (D) Ordinary (C) Deliberition
(D) Delaberation
27. ANIMADVERT:
38.
(A) Needy (B) Hospitable (A) Detereorate
(C) Make Remarks (D) Notation (B) Deteriorate
(C) Detiriorate
28. JOCUND:
(D) Detireorate
(A) Filmsy
(B) Cheerful 39.
(C) Cruel (A) Exorbitant
(D) Laughable (B) Exhorbitant
(C) Exorbetant
DIRESTIONS: (Question No. 29 to 31) Against each key word (D) Exohorbitant
are given four suggested meanings. Choose the word or
phrase which is opposite in meaning to the key word. 40.
(A) Freivolous
29. JOCOSE: (B) Frivelous
(A) Humorous (B) Waggish (C) Frevilous
(C) Diseased (D) Dull (D) Frivolous

30. INCULPATE: 41.

(A) Hierarchy
(A) Accuse (B) Exonerate
(B) Heirarchy
(C) Barbaric (D) Easily upset
(C) Hierarche
31. FRUGAL: (D) Heirerchy

(A) Enraged 42.

(B) Extravagant (A) Surveillance
(C) Farcical (B) Surviellance
(D) Replete (C) Survillance
(D) Survelliance
DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 32 to 36) Choose the wrong spelt
word. 43.
(A) Quadriletaral
32.
(B) Quadrilaterel
(A) Goitre (B) Glorious
(C) Quadrilateral
(C) Gravitation (D) Greivous
(D) Quadriliteral
33.
DIRECTIONS: (Question nos. 44 & 45) Choose the correct
(A) Apposite (B) Apparent preposition and fill in blanks.
(C) Apostrophy (D) Appellant
44. We have many other things in common, .......... our
34. liking for Indian Classical music:
(A) Appetite (B) Apathetic (A) Beside
(C) Appriasal (D) Aperture (B) Besides
(C) Despite
35.
(D) Altogether
(A) Campaign (B) Camera
(C) Camouflage (D) Carborettor 45. Ram killed the snake .......... a stone:
(A) By
36.
(B) With
(A) Decesive (B) Decimal (C) From
(C) Decease (D) Deceive (D) Through
UDC–I (Dept.) [B-3]
DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 46 to 53) In each of these DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 58 to 61) In each of these
questions, a sentence is divided into three parts 1, 2, 3. If there questions in the given sentence below there is a blank. Choose
is some error in any parts 1, 2 or 3, then this is your answer, the word or phrase which best completes the sentence.
otherwise answer is 4.
58. The doctor prescribed tablets to help ........ the pain:
46. I advised (A)/ to him(B)/ to do his work properly (C)/
No error(D) (A) Lighten
(B) Calm
47. The teacher called Ram(A)/ and asked him (B)/ to (C) Relieve
describe about the incident (C)/ No error(D) (D) Rid

59. If you ............ in arriving late, I shall have to report to

48. This pen writes (A)/ very well (B)/ but it costed me 100
the manager.
rupees (C)/ No error(D)
(A) Persist
49. The bomb caused (A)/ extensive damages (B)/ of the (B) Persevere
surrounding buildings (C)/ No error(D) (C) Insist
(D) Prevail
50. There were (A)/ hardly no trees left (B)/ just bare 60. The police decided to .......... the department store:
rocky land (C)/ No error(D)
(A) Abandon
51. The visitors complained at (A)/ the poor (B) Evacuate
accomodation (B)/ they were given (C)/ No error(D) (C) Evict
(D) Expel
52. You can not (A)/ prevent me (B)/ to go there (C)/ No
61. Our hosts had prepared a ............. meal to celebrate
error(D)
our arrival:
53. I would like you to (A)/ complete this assignment (B)/ (A) Generous
before you leave for Mumbai (C)/ No error(D) (B) Lavish
(C) Profuse
(D) Spendthrift
DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 54 to 57) In these questions fill in
the blanks in the sentence with correct option. DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 62 to 64) Read the passage and
answer the question based on it.
54. They still think that women are inferior ........ men:
A faint picture of a maiden's life is reflected in the
(A) To
characterisation of Usha, the goddess of dawn, who has been
(B) Than
described in many places as a maiden. In the earliest Mandalas,
(C) From
Usha is described as a pure and simple phenomenon of nature,
(D) By
sweeping away the darkness of night.
55. The teacher was angry .......... me:
62. In this passage, Usha has been described as:
(A) To
(A) A spinster
(B) Upon (B) A broom
(C) At (C) A gloomy maiden
(D) Against (D) The symbol of ushering in of light

56. If you ........ ice in warm water, it soon melts: 63. The expression 'a pure and simple phenomenon of
nature' implies that 'Usha' is:
(A) Will place
(A) A threat made by nature
(B) Place
(B) The beauty of nature
(C) Would place
(C) A portent of nature
(D) Placed (D) Nothing but a benign aspect of nature

57. When the post .........., I will bring it to your office: 64. The function of Usha is to:
(A) Meet darkness and light
(A) Will arrive
(B) Preside over day and night
(B) Arrives
(C) Remove darkness from the face of the Earth
(C) Is arriving (D) Counter light with darkness
(D) Is going to arrive
UDC–I (Dept.) [B-4]
DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 65 & 66) Each word given in the DIRECTIONS: (Question nos. 73 & 74) Change the following
alternatives are matched with its synonym and antonym. One is sentences into reported speech.
not correctly matched. Find the one not correctly matched.
73. I said, “ will you stop that noise?” “No said the boy”:
65. (A) I asked the boy if he would stop that noise and he
Word Synonym Antonym replied that he would not (stop that noise).
(A) Abscond Flee Remain (B) I told the boy if he would stop that noise and he said
(B) Abate Suppress Rise no
(C) Abash Confused Confident (C) I said to the boy if he will stop that noise and he said
(D) Acquit Convict Exonerate that he would not.
(D) I asked the boy whether he would stop this noise and
66.
he replied in negative.
(A) Decease Death Birth
(B) Demean Humiliate Respect 74. She said, “ how clever I am!”:
(C) Defer Advance Postpone
(D) Deem Recon Overlook (A) She told that she was very clever.
(B) She exclaimed that she was very clever.
DIRECTIONS: (Question nos. 67 to 69) Choose the correct (C) She applauded herself by saying that she was very
passive voice of the sentence given in the question. clever.
(D) She said that how clever was she?
67. Is the noise not disturbing the old man?
(A) Is the old man not being disturbed by the noise? 75. Complete the phrase: ‘Burning the candle at both
(B) Whether the old man is not being disturbed by the ______.’
noise? (A) sides (B) ends
(C) Do the old man not being disturbed by the noise? (C) tips (D) flames
(D) Let the old man not be disturbed by the noise.
76. Choose the correct option for the sentence: ‘Many
68. Could they not have helped the needy? conjuring tricks depend upon optical _________’
(A) Why can the needy be not helped by them? (A) delusions (B) allusions
(B) Could the needy not have been helped by them? (C) illusions (D) resolution
(C) Could the needy have not been helped by them?
(D) Why could the needy not be helped by them? 77. What does ‘to put one’s best foot forward’ mean?

69. Ought we to make any false claims? (A) to give oneself up

(B) to disclose a secret
(A) Any false claims ought to be made by us .
(C) to march in a straight line
(B) Ought any false claims to be made by us?
(C) Should any false claims to be made by us? (D) to make a good first impression
(D) Could any false claims to be made by us?
DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 78 to 80) The words of proverbs
70. Choose the word pair that has the relationship that is and sentences are given in a jumbled manner. If the words are
most similar to that of the given pair: arranged properly, they make a readable sentence. Pick a
choice which gives the correct sequence of words.
vexation: disappointment
(A) peace : calm 78. Death, before, times, their, cowards, many, die
(B) felicity : fear 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
(C) brave : coward
(A) 2431756 (B) 4657123
(D) kind : sympathy
(C) 5763241 (D) 6375124
71. The phrase ‘a close call’ means:
79. Memory, liar, a, a, good, needs:
(A) to be happily married
1 2 3 4 5 6
(B) to be hardhearted
(C) to live nearby (A) 326451 (B) 464251
(D) to have a narrow escape (C) 524461 (D) 165234

72. Choose the right meaning for PANACEA: 80. Of, mind, face, is, index, the:
(A) Great Fear 1 2 3 4 5 6
(B) A Cure For all
(A) 132456 (B) 634215
(C) Whole of Asia
(C) 345162 (D) 534216
(D) A Germ killer

UDC–I (Dept.) [B-5]

DIRECTIONS : (Question No. 81 to 95) Read the passages 90.
below and answer the questions by choosing the best option: (A) diffident (B) different
(C) diverse (D) changed
Golf Garden is an old locality, with rows of one-two-or three
storey houses, separated by moss covered boundary walls, 91.
along which creepers like ivy and bougainvillea had found (A) assurance (B) insurance
refuge. The houses, far from holding any _______ (81) interest, (C) reassurances (D) remembrance
_______ (82) conspicuous by their lack of anything not strictly
utilitarian. They were simple brick structures, that often 92.
_______ (83), right on the edge of the road, the entrances of (A) must (B) should
which were _______ (84) by wrought iron grills or collapsible (C) can (D) would
gates that _______ (85) open anytime a visitor arrived.
93.
There was always something inexplicably _______ (86) about (A) inevitably (B) unvaryingly
neighbourhoods of this sort. You _______ (87) the same (C) invariably (D) inaudibly
people everyday, in shops and in markets, at the bus stops or
in the hair-cutting _______ (88). In this _______ (89), it was not 94.
much _______ (90) from any other city neighbourhoods, (A) create (B) end
perhaps. But the coziness came from the _______ (91) that (C) demolish (D) extinguish
these people – the ones you saw everyday, were not going to
95.
leave. The neighbourhood _______ (92) remain the same,
(A) there (B) this
_______ (93) so, over the years. Such localities in the city were
(C) it’s (D) their
rare these days. Builders and promoters pounced at every
opportunity to _______ (94) old houses and erect towering DIRECTIONS: (Question Nos. 96 & 97) In the following
multi-storied buildings in _______ (95) places. sentences one or two words are missing. Pick the choice which
fits best with the sentence.
81.
(A) structurally (B) design 96. A .......... statement is an .......... comparison; it does
(C) architectural (D) building not compare things explicitly but suggests a likeness
between them:
82.
(A) were (B) are (A) Sarcastic ....... Unfair
(C) is (D) has (B) Blatant ....... Overt
(C) Sanguine ....... Inherent
83. (D) Metaphorical ....... Implied
(A) arise (B) went
(C) rose (D) climb 97. There are many lawyers who bring in so much ..........
material into an argument, without reference to the
84. case that it is .......... to get their point:
(A) held (B) cover
(A) Variegated .......... effortless
(C) decorate (D) guarded
(B) Hypothetical .......... Superfluous
85. (C) Superficial .......... Irrelevant
(A) clashed (B) trickled (D) Extraneous .......... Difficult
(C) clanged (D) ajar DIRECTIONS: (Question Nos. 98 to 100) Pick the choices that
will complete the sentence correctly as per requirements of
86.
grammar and English usage.
(A) distracting (B) frightening
(C) absorbing (D) comforting 98. He was ............. when his friends teased him:
87. (A) Cut to quick (B) Cut to a quick
(A) meet (B) will meet (C) Cut to the quick (D) Cut quick
(C) have met (D) met
99. He is determined to achieve his object ............. :
88. (A) By hook or by crook (B) By hook and crook
(A) boutique (B) saloon (C) By hook, by crook (D) By crook and hook
(C) room (D) aperture
100. He is taller ............. in the class:
89.
(A) To all the boys (B) Of all the boys
(A) senses (B) business
(C) Than all the boys (D) Than any other boy
(C) style (D) respect

UDC–I (Dept.) [B-6]