Directions (1-15): Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
Q1. Hallowed international institutions such as the World Bank (is facing) the heat today for not conforming to the prescriptions of certain powerful members.
(a) has been facing
(b) faces
(c) are facing
(d) No Improvement
Q2. An impression exists today that attempts are being (made to effect) changes in the existing system.
(a) made effect
(b) made affect
(c) made to effective
(d) No Improvement
Q3. Malavikagnimitra (told) the story of King Agnimitra who falls in love with the picture of an exiled servant named Malavika.
(a) narrated
(b) tells
(c) said
(d) No Improvement
Q4. Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and (resisted) linguistic strictures.
(a) had been resisting
(b) had resisted
(c) resisting
(d) No Improvement
Q5. Hitler personally designed the Nazi party banner, (appropriating) the swastika symbol and placing it in a white circle on a red background.
(a) appropriated
(b) was appropriating
(c) appropriates
(d) No Improvement
Q6. The Civil Disobedience Movement was (one of a most significant movements) launched by Mahatma Gandhi in the course of India’s freedom struggle.
(a) one of the most significant movement
(b) one of the most significant movements
(c) one of most significant movements
(d) No Improvement
Q7. Kalidasa was acclaimed as ‘Indian Shakespeare’ who (has penned) his masterpieces of plays, poems, epics, etc. in Sanskrit.
(a) penned
(b) had penned
(c) has been penned
(d) No Improvement
Q8. (Both the rich along with) the poor are responsible for a great many vices with which our society as well as country is inflicted.
(a) Both the rich as well as
(b) Both the rich and
(c) Both the rich together with
(d) No Improvement
Q9. (Not only will she go) to the pictures but she will also meet some of her common friends in the evening.
(a) Not only she will go
(b) Not only she is going
(c) Not only she will be going
(d) No Improvement
Q10. Our leaders should not (let the criminals activities to grow) in our country.
(a) let the criminal activities to be growing
(b) let the criminal activities to be grown
(c) let the criminal activities grow
(d) No Improvement
Q11. It is high time he (starts to look) into his own flaws before speaking ill of others.
(a) started to look
(b) starts looking
(c) started looking
(d) No Improvement
Q12. Ankit ought not (to tell) me your secret, but he did.
(a) to be telling
(b) tell
(c) to have told
(d) No improvement
Q13. I did not wait for him because he (went out) before I arrived.
(a) has gone out
(b) had gone out
(c) had been out
(d) No improvement
Q14. She decided to go there, though her husband cautioned her (on) it.
(a) against
(b) for
(c) about
(d) No improvement
Q15. Despite his father’s financial assistance he was always (hard on).
(a) hard in
(b) hard up
(c) hard out
(d) No improvement
SOLUTIONS
1.C
2.D
3.B
4.C
5.D
6.B
7.A
8.B
9.D
10.C
11.C
12.C
13.B
14.A
15.B
