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Verbal Ability Practice #3

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Question 1

Direction (6-8): Select the grammatically correct phrase from the given options:
She _________ working in the office.

Question 2

I don't mind _________ if you're tired.

Question 3

Your qualifications should include university degree and specialised ___________ .

Question 4

Each question consists of sentences, which have one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Below each sentence are four numbered words or sets of words labeled (A) through (D). Choose the set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
A…..statement is an ….. comparison; it does not compare things explicitly, but suggests, a likeness between them.

Question 5

Direction: A sentence with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Their achievement in the field of literature is described as ______; sometimes it is even called ______.

Question 6

Direction: A sentence with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
From the time she had put her hair up, every man she had met had grovelled before her and she had acquired a mental attitude toward the other sex which was a blend of _______ and _______.

Question 7

Direction: A sentence with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
This simplified ________ to the decision-making process is a must read for anyone ______ important real estate, personal, or professional decisions.

Question 8

Direction: A sentence with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Physicians may soon have _____ to help paralyzed people move their limbs by bypassing the ____ nerves that once controlled their muscles.

Question 9

Direction: A sentence with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
The Internet is a medium where users have nearly _____ choices and _____ constraints about where to go and what to do.

Question 10

Direction: A sentence with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the pair of words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
The best punctuation is that of which the reader is least conscious, for when the punctuation, or lack of it, _____ itself, it is usually because it _____.

Question 11

Direction: A sentence with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
The argument that the need for a looser fiscal policy to _____ demand outweighs the need to _____ budget deficits is persuasive.

Question 12

Direction: A sentence with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
The Athenians on the whole were peaceful and prosperous, they had _____ to sit at home and think about the universe and dispute with Socrates, or to travel abroad and _____ the world.
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