Quiz on para completion and synonyms (new pattern) for PO, Clerk, SO, Insurance Exams

Question 1

Direction: A short passage, with one of the lines missing and represented by a blank, is given. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

Art nouveau flourished in a number of European countries, many of which developed their own names for the style. Art nouveau was known in France as style Guimard, after French designer Hector Guimard; in Italy as the stile floreale (floral style) or stile Liberty, after British art nouveau designer Arthur Lasenby Liberty; in Spain as modernisme; in Austria as Sezessionstil (secession style); and in Germany as Jugendstil (youth style). __________________________________________

Question 2

Direction: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

Each Egyptian ruler was obsessed with constructing a tomb for himself more impressive and longer lasting than that of his predecessors. Before the 4th Dynasty Egyptian royal burial took the form of the mastaba, an archetypal rectangular mass of masonry. This form evolved into the step pyramid and finally into the fully refined pyramid, of which the largest and best preserved are those of Khufu and Khafre, both dating from about 2500 BC, at Giza near Cairo. ___________________________________________________________.

Question 3

Direction: In the following question, a short passage with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank is given. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

For hundreds of years, telescopes were the only instruments available for studying the planets and stars. Rapid advances in astrophysics and optical technology, coupled with the advent of the space age, broadened telescope technology in the last quarter of the 20th century. Astronomical telescopes now come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, dictated largely by the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum the telescope is designed to view. ____________.

Question 4

Direction: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

Feathers have been used by humans in three principal ways: as writing implements, in upholstery and bedding, and as ornaments in clothing and costumes. The demand in the United States and elsewhere for feathers to be used for ornamentation led to great slaughter of birds and the extinction or near extinction of several species. This might prove hazardous for the ecosystem and preventive steps need to be taken._______________________________________

Question 5

Direction: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

Rain forests play a critical role in global climate regulation by absorbing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas believed to be principally responsible for global warming. Plants naturally absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen gas in the process of photosynthesis, and tropical rain forests absorb more carbon dioxide than any other terrestrial ecosystem on earth. Global emissions of carbon dioxide have increased nearly 30 percent in the last century. _____________________

Question 6

Direction: Below is given a single word with options to its meaning in different contexts. You have to select all those options which are synonyms of the word when the context is changed. Select the correct alternative from (A), (B), (C) and (D) which represents all those synonyms.

QUARTER

A) Coin
B) Room
C) Time
D) Mercy

Question 7

Direction: Below given is a single word with options to its meaning in different contexts. You have to select all those options which are synonyms of the word when the context is changed. Select the correct alternative from (A), (B), (C) and (D) which represents all those synonyms.

COUNTER
(i) Counterfeit
(ii) Furniture
(iii) Contradict
(iv) Game

Question 8

Direction: Below given is a single word with options to its meaning in different contexts. You have to select all those options which are synonyms of the word when the context is changed. Select the correct alternative from (A), (B), (C) and (D) which represents all those synonyms.

STABLE
(i) Balanced
(ii) Den
(iii) Deer
(iv) Fixed

Question 9

Direction: Below is given a single word with options to its meaning in different contexts. You have to select all those options which are synonyms of the word when the context is changed. Select the correct alternative from (A), (B), (C) and (D) which represents all those synonyms

FORM
(i). Shape
(ii). Document
(iii). Forlorn
(iv). Performance of Player

Question 10

Direction: A single word is given below followed by four options which express its meaning in different contexts. Select the correct alternative from (A), (B), (C) and (D) that contains the set of words synonymous to the given word.

Extension
a) Extravagant
b) Telephone
c) Time
d) Stretching out