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 QUESTION-1
A. It then came to the main road and smashed all the stalls selling
fruits, mud pots and clothes.
B. Finally, the elephant entered a school ground, breaking through the
brick wall.
C. The people on the main road ran helter-skelter in panic.
D. The wild elephant first reached the outskirts of our town,
breaking down fences like matchsticks.
(a) CADB (b) BDAC (c) CBDA (d) DACB

QUESTION-2
A. His job was to keep an eye on the activities at the work site.
B. Mahindra was a junior supervisor in a firm.
C. So far, he had worked at stone quarries, coal mines, construction
sites and chemical plants.
D. The work sites changed often so he had to move from place to place.
(a) ACBD (b) CADB (c) DBCA (d) BADC
QUESTION-3
A. Suddenly in the evening, a dark and menacing storm quickly
gathered.
B. Prashant had gone to Ersama, a coastal town in Odisha, to spend the
day with a friend.
C. The destruction wrought by the storm continued for the next 36
hours, although the wind speed reduced.
D. Winds beat against the houses with a fury never witnessed before.
(a) BCDA (b) BADC (c) DBCA (d) CADB

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 QUESTION-4
A. Kunming, the Spring City, is the largest city in theYunnan province
of China.
B. It is the political, economic, communication and cultural centre of
Yunnan.
C. Kunming has pleasant weather and picturesque views.
D. Owing to the standard of life and favourable climate, the city has
been ranked among the best cities to live in China.

(a) ABCD (b) CBDA (c) ABDC (d) CADB

QUESTION-5
A. “How refreshing the breeze that blows through them!”
B. Every morning, Chandni watched the hill tops bathed in sunlight.
C. She wanted to run to the hills but was stopped by the rope round her
neck.
D. “How beautiful those hills are!” she thought.

(a) DCBA (b) ACDB (c) BDAC (d) BCAD

QUESTION-6
A. It provides training for the development of oral and aural skills and
is a great supplement to classroom teaching.
B. Technology is growing very fast day by day and is contributing a lot
towards improving communication skills.
C. Thus, it is the responsibility of a teacher to make the learners
understand and their aim is to master the language, not the
technology.
D. However, it can not be a substitute for the conventional method of
language teaching.

(a) BCDA (b) ACBD (c) BADC (d) DACB

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 QUESTION-7
A. I found he was an old sailor and knew all the seafaring men in
Bristol.
B. So, I engaged him on the spot to be the ship's cook but he proved to
be much more.
C. He had lost his health ashore and wanted a berth as cook to get to
the sea again.
D. I was standing on the dock when by accident I fell in talk with a
stranger.
(a) CBAD (b) DACB (c) BACD (d) DBAC

QUESTION-8
A. They also visit ailing friends and relatives, or attend to personal
matters even during office hours.
B. Once in office, they receive friends and relatives who call them any
time without prior appointment.
C. We can frequently find a large number of people sitting here and
there and doing nothing.
D. Even those who are employed often come late to office and leave
early unless they are forced to be punctual.
(a) DCAB (b) ABCD (c) CDBA (d) ACDB

QUESTION-9
S1- It was 6 o’clock in the evening and there was a lot of
traffic on the road.
A: He was very angry with them for their recklessness.
B: They laughed at him as they overtook his car.
C: Mohan was driving his car when suddenly two teenagers on a bike
speeded ahead from behind him.
D: Mohan swerved a little and applied the brakes in the nick of time.
S-6 But since he was getting late for an important meeting at his
office, he ignored the bike riders and drove ahead.

(a) CADB (b) BDCA (c) ACBD (d) CBAD

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 QUESTION-10
A. As soon as she was given the slippers, she broke into a dance
strutting around in her first ever pair of slippers.
B. This story may seem strange but it is a fact that, in many villages of
India, people don’t have anything to put on their feet.
C. Goonj, a leading NGO of India, runs a cloth for Work Scheme and
gives clothes and useful items in exchange for work done.
D. Recently, as part of the scheme, an old lady in a Madhya Pradesh
village was given a pair of slippers.
(a) DACB (b) CABD (c) CDAB (d) DBAC

QUESTION-11
A. An environmental group performed a necropsy on the animal and
found about 40 kilograms of plastic, including grocery bags and rice
sacks.
B. A 4.7-metre long whale died on Saturday in the Philippines where it
was stranded a day earlier.
C. “It’s very disgusting and heart-breaking,” he said, “we’ve done
necropsies on 61 dolphins and whales in the last 10 years and this is
one of the biggest amounts of plastic we’ve seen.”
D. “The animal died from starvation and was unable to eat because of
the trash filling its stomach,” said Darrell Bletchley, Director of D’
Bone Collector Museum Inc.
(a) ABCD (b) DABC (c) BADC (d) BACD

QUESTION-12
A. For a split second, as the stranger stepped into the light, his furry
head was clearly visible.
B. At first, all seemed still outside the house, except the sound of the
rain.
C. Recognizing him, Joe stood petrified staring at the man wearing a
long coat , wet from rain.
D. But then, footsteps approached the house and a stranger emerged
out of the darkness.

(a) CABD (b) BCDA (c) DACB (d) BDAC

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 QUESTION-13
A. He would sit at the edge of her mother's bed and stare into her crib.
B. Arvind bumbled down the interminable corridor, suddenly reminded
of his daughter in the days after she was born.
C. As a proportion to the fragment of life his daughter had seen, an
hour was a vast sprawling space.
D. Some days he would imagine the world through her eyes and he
would feel in his heart how long an hour actually was.

(a) BCDA (b) BADC (c) DACB (d) ABCD

QUESTION-14
A. The cafe’s owner says he’s interested in conservation
and hopes customers will realise the animals are worth saving, even
though they often have a bad reputation.
B. None of them are venomous, meaning customers can get up
close and personal with the reptiles.
C. Here you sip your drink in the company of 35 snakes.
D. This cafe, which has just opened in Tokyo, is not for the
faint-hearted.

(a) DBCA (b) DCBA (c) ABCD (d) ABDC

QUESTION-15
A. Having cancer is often one of the most stressful experiences in a
person's life.
B. They also allow people to learn from others facing similar situations.
C. The groups are gaining popularity these days as they allow
volunteers to talk with those who are living with cancer.
D. But these days there are support groups that help patients cope with
the emotional aspects of cancer by providing an opportunity to share
feelings and challenges they face with others.

(a) CBDA (b) ADCB (c) DCBA (d) ACBD

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 QUESTION-16
A. The most helpful thing you can do is to hold someone’s hand when
they most need it.
B. Also, jotting down notes for your seniors on ward rounds is probably
not the most important thing.
C. My first year as a doctor in the U.K. is over and this is what I have
learnt.
D. No matter what anyone tells you, writing that urgent discharge
summary is not the most important thing you will do today.

(a) DBAC (b) CDBA (c) ABDC (d) CBAD

QUESTION-17
A. In those allotted minutes the directors have the freedom to interpret
the segments in their own unique way.
B. The play has been divided into segments of 10 minutes each by the
directors.
C. Eight young directors, over 50 actors and one landmark play-
Hayavadana.
D. This unique collaboration is a tribute to the playwright Girish
Karnad.
(a) BACD (b) CDBA (c) ADBC (d) CABD

QUESTION-18
A. There is a story about an ancient Indian sage who was called ugly
names by a passerby.
B. The sage then said, “Well then, I have not accepted your offering”
and walked away.
C. He finally asked the man, “If an offering is not accepted, who does it
belong to?” at which the man replied, “To the person who offered it.”
D. The sage listened unperturbed till the man ran out of words.

(a) CABD (b) ACDB (c) DCBA (d) ADCB

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 QUESTION-19
A. Some used cars may have been involved in accidents or salvaged and
rebuilt.
B. Before buying a used car it’s important to know everything there is
to know about it.
C. If the car engine is clean, it’s a good sign, but still ask for a test
drive.
D. It is therefore very important to examine the car’s engine for any
fluid leaks
(a) CDBA (b) ACDB (c) BADC (d) DBCA

QUESTION-20
A. Over the past week, the state has been pounded by intense rainfall,
thus transforming the July deficit to surplus.
B. A year after being ravaged by the worst floods in 100 years, Kerala is
once again facing a deluge.
C. The districts in Kerala’s north – in particular Kozhikode, Wayanad,
and Malappuram –are among the worst affected
where relief work is going on.
D. The copious amounts of rainfall in the state have been both intense
and consisten

(a) BADC (b) DBAC (c) DBCA (d) ABCD

QUESTION-21
A. Such was his devotion that Kaali Ma appeared before him with a
thousand heads and a thousand pairs of arms.
B. Once, Tenali Raman wanted to visit the Kaali temple on the outskirts
of the city and pray.
C. It was quite dark by the time Tenali reached the temple, prostrated
before the goddess, and with eyes closed started praying to Mother
Kaali.
D. Raman who was dazzled to see Mother Kaali in all her glory, looked
at her from left to right and right to left and could not control his
happiness.
(a) BCAD (b) BACD (c) DCBA (d) CDAB

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 QUESTION-22
A. Now that the real estate sector has got its own regulator, RERA, from
May 1, 2017, things are expected to improve.
B. For many of the homebuyers, across locations the delay has
extended to almost six years or more.
C. In the absence of a regulator and with no rules in place, the builder-
buyer battle appeared one-sided.
D. For the buyers of real estate properties the delay in possession of
their homes has been the biggest concern.
(a) DBCA (b) ABDC (c) DABC (d) BACD

QUESTION-23
A. "It's sort of cool to be on a ship but even more amazing is this Earth
we live on," Williams remarked as she described life on a spaceship to
eager kids.
B. Williams, who is set to be one of the first to fly aboard Boeing's
Starliner spacecraft in November 2019, was introduced at the festival
by former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino .
C. On Sept. 22, 2018 NASA astronaut Sunita Williams — a veteran of
two long-duration space flights — talked to families and space
enthusiasts about space travel.
D. She was speaking at the Intrepid Air, Sea & Space Museum during
the recent Space & Science Festival.

(a) BCDA (b) CDBA (c) CBDA (d) BACD

QUESTION-24
A. One of the crocodiles was four feet long and almost six years old.
B. Post this announcement a video of a crocodile attacking a dog has
gone viral causing people to panic further.
C. The authorities have announced that more crocodiles would be
sighted once the waters recede.
D. After the monsoon deluge the Forest Department of Vadodara has so
far rescued three crocodiles which had swum into residential areas.

(a) BDAC (b) ADBC (c) DACB (d) DCAB

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 QUESTION-25
A. All day I seem to remember, I played on the sands with strange
exciting children.
B. Then watched the incoming tide destroy them.
C. My parents took me by car to a place by the sea.
D. We made sandcastles with huge walls.
(a) ACBD (b) CADB (c) CDAB (d) ABCD

Answer key: Level-2

1-d, 2-d, 3-b, 4-a, 5-c, 6-c, 7-b, 8-c, 9-d, 10-c, 11-c, 12-d, 13-b, 14-b, 15-
b, 16-b, 17-b, 18-d, 19-c, 20-a, 21-a, 22-a, 23-b, 24-c, 25-b.

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