Night Class: English Quiz

Directions (Q. 1-5): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the black appropriately. Find out the appropriate words.

The ...(1)... of India-China interaction is ...(2)... as old as the two civilizations themselves. From the mid-1920s, Indian ...(3)... in China took a different ...(4)... when the Indian National Congress (INC), particularly Jawaharlal Nehru, began ...(5)... a world view, from an Indian perspective in an anti-imperialist context.

1. 

1) context 

2) history 

3) criterion 

4) utility 

5) progress

2. 

1) almost 

2) reasonably 

3) largely 

4) surprisingly 

5) avowedly

3. 

1) shift 

2) strategy 

3) behold 

4) interference 

5) interest

4. 

1) jump 

2) turn 

3) gamble 

4) gesture 

5) domain

5. 

1) contesting 

2) dominating 

3) enhancing 

4) articulating 

5) signaling

Directions (Q. 6-10): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate words.

At the core of the privatisation debate is the key ...(6)... of labour ...(7).... One of the long-standing demands of industry, both Indian and foreign, has been to ...(8)... labour laws as ...(9)... under the Industrial Disputes Act. These laws do not allow industry to reward merit and punish non-performers. Also, in the ...(10)... of an economic slowdown or shifting market preferences, they do not permit a downsizing of the work force. Ideally, industry should be free to contract or expand with changing technology, competition and obsolescence.

6. 

1) role 

2) emergence 

3) reality 

4) task 

5) issue

7. 

1) reforms 

2) agenda 

3) concerning 

4) manpower 

5) stigma

8. 

1) hold 

2) freeze 

3) refrain 

4) relax 

5) challenge

9. 

1) defined 

2) sentenced 

3) generated 

4) initiated 

5) subjected

10. 

1) resurgence 

2) event 

3) advent 

4) aftermath 

5) miracle

Answers:

1. 2 

2. 1 

3. 5 

4. 2 

5. 4

6. 5 

7. 1 

8. 4 

9. 1 

10. 2