Directions (40): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. The fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
There is nothing which a man of strong will cannot achieve. Will power is the sure hypnotism that….(31)….all obstacles that…. (32)….our progress. A man of strong will is always ….(33)…., while one who is weak in will has to….(34)….many failures. “Nothing ventured, nothing gained”….(35)….be an excellent rule of conduct, but no strong will, no….(36)….is the greatest….(37)….of life. All difficulties melt away before a….(38)….mind. Very often we attribute our….(39)….to chance, fate or stars. We blame our luck, but….(40)….do we examine our minds, the weakness of which is really responsible for our failures. (Mark your answer 40 )

Identify the pair of synonyms from the underlined words in the given sentence.

It was a fairly foul day , as omens could be seen in abundance from the threshold of his border town ever since the dawn struck.

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.

They finally did what / we advice them to do / before the final match.

Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-

Attached to this application is an affidavit form and three sheets of blank paper.

Directions : In these questions , a part of the sentence is given in bold . Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (A) , (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence . Choose the correct alternative . In case no improvement is needed you answer is (D ) .

The sun hid behind a cloud and it seemed like a light (have been switched) off.

In each of the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word (s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate your choice for the correct answer.

He……….himself a stiff drink before making his statement to the police officer.

Directions: In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers A), B), C), D) and E). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.

It is _____ that in the present system there is neither justice nor ________ to law.

Choose the word which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word given in capital letters:

ALLEGIANCE