ANTIQUATED

The number of people going abroad for vacations is ever increasing every year.

Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the word opposite in meaning of the given word as your answer.

Sedentary

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.

A. Ben was eating an apple, and seemed to be in high spirits.

B. Ben Rogers came into view presently, the very boy whose ridicule he had been dreading.

C. Tom went on dipping the brush into the paint and whitewashing the fence, and paid no attention to Ben.

D. Tom took up his brush and calmly resumed his work.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined word in a sentence.

Even though James won the election, he has not brought any of his campaign promises to fruition.

In these questions, four words are given out of which only one is misspelt. Find that mis-spelt word.

A vexed problem facing us is the clamour to open more colleges and to reserve more seats for backward classes. But it will be a sheer folly to expand such facilities recklessly without giving any thought to the quality of education imparted. If admissions are made far more selective, it will automatically reduced the number of entrants. This should apply particularly colleges, many of which are little more than degree factories. Only then can the authorities hope to bring down the teacher-student ratio to manageable proportion. What is more, teachers should be given refresher courses, every summer to brush up their knowledge. Besides, if college managements increase their library budget it will help both the staff and the to new students a great deal. 
At the same time, however, it will be unfair to deny college education to thousands of young men and women, unless employers stop insisting on degrees even for clerical jobs. For a start, why can't the Government disqualify graduates from securing certain jobs, say class III and IV posts? Once the link between degrees and jobs is severed at least in some important departments, in will make young people think twice before joining college. 

The phrase “Vexed problem” means

In the following questions, Four words are given in each question, out of which only one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.