Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.

She was too startled at first saying something , but finally she blurted out the truth.

Directions: In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each number, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
The tea plant, a native of Southern China, was known ___1___ very early times to Chinese botany and medicine. It is ___2___ to in the classics ___3___ the various names of Tou, Tseh, Chung. Kha and Ming and was ___4___ praised for possessing the viruses of ___5___ fatigue, delighting the soul, strengthening the will and repairing the eyesight. It was not only administered as an internal dose, but often ___6___ externally in the form of paste to ___7___ rheumatic pains. The Tao ists claimed it ___8___ mi important ___9___ of the elixir of immortality. The Buddhists used it extensively to prevent drowsiness during ___10___ long hours of meditation. 

Appropriate word will be at option (6).

Groups of four words are given. In each group, one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.

Which one of the following options will complete the phrasal verb in the following sentence?
 The train slowed ……………. and finally stopped. 

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.

“So help me heaven!”, the man cried, “I shall never lie again.”

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
 He used to reply / that the only place / for which he went / was the town library.

Directions : In the following question, 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 as your answer.

I asked him if I _____ borrow his car for a day.

Directions : In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered.These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five options are given. Four of the Five words to the blank coherently.Find out the which word cannot fit in the blank properly.

It was a _____(xa)_____ journey that these 166 passengers of Jaipur bound Jet Airways flight number 9W 697 from Mumbai on Thursday will never forget. When the _____(xb)_____ took off at about 6 am on Thursday everything _____(xc)_____ normal. However, after 10 minutes into the flight, the _____(xd)_____ of these passengers began. Suddenly the oxygen masks came down from above their seats. By this time the aircraft was flying at a/an _____(xe)_____ of about 28,000 feet. Suddenly the _____(xf)_____ started feeling uncomfortable while some started to bleed from nose and ears. The panicked passengers _____(xg)_____ putting oxygen masks onto themselves while many _____(xh)_____ that they were not working. After about 10-15 minutes of _____(xi)_____ and panic the oxygen started flowing into the masks, much to the _____(xj)_____ of the passengers.

Find the blank at xa.