Directions : In each of the following questions, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error. If a sentence is free from error, select No error

I recall you telling me (1) / the story of the seven witches (2)/ but I cannot remember where or when.(3)/ No error (4)

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word in the same language

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
 Hold someone or something at bay 

Directions: In the following questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is free from error, your answer is No error.

A city dweller finds it difficult (1)/ to pass away the time (2)/ in a village. (3)/ No error. (4)

Select the option that will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘No improvement’.

Dad said that, “She would have been a great sister if she was just a bit more careful”.

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.
Scarcity is not created by war; ___(a)___ is a permanent characteristic of all human ___(b)___and has been faced by the whole human ___(c)___. It springs from the fact that the material resources of the world are ___(d)___ and that our ability to make use of those resources is even more limited ___(e)___ our ignorance.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.(b).

Direction: Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them:
(1) “What is waste of my tax money”, I thought, walking past the people having free Californian Chardonnay.
(2) “Speak to her”, he said, “She's into books”.
(3) The friend who had brought me there noticed my noticing her.
(4) In late 2003, I was still paying taxes in America, so it horrified me that the US Consulate was hosting a “Gallo drinking appreciation event”.
(5) Behind them, a pianist was playing old film tunes, and a slim short woman was dancing around him.

Which of the following would be the First sentence?

Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us into some corner of the world where people are not interested in minutes and seconds. The unpunctuality of the orient, for example is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-times and regular train services. For a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accepts the blank hours with linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home. Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second; men will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organisation needed to control technology shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.
 In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in C.P. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.

If a person believes that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, he is