GENERAL ENGLISH
DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 1 to 8) Read the following passage carefully to answer these questions given below it. Certain words /
phrases are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system of people and technology running smoothly. The most
important aspects of management include planning, budgeting, organizing, staffing, controlling and problem solving. Leadership is a
set of processes that creates organizations in the first place or adapts them to significantly changing circumstances, Leadership
defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.
This distinction is absolutely crucial for our purpose here. Successful transformation is 70-90 percent leadership and only 10-30
management. Yet for historical reasons, many organizations today do not have much leadership. And almost everyone thinks about
the problem here as one of managing change.
For most of this century, as we created thousands and thousands of large organizations for the first time in human history, we did not
have enough good managers to keep all those bureaucracies functioning. So many companies and universities developed management
programs and hundreds and thousands people were encouraged to learn management on the job. and they did. But people were taught
little about leadership. To some degree, management was emphasized because it is easier to teach them leadership. But even more so
management was the main item on the twentieth century agenda because that is what was needed. For every entrepreneur or business
builder who was a leader, we needed hundreds of managers to run their ever-growing enterprises.
Unfortunately for us today, this emphasis on management has often been institutionalized in corporate cultures that discourage
employees from learning how to lead. Ironically past success is usually the key ingredient in producing this outcome. The syndrome, as I
have observed it on many occasions goes like this: success creates some degree of market dominance which in turn produces much
growth. After a while keeping the ever larger organizations under control becomes primary challenge. So attention turns inward and
managerial competences are nurtured. With a strong emphasis on management but not leadership, bureaucracy and an inward focus take
over. But with the continued success the result mostly of market dominance, the problem often goes un-addressed and an unhealthy
arrogance begins to evolve. All of these characteristics then make any transformation efforts much more difficult.
Arrogant mangers can over evaluate their current performance and competitive position, listen poorly and learn slowly. Inwardly focused
employees can have difficulty seeing the very forces that present threats and opportunities. Bureaucratic cultures can smother those who
want to respond shifting conditions. And the lack of leadership leaves no force inside these organizations to break out of the morass.
1.
Which of the following is not the characteristic of Bureaucratic culture?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
2.
Managers listens poorly and learn slowly
Employees clearly sees the forces that present threats and opportunities
Managerial competences are nurtured
Prevalence of unhealthy arrogance
Which of the following is similar in meaning of the word “smother” as used in the passage?
(A) Suppress
(C) Instigate
3.
Which of the following characteristics help organizations in their transformation efforts?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
4.
Emphasis on leadership but not management
A strong and dogmatic culture
Bureaucratic and inward looking approach
Failing to acknowledge the value of customers and shareholders
In the passage management is equated with:
(A) Organisation
(C) Organisational Vision
5.
(B) Leadership
(D) Bureaucracy
What according to author is leadership?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
6.
(B) Encourage
(D) Criticize
Process which keeps system of people and technology running smoothly
Planning the future and budgetary resources of the organizations
Inspiring people to realize the vision
Carrying out the crucial functions of management
Why, according to author a distinction between management and leadership is crucial?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Leaders are reactive whereas managers are proactive
Organizations are facing problems of not getting good managers
Organizations are pursuing the strategy of status quo
In today’s context organizations need leaders much more than managers in transforming them
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7.
Management education was emphasized in the management programs because
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
8.
Establishing direction was the main focus of organizations
Motivating employees was thought to be done by managers
Organizations wanted to create powerful guiding coalition.
Management was the main item of agenda in organizations
Why does the attention of large organizations turn inward?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Their manager become arrogant
They have to keep themselves under control
Their success creates market dominance
They want to project their predictability
DIRECTIONS: Choose the word which is opposite in meaning as the word given in bold and mark your answer.
9.
Indifference:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Neutrality
Different
Responsiveness
Sophistication
DIRECTIONS: Choose the word which is opposite in meaning as the word given in bold and mark your answer.
10.
Tragic:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Light
Funny
Humorous
Comic
DIRECTIONS: In the following question, identify the correct reported speech from the given alternatives.
11.
Miss Ragini said to me, “Put these pencil shavings in the dustbin.”:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Miss Ragini asked me to put those pencil shavings in the dustbin.
Miss Ragini said to me to put these pencil shavings in the dustbin.
Miss Ragini ordered me to put these pencil shavings in the dustbin.
Miss Ragini told me to put those pencil shavings in the dustbin.
DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blank with correct preposition.
12.
He invited all his friends ……. tea:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
To
For
On
In
DIRECTIONS: Complete the sentence correctly.
13.
Ram is so proud of his position that he ______ his subordinates:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Looks down upon
Looks into
Looks for
Looks after
DIRECTIONS: In the following question, identify the correct reported speech from the given alternatives.
14.
He said to his wife “How many people were coming to dinner tonight.”
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
He asked his wife how many people were coming to dinner tonight
He asked his wife how many people were coming to dinner that night
He called his wife how many people were coming to dinner that night
He narrated his wife how many people are coming to dinner that night
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DIRECTIONS: In the following question, out of four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given
word and answer accordingly
15.
Successive:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Rapid
Consecutive
Victorious
Beneficient
DIRECTIONS: In the following question, out of four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given
word and answer accordingly
16.
Infructuous:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Meaningless
Unnecessary
Redundant
Fruitless
DIRECTIONS: Choose the correct option.
17.
Yesterday our team ……. the team of Ramjus School.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Was defeated
Defeated
Is defeating
Will defeat
DIRECTIONS: Choose the correct option.
18.
The snake crawled …….. the rock.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
With
After
Under
At
DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blank with correct preposition.
19.
.......... cooking, he also likes to write poetry in his free time:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Beside
Besides
Except
While
DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blank with correct preposition.
20.
The thief entered the room ............ the window:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
From
By
Through
With
DIRECTIONS: Choose the correct passive voice of the sentence given in the question.
21.
There is no house to let:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
There is no house to be let
No house is there to let
There is no house which could be let
There is no house for letting out
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DIRECTIONS: Which of phrase given below in each sentence should replace the phrase in Underlined to make the sentence
grammatically correct?
22.
He is too important for tolerating any delay:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
to tolerate
to tolerating
at tolerating
with tolerating
DIRECTIONS: Which of phrase given below in each sentence should replace the phrase in Underlined to make the sentence
grammatically correct?
23.
Why did you not threw the bag away?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
24.
Find the correctly spelt word.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
25.
Pessenger
Passenger
Pasanger
Pesanger
Point out the correct sentence.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
26.
did you not throw
had you not threw
did you not thrown
you did not thrown
The teacher said that the Earth moved round the sun.
The teacher told that the Earth was moving round the sun.
The teacher said that the Earth moves round the sun.
The teacher said that the Earth had moved round the sun.
Mark the correct passive form of the sentence –
I play cricket with my friends.
(A) I play with my friends cricket
(B) Cricket plays my friends with me
(C) Cricket is played by me with my friends
(D) Cricket was played by me with my friends
DIRECTIONS: Identify the tenses in the following sentence.
27.
She reached the examination hall well in time.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Present perfect
Past indefinite
Past perfect
Future indefinite
DIRECTIONS: Mark the appropriate words to fill in the blank.
28.
God helps those ………….. help themselves.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Who
Which
That
Whom
DIRECTIONS: Identify the part of speech of the underlined word in the sentence and mark the correct choice.
29.
Cross the busy road carefully.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Noun
Adjective
Verb
Adverb
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30.
Fill in the gap with suitable preposition:
Sita is indifferent ____ her health.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
31.
Manish said that he was busy then.
The correct direct speech of the above reported speech is:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
32.
Manish said, “I am busy now”
Manish said, “He is busy then”
Manish said, “He were busy now”
Manish said, “He was busy then”
Identify the correct tense which has been used in this sentence.
By the end of this year he will have saved a lot of money.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
33.
To
Of
From
By
Future continuous tense
Future perfect tense
Future perfect continuous tense
Simple future tense
Tea is too hot to Drink.
The correct transformation of above sentence is:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Tea is so hot that one can not drink it.
Tea is very hot and can not be drunk.
Tea is so hot when you drink it.
Tea is very hot if you drink it.
DIRECTIONS: In the following question select the appropriate word that best represents the given set of words.
34.
The writing that cannot be read:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Nonlegible
Unlegible
Illegal
Illegible
DIRECTIONS: In the following question select the appropriate word that best represents the given set of words.
35.
A person whose thoughts are turned inwards:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Extrovert
Invertebrate
Intelligent
Introvert
DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blanks with correct preposition.
36.
The cat jumped ........... the chair.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
of
from
off
by
DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blanks with correct preposition.
37.
........... being fined, he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment;
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Beside
Besides
Apart
Having
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38.
Given the plural word “Brethren”. Identify its singular word from among the alternatives:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Brother
Breath
Bear
Berth
DIRECTIONS: Fill each blank in the following sentences with an appropriate conjunction:
39.
Grievances can not be redressed ........... they are known.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
40.
Unless
Whether
Than
If
DIRECTIONS: Identify the plural form which is incorrect:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Commanders-in-chief
Mice
Son-in-laws
Men
DIRECTIONS: Fill in the appropriate option to make the sentence in “ Future Perfect continuous Tense”
41.
By next March We ............... here for four years
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Shall be living
Shall live
Shall have been living
Shall have been lived
DIRECTIONS: Against Each key word are given four suggested meanings. Choose the word or phrase which is the nearest in
meaning to the key word?
42.
Lewd
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Vulgar
Decent
Pleasing
Funny
DIRECTIONS: Against Each key word are given four suggested meanings. Choose the word or phrase which is the nearest in
meaning to the key word?
43.
Mediocre
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
44.
Identify the incorrect sentence:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
45.
Exceptional
Extraordinary
Average
Uncommon
The number of students is very small.
A number of books are missing.
Ram, as well as his ten friends, is going.
Many a man were drowned in the sea.
Fill in the blank using the correct tense:
When Shivansh came to the school in 1996, Mr. Rakesh ............ there for seven years.
(A) Has already been teaching
(B) Had already been teaching
(C) Has already been teaching
(D) Will have already been teaching
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46.
Select the word that is most similar in meaning to the word in Capital letters:
NAIVE
(A) Novice
(C) Disciplined
47.
(B) Dishonest
(D) Traditional
Select the word that is most similar in meaning to the word in Capital letters:
OBSCURE
(A) Famous
(C) Unknown
48.
(B) Well Known
(D) Prevalent
Choose the exact meaning of the idioms/phrases from the given alternatives:
Duck in a thunderstorm
(A) Distressed
(C) Entrapped
49.
(B) Peaceful
(D) Timid
Choose the exact meaning of the idioms/phrases from the given alternatives:
TO KICK THE BUCKET
(A) To start an account
(C) To die
50.
(B) To start a sea journey
(D) To start agricultural activity
Choose the correct preposition to fill in the gap
The income derived ........ the ownership of land is commonly called rent.
(A) By
(C) With
51.
(B) From
(D) In
Choose the appropriate word/ group of words to fill the gap making the sentence meaningful
Ram ........ many prizes at the school sports.
(A) Got through
(C) Brought up
52.
(B) Bore away
(D) Broke off
Each of the following idioms/phrases is followed by four alternative meanings of which only one is correct. Choose
the correct one.
I was totally put out by his brazen manners.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
53.
Removed from the place
Condemned
Ashamed
Upset
Rearrange the scrambled segments in logical order to make a complete sentence.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
To places where more opportunities are available.
And so there is a great demand for English
For professional and economic growth
Because it takes one outside one’s own community.
English is the language of opportunity
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
1, 2, 5, 3, 4
5, 4, 1, 3, 2
3, 1, 4, 2, 5
2, 1, 3, 5, 4
DIRECTIONS: Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the phrase / idiom given in bold.
54.
Look daggers:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Look angrily
To forecast a dangerous situation
Fight with each other
To react sharply
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55.
Choose the best construction:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
56.
If you took care you wouldn’t have got typhoid.
If you would have taken care you wouldn’t have got typhoid.
If you take care you wouldn’t have got typhoid.
If you had taken care you would not have got typhoid.
In the following question, choose the grammatically correct phrase/idiom to complete the sentence
We must never hesitate ............ to the needy; we never know when we might be in need ourselves.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
57.
To give a leg
To give a hand
To give life
To give blood
In the following question, choose the grammatically correct phrase/idiom to complete the sentence
That was a .............. . The bus nearly hit the cyclist.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
58.
Find out the correctly spelt word.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
59.
Acquaintence
Acquaintance
Acquaintince
Acquintence
Choose the correct spelt word.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
60.
Close catch
Far call
Close signal
Close call
Deliberation
Deleberation
Deliberition
Delaberation
Choose the correct spelt word.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Detereorate
Deteriorate
Detiriorate
Detireorate
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