ENGLISH QUIZ
Directions (1-10): In the passage given below there are 10 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Each blank has four alternative words given in options (A),(B),(C) and (D). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (E) as your answer if the word given in bold after the blank is your answer i.e “No change required”.
The increasing cost of higher education in the United States has been a –(1)—(contrast) topic for debate in recent decades. American society —(2)—(denigrate) the importance of education after high school, yet the cost of undergraduate and advanced degrees continually rises at a greater rate than —(3)—-(inflammation).
According to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, cost factors
prevent 48% of college-qualified high school graduates from —(4)—-(pursuing) further education (McKeon, 2004, p. 45). The current system requires the majority of students to —-(5)—-(dissipate) extensive debt with the expectation that they gain —-(6)—-(unprofitable) post-graduate employment to repay their loans.
The cost of higher education raises several —(7)—-(ethical) issues. Among these are the perpetuation of the cycle of debt in American commercial society, the —(8)—-(hypothetical) of differing higher education institutions and cost, and the resulting socioeconomic and racial inequities in college demographics. Both an examination of the current trends and figures and a closer look at a real life example show the troublesome state of higher education and its —(9)—(affect) on our commercial society.
Research indicates a steep upward trend in the cost of higher education throughout the 20th century. In recent decades, America has witnessed a widening gap between inflation and tuition. An incoming freshman at a typical college —(10)—(infer) charges for tuition, university fees, books, room and board, and other miscellaneous items.
Q1.
(a) Contempt
(b) Constant
(c) Continuing
(d) Contrite
(e) No change required
Q2.
(a) Immaculate
(b) Immune
(c) Inimical
(d) Emphasizes
(e) No change required
Q3.
(a) Inflation
(b) Inference
(c) Innocuous
(d) Incongruous
(e) No change required
Q4.
(a) Prefer
(b) Perpetual
(c) Perfunctory
(d) Predilection
(e) No change required
Q5.
(a) Accrue
(b) Accumulate
(c) Acrimonious
(d) Accredited
(e) No change required
Q6.
(a) Lascivious
(b) Luscious
(c) Lucrative
(d) Capricious
(e) No change required
Q7.
(a) Amoral
(b) Ethereal
(c) Exquisite
(d) Immoral
(e) No change required
Q8.
(a) Hierarchy
(b) Dichotomy
(c) Trichotomy
(d) Transgression
(e) No change required
Q9.
(a) Arcane
(b) Affirmative
(c) Effective
(d) Effect
(e) No change required
Q10.
(a) Insure
(b) Incurs
(c) Insist
(d) Inflate
(e) No change required
Directions (11-20): In the passage given below there are 10 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Each blank has four alternative words given in options (A), (B),(C) and (D). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (E) as your answer if the word given in bold after the blank is your answer i.e “No change required”.
The idea of the documentary was …1…(deceive) by Anubhav in the year 2007 while he was …2…(attaining) to his undergraduate course …3…(off) the Western International University, New Delhi, India as a possible …4…(enmity) for an annual inter-university competition …5…(furor) SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) …6…(as well as) his institution rejected his …7…(prosperous) on account of non-feasibility. …8…(sincere) then he is independently working on this documentary and has …9…(likewise) interviewed famous personalities from all walks of …10…(sphere).
11.
(a) Accepted
(b) Conceived
(c) Borrowed
(d) Taken
(e) No change required
12.
(a) Attending
(b) Arriving
(c) Catching
(d) Noticing
(e) No change required
13.
(a) On
(b) In
(c) At
(d) As
(e) No change required
14.
(a) Exit
(b) Entry
(c) Retirement
(d) Allocation
(e) No change required
15.
(a) For
(b) From
(c) If
(d) Form
(e) No change required
16.
(a) Except
(b) Only
(c) But
(d) Yet
(e) No change required
17.
(a) Angle
(b) Proposal
(c) Motion
(d) News
(e) No change required
18.
(a) Since
(b) Nearby
(c) Convenient
(d) Beside
(e) No change required
19.
(a) Presently
(b) Lastly
(c) old
(d) Already
(e) No change required
20.
(a) Light
(b) Live
(c) Alone
(d) Life
(e) No change required
ANSWERS
1. C
2. D
3. A
4. E
5. B
6. C
7. E
8. A
9. D
10. B
11. B
12. A
13. C
14. B
15. A
16. C
17. B
18. A
19. D
20. D
