Communication Test Paper
Communication Test Paper
Communication Test Paper
COMMUNICATION TEST
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I. Sentence Completion
1. Today Wegener's theory is ____ ; however, he died an outsider treated with ____ by the
scientific establishment.
A. unsupported - approval
B. dismissed - contempt
C. accepted - approbation
D. unchallenged - disdain
E. unrivalled - reverence
2. The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ____ on as fiercely as ever.
A. trudges
B. meanders
C. edges
D. ambles
E. rages
3. Each occupation has its own ____ ; bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example,
all use among themselves language which outsiders have difficulty following.
A. merits
B. disadvantages
C. rewards
D. jargon
E. problems
4. ____ by nature, Jones spoke very little even to his own family members.
A. garrulous
B. equivocal
C. taciturn
D. arrogant
E. gregarious
5. Biological clocks are of such ____ adaptive value to living organisms, that we would expect
most organisms to ____ them.
A. clear - avoid
B. meager - evolve
C. significant - eschew
D. obvious - possess
E. ambivalent - develop
6. The peasants were the least ____ of all people, bound by tradition and ____ by superstitions.
A. free - fettered
B. enfranchised - rejected
C. enthralled - tied
D. pinioned - limited
E. conventional - encumbered
7. Many people at that time believed that spices help preserve food; however, Hall found that
many marketed spices were ____ bacteria, moulds and yeasts.
A. devoid of
B. teeming with
C. improved by
D. destroyed by
E. active against
8. If there is nothing to absorb the energy of sound waves, they travel on ____ , but their
intensity ____ as they travel further from their source.
A. erratically - mitigates
B. eternally - alleviates
C. forever - increases
D. steadily - stabilizes
E. indefinitely - diminishes
9. The two artists differed markedly in their temperaments; Palmer was reserved and courteous,
Frazer ____ and boastful.
A. phlegmatic
B. choleric
C. constrained
D. tractable
E. stoic
10. The intellectual flexibility inherent in a multicultural nation has been ____ in classrooms
where emphasis on British-American literature has not reflected the cultural ____ of our country.
A. eradicated - unanimity
B. encouraged - aspirations
C. stifled - diversity
D. thwarted - uniformity
E. inculcated - divide
say:'_____________________________'
8. He answers:'_____________________________'
9. Your friend and you are both going home, he says:'_____________________________'
III.READING COMPREHENSION.
Should we really care for the greatest actors of the past could we have them before us? Should
we find them too different from our accent of thought, of feeling, of speech, in a thousand minute
particulars which are of the essence of all three? Dr. Doran's long and interesting records of the
triumphs of Garrick, and other less familiar, but in their day hardly less astonishing, players, do
not relieve one of the doubt. Garrick himself, as sometimes happens with people who have been
the subject of much anecdote and other conversation, here as elsewhere, bears no very distinct
figure. One hardly sees the wood for the trees. On the other hand, the account of Betterton,
"perhaps the greatest of English actors," is delightfully fresh. That intimate friend of Dryden,
Tillatson, Pope, who executed a copy of the actor's portrait by Kneller which is still extant, was
worthy of their friendship; his career brings out the best elements in stage life. The stage in these
volumes presents itself indeed not merely as a mirror of life, but as an illustration of the utmost
intensity of life, in the fortunes and characters of the players. Ups and downs, generosity, dark
fates, the most delicate goodness, have nowhere been more prominent than in the private
existence of those devoted to the public mimicry of men and women. Contact with the stage,
almost throughout its history, presents itself as a kind of touchstone, to bring out the bizarrerie,
the theatrical tricks and contrasts, of the actual world.
Adapted from an essay by W H Pater
1. In the expression One hardly sees the wood for the trees, the author apparently intends the
word trees to be analogous to
A. features of Dorans language style
3. Information supplied in the passage is sufficient to answer which of the following questions?
I Who did Doran think was probably the best English actor?
II What did Doran think of Garrick?
III Would the author give a definite answer to the first question posed in the passage?
A. I only
B. II only
E. I, II and III
A sanctuary may be defined as a place where Man is passive and the rest of Nature active. Till
quite recently Nature had her own sanctuaries, where man either did not go at all or only as a
tool-using animal in comparatively small numbers. But now, in this machinery age, there is no
place left where man cannot go with overwhelming forces at his command. He can strangle to
death all the nobler wild life in the world to-day. To-morrow he certainly will have done so,
unless he exercises due foresight and self-control in the mean time. There is not the slightest
doubt that birds and mammals are now being killed off much faster than they can breed. And it
is always the largest and noblest forms of life that suffer most. The whales and elephants, lions
and eagles, go. The rats and flies, and all mean parasites, remain. This is inevitable in certain
cases. But it is wanton killing off that I am speaking of to-night. Civilized man begins by
destroying the very forms of wild life he learns to appreciate most when he becomes still more
civilized. The obvious remedy is to begin conservation at an earlier stage, when it is easier and
better in every way, by enforcing laws for close seasons, game preserves, the selective protection
of certain species, and sanctuaries. I have just defined a sanctuary as a place where man is
passive and the rest of Nature active. But this general definition is too absolute for any special
case. The mere fact that man has to protect a sanctuary does away with his purely passive
attitude. Then, he can be beneficially active by destroying pests and parasites, like bot-flies or
mosquitoes, and by finding antidotes for diseases like the epidemic which periodically kills off
the rabbits and thus starves many of the carnivora to death. But, except in cases where
experiment has proved his intervention to be beneficial, the less he upsets the balance of Nature
the better, even when he tries to be an earthly Providence.
Adapted from: Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador, W Wood (1911)
B. somewhat idealistic
C. unhelpful
D. indefensible
E. immutable
5. The authors argument that destroying bot-flies and mosquitoes would be a beneficial action is
most weakened by all of the following except
A. parasites have an important role to play in the regulation of populations
B. the elimination of any species can have unpredictable effects on the balance of nature
E. elimination of these insects would require the use of insecticides that kill a wide range of
insects
6. It can be inferred that the passage is
A. part of an article in a scientific journal
D. to propose a program
IV.ANTONYMS
A. Concise
B. Circular
C. Comprehensive
D. Ardent
E. Junior
B. Nimble
C. Sluggish
D. Hurried
E. Genuine
A. Spoken
B. Placatory
C. Leisurely
D. Talkative
E. Confident
B. Terse
C. Awkward
D. Belligerent
E. Forward
A. Accept
B. Convert
C. Accelerate
D. Consider
E. Vilify
B. Pleasure
C. Honorary
D. Disgrace
E. Diffidence
A. Salacious
B. Cursory
C. Assiduous
D. Asinine
E. Jovial
B. Shocking
C. Disgraceful
D. Nimble
E. Nonchalant
A. Incarcerate
B. Extol
C. Remit
D. Flatten
E. Change
B. Cogitate
C. Espy
D. Plant
E. Defame
V. SYNONYMS
B. Disgraced
C. Tranquil
D. Treacherous
E. Inactive
B. Disinterred
C. Conflicting
D. Loud
E. Relevant
B. Firm
C. Controlled
D. Justified
E. Complete
B. Convert
C. Pacify
D. Appraise
E. Unite
A. Talented
B. Inept
C. Upright
D. Silent
E. Verdant
B. Fearsome
C. Broad
D. Uncertain
E. Adult
A. Mocking
B. Vicious
C. Puerile
D. Ineffable
E. Permanent
B. Quarrelsome
C. Dangerous
D. Infinite
E. Fussy
A. Terrorize
B. Defeat
C. Vibrate
D. Hypnotize
E. Deafen
B. Decorous
C. Monotonous
D. Multicolored
E. Patterned
a.) Benediction
b.) Amnesty
c.) Emancipation
d.) Gratification
2. Something which is short lived.
a.) Interim
b.) Epicurious
c.) Ephemeral
d.) Diadem
3. Study of birds.
a.) Ornithology
b.) Aviology
c.) Supersonic
d.) Birdology
4. He can not live in a closed apartment. He is _____
a.) Claustrophobic
b.) Congested
c.) Acrophobic
d.) Coprastasophobic
5. The new sales man talks a lot, often about stuff that only he thinks is interesting. No one likes
a _______man like him.
a.) Loquacious
b.) Garrulous
c.) Verbose
d.) Tacit
6. Study of stamps and postal history
a.) Philately
b.) Numismatics
c.) Postatics
d.) Stampics
7. God is present everywhere. He is __________.
a.) Omniscient
b.) Omnipresent
c.) Omnipotent
d.) Convalescent
8. A Government by the nobles
a.) Monarchy
b.) Aristocracy
c.) Autocracy
d.) Plutocracy
9. Something which can not be avoided
a.) Unavoidable
b.) Inimitable
c.) Inevitable
d.) Unevitable
10. A handwriting that can not be read
a.) Caliph
b.) Caligraphy
c.) Illegible
d.) Unreadable
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IX.DEGREES OF COMPARISION
Question 1
How is your father today? Is he any ?
a) good
b) better
c) best
Question 2
The climate of Chennai is than the climate of Bangalore.
a) hot
b) hotter
c) hottest
Question 3
She is .. than her sister.
a) pretty
b) prettier
c) more pretty
Question 4
Jane is the .. student in the class.
a) brightest
b) bright
c) brighter
Question 5
He is the man in the town.
a) rich
b) richer
c) richest
Question 6
James is two years . than me.
a) old
b) older
c) oldest
Question 7
Annie is the . friend I have.
a) good
b) better
c) best
Question 8
Mount Everest is the peak of the Himalayas.
a) high
b) higher
c) highest
Question 9
He is the of the two.
a) tall
b) taller
c) tallest
Question 10
The pen is than the sword.
a) might
b) mightier
c) mightiest
X.PREPOSITION FILLING
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