AFCAT ENGLISH QUIZ-19

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Question 1:

Direction: Find the correct word which is opposite in meaning to the given word.

Quiescent

Question 2:

Direction: Find the correct word which is nearest in meaning to the given word.
Elude

Question 3:

Direction: Choose the correct option which best defines the given phrase.
Hobson's choice

Question 4:

Direction: Find the correct word which is opposite in meaning to the given word.

Flatter

Question 5:

Direction: Choose the correct option which best defines the given phrase.

As clear as mud

Question 6:

Direction: Find the correct option which is nearest to the given word. 


Comprehensive

Question 7:

Direction :- The four sentences labelled (A),(B),(C),(D) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer. 


A. In rejecting the functionalism in positivist organization theory, either wholly or partially, there is often a move towards a political model of organization theory.

B. Thus the analysis would shift to the power resources possessed by different groups in the organization and the way they use these resources in actual power plays to shape the organizational structure.

C. At the extreme, in one set of writings, the growth of administrators in the organization is held to be completely unrelated to the work to be done and to be caused totally by the political pursuit of self-interest.

D. The political model holds that individual interests are pursued in organizational life through the exercise of power and influence.

Question 8:

Direction :- The four sentences labelled (A),(B),(C),(D) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer. 


A. Marine life would suffer because a lid of warm water would prevent the circulation that normally brings nutrients to the surface of the sea and the river waters.

B. But plant productivity would rise by 50 percent.

C. A number of effects are expected from global warming.

D. Also, the warmer climate could melt the floating ice oceans and surrounding areas.

Question 9:

Direction :- The four sentences labelled (A),(B),(C),(D) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer. 


A. Suggest or request rather than give orders.

B. A poor executive gives orders; he commands and demands obedience.

C. Be a leader and not a boss.

D. A good one delegates wisely and counsels sanely.

Question 10:

Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer:

1. In addition to transport, the water and wastewater sector need resources.

2. Has eclipsed its concurrent investment in roads under Beijing’s 7918 plan. A network just a little longer than US interstate system.

3. After World War- 2, the United States built a 70,000-kilometer interstate network over 30 years.

4. In China, the astonishing growth in the last decade of the high-speed network.

5. At what flows seems a modest cost, in today’s prices, of $500 billion.