ENGLISH WITH NIMISHA BANSAL 1

ENGLISH WITH NIMISHA BASNAL 1

CONNECTER & MATCH THE COLUMN QUESTIONS

Connectors

Directions: In the given question, five statements are given. Only one of the sentences from
the given options can be wrong. Choose that sentence as your answer. If all the sentences are
correct, mark E as your answer.

1.

A. The experiment yielded unexpected results conversely, it raised more questions.

B. The scientific paper was convoluted as a result, only experts could decipher it.

C. She spoke eloquently and thereby captivated the audience's attention.

D. The technology has advanced exponentially nevertheless, its implications have grown.

E. All are correct.

2.

A. The negotiations were exceedingly complex; hence, they necessitated the involvement of an
exceptionally skilled mediator.

B. The software had a steep learning curve nevertheless, its capabilities were unparalleled.

C. The paradox was confounding; similarly, it sparked intellectual curiosity.

D. They invested considerable resources by contrast, their returns were meager.

E. All are correct.

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3.

A. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of history in the same vein, his memory was astounding.

B. The sculpture was elaborate; and, the painting displayed remarkable attention to detail.

C. The orchestra played beautifully accordingly, the audience gave a standing ovation.

D. The theory was groundbreaking still, it required rigorous experimentation for validation.

E. All are correct.

4.

A. The task was monumental; thus, a collaborative effort was initiated.

B. The movie was met with critical acclaim similarly, it performed well at the box office.

C. She was not only a skilled musician and also an accomplished dancer.

D. The initial analysis was flawed consequently, the conclusions had to be reevaluated.

E. All are correct.

5.

A. The team had limited resources nonetheless, they produced remarkable results.

B. The economic trends were unfavorable as a consequence, many businesses struggled.

C. The team's communication was lacking in turn, this hindered their progress.

D. The debate was contentious however, emotions ran high among the participants.

E. All are correct.

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6.

A. The choreography was convoluted, meanwhile, the costumes were visually stunning.

B. The company implemented radical changes likewise employee morale took a steep decline.

C. The presentation was comprehensive in addition to its visuals, the speaker's eloquence was
captivating.

D. The court ruling was ambiguous on the other hand, legal scholars had divergent
interpretations.

E. All are correct.

7.

A. She was exhausted from the hike yet, her determination pushed her to the summit.

B. The experiment had unexpected results however, they provided valuable insights for further
research.

C. The storm caused power outages because the city's infrastructure needed urgent repairs.

D. The conference had a low turnout apart from a handful of dedicated participants.

E. All are correct.

8.

A. The budget was limited while the team managed to deliver a remarkable product.
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B. The political unrest led to widespread demonstrations as a consequence, governments were

compelled to address citizens' demands.

C. The company faced financial setbacks despite this, their commitment to innovation remained
unshaken.

D. The research methodology was sound although some limitations in the data collection
process were noted.

E. All are correct.

9.

A. The project was completed on time even though the challenges posed by limited resources.

B. He preferred classic literature whereas, his sister had a penchant for contemporary novels.

C. The product's price was high however, its superior quality justified the cost for many
consumers.

D. The project had its challenges, but on the whole, the outcomes were commendable.

E. The presentation covered various aspects of the topic finally, the speaker addressed
questions from the audience.

10.

A. The success of the project was unquestionable undoubtedly, it was a milestone achievement.

B. He excelled in academics besides, he was also involved in numerous extracurricular

activities.

C. The results were indeed surprising; sequentially, they challenged existing assumptions.

D. The approach made sense of course, its feasibility needed to be thoroughly assessed.
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E. The solution seemed straightforward, surely, the team should have implemented it earlier.

MATCH THE COLUMN

Directions (1-10): In the following questions two columns, Column 1 and Column 2 are given
with three sentences/ phrases each. Column 1 consists of sentences/ phrases A, B and C
whereas Column 2 consists of sentences/ phrases D, E and F. Each question consists of five
options, four of which display the possible sequence in which the given sentences/phrases
can be joined to form a grammatically and contextually correct sentence. If no option provides
with a correct sentence after combination, mark (e), i.e. “None of these” as your answer.

1.

Column A Column B

A) Mike had to bite the bullet and confront his D) start something and proceed at a fast pace
fear of public speaking in order to advance his with great enthusiasm.
career.

B) After years of planning and saving, Sarah E) get married.

and Mark decided it was time to tie the knot
and get married.

C) Maria was so busy with her new job that she F) decide to do something difficult or unpleasant
had to hit the ground running from day one to that one has been putting off or hesitating over.
keep up with the fast-paced environment.

A. Only C-E

B. A-E, B-D and C-F

C. Only B-D

D. A-F, B-E and C-D

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E. None of these

2.

Column A Column B

A) The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are D) they are often the only Indian higher
globally recognised as the crown jewels in education institutions known internationally at
India’s higher education system indeed, all.

B) A branch campus of IIT-Madras has just E) with more than a million students appearing
opened in Zanzibar and IIT Delhi will be for the entrance examination each year and
launching programmes from competing for 17,385 places in the 23 IITs.

C) The IITs may be the most difficult higher F) admission is based on the IIT Madras
education institutions to gain entry in the world Zanzibar Selection Test (IITMZST) 2023
screening test followed by an interview.

A. Only C-E

B. A-E, B-D and C-F

C. Both A-D and C-E

D. A-F, B-E and C-D

E. None of these

3.
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Column A Column B

A) Acting as pockets of hope in the face of the D) scattered across the globe, where nature and
climate crisis, the United Nations Educational, humans come together creating a symphony of
Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) life.
biosphere

B) With 80% of all tourism taking place in E) unconsciously our consumption of single-use
coastal areas, would you call it a relaxing plastic, in particular plastic water bottles, will
vacation if you found discarded plastic bottles also significantly increase.

C) As the tourist season approaches, it is no F) most of us look for respite in sites with natural
surprise that while we search for unpolluted beauty, lush greenery, and peaceful
spots to explore, surroundings.

A. Only C-E

B. A-E, B-D and C-F

C. Both A-D and C-E

D. A-F, B-E and C-D

E. None of these

4.

Column A Column B

A) Pollution directly affects the health of people, D) highlights the need for policy shifts to ensure
and an average Indian loses better and liveable futures.
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B) Finances must be channelled in the right E) of flawed urbanisation are checked, and, in
direction such that urban futures which are turn, cities made liveable and safe.
being cut short on account

C) A report released by The Energy Policy F) 5.3 years of his life expectancy due to this; for
Institute at Chicago (EPIC) shows that out of the the residents of Delhi, it is 11.9 years.
50 most

A. Only C-E

B. Both A-F and B-E

C. Both A-D and C-E

D. A-F, B-E and C-D

E. None of these

5.

Column A Column B

A) One’s attention would instead shift to learn D) purposefully and make an impact, on our and
lessons from setbacks such as a rejection and others’ lives, then we would constantly go with
the flow

B) Just like a traveller, if we internalised the fact E) distress in our mental and emotional space
that the world is our temporary abode, and we for our energy needs to be redirected for the
are here to live challenges of the journey.

C) We shrug off the baggage of petty disputes, F) prepare for a better future with that
relational tiffs and rancour as there is no room knowledge, rather than brooding indefinitely
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for undue pain and over it.

A. Only C-E

B. Both A-F and B-E

C. Both A-D and C-E

D. A-F, B-D and C-E

E. None of these

6.

Column A Column B

A) The Executive Order in the United States, D) copyright ownership over output generated
issued by the Biden administration on October by AI, autonomously or with inputs from
30, on ‘Safe, Secure, humans.

B) While generative AI tools such as ChatGPT E) enormous implications for the future of
and Midjourney allow people with minimal humanity, and the changes in regulatory
creative skills to produce reasonably beautiful approaches are a welcome development.
outputs with the help of a

C) One of the many areas wherein AI has raised F) and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI)’,
tough questions is ownership and enforcement illustrates the changing attitude of global leaders
of towards AI regulation.

A. Only C-E

B. Both A-F and B-E

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C. Only A-F

D. A-F, B-D and C-E

E. None of these

7.

Column A Column B

A) The sum is inadequate in terms of the D) the operationalisation of the anchor sheet
challenges faced by the developing countries in principle of the Common but Differentiated
switching over to a low carbon development Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities.

B) The developed countries and climate E) the developed countries noted, with deep
vulnerable countries are likely to demand a regret, of being able to mobilise only a total of
ramping up of mitigation action by the $79.6 billion.
developing countries —

C) Under Article 9 of the Paris Agreement on F) which is likely to be countered with the
Climate Change, it is also mandatory for the demand that the developed countries have not
developed countries to provide in their Biennial been able to meet the mark of a mobilisation of
Update Reports (BUR), information relating to $100 billion climate finance.

A. Only A-F

B. Both A-F and B-E

C. Only C-F

D. A-F, B-D and C-E

E. None of these
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8.

Column A Column B

A) The objective in this article, therefore, is to D) a lack of food and shelter, rose or diminished
examine whether some of these deprivations, during the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
especially regime.

B) Stunting has long-term effects on individuals, E) focuses on a lack of money to buy food, and
including poor cognition and educational rent or buy a house.
performance, low adult

C) A masterpiece film, Roti, Kapada Aur F) depicted the severe deprivation and
Makaan (translated as Food, Cloth and Shelter), devastation of a man for whom living honestly
produced and directed by Manoj Kumar in 1974, became a will-o’-the wisp.

A. Only C-F

B. Both A-D and C-F

C. Only A-F

D. A-F, B-D and C-E

E. None of these

9.
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Column A Column B

A) Although food inflation which had spurred the D) El Niño effects on the rabi crop, weak rural
spike in prices through July and August, has demand as well as food price pressures remain
eased to 6.6% in September, this was a source of concern for the economy.

B) The Wholesale Price Index released on E) disproportionately influenced by crashing

Monday shows pulses prices spiked 17.7% vegetable prices even as the inflation pace
while onions rose 55% in September, compared accelerated for pulses, fruits, eggs and sugar.

C) Rural inflation remained higher than that F) these will start to feed into retail prices soon
faced by urban consumers, and with the erratic so it is not time to celebrate cooling inflation yet.
monsoon hurting kharif season sowing in crops
like pulses and uncertainties about the

A. Only A-F

B. Both A-E and C-D

C. Only C-F

D. A-F, B-D and C-E

E. None of these

10.

Column A Column B

A) The Commission for Air Quality Management D) the pollution crisis, tackling November may
(CAQM), which is tasked with addressing the mean hard measures and greater
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causes of air pollution in Delhi and the adjoining inconvenience.

States, is now

B) Incidents of stubble burning in Punjab, E) out pollutants from the gamut of

Haryana and Uttar Pradesh this year have been anthropogenic activities such as construction,
roughly half that when compared to previous driving, power generation and the burning of
years, though the weeks ahead are agricultural residue.

C) This is the time when the southwest F) the best in the last six years, it elides the fact
monsoon has receded and with it, the great that the number of days in November when air
drafts in the upper atmosphere that normally quality becomes ‘severe’ (over 450 AQI) has
flush remained roughly the same.

A. Only C-E

B. Both A-F and C-D

C. Only A-F

D. A-F, B-D and C-E

E. None of these
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ANSWER

1. Ans: D

Explanation: In this sentence, "nevertheless" functions as a conjunctive adverb, indicating a

contrast between the two parts of the sentence. It should be “consequently” to make the sentence
correct.

2. Ans: C

Explanation: "similarly" is used to indicate a similarity between two things, but in this context. It
should be however or on the contrary to make the sentence correct.

3. Ans: B

Explanation: Using "and" instead of "yet" in the sentence creates a grammatical error because it
changes the intended contrast between the sculpture and the painting, making the sentence unclear
and not conveying the intended meaning correctly.

4. Ans: C

Explanation: To maintain proper parallelism, you should use "not only...but also" to connect the
two qualities.

5. Ans: D

Explanation: In this version, the use of "however" as a connector creates a contrast that doesn't fit
well with the cause-and-effect relationship between the contentious debate and the high emotions.

The correct connector to use in this context is "as a result" or "therefore".

6. Ans: B

Explanation: The word "likewise" is still not used appropriately in this context. To convey the
cause-and-effect relationship between the company's changes and the decline in employee morale,
you might use a different conjunction such as "resulting in".

7.Ans: C

Explanation: Because does not convey the intended meaning of the sentence. It should be
Therefore to make the sentence grammatically correct.

8. Ans: A
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Explanation: "while'' might be better used to introduce a contrast between two actions happening
simultaneously. "Yet" is used to indicate a contrast between the limited budget and the team's
accomplishment of delivering a remarkable product.

9. Ans: A

Explanation: "The project was completed on time in spite of the challenges posed by limited
resources."

Even though does not convey the intended meaning of the sentence.

"In spite of" is used to show that something happened despite difficulties or obstacles.

10. Ans: C

Explanation: The word "sequentially" is not the appropriate connector in this context. It should be
replaced with a suitable connector like "however," "nonetheless," or "nevertheless" to convey the
intended meaning accurately.

11. D

Explanation: Bite the bullet- decide to do something difficult or unpleasant that one has been
putting off or hesitating over.

Tie the knot- get married.

Hit the ground running- start something and proceed at a fast pace with great enthusiasm.

12. C

Explanation: A-D: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are globally recognised as the crown
jewels in India’s higher education system indeed, they are often the only Indian higher education
institutions known internationally at all.

C-E: The IITs may be the most difficult higher education institutions to gain entry in the world with
more than a million students appearing for the entrance examination each year and competing for
17,385 places in the 23 IITs.

13. C

Explanation: A-D: Acting as pockets of hope in the face of the climate crisis, the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) biosphere scattered across the globe,
where nature and humans come together creating a symphony of life.
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C-E: As the tourist season approaches, it is no surprise that while we search for unpolluted spots to
explore, unconsciously our consumption of single-use plastic, in particular plastic water bottles, will
also significantly increase.

14. B

Explanation: A-F: Pollution directly affects the health of people, and an average Indian loses 5.3
years of his life expectancy due to this; for the residents of Delhi, it is 11.9 years.

B-E: Finances must be channelled in the right direction such that urban futures which are being cut
short on account of flawed urbanisation are checked, and, in turn, cities made liveable and safe.

15. D

Explanation: A-F: One’s attention would instead shift to learn lessons from setbacks such as a
rejection and prepare for a better future with that knowledge, rather than brooding indefinitely over it.

B-D: Just like a traveller, if we internalised the fact that the world is our temporary abode, and we are
here to live purposefully and make an impact, on our and others’ lives, then we would constantly go
with the flow

C-E: We shrug off the baggage of petty disputes, relational tiffs and rancour as there is no room for
undue pain and distress in our mental and emotional space for our energy needs to be redirected for
the challenges of the journey.

16. C

Explanation: A-F: The Executive Order in the United States, issued by the Biden administration on
October 30, on ‘Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI)’, illustrates the changing
attitude of global leaders towards AI regulation.

17. A

Explanation: A-F: The sum is inadequate in terms of the challenges faced by the developing
countries in switching over to a low carbon development

which is likely to be countered with the demand that the developed countries have not been able to
meet the mark of a mobilisation of $100 billion climate finance.
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18. B

Explanation: A-D: The objective in this article, therefore, is to examine whether some of these
deprivations, especially a lack of food and shelter, rose or diminished during the National Democratic
Alliance (NDA) regime. C-F: A masterpiece film, Roti, Kapada Aur Makaan (translated as Food, Cloth
and Shelter), produced and directed by Manoj Kumar in 1974, depicted the severe deprivation and
devastation of a man for whom living honestly became a will-o’-the wisp.

19. B

Explanation: A-E: Although food inflation which had spurred the spike in prices through July and
August, has eased to 6.6% in September, this was disproportionately influenced by crashing
vegetable prices even as the inflation pace accelerated for pulses, fruits, eggs and sugar.

C-D: Rural inflation remained higher than that faced by urban consumers, and with the erratic
monsoon hurting kharif season sowing in crops like pulses and uncertainties about the El Niño effects
on the rabi crop, weak rural demand as well as food price pressures remain a source of concern for
the economy.

20. A

Explanation: C-E: This is the time when the southwest monsoon has receded and with it, the great
drafts in the upper atmosphere that normally flush out pollutants from the gamut of anthropogenic
activities such as construction, driving, power generation and the burning of agricultural residue.
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