PART – 

Practice Exercise – 1
Directions for questions 1 to 40: Each of the given sentences has four underlined parts. One of them has a mistake.
Mark the letter corresponding with the wrong part as answer.
Part – A
1. Before he started out he had collected all the 6. The child picked up a burned paper from the
(A) (B) (A) (B) (C)
informations about the country he was going debris left behind by the inferno.
(C) (D) (D)
to visit.
7. When she is finishes her studies, she wants
2. The assurance that he will cured from the (A) (B) (C)
(A) (B) to become a journalist.
disease pleased him very much. (D)
(C) (D) 8. There were two childhood buddies who went
(A)
3. Her ability to talk to strangers is one of her through school and college and would even
(A) (B) (C) (B) (C)
stronger points. join the army together.
(D) (D)

4. My brother-in-law along with his daughter 9. When a person refuses to forgive, he is

(A) (B) (A)
were present at the function. locking doors that some day he might be
(C) (D) (B) (C) (D)
needing to open.
5. After you will return from America I will come 10. If you have someone with all the ability but
(A) (B) (C) (A) (B)
and see you. if he is not dependable do you want him as
(D) (C) (D)
a part of your team?

Part – B
11. While it is not worth to have been holding 16. Hardly I have finished reading when my sister
(A) (B) (A) (B)
grudges, it doesn’t make sense to be bitten snatched the book from me.
(C) (D) (C) (D)
time and again.
17. I went to the Principal because I wanted
12. One can be truthful without having been cruel (A) (B)
(A) (B) to know as to why I was detained.
but that may not always be the case. (C) (D)
(C) (D) 18. I have been living here since four years
13. Excellent cannot be achieved through luck; it is (A) (B)
but no one has noticed my presence so far.
(A)
(C) (D)
the result of a lot of hard work and practice.
(A) (C) (D) 19. No sooner did the train start when there was a
14. It is not uncommon in seeing the prey (A) (B)
(A) (B) great rush into my compartment.
outsmarting the predator, because one is (C) (D)
(C)
20. Do you object to me sitting in this room
running for its food and the other for its life.
(A) (B)
(D)
and reading a book for a short while?
15. The first lesson I got in my military days was (C) (D)
(A) (B)
that one should love his country better than 21. Hardly had I left the school than it began
(C) (A) (B) (C)
anything else. to rain.
(D) (D)

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22. My sister only drew on one side of the paper. 35. There is a misconception that freedom means
(A) (B) (C) (D) (A) (B)
to be doing your own thing.
23. Motivating employees with traditional authority (C) (D)
(A) (B)
and financial incentive have become 36. Shakespeare was better than any poet
(C) (A) (B)
increasingly difficult. of his days according to critics.
(D) (C) (D)
24. I had worked in this school for 25 years.
37. I ordered for a cup of tea but the bearer
(A) (B) (C) (D) (A) (B)
25. The man who I have often met is one whose brought it only at the end of the tea-session.
(A) (B) (C) (C) (D)
property has been acquired by the government
(D) 38. Lack of honesty is sometimes labelled as
(A) (B)
26. Page after page of Quran were read tact, public relations or politics.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
and it gave great consolation to his mind.
(C) (D) 39. In the of 11th of September,
aftermath
(A)
27. One day, a baker decided weighing the the American President’s speech was
(A) (B) (B)
butter to see if he was getting a pound broadcasted and televised all over the world.
(C) (C) (D)
and found that he was not.
(D) 40. Acceptance of responsibility is a reflection
28. There is more gratification for being a caring (A) (B)
(A) (B) of our attitude and the environment we
person than in just being a nice person. (C) (D)
(C) (D) operate in.

29. Relationships are built in kindness, 41. The wards of the hostel are allowed to do
(A) (A) (B)
understanding and self sacrifice not on jealousy, anything except to go out on their own at
(B) (C)
selfishness, puffed up egos and rude behaviour. night.
(C) (D) (D)

30. He resolved being tender with the young, 42. The best way to explore Egypt is to take a trip (A)
(A) (B)
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic down Nile, the river that runs like a thread
(B) (C) (C)
to the striving and tolerant of the weak. throughout Egyptian history
(D) (D)
31. Companies spend close to a million dollars
(A) (B) 43. The hawkers have been carrying out their
for a 30 second advertisement between a (A) (B)
business on the main pavement since three
(C) (D)
major event. (C)
years but no one has ever objected
32. People who do not want to adhere to any (D)
(A) (B)
moral standards keep changing the definition 44. Hardly I have finished writing when my
(C) (A) (B)
of morality on saying nothing is right or wrong, brother snatched the fountain pen from my
(D) (C)
only your thinking makes it so. hand.
(D)
33. Unless you build your self-esteem you cannot
(A) (B) 45. India, which makes up sixteen percent of the
achieve the success in your life (A) (B)
(C) (D) global population, carries twenty percent of
34. Not all medicine is sweet, not all surgery is (C)
(A) (B) (C) their disease burden.
painless but we have to be taking it. (D)
(D)

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