Monday, September 24, 2012

English Quiz

Directions (1-10): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately, find out the appropriate word in each case.
Confirming fears of a (1), India’s economy (2) by a mere 7.8% in the fourth quarter (3) March this year, mainly due to (4) performance of the manufacturing sector, as against 9.4% in the (5) three-month period of the previous (6). The advance estimates (7) by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) earlier had (8) the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth at 8.6%. but the estimate had to be (9) as the fourth quarter growth was (10) 7.8%. However, per capita income of Indians grew by 17.9 per cent to Rs. 54835 in 2010-11 from Rs. 46492 in the year-ago period.
1.(1) meltdown (2) shock         (3) slowdown (4) subprime (5) recession
2.(1) grew (2) grown  (3) brought (4) increased (5) raised
3.(1) beginning (2) ending (3) closing (4)starting (5) finishing
4.(1) rich         (2) worse    (3) poor          (4) bad (5) extraordinary
5.(1) past (2) coming (3) previous (4) next          (5) same
6.(1) performance (2) day (3) years          (4) fiscal         (5) season
7.(1) published (2) given    (3) released (4) started (5) mentioned
8.(1) pegged (2) projected (3) predicted (4) assumed (5) released
9.(1) higher (2) lowered (3) less          (4) assumed (5) complex
10.(1) at          (2) to (3) only           (4)just (5) about

Answer
QUE
ANS
QUE
ANS
1
3
6
4
2
1
7
3
3
2
8
1
4
3
9
2
5
5
10
4

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