Directions for Questions 1-7: Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to each question out of the four alternatives given.

Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was nicknamed “AI” at an early age. At age 11, Edison moved to Michigan where he spent the remainder of his childhood. Thomas Edition struggled at school, but learned to love reading and conducting experiments from his mother who taught him at home. At age 15, Edison became a “tramp together”, sending and receiving messages via Morse code, an electronically-conveyed alphabet using different clicks for each letter. In 1870, Edison moved to New York city and improved the stock ticker. He soon formed his own company that manufactured the new stock tickers. He also began working on the telegraph, and invented a version that could send four messages at once. Edison then moved with his family to New Jersey where he started his famous laboratory. In 1877, Edison, with the help from “muckers”, individuals from around the world looking to make fortune in America, invented the phonograph. The phonograph was a machine that recorded and played back sounds. In 1878, Edison invented the light bulb as well as the power grid system, which could generate electricity and deliver it to homes through a network of wires. He subsequently started the Edison Electric Light Company in October of 1878. Edison continued to invent or improve products and make significant contributions to X-ray technology, storage batteries and motion pictures (movies). Edison was a prolific inventor, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

Q. No. : 1. As per the above paragraph, which of the following was the first accomplishment of Thomas Edison?

(a) Inventing tin foil

(b) Inventing an improved stock ticker

(c) Inventing the light bulb

(d) Inventing an improved x-ray

Q. No. : 2. A phonograph most similar to:

(a) A record player

(b) A walkie talkie

(c) A television

(d) A microphone

Q. No. : 3. In which state did Thomas Edison not live?

(a) Michigan

(b) New york

(c) Ohio

(d) Massachusetts

Q. No. : 4. Which of the following describes Morse Code most appropriately?

(a) A system of clicks that stands for current

(b) A system of clicks that stand for letters

(c) A system of clicks that stands for words

(d) A system if clicks that stands for signals

Q. No. : 5. Who is a “mucker” ?

(a) Someone from Thomas Edison’s family

(b) Someone from another country

(c) Someone from another country hoping to make a fortune in America.

(d) Someone from another country hoping to find a home in America.

Q. No. : 6. Which of the following is not included in Thomas Edison’s invention ?

(a) The first phonograph.

(b) The improved stock ticker.

(c) A power system that could deliver electricity to homes.

(d) The first storage battery

Q. No. : 7. How many patents Edison registered worldwide ?

(a) 1093

(b) More than 1093

(c) 957

(d) None of the above

Q. No. : 8. Select the word closely related to platitude:

(a) Trite remark

(b) Concerned feeling

(c) Disdainful attitude

(d) Protest

Q. No. : 9. Select the word closely related to buttress:

(a) Negate

(b) Buttering

(c) Mock

(d) Strengthen

Direction: (Questions 10-14): Choose the most appropriate word(s) among the four given alternatives to fill in the gap(s):

Q. No. : 10. My mother asked me to demonstrate a of common sense to make the right decision.

(a) Modicum

(b) Fractious

(c) Disdain

(d) Culpability

Q. No. : 11. Although leprosy is not a highly contagious disease, those who have contracted it have always been pariahs and have been by others.

(a) Accepted

(b) Admonished

(c) Sheltered

(d) Ostracized

Q. No. : 12. The film’s hero, a pearl diver, naively expects that the purchasers will compete amongst themselves to pay him the best price for his pearl, but instead they to him.

(a) Work…help

(b) Plan….incentives

(c) Refuse….deceive

(d) Collude….swindle

Q. No. : 13. After hours of acrimonious arguments the negotiations reached a(n) : neither side was willing to compromise.

(a) Solution

(b) Resolution

(c) End

(d) Impasse

Q. No. : 14. Punishment for transgressions of the law ceases to have a deterrent effect if the punishment is frequently .

(a) Changed

(b) Arbitrary

(c) Lenient

(d) Commuted

Direction: (Questions 15-19):In the following questions four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase italicized and underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which most appropriately which most appropriately express the meaning of the idiom/phrase

Q. No. : 15. Professor Giri said, “We will have to cover a lot of ground in this course”. what did he mean by “cover a lot of ground”?

(a) We have to skip a large of syllabus

(b) We have to complete a lot of material

(c) We have to start from basics

(d) We have to travel a lot

Q. No. : 16. Ramesh said to me, You have the floor. What does this mean ?

(a) You have practically won

(b) You have full right to disagree

(c) You have full permission to speak your mind now.

(d) You have tenancy rights over the property’s floor

Q. No. : 17. “To play second fiddle” means:

(a) To support the role and view of another person

(b) To act like a minor criminal

(c) To deceive your superior

(d) To play the second musical instrument

Q. No. : 18. “Hanging fire” means:

(a) Going to be sacrificed

(b) Going on slowly

(c) Being hotly debated

(d) Going to be burnt soon

Q. No. : 19. “Go out on a limb” means:

(a) Being at two places at the same time

(b) Put oneself in an isolated or disadvantageous position

(c) Going somewhere without being noticed.

(d) Fracturing one’s own limb

Direction (Questions 20-26): Choose the most appropriate word that is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word.

Q. No. : 20. CORROBORATE

(a) Deny

(b) Differentiate

(c) Affirm

(d) Create artificially

Q. No. : 21. Archaic

(a) Novel

(b) Somber

(c) Soft

(d) Archeological finding

Q. No. : 22. Arbitrary

(a) Customary

(b) Mediate

(c) Legitimate

(d) Desperate

Q. No. : 23. Affable

(a) friendly

(b) surely

(c) Winsome

(d) Livid

Q. No. : 24. Adulate

(a) Moderate

(b) Admire

(c) Lambaste

(d) Adulterate

Q. No. : 25. Recant

(a) Noisy

(b) Militaries

(c) Reuse

(d) Assent

Q. No. : 26. Excoriate

(a) Diminish

(b) Excommunication

(c) Abandon

(d) Acclaim