OBJECTIVE-TYPE QUESTIONS

English Language
Solved Paper of IMS Examination, 2001
Directions for questions 1 to 5 :
Choose the odd word out.
1. (1) Impressionist
(2) Surrealist
(3) Cubist
(4) Norwick
2. (1) Mast
(2) Quay
(3) Hull
(4) Anchor
3. (1) Burrow
(2) Excavate
(3) Investigate
(4) Lair
4. (1) Seismograph
(2) Stanza
(3) Metaphor
(4) Limerick
5. (1) Burden
(2) Weight
(3) Oppress
(4) Encumber
Directions for questions 6 to 10 :
Choose the pair of words that has a
similar relationship as that of the
capitalized pair.
6. CURATE
: PARISH
(1) Hairdresser : Bouffant
(2) Valet
: Wardrobe
(3) Laureate
: Prize
(4) Chauffeur
: Two-wheelers
7. FORD
: CROSS
(1) Fuel
: Fake
(2) Bridge
: Span
(3) Drum
: Beat
(4) Drug
: Perplex
8. RIPARIAN : BANK
(1) Sartorial
: Clothes
(2) Porcine
: Sty
(3) Valetudinarian : Placebo
(4) Sectarian
: Philosophy
9. HAMMER : TOOL
(1) Needle
: Pin
(2) Fork
: Cutlery
(3) Forcep
: Weapon
(4) Knife
: Instrument
10. FLAMB
: CAKE

(1) Fry
: Curry
(2) Knead
: Flour
(3) Saut
: Vegetables
(4) Cook
: Bread
Directions for questions 11 to 20 :
Choose the option which is
grammatically correct and precise.
11. Toasted bread and eggs are my
favourite breakfast.
(1) Toast bread and egg are my
favourite breakfast.
(2) Toast and eggs is my favourite
breakfast.
(3) Toast and eggs are my favourite
breakfast.
(4) Toasted bread and eggs are my
favourite breakfast.
12. Your best bet is passes for the
sellout show.
(1) Your best bet are passes.
(2) Your best bet would be to obtain
passes.
(3) Your best bet is to get passes.
(4) Your best bet is passes.
13. She lives up that end of town.
(1) She lives up on that end of town.
(2) She lives at that end of the town.
(3) She lives up in that end of town.
(4) She lives up that end of town.
14. Youll find it difficult to cut
clean with those blunt scissors.
(1) cut the cloth with those blunt
scissors.
(2) cut straight with those blunt
scissors.
(3) cut cleanly with those blunt
scissors.
(4) cut clean with those blunt
scissors.
15. She pleaded to be innocence but
the jury remained unconvinced.
(1) She pleaded innocence
(2) She claimed to be innocent
(3) She staked innocence
(4) She pleaded to be innocence
16. Of the two books that she has
authored, the second is the best.
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(1) that she has written, the second

is the best.
(2) that she has authored, the
second one is better.
(3) that she has sanctioned, the
second is best.
(4) that she has authored, the
second is the best.
17. She angered under the
humiliation subjected to her.
(1) She was angry by the
humiliation she was subjected
to.
(2) The humiliation she was
subjected to caused her to feel
angry.
(3) She smarted under the
humiliation meted out to her.
(4) She angered under the
humiliation subjected to her.
18. The editor was unsatisfiedthe
story had too many loose endings.
(1) the story was full of loopholes.
(2) the story had too many loose
ends.
(3) the story was not tightly
scripted.
(4) the story had too many loose
endings.
19. The dance competition was
judged by no less an authority than
Samyukta Panigrahi.
(1) no less an authority than
(2) no great an authority
(3) a greater authority than
(4) a great authority
20. The will can remain
uncontested if the tycoon died suddenly
and in an accident.
(1) The will can remain
uncontested if the tycoon
should die suddenly or in an
accident.
(2) The will will pass uncontested
if the tycoon were to die
suddenly accidentally.
(3) The tycoons will will pass

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uncontested if he dies suddenly
or in an accident.
(4) If the tycoon were to die
suddenly, as in an accident, his
will would be uncontested.
Directions for questions 21 to 30 :
Fill in the blanks with the correct
words.
21. Gardening
becomes
more____with each____yearnew
fertilisers, new varieties, new
equipment.
(1) stressful; coming
(2) fanciful; passed
(3) complicated; passing
(4) exciting; renovated
22. So whether its forty____of iron
ore or a single, highly____microchip, we
can get there with the least fuss, in the
least time, and with absolute security.
(1) smelts; advanced
(2) tons; sensitive
(3) weights; volatile
(4) grams; crystallized
23. Many apparently____people
were____from the restrictions in the
club.
(1) well-heeled; kept
(2) sensitive; engaged
(3) warm; segregated
(4) unsuitable; exempted
24. ____it carefully and you will see
how_____it really is.
(1) handle; petite
(2) study; impossible
(3) analyse; misleading
(4) answer; astonishing
25. Unless you are very confident
of____dont
risk
such
mischievous____with language.
(1) strinting it up; grappling
(2) standing it down; simpering
(3) bringing it off; juggling
(4) taking it up; indulging
26. His____presence was____in the
otherwise calm and sophisticated
gathering.
(1) benign; amusing
(2) beatific; surprising
(3) unctuous; jarring
(4) somnolent; charming
27. As she____about the room in
righteous____, her secretary looked
amused.
(1) strutted; pride

(2) flounced; indignation

(3) paraded; sympathy
(4) ambled; probity
28. It is foolish of one to____him to
fully____any anxieties.
(1) pester; acquiesce
(2) badger; delegate
(3) approach; understand
(4) expect; appreciate
29. The day-trippers____in a
leisurely fashion along the____.
(1) walked; avenue
(2) swaggered; banks
(3) promenaded; broadwalk
(4) assembled; street
30. The old lady clutched
her____tightly as she tried to____the
local hooligans.
(1) reticule; stave off
(2) bonnet; defend against
(3) parasol; put off
(4) stick; send off
Directions for questions 31 to 40:
The following passage with a few
underlined words. Choose the word
which is closest in meaning to the
capitalized word in the given context.
Nothing I say can dissuade her. And
now she says she cannot come for this
evenings concert either. Why not? I ask.
Is it the palazzo itself? The putty putti?
My colleagues in the quartet? She shakes
her headit is difficult to get an answer.
She needs to send a fax and will do so
on the way back home. She will go to
bed early.
Cruelly, I tell her about the sounds
of Venice, and now her face goes white,
though she says nothing. I describe them
lovingly. How can she leave me on
Tuesday? How? How? Will it be only
four full days we spend together here?
And today is the second of these.
During the concert my hands move
competently over the fingerboard.
Haydn and Mendelssohn are duly
conjured up. The performance is
applauded; as an encore we play a
movement from the Verdi quartet,
earlier requested by Mrs Wessen. II
Conte Tradonico and his Contessa act
as co-hosts, exquisite in their attentions
to everyone, strangers and acquintances
alike, their charm is serene, professional.
A bitter brother of the count, a sculptor,
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wanders about morosely among the

guests. I want to speak to him, but
suddenly cease to want to. I cannot
connect the gossip in the Giudecca bar
with anything I see here, or reconcile
anything with anything.
The fifteen-year-old Teresa smiles
at us, especially at her favourite, Billy. It
is drizzling, so no one ventures across
the little bridge into the garden. Prosecco
and canaps are ingested in the room
with the suspended grey-and-gold
babies; a successful hubbub is generated.
Mrs Wessen is loud in her effusions. It
is relief to know no one, to belong to
no skein of society. I do not talk much
with my fellows in the Maggiore
beyond fixing rehearsal times for the
other two Venetian concerts. I leave for
SantElena.
31. PALAZZO
(1) Edifice
(2) Breakfast
(3) Country
(4) Gate
32. SHAKES
(1) Nods
(2) Moves
(3) Shrugs
(4) Sways
33. QUARTET
(1) Office
(2) Hotel lounge
(3) Musical group
(4) Sidewalk
34. DULY
(1) In time
(2) Appropriately
(3) Pleasantly
(4) Significantly
35. ENCORE
(1) Repeat performance
(2) Finale
(3) Denouement
(4) Musical exit
36. MOVEMENT
(1) a song of rebellion
(2) a part of European music
(3) a basic composition
(4) a unit of a composition
37. RECONCILE
(1) Conform
(2) Harmonise
(3) Acquaint
(4) Join

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38. INGESTED
(1) Eaten
(2) Absorbed
(3) Studded
(4) Noted
39. EFFUSIONS
(1) Complimentary chatter
(2) Gushing utterances
(3) Rambling banter
(4) Unveiled sarcasm
40. SKEIN
(1) Segment
(2) Nich
(3) Haven
(4) Cliqu
Directions for questions 41 to 50:
Read the passages given below and
answer the questions that follow.
PASSAGE
Descartess rationalism ushered in
the Age of Enlightenment, the
intellectual renaissance that set Europe
and North America aglow in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Enlightenment challenged the
theology-based social order by
establishing reason as the most
important source and test of truth. It was
not long, however, before a new school
of thought, empiricism, arose to
downplay the importance of reason as
the final arbiter of truth, especially in
science. Truth, empiricism argued,
should be sought only in sensory
experience and tested against sensory
experience. Only if a supposed fact
could be verified by perception could it
actually be true.
The empiricistsmost notably the
British empiricists John Locke, George
Berkeley, and David Hume
functioned, each in his turn, as an engine
of destruction bent on razing Cartesian
rationalism, just as Descartes himself
had pulled down his own generations
towers of accepted knowledge. In fact,
as the first of the British empiricists, John
Locke fancied himself an under-laborer
in clearing the ground a little, and
removing some of the rubbish that lies
in the way of knowledge. Locke
acknowledges the master builders
whose mighty designs in advancing the
sciences will leave lasting monuments
to the admiration of posterity. But he is

convinced the builders time is past and

that they must give way to the
philosophical wrecking crew.
Still, this self-styled under-laborer
had as much in common with the
rationalists who preceded him as he did
with the empiricists who followed. Like
Descartes, for example, Locke thought
matter as certain as the immaterial spirit
and in his own Essay Concerning Human
Understanding describes a person as a
thinking intelligent being. In another
passage that echoes Descartes, Locke
characterizes bodies as solid extended
substances perceived by the senses and
the soul as a substance that thinks and
is perceived by reflection.
However, unlike Descartes, Locke
thought the interaction of mind and
body obscure and inconceivable. More
over, if ideas were innate to Descartes,
to Locke they were merely the product
of sensory experience. In fact, Locke
thought of the mind as a blank tablet on
which experience, and experience alone,
scribbled the thoughts, perceptions, and
understandings that compose ideas.
The Irish-Anglican bishop George
Berkeley took up the torch of empiricism
from Locke in the early 1700s, but not
without dousing the latters belief in the
existence of matter and igniting the fires
of immaterialism. To empiricisms new
torchbearer, the material world is not
material at all but exists only in human
perceptions: The tree exists only in the
sense that you see it. Only minds and
the perceptions of minds truly exist, and
to beto existis either to perceive or
to be perceived. In this realm of the
immaterial, Berkeley envisions the soul
as an incorporeal, active substance that
is always thinking, constantly absorbing
and generating the ideas and
perceptions that constitute both reality
and imagination. Moreover, he says, the
souls activity does not cease with the
bodys death: The soul is immortal. God,
Berkeley posits, is the factor whose
power can make human perceptions
orderly.
Despite the promise of immortality,
Berkeleys readers were not wholly
persuaded by his concept of
immaterialism and were as likely as not
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to shrug off his conclusions as the wild

imaginings of yet another comical
Irishman. If so, those readers could only
have been more amused when in 1744
Berkeley published Siris, a curious book
that managed to combine a treatise on the
supposed medicinal benefits of tar-water
with the philosophers own vision of an
ascent from this world to that of the
supernatural. By that time, however, the
next chapter of empiricism was already
being written. Its author was a Scotsman
who as a boy was once described by his
own mother as a well-meanin critter,
but uncommon weak-minded.
It is beyond question that David
Humes mother proved to be a poor
judge. The son she thought so
intellectually ill-equipped went on to
distinguish himself, in the words of the
writer James Boswell, as the greatest
writer in Britain. Nevertheless, Humes
calling was for a time in doubt as he
wavered between his familys desire that
he become a lawyer and his own
fondness for books of reasoning and
philosophy, and [for] poetry and the
polite authors. The doubt ended when
Hume experienced an epiphany, not
unlike that of Descartes, which opened
up to me a new Scene of Thought.
Humes revelation grew out of his
discovery of the philosophy of Francis
Hutcheson, a fellow Scotsman whose
works took issue with the then common
belief that morality had its source in the
Bible or in reason. Hutcheson contended
that morality merely reflected societys
perception of right and wrong and a
particular individuals desire for
approval or disapproval. If that were so,
Hume speculated, might not all
knowledge be rooted in our feelings of
what is true? And if that be the case, is
not everything that every human brain
has ever learned merely an illusion?
Hume suspected so and set out to prove
it. But like Descartes marvelous
science, Humes new Scene of
Thought would incubate for a decade,
until finally in 1739 he published his
Treatise of Human Nature, a work he
would later revise as An Enquiry
concerning Human Understanding.
To his dismay, the book that he had

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hoped would attract the attention of the
world fell dead born from the press
amid a flurry of unfavorable reviews.
But readers who ignored the reviews
and took a chance on Hume discovered
in his book a bold new philosophy that
rejected the Physics of Plato, Thomas
Aquinas, and Descartes as rash
arrogance and dismissed Cartesian
substance as a chimera. Moreover,
Hume did for the mind what Berkeley
had done for matter, denying the
existence of a soul as thoroughly as his
empiricist predecessor had denied the
reality of the body. In its place, Hume
argued what has come to be called the
bundle conceptthe belief that minds
are nothing but a bundle or collection
of different perceptions, which succeed
each other with an inconceivable
rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and
movement.
41. When the author says that the
intellectual renaissance set Europe and
North America aglow, he means that:
(1) the renaissance gave the two
continents the light of reason.
(2) the renaissance removed the era
of the dark ages in Europe and
America.
(3) the renaissance caused much
excitement in the two continents
and rendered them interesting.
(4) the renaissance caused the
mood of intellectualism to
develop freely.
42. Rationalism was succeeded by:
(1) the Age of Enlightenment
(2) Immaterialism
(3) Empericism
(4) Renaissance
43. Which of the following cannot
be inferred about the empiricists?
(1) They wanted to test every
truth against sensory
experience.
(2) Truth to them was an action
that was independent of causal
explanation.
(3) They treated only their own
experience or any verified fact
as the basis of knowledge.
(4) They regarded earlier theories
with skepticism.
44. Which of the following, if true,

would most serve to vitiate the line of

thinking adopted by the empiricists?
(1) The soul does not consist of
matter and cannot be verified
with the five senses.
(2) Knowledge comes to us from
our forefathers, who may not
have documented proof of a
belief that may, however be
true.
(3) Some things, which have no
proof of their own existence,
express the highest truth.
(4) Rationalism is built on beliefs
many of which are flawed.
45. Descartes and Locke differed in
their view on:
(1) the reality of man as a rational
being.
(2) the authenticity of human
existence.
(3) the value of science to mankind.
(4) the origin of ideas.
46. Which of the following cannot
be concluded from the passage?
(1) Locke was British.
(2) Francis Hutcheson was Scottish.
(3) George Berkeley was Irish.
(4) James Boswell was French.
47. When Siris is referred to as a
curious book, it means that it is
regarded as:
(1) amusing
(2) inappropriate
(3) strange
(4) insignificant
48. Which of the following receives
highly inconsistent treatment from the

empiricists?
(1) The importance of verifying
facts.
(2) Sensory experience.
(3) The soul.
(4) The existence of perceptions.
49. Hutcheson regarded morality as:
(1) an aftermath of a religious
belief.
(2) the imposition of society.
(3) the natural desire of mankind
to lead a reasonable life with
others.
(4) the reason for religious
extremism.
50. Which of the following
philosophers do not find their theories
negated by Hume?
(1) George Berkeley
(2) Thomas Aquinas
(3) Descartes
(4) John Locke
ANSWERS
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49.

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