TRE1 — General Studies And English

Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The word the passage uses for an undisciplined college matches neither team, regiment nor company, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.

Correct answer: (A) Get
In ‘extract obedience’ the verb means to get, so ‘get’ is its synonym here.

Correct answer: (C) Suitable education
By the passage a student without discipline is deprived of suitable education.

Correct answer: (A) College
The passage speaks of discipline in student life and in the college, so the answer is the college.

Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The passage holds that freedom goes along with discipline—no option says that, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.

Correct answer: (B) Profound thoughtfulness with complete involvement
‘Becoming seriousness and attention’ means profound thoughtfulness with complete involvement.

Correct answer: (C) London
In Addison's ‘Spectator’ ‘this great city’ stands for London, where the paper came out.

Correct answer: (A) Simple yet reasonable
The writer's style is simple and yet reasonable, which is how it reaches the common reader.

Correct answer: (A) Decadent thoughts
The writer gives the aim of his writing as the mending of decadent thoughts, so that is the answer.

Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The passage holds that even a common man can follow serious ideas and that they may be debated over a cup of tea, so the answer is ‘more than one’.

Correct answer: (C) Two intimate friends are talking to each other
By the passage talk is freest where two intimate friends are speaking to each other.

Correct answer: (A) Orderly expression of thought
In large assemblies thought is set out in order, so the answer is ‘orderly expression of thought’.

Correct answer: (B) Speaker speaks and the listener listens and understands
True conversation is where the speaker speaks and the listener both listens and understands—listening alone is not enough.

Correct answer: (B) Honest, truthful, sincere and committed talk
The talk the passage looks for is honest, truthful and sincere.

Correct answer: (A) To find an easy and precise style which could be read and understood by the ordinary public
The writer's aim is to find an easy and precise style that everyone can follow.

Correct answer: (A) No matter what that
In ‘no matter what’ the word ‘that’ is redundant, so the error is in the first part.

Correct answer: (E) None of the above
‘What type of food do you like to eat?’ is quite correct, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.

Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
A proper noun such as ‘Shaurya’ takes no ‘the’, and ‘most tallest’ is a double superlative—both parts are wrong, so the answer is ‘more than one’.

Correct answer: (A) This wrong mistake
A mistake is already something wrong, so ‘wrong mistake’ is tautology—the error is in the first part.

Correct answer: (A) What kinds
‘Car’ is singular, so ‘What kinds’ should be ‘What kind’—the error is in the first part.

Correct answer: (B) this madness
A noun stands where an adjective should: ‘this madness behavior’ should be ‘this mad behaviour’.

Correct answer: (B) the member
‘Each of’ takes a plural noun, so ‘the member’ should be ‘the members’.

Correct answer: (C) are for sale.
‘Set’ is a singular subject, so the verb should be ‘is’, not ‘are’.

Correct answer: (C) since many years.
A stretch of time takes ‘for’, not ‘since’, so ‘since many years’ is wrong.

Correct answer: (C) she left.
‘By the time we reached there’ calls for the past perfect, so ‘she left’ should be ‘she had left’.

Correct answer: (A) Have the books been ordered by the librarian?
The passive of ‘Has the librarian ordered the books?’ is ‘Have the books been ordered by the librarian?’

Correct answer: (B) They finished the work in time.
‘The work was finished by them in time’ is passive; its active form is ‘They finished the work in time.’

Correct answer: (A) Some money was sent to them by him.
The passive of ‘He sent them some money’ is ‘Some money was sent to them by him’, the direct object becoming the subject.

Correct answer: (C) b e c d a
The correct order is ‘His grandmother never goes skating’, that is b e c d a.

Correct answer: (A) An idiom
‘Stabbed me in the back’ is taken not in its literal sense but in a figurative one—to betray; such a phrase is an idiom.

Correct answer: (A) Delicious
‘Delicious’ tells us what the cake was like, so that is the adjective.

Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
‘Under’ and ‘behind’ are both prepositions, so the answer is ‘more than one’.

Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The adverbs in the sentence are ‘swiftly’ and ‘extensively’, neither of which is among the options—so the answer is ‘None of the above’.

Correct answer: (B) satisfied, will repeat
‘Was not satisfied’ is the past passive, and ‘tomorrow’ calls for the future after it, so ‘satisfied, will repeat’ is right.

Correct answer: (A) our, ours
‘Our’ comes before a noun and ‘ours’ stands alone without one, so ‘our, ours’ is correct.

Correct answer: (C) since
An action running from a point in time takes ‘since’, so ‘since 9 a.m.’ is correct.

Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The correct sentence would be ‘She is the tallest girl in the class, no girl is as tall as she is’—no option gives that, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.

Correct answer: (C) quite
‘Quite’ means fairly, so ‘quite boring’ is right; ‘quiet’ means silent.

Correct answer: (A) a, some
A countable singular takes ‘a’ and an indefinite number takes ‘some’, so ‘a, some’ is correct.

Correct answer: (E) None of the above
‘Usually’ does not mean ‘always’, so no sentence given carries the same sense—the answer is ‘None of the above’.

Correct answer: (A) Participle as adjective
In ‘bygones’ a participle stands as the quality of a noun, so it is a participle used as an adjective.

Correct answer: (B) Continuative who
Here ‘who’ carries the sentence forward instead of marking out which friend, so it is the continuative who.

Correct answer: (A) Relative pronoun in accusative case
‘The man’ is the object of ‘employed’ in the main clause and the relative pronoun refers back to it, which is why the key treats this as the accusative case.

Correct answer: (A) Bandits
The usual plural of ‘bandit’ is ‘bandits’.

Correct answer: (A) Exclamatory adjective
In ‘What a piece of work is man!’ the ‘what’ expresses wonder, so it is an exclamatory adjective.

Correct answer: (C) Someone has cut the telegraph wires.
The sentence given is itself passive; its active form is ‘Someone has cut the telegraph wires’, and the key chooses that.

Correct answer: (B) He is almost a drunkard.
‘Almost’ is an adverb and so comes before the phrase—the correct form is ‘He is almost a drunkard.’

Correct answer: (A) An adverb qualifies a preposition
Here ‘exactly’ qualifies the preposition ‘over’, so the sentence illustrates an adverb qualifying a preposition.

Correct answer: (A) This is one of the most interesting books that have ever been printed.
‘One of the most interesting books’ takes a plural verb, so the correct form is ‘that have ever been printed’.

Correct answer: (B) Sinecure
The one word for an office with no work but high pay is ‘sinecure’.