TRE3 — Language General Studies And English

Correct answer: (A) Macbeth
The lines are from Macbeth's soliloquy in the last act of ‘Macbeth’.

Correct answer: (A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway are characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ‘The Great Gatsby’.

Correct answer: (A) Iambic pentameter
The line has five unstressed-stressed pairs, so it is in iambic pentameter.

Correct answer: (C) Matthew Arnold
The ‘Touchstone Method’ was given by Matthew Arnold, who judged other poetry by holding the lines of the great poets against it as a test.

Correct answer: (A) S. T. Coleridge
‘Kubla Khan’ is a poem by S. T. Coleridge.

Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
By the passage the Taj Mahal was called ‘Rauza-i-Munawara’ in the contemporary texts, and it was all but finished by the urs of 1643—both statements hold. Marble was used in it, so the first statement is wrong and the answer is ‘more than one’.

Correct answer: (C) Rauza-i-Munawara
The passage says it was usually called ‘Rauza-i-Munawara’ in the contemporary texts—the illumined tomb.

Correct answer: (E) None of the above
By the passage the building was begun in 1632 and finished by 1643, which matches none of the periods given.

Correct answer: (A) Makrana
By the passage the marble was brought from the mines of Makrana, which lay in Raja Jai Singh's ancestral domain.

Correct answer: (C) Zainabad
By the passage the remains of Mumtaz Mahal were first laid in the Zainabad garden on the bank of the Tapti, near Burhanpur.

Correct answer: (B) the growth of the population in cities
The passage shows the reality of urbanisation through the figures for the growth of population in cities—from 30 million in 1950 to 2 billion in 2000.

Correct answer: (A) negative
The popular view set out at the start of the passage—slums, unemployment, crime—is wholly negative.

Correct answer: (B) urbanisation and its challenges
The whole passage is about urbanisation and the challenges that come with it.

Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Over the fifty years the rise was about 1970 million, so the average yearly increase comes to nearly 40 million—nowhere near any of the options given.

Correct answer: (C) Clean air
The passage names water, sanitation, electricity, health, education, communication and transport—clean air is not among them.

Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The passage says both things—that storytelling is not in our genes, and that it is the essence of what makes us human. So the answer is ‘more than one’.

Correct answer: (B) they work in large groups
By the passage people grow less selfish when they work in large groups, carrying rich and poor along together.

Correct answer: (C) think that the welfare of man should be left only to a few able adults
The ‘rational optimists’ hold that the future should be left to a few able people.

Correct answer: (C) a few stories that survive
The passage says our history and knowledge are a collection of those few stories that survive.

Correct answer: (B) we collectively choose to believe in
By the passage how the future turns out depends on the stories we collectively choose to believe in.

Correct answer: (A) The statement is false
The passage says plainly that friendliness matters but cannot take the place of bad management—so the statement is false.

Correct answer: (C) a two-way street
The very first line of the passage says respect is always a two-way street.

Correct answer: (A) they do not like you
By the passage keeping friendly relations means people do not try to hurt you—that is, they do so when they do not like you.

Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
By the passage the strategy is accepted when the manager is respected and it is seen as a sincere attempt to resolve problems—both hold.

Correct answer: (A) combines friendliness with other strategies of management
The sense of the passage is that a good manager joins friendliness to effective management—friendliness alone will not do.

Correct answer: (A) Carry out
An order is ‘carried out’; ‘carry on’ means to continue.

Correct answer: (C) have been waiting
‘For more than four hours now’ shows the action is still going on, and the subject is plural—so ‘have been waiting’ is right.

Correct answer: (C) the inordinate delay
‘Delay’ is a noun, so it takes the adjective ‘inordinate’ before it, not the adverb ‘inordinately’.

Correct answer: (E) None of the above
‘Sold the loot’ is already correct—the sentence is in the past and the verb form is right. So none of the options improves it.

Correct answer: (A) Know why the apple fell
In an indirect question the word order stays straight and the ‘did’ drops, so ‘know why the apple fell’ is right.

Correct answer: (A) To try one’s utmost
‘To leave no stone unturned’ means to spare no effort—to try one's utmost.

Correct answer: (C) To suspect a trick or deceit
‘To smell a rat’ means to suspect a trick or a deceit.

Correct answer: (C) Between two opinions
‘Sitting on the fence’ means hanging between two opinions, choosing neither side.

Correct answer: (B) To quarrel openly
‘To wash dirty linen in public’ means to quarrel openly over what belongs inside the house.

Correct answer: (C) In a dilemma
‘Between the devil and the deep sea’ means caught between two difficulties—in a dilemma.

Correct answer: (E) None of the above
‘Proud’ takes ‘of’—‘proud of the way…’. All three prepositions given are wrong.

Correct answer: (B) to
With ‘from’ the destination takes ‘to’—‘from Howrah to New Delhi’.

Correct answer: (C) of
‘Beware’ takes ‘of’—‘beware of pickpockets’.

Correct answer: (C) with
An instrument used for doing something takes ‘with’—‘killed the snake with a stick’.

Correct answer: (B) from
‘Abstain’ takes ‘from’—‘abstain from sweets’.

Correct answer: (C) conceal
‘Divulge’ means to make known, so its opposite is ‘conceal’. ‘Reveal’ is a synonym of it.

Correct answer: (C) Carefully
‘Perfunctorily’ means carelessly, without attention—so its opposite is ‘carefully’.

Correct answer: (E) None of the above
‘Exhausted’ means very tired. ‘Fatigued’, ‘tired’ and ‘broken’ are all close to that in sense and none is its opposite, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.

Correct answer: (C) praised
‘Reprimanded’ means scolded, so its opposite is ‘praised’.

Correct answer: (A) Deep
‘Superficial’ means only on the surface, so its opposite is ‘deep’.

Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
‘A lot of garment’ needs ‘garments’, and ‘at a cheap rates’ cannot take ‘a’ before a plural—it should be ‘at cheap rates’. Two parts carry an error, so the answer is ‘more than one’.

Correct answer: (B) to me that there was any mistake
A positive sentence takes ‘some’, not ‘any’—‘that there was some mistake’. The error is in that part.

Correct answer: (B) attending by some very
The passive is ‘was attended by’, not ‘was attending by’—the error is in that part.

Correct answer: (B) interesting book
‘One of the most…’ is followed by a plural, so it should be ‘interesting books’.

Correct answer: (B) is so beautifully
After ‘is’ comes an adjective, not an adverb—so it should be ‘is so beautiful as’.