HARYANA AUCTION RECORDER EXAM, 15.05.2016

41. Fill in the blank.

Our_____ lived in caves and used crude implements.

(1) ancients
(2) antecedents
(3) antipodes
(4) ancestors

Correct Answer: (4) ancestors

Solution:Ancestor (Noun) =पूर्वज (forebear; a person in your family who lived a long time ago).

42. Choose the word that best expresses the meaning of the underlined word, I can only speculate that he left willingly.

(1) judge
(2) argue
(3) guess
(4) think

Correct Answer: (3) guess

Solution:Speculate (Verb)= अनुमान लगाना, अटकलबाजी करना (to form an opinion about something without knowing all the details or facts; guess).

43. Select the substitution that best expresses opposite meaning of the underlined word : His face bare a blank look all the time while I was telling him about that exciting incident.

(1) a passive
(2) an expressive
(3) a passionate
(4) a mysterious

Correct Answer: (1) a passive

Solution:Bear a blank = showing no feeling, understanding or interest

44. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the given idiom/phrase: To eat one's heart out

(1) to cry
(2) to laugh
(3) to suffer silently
(4) pretend to suffer

Correct Answer: (1) to cry

Solution:To eat one's heart out = to feel very unhappy: to be sorrowful.

45. Find the wrongly spelt word:

(1) literature
(2) literal
(3) litracy
(4) literary

Correct Answer: (3) litracy

Solution:Literacy =साक्षरता (the ability to read and write)

46. In the following question, a sentence has been split into six parts. The first and the last parts have been numbered 1 and 6. Remaining four parts have been named P. 9. R and S. While parts 1 and 6 are in proper sequence, parts P. Q. R and S have been jumbled up. Rearrange the jumbled parts to make a meaningful sentence.

Pakistan cannot claim to have any decisive victory over India in the battle field but it has not done too badly in the publicity war.

(1) SOPR
(2) SROP
(3) PRSQ
(4) OPSR

Correct Answer: (2) SROP

Solution:Pakistan cannot claim to have any decisive victory over India in the battle field but it has not done too badly in the publicity war.

47. Choose the most suitable 'one word for the following phrase expression: A person who travels to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion.

(1) Hermit
(2) Pilgrim
(3) Saint
(4) Mendicant

Correct Answer: (2) Pilgrim

Solution:Pligrim (यात्री)

48. In the following Question, find out which part of the sentence has an error, If there is no mistake, the answer is 'No error'.

The road to famous monument passes through a forest.

(1) The road
(2) to famous monument
(3) passes through a forest.
(4) No error

Correct Answer: (2) to famous monument

Solution:यहाँ to the famous monument का प्रयोग होगा।

49. Fill in the blanks Suddenly she turned away the window and stood________ the glass.

(1) from; to
(2) from; before
(3) off; near
(4) with; to

Correct Answer: (2) from; before

Solution:Turn away = change position Suddenly she turned away from the window and stood before the glass.

50. Find the correctly spelt word.

(1) Comemorate
(2) Commemmorate
(3) Comemmorate
(4) Commemorate

Correct Answer: (4) Commemorate

Solution:Commemorate (Verb) = to remind people of an important person or event from the past.