NDA/NA SOLVED PAPER 2015-I (ENGLISH)

Total Questions: 50

11. (Questions 11-15) In this section, a number of sentences are given. The sentences are underlined in three parts and each one is labelled (a), (b), (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is error in any underlined part. No sentence has more than one error. When you find an error in one of the underlined parts (a), (b) or (c), indicate your response on the Answer Sheet at appropriate space. You may feel that there is no error in a sen-tence. In that case letter (d) signify a 'No error' response.

Correct Answer: (c)
Solution:Having read a number of stories about space travel he now dreams of visiting the moon.

12. Read each sentence to find out whether there is error in any underlined part.

Correct Answer: (a)
Solution:The meeting was abruptly adjourned by the Chairman after about three hours of deliberation.

13. Read each sentence to find out whether there is error in any underlined part.

Correct Answer: (c)
Solution:Not one of the hundreds of striking workers was allowed to go near the factory.

14. Read each sentence to find out whether there is error in any underlined part.

Correct Answer: (c)
Solution:If I had known this earlier I would have helped him.

15. Read each sentence to find out whether there is error in any underlined part.

Correct Answer: (a)
Solution:Mr.Smith was accused of murder but the court found him not guilty and acquitted him.

16. (Questions 16-20) Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. It one of them, (a), (b) or (c), is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter (a), (b) or (c). If none of the substitutions improve the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. Thus a 'No improvement' response will be signified by the letter (d).

Although India is still by far a poor country, it can become rich if its natural and human resources are fully utilised.

Correct Answer: (b) by and large
Solution:Although India is still by and large a poor country, it can become rich if its natural and human resources are fully utilised.

17. Choose the best substitute (a, b, c) for the underlined part in each sentence.

The more they earn, more they spend.

Correct Answer: (c) The more they earn, the more they spend
Solution:The more they earn, the more they spend.

18. Choose the best substitute (a, b, c) for the underlined part in each sentence.

But in all these cases conversion from one scale to another is easy because scales have well-formulated.

Correct Answer: (b) are well-formulated
Solution:But in all these cases conversion from one scale to another is easy because scales are well-formulated.

19. Choose the best substitute (a, b, c) for the underlined part in each sentence.

Five years ago on this date, I am sitting in a small Japanese car, driving across Poland towards Berlin.

Correct Answer: (a) was sitting
Solution:Five years ago on this date, I was sitting in a small Japanese car, driving across Poland towards Berlin.

20. Choose the best substitute (a, b, c) for the underlined part in each sentence.

The old man felled some trees in the garden with hardly no effort at all.

Correct Answer: (b) hardly any effort
Solution:The old man felled some trees in the garden with hardly any effort at all.