Exercise Sheet-4 (ARW)
Exercise Sheet-4 (ARW)
Directions—(Q. 1–5) In each of the following sentences there are two blank
spaces. Below each five pairs of words have been denoted by letters (A), (B), (C),
(D) and (E). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the
sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
1. A committee has been…………..to…………..the transformation of the city into an
International finance centre.
(A) constituted, convert
(B) appointed, oversee
(C) converged, evaluate
(D) inducted, change
(E) inaugurated, determine
2. Keeping in mind the…………..to develop the sector the government has…………..solicited
foreign investment.
(A) importance, never
(B) proposal, forcibly
(C) objective, wanted
(D) view, discretely
(E) need, actively
3. In his speech he vowed to…………..the four billion unbanked individuals across the world
into the…………..of financial inclusion.
(A) represent, sphere
(B) target, area
(C) bring, realm
(D) engage, achievement
(E) convince, era
4. Although he puts in…………..of overtime and takes few holidays, he………… cannot support
his family.
(A) sufficient, however
(B) lot, besides
(C) much, thus
(D) plenty, still
(E) frequency, yet
5. They have been…………..on incentives to…………..these practices are implemented nat
grass root level.
(A) relying, ensure
(B) improving, secure
(C) advocating, confirm
(D) debating, necessitate
(E) focusing, display
Directions—(Q. 6–15) In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has
been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each,
five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the
appropriate word in each case.
He was a charismatic leader, an entrepreneur and a highly effective manager all rolled into
one. As a leader, he …(6)… the company’s growth plan in a dedicated manner and he never
…(7)… focus. The cement industry in those days was doing badly. …(8)… to everyone’s
expectations he sanctioned an additional plant in …(9)… time. He was …(10)… that since the
cement industry was cyclic in nature, by the time the plant was …(11)… the market would
have improved. It did happen and the decision brought rich …(12)… when the plant was
commissioned. Not only was he a great entrepreneur but he also …(13)… all his senior
people to be ‘practicing entrepreneurs’. I have seen a similar example at the Asian Institute
of Management, which allows its professors to …(14)… their own business. This made their
lectures more practical and less theoretical. It is the …(15)… of the Institute’s success.
6.(A) achieved
(B) implemented
(C) visualised
(D) persevered
(E) aimed
Make a collocation
1. If you submit work late, you will lose marks and may even be given a fail grade, unless you
have a _________________ _________________ such as illness.
5. Students are expected not just to describe what they have done but also to
_________________ _________________ when they write a research report.
10. The Managing Director may run the company, but _________________
_________________ rests with the Board of Directors.
In each of the sentences below, decide which bold word is more suitable.
2. Students should not be inert / passive but should try instead to contribute as much as possible
to discussions in seminar groups.
3. On the first day, the course director and the subject tutor explained their respective / single
roles to the new students.
4. It is now possible to infer / imply a link between using mobile phones and contracting some
forms of cancer.
5. The fact that population growth is still accelerating / catching up is one of the most important
problems we face.
6. Most universities need to earn money from private sources, but the important / major part of
their funding still comes from the government.
7. Expenditure on weapons such as guns, tanks and aeroplanes consumes a large piece / portion
of a country's wealth.
8. Because foreign exchange rates ebb and flow / fluctuate, it is not always possible for
exporters to know how much money they will receive from sales.
9. Member countries award / contribute money to the United Nations to pay for the running of
the organization.
7. Numbers and results are not particularly useful in themselves; we need to interpret…
11. It may be the case that no solution is possible, given the magnitude…
13. The investigation was stopped because the witnesses could not identify…
WORK SHEET- A
Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end:
Power foods are foods that provide rich levels of nutrients like fibre, potassium and minerals. Since
people becoming increasingly health conscious today, a lot of fitness experts encourage their clients to
include these food in their daily diet to increase muscle development. There are various ways of
incorporating power food in your daily diet. Of course the key to enjoying power food is proper
preparation of these foods, the use of season-fresh food, and identifying your choice of flavor among
power foods.
Some of the recommended power food combinations are those that are prepared in our kitchens on a
regular basis. Take for instance the combination of chickpeas and onions. This combination is a powerful
source if iron which is required by the body to transport oxygen to its various parts. Iron deficiency can
lead to anemia, fatigue, brain fog and tiredness. A study by the Journal of Agricultural and Food
Chemistry says that sulphur compound in onion and garlic help in the absorption of iron and zinc from
chickpeas. This combination is a hit with teenagers who need to be diligent about getting iron in their diet.
A quick way to prepare this power food is to make a chickpea salad with chopped onions, chaat masala
and cilantro.
Another favourite combination with power food takers is yoghurt and bananas. This makes for a
perfect snack after a rough game of football. Exercising burns giucose and thus lowers blood sugar.
Yoghurt is packed with proteins that help preserve muscle mass, and bananas are packed with
carbohydrates that help in refueling energy and preventing muscle soreness. A quick and easy recipe with
bananas is a banana smoothie topped with cool yoghurt.
Among beverages, green tea is the best source of catechins that are effective in halting oxidative
damage to cells. According to researchers at Purdue University, adding a dash of lemon juice to green tea
makes the catechins even more easily absorbable by the body. So the next time you are with your friends
serve them rounds if iced green tea with mint and lemon juice.
Cyber security researchers have developed a technique that can fight the ‘Heart bleed’ virus. The
device also traps hackers trying to steal sensitive data. This is a major breakthrough because the ‘Heart
bleed’ virus has sent alarm bells ringing across the globe, including India, as it can expose millions of
passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive information to hackers.
A new device has been developed at the University of Texas in Dallas and has been named ‘Red
Herring’. The device automates a process whereby decoy servers are created making hackers believe that
they have gained access to confidential, secure information, when in fact their deeds are being monitored,
analyzed and traced back to the source.
The attackers think they are winning because the ‘Red Herring’ keeps them on the hook longer so the
server owner can attack them and their activities. Keeping them on longer also a way to discover what
these nefarious individuals are trying to do.
The ‘Heart bleed’ virus is said to have affected two-thirds of websites previously to be secured. These
are websites that use the computer code SSL to encrypt secure internet connections that are used for
sensitive purposes, such as online banking and purchasing, sending and receiving emails and remotely
accessing work networks.
But while the ‘Heart bleed’ virus is now in the process of being fixed victims face the challenge of not
knowing who may already be exploiting it to steal the information.
In the mean time, the ‘Red Herring’ device does not stop at being a decoy and blocker. It can also lead
to catching the attacker. As the attacker thinks he or she is stealing data, an analyst from the ‘Red Herring’
is tracking the attack to find out what information the attackers is after, how the malicious code works and
who is sending the code. In this way, the trackers can find their victim within hours.
The pioneers of the teaching of science imagined that its introduction into education would
remove the conventionality, artificiality, and backward-lookingness which were characteristic; of
classical studies, but they were gravely disappointed. So, too, in their time had the humanists
thought that the study of the classical authors in the original would banish at once the dull
pedantry and superstition of mediaeval scholasticism. The professional schoolmaster was a match
for both of them, and has almost managed to make the understanding of chemical reactions as dull
and as dogmatic an affair as the reading of Virgil's Aeneid.
The chief claim for the use of science in education is that it teaches a child something about the
actual universe in which he is living, in making him acquainted with the results of scientific
discovery, and at the same time teaches him how to think logically and inductively by studying
scientific method. A certain limited success has been reached in the first of these aims, but
practically none at all in the second. Those privileged members of the community who have been
through a secondary or public school education may be expected to know something about the
elementary physics and chemistry of a hundred years ago, but they probably know hardly more
than any bright boy can pick up from an interest in wireless or scientific hobbies out of school
hours.
As to the learning of scientific method, the whole thing is palpably a farce. Actually, for the
convenience of teachers and the requirements of the examination system, it is necessary that the
pupils not only do not learn scientific method but learn precisely the reverse, that is, to believe
exactly what they are told and to reproduce it when asked, whether it seems nonsense to them or
not. The way in which educated people respond to such quackeries as spiritualism or astrology, not
to say more dangerous ones such as racial theories or currency myths, shows that fifty years of
education in the method of science in Britain or Germany has produced no visible effect whatever.
The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience,
and, until the educational or social systems are altered to make this possible, the best we can
expect is the production of a minority of people who are able to acquire some of the techniques of
science and a still smaller minority who are able to use and develop them.
2. The author’s attitude to secondary and public school education in the sciences is
A. ambivalent
B. neutral
C. supportive
D. satirical
E. contemptuous
4. The author blames all of the following for the failure to impart scientific method through the
education system except
A. poor teaching
B. examination methods
C. lack of direct experience
D. the social and education systems
E. lack of interest on the part of students
5. If the author were to study current education in science to see how things have changed since he
wrote the piece, he would probably be most interested in the answer to which of the following
questions?
A. Do students know more about the world about them?
B. Do students spend more time in laboratories?
C. Can students apply their knowledge logically?
D. Have textbooks improved?
E. Do they respect their teachers?
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JUMBLED SENTENCES
Q. No. 1
Arrange the following jumbled sentences in a way so as to make a meaningful paragraph.
Mention the alphabets marked against each sentence in order as answer.
A. Such a man goes on working hard and even if he fails he is never downcast.
B. It is therefore, the man who labours hard with a strong resolution and an unshaken will, who
achieves success and makes his fortune.
C. In turn failures make him all the more determined and resolute and he persists in his task till
he attains the desired success.
D. A man who possesses a strong will and firm determination finds all difficulties solved.
E. To him there are a thousand ways open to steer clear of all dangers and difficulties.
ANSWER:______________________
Q. No. 2
A. With the passage of time, vices become more apparent and virtues become objects of
jealousy and envy, thereby causing contempt and hatred in the hearts of each other.
B. They become familiar with not only strengths but also weaknesses of each other's characters.
C. Generally people think that familiarity should breed love, mutual understanding and tolerance.
D. They expect that coming together of two persons should bring them closer and forge the bond
of kinship between them.
E. But when two persons come closer, they come to know not only strengths but also weaknesses
of each other's character.
ANSWER:_____________________
Q. No 3.
A. He used to go to his school and enjoyed studying and mid day meals there.
B. Besides, they needed his help in odd jobs in the house as well as their fields.
C. Karma lived with his parents in a thatched small house in a silent corner of the village.
D. This all stopped as his parents could not afford to send him to school to impart further
education to him.
ANSWER:______________
Q. No. 4
Arrange the following jumbled sentences in a way so as to make a meaningful paragraph.
Mention the alphabets marked against each sentence in order as answer.
A. But sometimes, the persons of opposite nature also come closer fall in each other's company
by accident,chance or out of ignorance vitiating the above statement to some extent.
B. If a man moves in the company of good, gentle and noble people, he is usually adjudged to be
a gentleman.
C. It is usual for a man to see company of those who possess tastes, tendencies and
temperaments like his own.
D.On the other side, if he keeps company with evil persons and bad characters, he is considered
to be a man of bad character.
E.Generally, the character and conduct of a person is gauged by the kinds of people he mixes
and moves with.
Answer: ____________
Q. No. 5
Arrange the following jumbled sentences in a way so as to make a meaningful paragraph.
Mention the alphabets marked against each sentence in order as answer.
A. He cannot achieve wealth and fortune unless he works hard and unless he has a powerful will.
C. A person must be persevering and must exert himself if he wants to shape out his destiny.
D. He can also bring misery and sufferings upon himself if he has not the wish to labour.
E. He can make his fortune if he wishes to do so by being industrious and persevering.
Answer: ____________
Q. No. 6
Arrange the following jumbled sentences in a way so as to make a meaningful paragraph.
Mention the alphabets marked against each sentence in order as answer.
A. When finally they made their first ascent from the desert tract beside the sea, to be borne
aloft for almost a whole minute, a great change was effected in the nation's attitude.
B. Accordingly, the brothers, each a man of mettle and each the perfect complement to the other,
set out with their ingenious device, but with their very little capital.
C. Those who had formerly been skeptical and had prophesied that the wright machine would
remain for ever stationary on the earth, were loudest in their praise of the pioneers of the air.
D. Men laughed at the Wright Brothers, mechanics from Dayton, saying that a practicable flying
machine would never be built and counselled them to stay on the ground.
E. The wrights, however, refused to accept this advice or to alter their plans, for they were
certain that their machine embodied the principles of aviation and they were confident of their
success.
Answer: ____________
Q. No. 7
Arrange the sentences B, C, D and E to form a logical sequence between sentences (A) &
(F) to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. The belief in evil spirits, though still common, is probably less wide spread than it was.
B. They live in terror of germs and practise elaborate antiseptic rites in order to counteract their
influence.
C. Evil spirits being out of fashion, it must therefore find expression in other beliefs.
D. With many people especially women, bacilli have taken the place of spirits and microbes for
them are personification of evil.
E. But the human tendency to oversize its sense of value is still as strong as ever.
Answer: ____________
Q. No. 8
Arrange the sentences A, B, C, D and E to form a logical sequence & to construct a
coherent paragraph.
C. Every great wave of human thought which has affected millions of human beings has
something spiritual in it.
D. Even the great revolution would not have succeeded without a spiritual element.
Q. No. 9
Arrange the sentences A, B, C, D and E to form a logical sequence & to construct a
coherent paragraph.
B. Instead of being inspired by good idea, we have even lost what we had.
Answer: ____________
Q. No. 10
Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence & to construct a coherent
paragraph.
A. It must be viewed, as some new epidemic would be viewed, as a common peril to be met by
concerted action.
B. If we are to think wisely about the new problems raised by nuclear weapons, we must learn to
view the whole matter in a quite different way.
C. These conflicts are so virulent and so passionate that they produce a wide spread inability to
understand even very obvious matters.
D. It is a profound misfortune that the whole question of nuclear warfare has become entangled
in the age-old conflicts of power politics.
Answer: ____________
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Assume that you apply for admission in one of the universities in India or abroad to do
Master’s program in your domain and draft the STATEMENT OF PURPOSE. (Refer the sample
given above)
Drafting opinion paragraph:
Give your opinion on education through online mode. Will it be effective in developing the
skills of the learners.
Assume yourself as the student secretary and draft an email to be circulated to all the team
members thanking them for their support and cooperation extended for the successful
conduct of College Day.