Verbal-Paper 1, Countdown To Snap: Instructions

Verbal- Paper 1, Countdown to Snap
Instructions:
Every question carries 1 mark.
For every wrong answer, you lose 0.25 marks.
Time limit: 20 minutes
1) Match the explanations of the idiomatic references given on the right hand side to their
respective idiomatic references given on the left hand side.
(i) To play hard to get (a) To defend

(ii) To look forward to (b) To agree
(iii) To stick up for (c) To be inaccessible
(iv) To be eye to eye (d) To anticipate
1. (i) b, (ii) c, (iii) d, (iv) a
2. (i) c, (ii) d, (iii) a, (iv) b
3. (i) a, (ii) c, (iii) b, (iv) d
4. (i) c, (ii) b, (iii) d, (iv) a
2) Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word from the options given below:
I confess that it was -------- who ate the cake.
1. Me
2. I
3.Myself
4. Both I and Me
3) For the following pair of sentences choose the correct option
I. The team quickly took their positions on the field.

II. The team quickly took its position on the field.
1. the first sentence is wrong

2. the second sentence is wrong
3. both are correct
4. both are wrong
4) Choose the antonym nearest in meaning to the word.

Facetious:
1. serious
2. uneasy
3. pleasant
4. cross
5) Choose the correct option:

1. News travels fast.
2. News travel fast.
3. A News travels fast.
4. The new travels fast.
6) Find the maximum number of times any one of the given words fits the sets of sentences (SNAP
2008)
RAISE ARISE AROSE RISE
Opportunities will _______, and you must grab them.
A hot wind _______ from the desert.
I _______ at dawn on most days.
A mood of optimism _______ among the people.
1)in all four sentences

2)in 3 sentences
3)in 2 sentences
4)in 1 sentence
7) Choose the correct option: (SNAP 2011)

1. I have completed the work yesterday.
2. I did completed the work yesterday.
3. I have had completed the work yesterday.
4. I completed the work yesterday
8) Choose the word with incorrect spelling (SNAP 2008)

1. categories
2.diarrhea
3.omission
4.inaugurate
9) Disinterested is closest in meaning to (SNAP 2009)

1.bored
2.unbiased
3.not interested
4.indifferent
10) What does Dime a dozen mean? (SNAP 2010)

1. For one dime you get a dozen.
2. All dozens cost a dime.
3. Anything that is common and easy to get.
4. It is difficult to get.
11) A rate of inflation makes exports difficult.

1.great
2. high
3. large
4. tall
12) Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of

1. learning
2. earning
3. worry
4. irritation
13) What happens when one scrounges around for something?
1. One is trying hard to understand a complex problem
2. One is trying to look around all over for someone or something
3. One is trying to solve a crime
4. One is trying to save money
Directions for questions 14 and 15: Each of the sentences given below, contain a phrasal verb which
has been listed incompletely, and is underlined. Your task is to select the most appropriate
preposition from the options given below, so as to complete the phrasal verb in the best possible
manner, which is grammatically and semantically correct.
14. I veered away ------------- the clichd tourist vacation spots.
1. From
2. Along
3. By
4. Behind
15. It didn't occur ------------ us that we had left the iron on.
1. In
2. By
3. To
4. For
16. What is to sit pretty?

1. A beautiful person
2. To be blessed with a charming personality
3. To be in a good situation
4. A person who is arrogant because of his/her good looks
17. Choose the correct set of alternatives to fill in the blanks. (SNAP 2006)
Although many of the members were _____ about the impending deal, others were _____ about the
benefits.
1. euphoric ............ confident
2. Optimistic ............. dubious
3. angry ............... skeptical
4. confused ............. pleased
Directions for Question No. 18 20: Read the following passage and answer within its context.
Nearly two thousand years have passed since a census decreed by Caesar Augustus became part of
the greatest story ever told. Many things have changed in the intervening years. The hotel industry
worries more about overbuilding than overcrowding, and if they had to meet an unexpected influx,
few inns would have managed to accommodate the weary guests. Now it is the census taker that
does the travelling in the fond hope that a highly mobile population will stay put long enough to get
a good sampling. Methods of gathering, recording and evaluating information have presumably been
improved a great deal. And where then it was the modest purpose of Rome to obtain a simple head
count as an adequate basis for levying taxes, now batteries of complicated statistical series furnished
by governmental agencies and private organizations are eagerly scanned and interpreted by sages
and seers to get a clue for future events.
The Bible does not tell us how the Roman census takers made out, and as regards our more
immediate concern, the reliability of present-day economic forecasting, there are considerable
differences of opinion. They were aired at the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the American
Statistical Association. There was the thought that business forecasting might well be on its way
from an art to a science, and some speakers talked about new-fangled computers and high-faulting
mathematical systems in terms of excitement and endearment, which we, at least in our younger
years when these things mattered, would have associated more readily with the description of a fair
maiden.
But others pointed to a deplorable record of highly esteemed forecasts and forecasters with a
batting average below that of the Mets and the President-elect of the Association cautioned that
high- powered statistical methods are usually in order where the facts are crude and inadequate,
statisticians assume. We left his birthday party somewhere between hope and despair and with the
conviction, not really newly acquired, that proper statistical methods applied to ascertainable facts
have their merits in economic forecasting as long as neither forecaster nor public is deluded into
mistaking the delineation of probabilities and trends for a prediction of certainties of mathematical
exactitude.
(SNAP 2009)
18. According to the passage, taxation in Roman times were based on
1. mobility
2. wealth
3. population
4 .census takers
19. The author refers to the Mets primarily in order to

1. show that sports do not depend on statistics
2. contrast verifiable and unverifiable methods of record keeping
3. indicate the changes in attitudes from Roman days to the present
4. illustrate the failure of statistical predictions.
20. The authors tone can best be described as

1. jocular
2. scornful
3. pessimistic
4. humanistic

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(i) To play hard to get (a) To defend

3) For the following pair of sentences choose the correct option

I. The team quickly took their positions on the field.

1. the first sentence is wrong

4) Choose the antonym nearest in meaning to the word.

5) Choose the correct option:

1)in all four sentences

7) Choose the correct option: (SNAP 2011)

8) Choose the word with incorrect spelling (SNAP 2008)

9) Disinterested is closest in meaning to (SNAP 2009)

10) What does Dime a dozen mean? (SNAP 2010)

11) A rate of inflation makes exports difficult.

12) Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of

16. What is to sit pretty?

19. The author refers to the Mets primarily in order to

20. The authors tone can best be described as

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