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NDA / NA English SAMPLE I National Defence Academy / QUESTION Naval...

NDA / NA English SAMPLE I National Defence Academy / QUESTION Naval Academy PAPER Time  : 40 Minutes Total Marks  : 200 Important Instructions  : 1. This Test Booklet contains 50 items (questions). Each item comprises four responses (answers). You will select the response which you want to mark on the Answer Sheet. In case, you feel that there is more than one correct response, mark the response which you consider the best. In any case, choose ONLY ONE response for each item. 2. You have to mark all your responses ONLY on the separate Answer Sheet provided. 3. All items carry equal marks. 4. Before you proceed to mark in the Answer Sheet the response to various items in the Test Booklet, you have to fill in some particulars in the Answer Sheet as per instructions. 5. Penalty for wrong answers  : THERE WILL BE PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS MARKED BY A CANDIDATE IN THE OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTION PAPERS. (i) There are four alternatives for the answer to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one·third of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty. (ii) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be correct and there will be same penalty as above to that question. (iii) If a question is left blank, i.e., no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question. Antonyms 5. The CEO has been praised for his adroit management of the company's financial Directions: Each item in this section consists of recovery. a sentence with an underlined word followed by (a) gauche (b) skillful four words. Select the option that is opposite in (c) dexterous (d) ambidextrous meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. 6. The earthquake destroyed thousands of people’s lives but I was struck by the incredible 1. The nation was gaining ground at this time as resilience of the survivors I met. the acceptable and legible idiom of collective (a) potency (b) tenacity political demands. (c) weakness (d) obstinate (a) incomprehensible (b) intelligible (c) decipherable (d) readable 7. This process taught me the importance of being a ruthless editor. I learnt that if a piece of 2. Among its distinctive features is a conflation information can be deleted without impacting between land, a national(ised) language, and a the narrative flow, then it didn't belong there. people. (a) compassionate (b) boorish (a) amalgamation (b) meld (c) acrimonious (d) callous (c) constituent (d) emulsion 8. With little access to medical care, many of 3. The partners maintained an amicable relation­ them succumbed to exhaustion, starvation and ship after selling the business. disease. (a) amiable (b) gracious (a) capitulate (b) battle (c) mellow (d) surly (c) defeated (d) sonorous 4. For clinicians under the occupation, whose 9. A frugal lifestyle doesn’t have to mean a patients were dying from hunger, this presented deprived lifestyle. an ethical quandary and a personal dilemma. (a) parsimony (b) niggardly (a) quagmire (b) predicament (c) spendthrift (d) thrifty (c) certainty (d) tranquility SAMPLE QUESTION Paper - 1 101 10. A sedentary lifestyle could increase your levels (a) exoneration (b) arraignment of exhaustion. (c) praise (d) rhythm (a) dormant (b) apathetic 19. The student was procrastinating writing the (c) somnambulant (d) animated report; however, the tutor provided the needed guidance and motivation. Synonyms (a) diatonic (b) diminutive Directions: Each item in this section consists of (c) loiter (d) lackadaisically a sentence with an underlined word followed by 20. The facts of the unsolved mystery were four words. Select the option that is similar in intriguing, but the author’s conclusion was meaning to the underlined word and mark your facile. response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. (a) simple (b) arduous 11. Recently, 23 of Watauga’s best math students (c) torrid (d) dally met virtually to test their mettle against their peers in the annual Math Counts competition. Spotting Errors (a) caliber (b) resolution Directions: In this section, each question has (c) placidity (d) adore a three parts labelled (a), (b), and (c). Read each 12. Since the callow baker was new to cake deco­ sentence to find out whether there is any error in rating, she did not know how to properly frost the underlined part and indicate your response in the multi-layer cake. the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter, (a) puerile (b) childish i.e., (a), (b), (c), or (d). If you find “No error’, your (c) immature (d) seasoned response should be indicated as (e). 13. The magazine article provided ideas for 21. (a) Despite of the simplicity activities designed to shake off the torpor of a (b) of production both Oldowan and Acheulian rainy day. (c) tool-making process activate (a) naive (b) dispassionate (d) different parts of the brain. (c) tepidity (d) fervent (e) No error. 14. The incumbents for the Fayetteville and Rogers 22. (a) The later tend to play school boards all secured their seats for another (b) like an intro to his benighted term. (c) Celebrity Apprentice: stolid, explicit (a) vehemence (b) azure (d) and exhausting. (c) entrant (d) officeholder (e) No error. 15. The pole vaulter reached the apogee of height 23. (a) From the moment he arrived in the competition, catapulting him into first (b) there it’s citizens resented him place. (c) and his Martians and (a) inane (b) apex (d) his youth and his talent. (c) heyday (d) accommodate (e) No error. 16. I attempted to aggrandize the CEO’s high 24. (a) Fortunately, global wealth and status in the company to sweet talk him into (b) technology allow us signing off on the deal. (c) to better prepare and respond (a) elevate (b) perigee (d) to natural disasters. (c) abase (d) aeon (e) No error. 17. Seven plenteous years brought enough food to 25. (a) As global populations have grown feed the people during the famine. (b) and people have crowded into risk zones (a) scarcity (b) niggardly (c) — like earthquake areas and flood plains (c) abundant (d) fecund — the toll of natural 18. The indictments against the company and its (d) disasters have grown as well. chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, will (e) No error. remain sealed until Thursday. 102 Oswaal NDA/NA Year-wise Solved Papers 26. (a) According to the Center for Research on 34. A number of serious disorders, such as sickle Epidemiology of Disasters, cell anemia and Huntington’s disease are (b) the number of catastrophic caused by genetic________. (c) events have more than (a) anomalies (b) eccentricity (d) doubled since the 1980s. (c) ebullience (d) ecclesiastics (e) No error. 35. At an early age, when grammar school teachers 27. (a) The landlord were struggling to _________ the lesson that (b) requested that John effort was the main key to success in school. (c) comes out of (a) evade (b) dubious (d) the apartment immediately. (c) quaint (d) inculcate (e) No error. 36. She gave him her most_________ smile and 28. (a) India needs free, stepped out of the hallway. (b) fair, non-hyphenated and (a) surprising (b) fetching (c) questioning journalism even more as (c) irritated (d) confused (d) it faces multiple crisis. 37. It’s an _________ cloud, a phenomenon occur­ (e) No error. ring right in our own atmosphere. 29. (a) This bank (a) iridescent (b) azure (b) has been built in (c) seaweed (d) pandemic (c) 1995 by a small group 38. Famed actor Phylicia Rashad is returning (d) of merchants. to her _____ as the new dean of the Howard (e) No error. University College of Fine Arts. (a) alumni (b) pagan 30. (a) Since they got late, (c) baroque (d) alma mater (b) it grew late and (c) they decided to put at 39. As people grow older, they begin to _______ on (d) a nearby hotel. the uncertainty of life. (a) ruminate (b) vivid (e) No error. (c) daunt (d) fiasco Fill in the blanks 40. He seemed burdened with _________ thoughts and dark visions as he wrestled with his Directions: Each item in this section consists of pursuing demons. a sentence with a blank followed by four words. (a) heterodox (b) sonorous Select the option that is aptly fit in the given blank (c) melancholic (d) wacky and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. Idioms & Phrases 31. The plot of the story thickens when the main character’s ____________ turns out to be a Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases wanted criminal. followed by four alternative meanings to each. (a) lugubrious (b) doppelganger Choose the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), whichever (c) lovelorn (d) woeful is most appropriate expression and mark your response in your answer sheet accordingly. 32. “I’m not willing to___________ my friendship with Camille by lying to her,” said Luis. 41. Out of the woods (a) jeopardize (b) dismayed (a) Deliberately and without emotion (c) distraught (d) wriggle (b) Out of the forest (c) Out of control 33. Any insect unlucky enough to land on the (d) Out of danger mouth-like leaves of an Australian pitcher plant will meet a _________ end. 42. Call a spade a spade (a) teary-eyed (b) mewling (a) An important person (c) grisly (d) grizzly (b) Blunt and direct SAMPLE QUESTION Paper - 1 103 (c) In a state where one does not know what to (b) To make a supreme effort do (c) To act foolishly or inconsistently (d) To tackle a problem in a bold and direct (d) Have a secret plan in reserve fashion 47. Cock and bull story 43. At daggers drawn (a) Ask for the impossible (a) Bitterly hostile (b) Made up story that one should not believe (b) To tackle a problem in a bold and direct (c) Just at the last moment fashion (d) Talent for speaking (c) Keep one at a distance 48. Take a leaf out of one’s book (d) Have a secret plan in reserve (a) Just at the last moment 44. Bark up the wrong tree (b) Make money unfairly (a) Confess – especially when a person has (c) Desert one in difficulties done a wrong thing (d) Imitate one (b) Accuse or denounce a person 49. Smell a rat (c) Waste one’s efforts by pursuing the wrong (a) Suspect something foul thing or path (b) Disturb the work (d) To act foolishly or inconsistently (c) Understand the hidden meaning 45. At one’s wit's end (d) Run away (a) Completely puzzled or perplexed 50. Bury the hatchet (b) Tired (a) Dwell on the same subject (c) Work or study hard (b) Destroy in the early stage (d) Without hope (c) End the quarrel and make peace 46. Have a card up one’s sleeve (d) Put or do things in the wrong order (a) Do or say the exact thing Finished Solving the Paper ?  Time to evaluate yourself !  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