(Download) Model Test Paper For UPSC Pre CSAT 2011: (Paper-2) - SET - 3

Directions (Qs.1 to 4): Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

1. The best punctuation is that of which the reader is least conscious; for when punctuation, or lack of it............ itself, it is usually because it..........
(a) conceals, recedes
(b) enjoins, fails
(c) obtrudes, offends
(d) effaces, counts

2. Their achievement in the field of literature is described as ..........; sometimes it is even called.........
(a) significant, paltry
(b) insignificant, influential
(c) magnificent, irresponsible
(d) unimportant, trivial

3. Companies that try to improve employees' performance by.......rewards encourage negative kinds of behaviour, instead of.......a genuine interest in doing the work well.
(a) conferring, discrediting
(b) bestowing, discouraging
(c) giving, seeking
(d) withholding, fostering

4. A growing number of these expert professionals ........ having to train foreigners as the students end up............ the teachers who have to then unhappily contend with no jobs at all or new jobs with drastically reduced pay packets.
(a) welcome, assisting
(b) resist, challenging
(c) resent, replacing
(D) are, supplanting