UPSC Recruitment Paper 2018 : Administrative Officer in GSI

(General Ability Test)

1.Which one of the following parts of the sentence ‘The importance of preserving cinema as an art and historical document have been recognized all over the world,’ has an error?
(a) The importance of preserving
(b) cinema as an art
(c) and historical document
(d) have been recognized all over the world

2.Which one of the following parts of the sentence ‘Increased commercial activity and the consequents growth of money economy led to a proliferation of arts and crafts,’ has an error?
(a) Increased commercial activity
(b) and the consequents growth of
(c) money economy led
(d) to a proliferation of arts and crafts

3. Which one of the following parts of the sentence ‘If he kept the promise of visiting us last week, we would have given him the offer,’ has an error?
(a) If he kept
(b) the promise of visiting us
(c) last week
(d) we would have given him the offer

4. Which one of the following parts of the sentence ‘Every bottle of this company’s water is put through rigorous multistage purification which include micron filtration’ has an error?
(a) Every bottle of this company’s water
(b) is put through
(c) rigorous multistage purification
(d) which include micron filtration

5. Which one of the following is the appropriate question tag in the sentence ‘They will not carry out the work as desired, _________’
(a) will they?
(b) won’t they?
(c) can’t they?
(d) aren’t they? 

6. Which one of the following is the appropriate question tag in the sentence ‘She has written the story in such way that it attracts an award, ______________’
(a) has she?
(b) isn’t she?
(c) is she?
(d) hasn’t she?

7. Which one of the following is the appropriate question tag in the sentence ‘Let’s go to the wedding party, _________’
(a) aren’t we?
(b) shall we?
(c) do we?
(d) are we?

8. Which one of the following is the appropriate question tag in the sentence ‘There is an old monument at the end of the village, _______________’
(a) is it there?
(b) is there?
(c) isn’t it?
(d) was there?

9. Which one of the following is the synonym of the word written in capital letters in the sentence ‘He DECRIED the practice of corruption and favouritism in public life’?
(a) Praised
(b) Denounced
(c) Worried
(d) Pondered

10. Which one of the following is the synonym of the word written in capital letters in the sentence ‘At the INSTANCE of the minister the tree plantation was carried out in the village’?
(a) Case
(b) Invite
(c) Fund
(d) Request

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