Directions (Q.1- 20): Each question in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled(A),and (B)and (C). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your answer in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter Le. (A) or (B) or (C). If you find no error, your answer should be indicated as(D)

Directions (Q.21- 40): Look at the bold part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given there possible substitutions for the Bold part.If one of them (a),(b) or (c)is better than the bold part indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter (a), (b), or (c). If none of the substitutions improve the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet, Thus a No improvement response will be signified by the letter (d). 

Directions (Q.41- 50): In this section, you find a number of sentences, parts of which are bold. For each bold part, four words /phrases are listed below. Choose the word/phrase nearest in meaning to the bold part and blacken the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.

Directions (Q.51- 60): In this section, each item consists of a word or a phase which is bold in the sentence given. It is followed by four words or phrases. Select the word or phrase which is closest to the opposite in meaning of the bold word or phrase.

Directions (Q.61- 80): In the following passages at certain points you are given a choice of three words in brackets, one of which fits the meaning of the passage. Choose the word which best fits the meaning of the passage and mark the corresponding letter viz (a),(b)or(C)on your Answer Sheet. Example Y and Z have been solved for you.
Y  (a) Boy was in the school in Shimla.
    (b) Horse
    (c) Dog
Z (a) She was homesick.
   (b) It
   (c) He
Explanation: Out of the list given in item Y, only boy is correct answer because usually a boy and not a horse or a dog, attends school.
So (a ) is to be marked on the Answer Sheet for item Y. A boy is usually referred to as “he”, so for item Z, the letter (c) is correct answer. Notice that to solve this kind of items you have to read the preceding or succeeding sentences of the given passage.
PASSAGE I
One of the most interesting new books published recently is “Spaceship” by Prof. E.C. Walker

Directions (Q.81- 90): In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence ofthe four sentences and indicate your answer accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

Directions (Q.91-93): Read the following passages and answer the items that follow. Read the following passages and answer the items that follow.
PASSAGE-I
Those responsible for teaching young people have resorted to a variety of means to make their pupils learn. The earliest of these was the threat of punishment. This meant that the pupil who was slow, careless or inattentive risked either physical chastisement or the loss of some expected privilege. Learning was thus associated with feat. At a later period, pupils were encouraged to learn in the hope of some kind of reward. This often took the form of marks awarded for work done and sometimes of prizes given at the end of the year to the best scholar. Such a system appealed to the competitive spirit, but was just as depressing as the older system for the slow pupil.

In the nineteenth century sprang up a new type of teacher, convinced that learning was worthwhile for its own sake and that the young pupil’s principal stimulus should neither be anxiety to avoid a penalty nor ambition to win a reward, but sheer desire to learn. Interest, direct or indirect, became the keyword of instruction.

Directions (Q.94-95): Read the following passages and answer the items that follow. Read the following passages and answer the items that follow.
PASSAGE-II:
On a surface which is free from obstacles, such as a clear road or a path, only two or three species of snakes can hope to catch up with a human being, even if they are foolish to try. A snake seems to move  very fast but its movements are deceptive. In spite of the swift, wave-like motions of its body, the snake crawls along the ground at no more than the speed of man’s walk It may, however, have an advantage inside a jungle, where the progress of a man is obstructed . by thorny bushes. But in such places, the footsteps of  a man are usually more than enough to warn snakes to keep away. Although they have no ears the usual kind, they can feel slight vibrations of the ground through their bodies, and thus get in early warning of danger. 

Directions (Q.96-100): Read the following passages and answer the items that follow. Read the following passages and answer the items that follow.

PASSAGE-III:
This rule of always trying to do things as well as one can do them has an important bearing upon the problem of ambition. No man or woman should be without ambition, which is the inspiration of activity. But if one allows ambition to drive one to attempt things which are beyond one’s own personal capacity, then unhappiness will result. If one imagines that one can do everything better than other people, then envy and jealousy, those twin monsters, will come to sadden one’s days. But if one concentrates one’s attention upon developing one’s own special capacities, the things one is best at, then one does not worry over much if other people are more successful.

Directions (Q.101-105): Read the following passages and answer the items that follow. Read the following passages and answer the items that follow.

PASSAGE-IV:
 An earthquake comes like a thief in the night, without warning. It was necessary, therefore, to invent instruments that neither slumbered nor slept. Some devices were quite simple. One, for instance, consisted of rods of various lengths and thicknesses which would stand up on end like ninepins.When a shock came it shook the rigid able upon which these stood. If it were gentle, only the more unstable rods tell. If it were severe, they all fell.Thus the rods by falling and by the directions in which they fell, recorded for the slumbering scientist, the strength of a shock that was too weak to waken him and the direction from which it came.

But, instruments far more delicate than that were needed if any really serious advance was to be made. The ideal to be aimed at was to devise an instrument that could record with a pen on paper the movements, of the ground or of the table, as the quake passed by. While I write my pen moves but the paper keeps still. With practice, no doubt, I could, in time, learn to write by holding the pen still while the paper moved. That sounds a silly suggestion, but that was precisely the idea adopted in some of the early instruments (seismometers) for recording earthquake waves. But when table, penholder and paper are all moving how is it possible to write legibly? The key to a solution of that problem lay in an everyday observation. Why does a person standing in a bus or train tend to fall when a sudden starts is made? It is because his feet move on, but his head stays still.

Directions (Q.106-116): There is a sentence of which some parts have been jumbled up. You are required to rearrange these parts which are labeled P, Q, R and S, to produce the correct sentence. Choose the correct sequence and mark in you answer sheet accordingly.

Directions (Q.117-120): Each of the following sentences has a blank space and four words given after the sentence. Select whichever word you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your choice on the Answer Sheet.