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2025 General Ability Test

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Questions 150
Duration 180 mins
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Directions : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct option from the given options, based solely on the passage. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet accordingly. An attempt to determine the number of languages in the world is affected by other factors. A few new languages do continue to be discovered, even these days, as unexplored regions of the world begin to be opened up. The discovery does not usually take place straight away. Often there are similarities with an already known language which make the investigators assume that what they have found is just a dialect of that language. Only after a considerable period of contact does it transpire that the speech is so different that it has to be considered a different language. It takes a language survey to establish the facts, and there are still many countries where such surveys are incomplete or have not even begun. The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be. Because many such peoples are bilingual or multilingual, and converse with outsiders in lingua franca, it may take a while before linguists come to realize that there is an ethnic language there at all. Which one of the following is NOT the reason for the difficulty in estimating the number of languages of the world ?
A
New languages continue to be discovered
B
There are still unexplored regions
C
New languages are considered a dialect of a known language
D
People who speak the language do not claim their language
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Which one of the following is a way to establish the discovery of a new language ?
A
By establishing contact over a period of time with the speakers of the language
B
By finding the similarities of the language with other languages
C
By comparing with the lingua franca of the region
D
By conducting a survey of all languages of the region
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Which one of the following statements is correct ?
A
Language surveys have been conducted by all nations
B
There is hardly any language to be discovered in the world
C
All the languages are either complete languages or dialects of other major languages
D
No new language needs to be discovered since all languages are known to the world
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The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be,' means
A
People are recognised as different ethnic groups but not necessarily their language
B
People are recognised as different ethnic groups and their language is recognised
C
People are not recognised as different ethnic groups, and so are their languages
D
Because the people are not from different ethnic groups and their language is recognised
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Which one of the following words from passage means 'come to be known'?
A
transpire
B
lingua franca
C
straight
D
variant
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Directions : The following items have a sentence in direct or indirect speech with four options. One of the options converts the direct or indirect speech into indirect or direct correctly. Select the correct option and mark your response on the Answer Sheet. Convert from direct speech to indirect speech : Charu said to her friend, "I want you to be here at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting."
A
Charu told her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. the next day for the meeting
B
Charu told her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting
C
Charu requested her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting
D
Charu told her friend that she will want her to be here at 6.00 p.m. the next day for the meeting