Style, Rhetoric and Sentence Revision - Expression - Reasoning and Comprehension Previous Year Questions

Complete the sentence correctly using the options given below.
Hastings ____(p)____ developed as a holiday resort after ___(q)___ .

Which word below best describes the idea of being both Spineless and Cowardly?

Choose the right preposition to fill up the blank:
The whole family got together ___ Diwali

Select the correct option to fill in all the blanks to complete the passage:
The (i)______ factor amid this turbulence has been the (ii)______ of high-octane, action-oriented films such as RRR, K.G.F: Chapter 2 and Pushpa from film industries in the south of the country. Traditionally, films made in the south have done well in their own (iii)______. But increasingly, their dubbed versions have performed well in the Hindi heartland, with collections (iv)______ those of their Bollywood counterparts.

Five segments of a sentence are given below. The first and fifth segments are at their correct positions, while the middle three segments (represented by 2, 3, and 4) are jumbled up. Choose the correct order of the segments so that they form a coherent sentence:
1. Consumed multitudes are jostling and shoving inside me
2. and guided only by the memory of a large white bedsheet with a roughly circular hole some seven inches in diameter cut into the center,
3. clutching at the dream of that holey, mutilated square of linen, which is my talisman, my open-sesame,
4. I must commence the business of remaking my life from the point at which it really began,
5. some thirty-two years before anything as obvious, as present, as my clock-ridden, crime-stained birth.

The appropriate synonym for the word ‘ignite’ in the following passage will be:

Fill in the blanks with the correct combination of tenses for the given sentence:
Darwin’s work (i)_______ a related effect that (ii)______ influenced the development of environmental politics – a ‘decentering’ of the human being.

Consider the following sentence.
What the country needs ____ ____ ____ ____ accordingly.
First and last parts of the sentence are given. P, Q, R, and S are the remaining parts of the sentence, not necessarily in that order.
P: and change tactics
Q: who would encourage players
R: are coaches and officials
S: to read the game as it progresses
Which one of the following options is correct that gives the most appropriate order and meaning to the sentence?

In the given passage, fill in the blanks with most suitable set of given words: The future must no longer be___ by the past. While, the effects of the past are still with us, each day is a new___. Therefore, one should___from solely believing in destiny and crave towards charting their own path of success with grit and labour. Positive______ is imperative.

On the basis of syntax and grammar, identify the incorrect sentence(s).
I. Doctors have found high levels of cerebrospinal fluid in certain cases of cerebral palsy around the world. They also suggested its abnormal impact on speech and muscle movement.
II. Doctors have found high levels of cerebrospinal fluid in certain cases of cerebral palsy around the world which suggests the abnormal impact on speech and muscle movement.
III. Having found high levels of cerebrospinal fluid in certain cases of cerebral palsy around the world, doctors are suggesting abnormal impact on speech and muscle movement.
IV. Having found high levels of cerebrospinal fluid in certain cases of cerebral palsy around the world, doctors suggested its abnormal impact on speech and muscle movement.