RK JHA Solutions for Chapter: Verbal and Logical Ability, Exercise 8: Solved Paper 2013

Directions Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate that follows. 

$\dots$ bat who fell upon ... ground and was caught by $\dots$ weasel pleaded to be spared his life ... weasel refused, saying that he was by nature $\dots$ enemy of all birds. ... bat assured him that he was not ... bird, but ... mouse and thus was set free.

He got ....... next morning, to be sure and had his meals ...... usual, though he ate ........ and had more, I am afraid, than his usual supply of rum, for he helped himself ....... the bar, scowling and blowing ........... his nose and no one dared cross him.

Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.

I. I was scarcely in position ere my enemies began to arrive, seven or eight of them, running hard, their feet beating out of time along the road and the man with the lantern some paces in front.

II. My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear, for I could not remain where I was but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my held behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door.

III. Three men ran together, hand in hand, and I made out, even through the mist, that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar.

IV. The next moment his voice showed me that I was right.

Codes

Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.

I. Finally, he took a wrong turn and ran a few steps past me, towards the hamlet, crying, "Johnny, Black Dog, Dirk" and other names, "you won't leave old Pew, mates—not old Pew!"

II. This quarrel was the saving of us, for while it was still raging, another sound came from the top of the hill on the side of the hamlet-the tramp of horses galloping.

III. And that was plainly the last signal of danger for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.

IV. They had deserted, whether in sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words and blows I known not; but there he remained behind, tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades.

V. Almost at the same time a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge side.

Codes

Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.

I. As chroniclers of an incremental process, they discover that additional research makes it harder, not easier, to answer questions like: When was oxygen discovered? Who first conceived of energy conservation?

II. Simultaneously, these same historians confront growing difficulties in distinguishing in the 'scientific' component of past observation and belief from what their predecessors had readily labelled 'error' and 'superstition'.

III. Increasingly, a few of them suspect that these are simply the wrong sorts of questions to ask. Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions.

IV. In recent years, however a few historians of science have been finding it more and more difficult to fulfill the functions that the concept of development by accumulation assigns to them.

Codes

Read the following sentences and choose the best alternative which should replace the italicised part of the sentence.

To be a great manager requires, strong inter-personal skills, the ability to think fast and demands a can do attitude.

Read the following sentences and choose the best alternative which should replace the italicised part of the sentence.

The tremendous insight of Einstein was that the passage of time does not appear to be the same while standing still as it does to a person travelling at a speed which is a significant fraction of the speed of light

Read the following sentences and choose the best alternative which should replace the italicised part of the sentence. Economic theory fails to explain the extent to which savings from personal income has shifted to short-term bonds, money-market funds and other near term investments by the instability in the futures market.