After successfully completing the CAT 2016 sprint series, we are back with the SNAP 2016 sprint preparation series – Verbal 1 to boost your prep. This will continue for the last 10 days leading to SNAP 2016 and will cover almost all the question types that you need to know come the 18th of December.

SNAP 2016 sprint preparation series – Verbal 1

 

1. Match the following idiomatic references to parts of the human anatomy

1)	palm	5)	could not tolerate the insult
2)	foot	6)	to look at with envy and desire
3)	eye	7)	to put the blame on someone else
4)	stomach	8)	forced to pay the bill

a. 1-8, 2-6, 3-5, 4-7
b. 1-5, 2-7, 3-6, 4-8
c. 1-7, 2-8, 3-6, 4-5
d. 1-6, 2-8, 3-5, 4-7

2. Find the maximum number of times any one of the given words fits the sets of sentences

RAISE, ARISE, AROSE, RISE

1) Opportunities will _____________, and you must grab them.
2) A hot wind ________ from the desert.
3) I _________ at dawn on most days.
4) A mood of optimism _____________ among the people.

a. in all four sentences
b. in 3 sentences
c. in 2 sentences
d. in 1 sentence

3. Which two sentences among the following convey the same idea? Choose from the combinations listed below:
1) He is in a fool’s paradise.
2) He can’t see the wood for the trees.
3) He can’t distinguish between reality and fancy.
4) He is unable to separate unimportant details from the really important ones.

a. 2, 3
b. 2, 4
c. 1, 4
d. 1, 3

4. Find the correct match of grammatical function with usage for the word THEN.

	Function		Usage
1)	Noun	5)	He was the then King of Nepal.
2)	Adjective	6)	I have not heard about him since then.
3)	Adverb	7)	He is not feeling well, then how can he possibly go for the picnic.
4)	Conjunction	8)	He was not a graduate then.

a. 1-8, 2-5, 3-6, 4-7
b. 1-6, 2-5, 3-8, 4-7
c. 1-7, 2-5, 3-6, 4-8
d. 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5

5. We can never make our beliefs regarding the world certain. Even scientific theory of a most rigorous and well-confirmed nature is likely to change over a decade or even tomorrow. If we refuse to even try to understand, then it is like resigning from the human race. Undoubtedly life of an unexamined kind is worth living in other respects – as it is no mean thing to be a vegetable or an animal. It is also true that a man wishes to see this speculative domain beyond his next dinner. From the above passage it is clear that the author believes that

a. men would do well not to speculate
b. progress in the scientific field is impossible
c. one should live life with the dictum ‘what will be will be’
d. men are different from animals as far as their reasoning abilities are concerned

6. The plural of Virus is

a. Viruses
b. Virae
c. Virii
d. Virus

7. If the following segments of a sentence are to be rearranged in logical order as A, B, C, D where would ‘3’ be placed

1) to see that students do not altogether forget to write especially during exam time
2) the education groups are now asking for hand writing classes
3) thanks to mobile testing and computer literacy
4) writing in long hand is becoming a vanishing art

a. A
b. B
c. C
d. D

8. If leaf is to leaves and knife is to knives, then belief is to ____________

a. beliefs
b. believes
c. belief
d. believing

9. Choose the sentence where the word ‘pedestrian’ is used correctly.

a. This latest novel is a pedestrian story about spies.
b. The exam paper is not pedestrian but difficult.
c. This is the pedestrian highway.
d. Every week we are forced to listen to a pedestrian lecture.

10. When the fire alarm rang ________ left the building immediately

a. all
b. everyone
c. all the people
d. every person

11. In the following sentence choose the erroneous segment

He is one of those people (A) / who thinks (B) / he owns the world (C)

a. Error in segment A
b. Error in segment B
c. Error in segments A & C
d. Error in segments B & C

12. Choose the correct meaning for the word: cynic

a. the person who is selfish
b. the person who is concerned about others
c. the person who isn’t misanthropic
d. the person who believes that people always act from selfish motives

13. Choose the word with correct spelling

a. catagories
b. diarrhoea
c. ommission
d. inaugarate

14. Pick out the right sentences.

1) I will go with you.
2) There was nobody I could go with.
3) I have a glass with painting on it.
4) The curtains do not match with the furniture.

a. 1 & 2
b. 2 & 3
c. 1 & 4
d. All

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Solutions:

1. Option c is correct.

2. Arose can be used in 2 sentences. Option c.

3. 2, 4 is the right combination. Option b is correct. Fool’s paradise might not really indicate something fancy that is unreal and so, 1, 3 is out.

4. Option b is correct.

5. Option d is perfect. Option a is not what the passage suggests. It states that men speculate and nothing beyond that. Option b is not correct as the author does not mention it anywhere. S/he merely says that the scientific theories change frequently. Option c tells us that we should resign to the fact that what has to happen will happen which is contrary to the statement ‘If we refuse to … from the human race’. Option d is a part of the statement that has been given in the passage when it says ‘… worth living in other respects…’

6. Option a

7. The correct order will be 3421 and so, 3 will be same as A.

8. beliefs is the plural form of belief. Option a.

9. Option d is correct. Pedestrian is used as an adjective to mean something that is plain or mediocre.

10. Option b fits the blank in the best manner. All the people and every person are not really great ways to fill the blank and although they might sound good, everyone is better.

11. Parts B and C are erroneous. The correct form should be: He is one of those people who think they own the world. Option d.

12. Option d.

13. Option b is correct.

14. 1 and 2 are correct. Statement 3 should be ‘I have a glass with a painting on it’ and Statement 4 should be ‘The curtains do not match the furniture’. Option b.

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