After successfully completing the CAT 2016 sprint series, we are back with the SNAP 2016 sprint preparation series – Verbal 5 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 5
Directions for Questions 1 and 2: Choose the segment with the error. If there is no error, mark ‘d’.
1. Idli and Sambar (a) / make the breakfast (b) / in the South. (c)
2. Your account should (a) / have been credited (b) / with three months’ interest. (c)
3. Choose the sentence where the word in bold is used appropriately.
a. Who’s car are you planning to borrow?
b. Whose planning to have a birthday party?
c. He is the person who you met at the junction.
d. Does he know whom to call about the hotel reservations?
Directions for Questions 4 and 5
Choose
”a” if the first sentence is correct.
”b” if the second sentence is correct.
“c” if both sentences are correct.
“d” if both sentences are wrong.
4.
1. Can you imagine his forgetting his own birthday?
2. Can you imagine him forgetting his own birthday?
5.
1. Recently I read about a unique wedding that took place in the newspaper.
2. Recently I read in the newspaper about a unique wedding that took place.
6. Complete the given sentence by choosing the correct phrase.
You cannot succeed unless
a. you do not work hard.
b. you shall not work hard.
c. you will work hard.
d. you work hard.
7. Re-arrange the scrambled segments in logical order to make a complete sentence.
1. to a place where more opportunities are available
2. and so there is a great demand for English
3. for professional and economic growth
4. because it takes one outside one’s own community
5. English is a language of opportunities
a. 1, 2, 5, 3, 4
b. 5, 4, 1, 3, 2
c. 3, 1, 4, 2, 5
d. 2, 1, 3, 5, 4
8. Choose the best construction:
a. If you would have taken care you wouldn’t have got typhoid.
b. If you took care you wouldn’t have got typhoid.
c. If you take care you wouldn’t have got typhoid.
d. If you had taken care you wouldn’t have got typhoid.
Directions for Questions 9 and 10: Choose the correct option.
9. At times, we are all _________ to be mistaken.
a. apt
b. likely
c. considered
d. able
10. He hardly cares, __________?
a. does he
b. doesn’t he
c. will he
d. won’t he
Directions for Question 11 and 12: Identify the figures of speech in the following sentences:
11. As proud as a peacock.
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Apostrophe
d. Epigram
12. Death lays his icy hand on kings.
a. Personification
b. Exclamation
c. Simile
d. Anticlimax
Directions for Questions 13 to 15: Read the passage carefully and answer within the context.
“A way to deal with frozen feelings”
Every child experiences all that happens around him with total awareness. In the first seven years the child’s brain is like a sponge, taking in all sensory inputs and building his idea of his surroundings. As long as the environment is safe, the child learns with incredible speed. However, when the environment is scary or stressful, the child unlearns past learning just as rapidly.
In the early years of every child’s life, whenever there is shock, violence, fear or pain, these intense emotions are imprinted deeply into memory. Whenever the same activity or situation is repeated, the nervous system and body subconsciously re-experience the memory of that trauma.
Any emotional situation that takes us out of the present and into the past means that whenever the same kind of emotion crops up later in our life we return to the past for our reference point. If that point was at age three, we find ourselves behaving like a three-year-old. We feel childish and we behave childishly. Our feelings are the cause of this ‘glitch’ in our learning process. We know we should be able to make a positive change, but that doesn’t change anything.
The process of change need not be traumatic. We couldn’t have done any better because we didn’t know how to. But we should realise that was then and this is now! We can choose to choose again. It’s up to us. It’s our movie!
13. The “frozen feelings” being talked about are about
a. negative childhood experiences.
b. childhood learning patterns.
c. inability to learn as an adult.
d. none of the above.
14. A ‘glitch’ is
a. a ditch
b. uneasy emotions
c. sudden malfunction or breakdown
d. learning patterns
15. Identify the correct sentence, based on the paragraph
a. The process of change needs to be traumatic.
b. We feel childish and we behave childishly.
c. Both sentences are incorrect.
d. Both the sentences are correct.
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Solutions:
1. Should be ‘make up’ instead of ‘make the’. Option b.
2. Option d.
3. Option d.
4. Option a.
5. If we discount the missing comma, option b is correct.
6. Option d.
7. Option b.
8. Option d.
9. Option b.
10. Option a. ‘caring hardly’ is a negative emotion and so, the last part should be the opposite of it and so, should be ‘does he?’.
11. Option b.
12. Option a.
13. Option a.
14. Option c.
15. Option b.
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