After successfully completing the CAT 2016 sprint series, we are back with the SNAP 2016 sprint preparation series – Verbal 9 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 9

Directions for questions 1 to 6: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

D. H. Lawrence – 1885-1930: The Supreme Triumph

For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time. We ought to dance with rapture, that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet below know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am a part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human soul, as my spirit is a part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters. – Apocalypse, 1931.

1. By ‘triumph’ the author means –

a. sin
b. loss
c. sorrow
d. victory

2. When the dead look after the afterwards the living should look at life

a. forever
b. for some months
c. for only a short while
d. in the past

3. By ‘rapture’ the author means an emotion involving great

a. trepidation
b. thrill
c. fear
d. joy

4. By the last line “It _______________ waters”, the author means that the mind is only

a. a mirage
b. an illusion
c. magic
d. a reflection

5. The tone of this passage is

a. social
b. moral
c. reflective
d. philosophical

6. The most suitable title for this passage would be –

a. The Surface of the Waters
b. My Mind
c. The Human Race
d. Alive and Kicking

Directions for questions 7 to 9: Choose the correct option.

7. The repetition of messages or the use of superfluous expressions is called ____

a. redundancy
b. hyperbole
c. alliteration
d. allegory

8. Ink : pen : paper

a. watch : dial : strap
b. book : paper : words
c. farmer : plough : field
d. colour : brush : canvas

9. realia

a. theoretical constructs
b. fabricated examples
c. objects from real life
d. based on reality

Directions for question 10 : Choose the grammatically correct option from the following.

10.

a. ‘Are these gloves belonging to you?’ she asked.
b. ‘Does this gloves belong to you?’ she asked.
c. ‘Do these gloves belongs to you?’ she asked.
d. ‘Do these gloves belong to you?’ she asked.

Directions for questions 11 to 15: Choose the grammatically correct option from the following.

11.

a. I live in a house in a street in the countryside. The street is called “Bear Street” and the house is old – more than 100 years old!
b. I live in the house in the street in the countryside. The street is called “Bear Street” and the house is old – more than 100 years old!
c. I live in a house in the street in the countryside. The street is called “Bear Street” and the house is old – more than 100 years old!
d. I live in a house in a street in the countryside. The street is called “Bear Street” and a house is old – more than 100 years old!

12.

a. The teachers will be able to visit our schools and compare our teaching methods to their own.
b. The teachers will be able to pay a visit to our schools and compare teaching methods for their own.
c. The teachers will be able to visit our schools and compare our teaching methods with their own.
d. The teachers will be able to visit our school and compare their teaching method with their own.

13.

a. Could you give me the amount that you filled out in the check which was sent?
b. Could you give me the amount what you filled out in the check you sent?
c. Could you give me the amount for which you filled out in the check you sent?
d. Could you give me the amount wherein you filled out in the check you sent?

14.

a. I have completed the work yesterday.
b. I did completed the work yesterday.
c. I have had completed the work yesterday.
d. I completed the work yesterday.

15.

a. The train couldn’t stop in time and crashed with the truck.
b. The train couldn’t stop in time and crashed into the truck.
c. The train couldn’t stop in time and crashed against the truck.
d. The train couldn’t stop in time and crashed before the truck.

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Solutions:

1. Option d.

2. Option c.

3. Option d.

4. Option d.

5. Option d.

6. Option d.

7. Option a.

8. Option d. Ink goes from pen on to paper, colour goes from brush on to canvas.

9. Option c.

10. Option d. Gloves is plural and so, should be preceded by do and followed by the singular verb belong.

11. Option a. The street and the house are not specific and so, will take the generic article ‘a’. As the house has been mentioned in the first line, the second line should point to ‘the’ specific house.

12. Option c. The correct phrase is ‘compare with’ in this context. ‘Compared to’ is used to liken two objects or people. Option d is non-sensical.

13. Option a.

14. Option d.

15. Option b. The correct usage is ‘crashed into’.

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