Question Paper for English Language for Specialist officer Written Test ~ Current Trends

Sample Paper for the Specialist Officer

Direction(1 - 10 ):In the Following Passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each , five words are suggested , one of which fits the blank appropriately.Find out the appropriate word in each case

What Indian politicians and bureaucrats share with their scientists, engineer and carpenter Counter part is their acceptance of mediocrity and lack of skill. The greatest moral failure of Indian institution is the tolerance of incompetence (1) criminality or corruption. The tolerance of incompetence in (2) is a result of low cultural value attached to the creation and (3) of institutions.

Institution building is hard work it requires a combination of vision, commitment and performance. Any institution involves a contract between those who (4) to the institution and those who support it the support can take the form of money or votes but that supports must be (5) continuously. In a properly functioning institutional system, the institutional contract (6) The institutional members and their supporters takes the form : you give me support and I will give u results . Competence is the channel that sustains the flow of trust from supporters to institution and back. If doctor don’t cure will they not loose our trust? While blaming individual politicians and babus for their corrupt ways, let us also examine the system that accepts the mediocrity and even lets it (7).

What we are seeing in India is a case of contract failure .The Contractor who bribes an official and then builds an leaky Stadium is not just being (8). He is sustaining a collusive system that subverts rules regulating mutual cooperation between Govt. institution, market player and society as a whole. In case of endemic contract failure everyone (9) including the contractor, for once the public loses its trust in institution even businessmen will (10) out an opportunity to make money. The Moral status of institution is central to continued development and prosperity.

1) 1) as 2) to

3) never 4) Not

5) For

2) 1) Turn 2) Individual

3) World 4) Partly

5)Importance

3) 1) Destruction 2) Justification

3) Sustenance 4)Excess

5) Marginalization

4) 1)Belong 2) Work

3) Help 4) Employed

5)Trust

5) 1) Returned 2)Earned

3) Immature 4)Corrupt

5) Generous

6) 1) Suggest 2) Akin

3) twosome 4) Centered

5) Between

7) 1)Question 2)Bolder

3) thrive 4) out

5) Kill

8) 1) Variant 2)trivial

3) never 4) Not

5) For

9) 1) Succeeds 2) Suffer

3) Proliferates 4)Responsible

5) Encompasses

10) 1) Storm 2)Venture

3) Lose 4) Get

5)Walk

Direction( 11-15): Rearrange the following five sentences( A , B , C , D , E )in the proper sequence to form a paragraph then answer the question given below:

A) Thus, if we really value it, we will work hard to make it a reality.
B) Inner Peace is the most elusive thing that a human being can seek.
C) The most important Criterion in the order top experience it to value the importance of inner peace.
D)To Experience inner peace one doesn't have to retreat to a Himalayan cave rather one can experience inner peace seated exactly where they are by watching these thought.
E) No Body can gift the other inner peace at the same time it is only ones own thought that can rob them of their inner peace.

11) which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement ?

1) A 2) B
3) C                 4) D
5) E

12) which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement ?

1)E    2) D

3) C                 4)B
5) A

13)which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement ?1) E 2) D

3) C 4)B
5)A

14)which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement ?
1) A 2) B

3) C 4) D
5) E

15)which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement ?

1) A 2) B

3) C 4) D
5) E

Direction( 16-20): Each Question below has two Blanks, Each Blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of Words for Each Blank which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

16) After --------------- Payrolls and tightening perks to cope with the economic slowdown last year,software companies are finding that a rising no of Engineering and management graduates are transferring their ----------- to vocational such as manufacturing and banking.

1) Trimming - Loyalties
2)Reducing - Accounts
3)Hiking - services
4) Increased - Affections
5)Dropped - Potential

17) It is very Important -------- that when ever the swine flue virus enters a human body ,it takes a minimum of one day to maximum of eight days for the disease to develop -------

1) Gauge -Extensively
2)ascertain - Accounts
3)Understand -Fully
4) Verify - Remarkable
5)Fathom- Clearly

18)Scientist working to save the earth, have ------- dry water that soaks carbon three times better than water and hence helps ------- global warming.

1) Aided - Cut
2) Created - Combat
3) Built - Stop
4) Produced - increase
5)Invented - Monitoring

19) The First Round of the Contest had the students --------- themselves and ----- about their hobbies.

1) Introducing - Talking
2) Sensitizing - Sketching
3)Showcasing - Planning
4)Acclimatizing - Mentioning
5)Gearing - Chalking

20) The Varsity Pool Process for -------- of New Candidates has --------- Poor Response with only ten Thousand applications being received till date.
1) Entrusting - Seen
2)Registration - Evoked
3)Entrance - Made
4)Admission - Visited
5)Experimenting - Generated

Direction(21-23): Choose the word/group of words which is most similar in meaning to the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.

21) INHABIT

1)Reside in
2)Encompass
3)Infest
4)Submerge
5)are used to

22) FORAGING

1)Penetrating
2)Incising
3)Probing
4)Begging
5)Searching

23) MONETIZE

1)Currency
2)Buy
3)encash
4)Regulate
5)Pay

Direction(24-25): Choose the word/group of words which is most opposite in meaning to the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.

24) CONSIDERING

1)untying
2)remembering
3)understanding
4)disregarding
5)condeming

25) HAZARDOUS

1)pleasant
2)efficient
3)important
4)risky
5)harmless

Answers

1) 2 11) 1

2) 1 12) 3

3) 3 13) 2

4) 1 14) 1

5) 2 15) 2

6) 5 16) 1

7) 3 17) 5

8) 4 18) 3

9) 2 19) 4

10) 3 20) 5