Direction(1-15): A sentence or a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given as substitutions for the highlighted part, one of which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, choose the option “No improvement required”.
1) The professor was sentenced to life imprisonment last month, for having Maoist links, by a court in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district.
a) was sentenced on
b) was sentenced in
c) was sentence to
d) was sentenced at
e) No improvement is required
2) An initial budget of ₹100 crore has earmarked for the project in the current financial year.
a) has been earmarked
b) have been earmarked
c) has been earmarking
d) had earmarked
e) No improvement is required
3) The Enforcement Directorate is ready probing the money laundering angle in the case.
a) already probed
b) ready probed
c) already probing
d) Was already probing
e) No improvement is required
4) The central bank was not expected to tinkering with key policy rates in its irst monetary policy review of 2017-18 unveiled on Thursday.
a) expected to tinker
b) expect to tinker
c) expected with tinker
d) expected on tinker
e) No improvement is required
5)Appearing on CBI, Additional Solicitor General Neeraj Kishan Kaul submitted that the charge of an overarching conspiracy leading to the demolition had never died.
a) Appeared for
b) Appearing for
c) Appear for
d) Appearing in
e) No improvement is required
6) Subscribers who bought the ₹99 Prime membership with a plan of ₹303 or higher are entitled on get free services for three months from April 15.
a) are entitled in
b) is entitled to
c) is entitled in
d) are entitled to
e) No improvement is required
7) The arrival of Reliance Jio was followed with a consolidation in the industry, even as it spurred a fall in profits for rivals.
a) was followed on
b) was follow with
c) was followed by
d) was followed in
e) No improvement is required
8) A special memorandum of understanding on training in Bangladesh military personnel is also included on the agenda.
a) on training of
b) of training of
c) in training to
d) on training to
e) No improvement is required
9) Despite speculation in the past few years about the possibility of the Navy imposing a financial penalty on the shipyard, there has been no such decision yet.
a) Was being
b) Is being
c) Had being
d) Has being
e) No improvement is required
10) To encourage people with depression to overcome stigma and seek treatment, the World Health Organisation is focussed the illness this World Health Day.
a) is focussing to
b) is focussing on
c) is focussed to
d) is focusses on
e) No improvement is required
11) Aung San Suu Kyi has denied security forces have carry out ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
a) have carried in
b) have carried on
c) have carried out
d) have carried with
e) No improvement is required
12) The Ministry has targeted issuing a gazette notification set up the Rail Development Authority by April 15.
a) to set in
b) to set out
c) to set up
d) to set with
e) No improvement is required
13) Millions of vehicles have been recall across the globe due to defective safety airbags manufactured by Japan’s Takata Corp.
a) recalled across
b) recalled around
c) recalled in
d) recalled at
e) No improvement is required
14) The U.S. government’s new guidance for issued H-1B visa, which allows technology firms to hire skilled overseas workers, may lead to increased litigation, immigration lawyers said.
a) for issue
b) for issuing
c) with issuing
d) to issuing
e) No improvement is required
15) Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, is interested in pick up a stake in India’s biggest oil refinery being planned at Maharashtra.
a) for pick up
b) in picking out
c) in picking up
d) in picking in
e) No improvement is required
