NTSE Language Comprehensive Test

Choose the word which best fills the blank from the four options given: The good old Ambassador cars are now considered ................................

Choose the word which best fills the blank from the four options given: The report has been prepared well and hopefully it will be ........................ at the next board meeting.

Choose the word which best fills the blank from the four options given: The Talent Search Examination is challenging but not frightening. Why don’t you take a ...................... at it?

Choose the word which best fills the blank from the four options given: Grandfather has always been a figure of ......................... in our large family.

Choose the word which best fills the blank from the four options given: She found Rashmi in the kitchen, looking old and ............................

Choose the word which best fills the blank from the four options given: Tax offenders were refused ...................... to leave the country.

Choose the word which best fills the blank from the four options given: A good driver will be very careful before carrying out a complex ...................

Choose the word which best fills the blank from the four options given: With the new Management taking over, there’s now a big ........................ hanging over the Company’s future.

Choose the word which best fills the blank from the four options given: The Coffee Room was ........................... into smoking and non-smoking areas.

Select the meaning of the given phrases/idioms. For want of

Select the meaning of the given phrases/idioms. Clown around

Select the meaning of the given phrases/idioms. Talk back

Select the meaning of the given phrases/idioms. Run into

Select the meaning of the given phrases/idioms. blow one’s own trumpet

Select the meaning of the given phrases/idioms. To see eye to eye

In the following passage there are some numbered blanks. Fill in the blanks by selecting the most appropriate word for each blank from the given option. At Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala, better known as Tirupati, the laddu is next in popularity only to the Lord. The taste and aroma of (36) ............ besan (gram flour) confections – saturated (37) ............ ghee, raisin, nuts, cardamon, and (38) ............ camphor – draws millions of devotees (39) ............ this temple town in Andhra Pradesh, (40) ............ for a bite of this holy (41) ............ . In 2009, it received international (42) ............ when its was given the unique global (43) ............ i.e. legal protection against imitation. Which of the following is fit in gap 36?

In the following passage there are some numbered blanks. Fill in the blanks by selecting the most appropriate word for each blank from the given option. At Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala, better known as Tirupati, the laddu is next in popularity only to the Lord. The taste and aroma of (36) ............ besan (gram flour) confections – saturated (37) ............ ghee, raisin, nuts, cardamon, and (38) ............ camphor – draws millions of devotees (39) ............ this temple town in Andhra Pradesh, (40) ............ for a bite of this holy (41) ............ . In 2009, it received international (42) ............ when its was given the unique global (43) ............ i.e. legal protection against imitation. Which of the following is fit in gap 37?

In the following passage there are some numbered blanks. Fill in the blanks by selecting the most appropriate word for each blank from the given option. At Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala, better known as Tirupati, the laddu is next in popularity only to the Lord. The taste and aroma of (36) ............ besan (gram flour) confections – saturated (37) ............ ghee, raisin, nuts, cardamon, and (38) ............ camphor – draws millions of devotees (39) ............ this temple town in Andhra Pradesh, (40) ............ for a bite of this holy (41) ............ . In 2009, it received international (42) ............ when its was given the unique global (43) ............ i.e. legal protection against imitation. Which of the following is fit in gap 38?

In the following passage there are some numbered blanks. Fill in the blanks by selecting the most appropriate word for each blank from the given option. At Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala, better known as Tirupati, the laddu is next in popularity only to the Lord. The taste and aroma of (36) ............ besan (gram flour) confections – saturated (37) ............ ghee, raisin, nuts, cardamon, and (38) ............ camphor – draws millions of devotees (39) ............ this temple town in Andhra Pradesh, (40) ............ for a bite of this holy (41) ............ . In 2009, it received international (42) ............ when its was given the unique global (43) ............ i.e. legal protection against imitation. Which of the following is fit in gap 39?

In the following passage there are some numbered blanks. Fill in the blanks by selecting the most appropriate word for each blank from the given option. At Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala, better known as Tirupati, the laddu is next in popularity only to the Lord. The taste and aroma of (36) ............ besan (gram flour) confections – saturated (37) ............ ghee, raisin, nuts, cardamon, and (38) ............ camphor – draws millions of devotees (39) ............ this temple town in Andhra Pradesh, (40) ............ for a bite of this holy (41) ............ . In 2009, it received international (42) ............ when its was given the unique global (43) ............ i.e. legal protection against imitation. Which of the following is fit in gap 40?

In the following passage there are some numbered blanks. Fill in the blanks by selecting the most appropriate word for each blank from the given option. At Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala, better known as Tirupati, the laddu is next in popularity only to the Lord. The taste and aroma of (36) ............ besan (gram flour) confections – saturated (37) ............ ghee, raisin, nuts, cardamon, and (38) ............ camphor – draws millions of devotees (39) ............ this temple town in Andhra Pradesh, (40) ............ for a bite of this holy (41) ............ . In 2009, it received international (42) ............ when its was given the unique global (43) ............ i.e. legal protection against imitation. Which of the following is fit in gap 41?

In the following passage there are some numbered blanks. Fill in the blanks by selecting the most appropriate word for each blank from the given option. At Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala, better known as Tirupati, the laddu is next in popularity only to the Lord. The taste and aroma of (36) ............ besan (gram flour) confections – saturated (37) ............ ghee, raisin, nuts, cardamon, and (38) ............ camphor – draws millions of devotees (39) ............ this temple town in Andhra Pradesh, (40) ............ for a bite of this holy (41) ............ . In 2009, it received international (42) ............ when its was given the unique global (43) ............ i.e. legal protection against imitation. Which of the following is fit in gap 42?

In the following passage there are some numbered blanks. Fill in the blanks by selecting the most appropriate word for each blank from the given option. At Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala, better known as Tirupati, the laddu is next in popularity only to the Lord. The taste and aroma of (36) ............ besan (gram flour) confections – saturated (37) ............ ghee, raisin, nuts, cardamon, and (38) ............ camphor – draws millions of devotees (39) ............ this temple town in Andhra Pradesh, (40) ............ for a bite of this holy (41) ............ . In 2009, it received international (42) ............ when its was given the unique global (43) ............ i.e. legal protection against imitation. Which of the following is fit in gap 43?

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks from the given alternatives. Locacted close to Charminar, the kilometer–long stretch of Laad Bazaar is ............ with shops selling bright in every hue and colour.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks from the given alternatives. I suggest you should ............ yourself with the rules before you join the meeting.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks from the given alternatives. The child held the bag as tightly as if it were her most ............ possession.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks from the given alternatives. The weakness in their defense has already cost them ............ this season.

Select the word which means the opposite of the given word. "Undertake"

Select the word which means the opposite of the given word. "Hafty"

Select the word which means the opposite of the given word. "Miniature"

The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each questions.It was a chilly winter night. Saint Socrates was preaching to his disciples. His wife waned him of ending the discourse. Socrates did not oblige her. At midnight she got angry. She took a bucket of water and poured it on him. Socrates was just laughing. But his disciples were annoyed with the preceptress. Socrates told them, “I am a saint who is expected not to lose patience and temper even in precarious situations. My wife tested me and I got success. She is my preceptor. Don’t relive her. ‘Having heard this, she fell on the feet of Socrates and begged of his pardon. Since then she became a good wife and a human women.Socrates ‘ wife felt sorry for her act because

The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each questions.The doors of a great newspaper office are not ever locked. All through the day and all through the night work has to be done there, so that the readers of the paper may be kept in touch with everything which is interest. How’s comes into the office at every hours of the day- news of political developments, news of crimes, news of town happenings, and news of events which are going to take place. All this has to be gone through. The important facts are given headlines and the unnecessary details are cut out.Everyday important things are taking place in all parts of the earth. Wherever anything interesting is going on, a representative of the paper is sent to take notes and get all the facts. If there is a serious train collision somewhere on the line, an army of lists of the dead and get an account of what took place from the eye witness. Camera men go with them and take pictures of the twisted and broken carriage. ‘Not ever locked’ means

Choose the order in which the three sentences (PQR) should appear to complete the paragraph. S1 I hold my temper and pick up my gum wrapper S2 &npsp &npsp &npsp …………………………………………………………………… S3 &npsp &npsp &npsp …………………………………………………………………… S4 &npsp &npsp &npsp …………………………………………………………………… S5 &npsp &npsp &npsp That dog dips up my garden and messes up my yard P &npsp &npsp &npsp So why is yours always all over the place? Q &npsp &npsp &npsp Then she says, and there’s a law in this town about dogs on a leash. R &npsp &npsp &npsp I put the wrapper in a bag

Choose the word which best fills the blank: He was wearing a………… cotton shirt

Choose the word which best fills the blank: There was a good………… of Tabla and violin in the cultural programme.

In the following passage there are some blanks with numbers. Fill in the blanks by selecting the most appropriate word for each blank from given options of each number.It was a cloudy day. Before I ___26___ off to office, my mother ___27___ on my 28 an umbrella. So I ___29___ an umbrella along with my briefcase. Hardly had I started, when it started ___30___.Which of the following fits in gap 27?

Select the word which means the opposite of the given word. “Accustomed”

Select the word which means the opposite of the given word. “Humane”

Fill in blanks from the given alternative: He ……… the opposition with a single trick.

Fill in blanks from the given alternative: The rising cases of crime ................. Immediate measure