NTSE Language Comprehensive Test

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:Fleas are perfectly designed by nature to feast on anything containing blood. The bodies of these tiny parasites are extremely hardy and well-suited for their job. A flea has a very hard exoskeleton, which means the body is covered by a tough, tile-like plate called a sclerite. Because of these plates, fleas are almost impossible to squish. The exoskeletons of leas are also waterproof and shock resistant, and therefore fleas are highly resistant to the sprays and chemicals used to kill them.Fleas are some of the best jumpers in the natural world. A flea can jump seven inches, or 150 times its own length, either vertically or horizontally. Fleas can jump 30,000 times in a row without stopping and they are able to accelerate through the air at an incredibly high rate, a rate which is over ten times what humans can withstand in an airplane. Fleas have very long rear legs with huge thigh muscles and multiple joints. When they get ready to jump, they fold their long legs up and crouch like a runner on a starting block. Several of their joints contain a protein called resilin, which helps catapult fleas into the air as they jump, similar to the way a rubber band provides momentum to a slingshot. Outward facing claws on the bottom of their legs grip anything they touch when they land. The adult female flea mates after her first blood meal and begins producing eggs in just 1 to 2 days. One flea can lay up to 50 eggs in one day and over 2000 in her lifetime. Flea eggs can be seen with the naked eye, but they are about the size of a grain of salt. Shortly after being laid the eggs begin to transform into cocoons. In the cocoon state, fleas are fully developed adults, and will hatch immediately if conditions are favourable.The primary purpose of the passage is to:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:Fleas are perfectly designed by nature to feast on anything containing blood. The bodies of these tiny parasites are extremely hardy and well-suited for their job. A flea has a very hard exoskeleton, which means the body is covered by a tough, tile-like plate called a sclerite. Because of these plates, fleas are almost impossible to squish. The exoskeletons of leas are also waterproof and shock resistant, and therefore fleas are highly resistant to the sprays and chemicals used to kill them.Fleas are some of the best jumpers in the natural world. A flea can jump seven inches, or 150 times its own length, either vertically or horizontally. Fleas can jump 30,000 times in a row without stopping and they are able to accelerate through the air at an incredibly high rate, a rate which is over ten times what humans can withstand in an airplane. Fleas have very long rear legs with huge thigh muscles and multiple joints. When they get ready to jump, they fold their long legs up and crouch like a runner on a starting block. Several of their joints contain a protein called resilin, which helps catapult fleas into the air as they jump, similar to the way a rubber band provides momentum to a slingshot. Outward facing claws on the bottom of their legs grip anything they touch when they land. The adult female flea mates after her first blood meal and begins producing eggs in just 1 to 2 days. One flea can lay up to 50 eggs in one day and over 2000 in her lifetime. Flea eggs can be seen with the naked eye, but they are about the size of a grain of salt. Shortly after being laid the eggs begin to transform into cocoons. In the cocoon state, fleas are fully developed adults, and will hatch immediately if conditions are favourable.According to the passage, fleas are resistant to sprays and chemicals because they:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:Fleas are perfectly designed by nature to feast on anything containing blood. The bodies of these tiny parasites are extremely hardy and well-suited for their job. A flea has a very hard exoskeleton, which means the body is covered by a tough, tile-like plate called a sclerite. Because of these plates, fleas are almost impossible to squish. The exoskeletons of leas are also waterproof and shock resistant, and therefore fleas are highly resistant to the sprays and chemicals used to kill them.Fleas are some of the best jumpers in the natural world. A flea can jump seven inches, or 150 times its own length, either vertically or horizontally. Fleas can jump 30,000 times in a row without stopping and they are able to accelerate through the air at an incredibly high rate, a rate which is over ten times what humans can withstand in an airplane. Fleas have very long rear legs with huge thigh muscles and multiple joints. When they get ready to jump, they fold their long legs up and crouch like a runner on a starting block. Several of their joints contain a protein called resilin, which helps catapult fleas into the air as they jump, similar to the way a rubber band provides momentum to a slingshot. Outward facing claws on the bottom of their legs grip anything they touch when they land. The adult female flea mates after her first blood meal and begins producing eggs in just 1 to 2 days. One flea can lay up to 50 eggs in one day and over 2000 in her lifetime. Flea eggs can be seen with the naked eye, but they are about the size of a grain of salt. Shortly after being laid the eggs begin to transform into cocoons. In the cocoon state, fleas are fully developed adults, and will hatch immediately if conditions are favourable.According to the passage, fleas are able to jump:-1. With a high rate of acceleration2. Up and down and from side to side3. Because the blood they eat contains resilin

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:Fleas are perfectly designed by nature to feast on anything containing blood. The bodies of these tiny parasites are extremely hardy and well-suited for their job. A flea has a very hard exoskeleton, which means the body is covered by a tough, tile-like plate called a sclerite. Because of these plates, fleas are almost impossible to squish. The exoskeletons of leas are also waterproof and shock resistant, and therefore fleas are highly resistant to the sprays and chemicals used to kill them.Fleas are some of the best jumpers in the natural world. A flea can jump seven inches, or 150 times its own length, either vertically or horizontally. Fleas can jump 30,000 times in a row without stopping and they are able to accelerate through the air at an incredibly high rate, a rate which is over ten times what humans can withstand in an airplane. Fleas have very long rear legs with huge thigh muscles and multiple joints. When they get ready to jump, they fold their long legs up and crouch like a runner on a starting block. Several of their joints contain a protein called resilin, which helps catapult fleas into the air as they jump, similar to the way a rubber band provides momentum to a slingshot. Outward facing claws on the bottom of their legs grip anything they touch when they land. The adult female flea mates after her first blood meal and begins producing eggs in just 1 to 2 days. One flea can lay up to 50 eggs in one day and over 2000 in her lifetime. Flea eggs can be seen with the naked eye, but they are about the size of a grain of salt. Shortly after being laid the eggs begin to transform into cocoons. In the cocoon state, fleas are fully developed adults, and will hatch immediately if conditions are favourable.Based on information in the passage, the reader can understand that:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:Fleas are perfectly designed by nature to feast on anything containing blood. The bodies of these tiny parasites are extremely hardy and well-suited for their job. A flea has a very hard exoskeleton, which means the body is covered by a tough, tile-like plate called a sclerite. Because of these plates, fleas are almost impossible to squish. The exoskeletons of leas are also waterproof and shock resistant, and therefore fleas are highly resistant to the sprays and chemicals used to kill them.Fleas are some of the best jumpers in the natural world. A flea can jump seven inches, or 150 times its own length, either vertically or horizontally. Fleas can jump 30,000 times in a row without stopping and they are able to accelerate through the air at an incredibly high rate, a rate which is over ten times what humans can withstand in an airplane. Fleas have very long rear legs with huge thigh muscles and multiple joints. When they get ready to jump, they fold their long legs up and crouch like a runner on a starting block. Several of their joints contain a protein called resilin, which helps catapult fleas into the air as they jump, similar to the way a rubber band provides momentum to a slingshot. Outward facing claws on the bottom of their legs grip anything they touch when they land. The adult female flea mates after her first blood meal and begins producing eggs in just 1 to 2 days. One flea can lay up to 50 eggs in one day and over 2000 in her lifetime. Flea eggs can be seen with the naked eye, but they are about the size of a grain of salt. Shortly after being laid the eggs begin to transform into cocoons. In the cocoon state, fleas are fully developed adults, and will hatch immediately if conditions are favourable.It can be inferred that fleas will emerge from eggs as adults:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:The greatest enemy of mankind, as people have discovered is not science, but war. Science merely reflects the social forces by which it is surrounded. It is found that when there is peace, science is constructive, when there is war, science is prevented to destructive ends. The weapons which science gives us do not necessarily create war, these make war increasingly more terrible. Until now it has brought us to the doorstep of doom. Our main problem, therefore, is not to curb science, but to stop war to substitute law for force and international government for anarchy in the relations of one nation with another. That is a job in which everybody must participate, including the scientists. But the bomb of Hiroshima suddenly woke us up to the fact that we have very little time. The hour is late and our work has scarcely begun. Now we are face to face with this urgent question, “Can education and tolerance, understanding and creative intelligence run fast enough to keep us abreast with our own mounting capacity to destroy”? That is the question which we shall have to answer one way or the other in this generation. Science must help us in the answer, but the main decision lies within ourselves.According to the author, the real enemy of mankind is not science but war, because:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:The greatest enemy of mankind, as people have discovered is not science, but war. Science merely reflects the social forces by which it is surrounded. It is found that when there is peace, science is constructive, when there is war, science is prevented to destructive ends. The weapons which science gives us do not necessarily create war, these make war increasingly more terrible. Until now it has brought us to the doorstep of doom. Our main problem, therefore, is not to curb science, but to stop war to substitute law for force and international government for anarchy in the relations of one nation with another. That is a job in which everybody must participate, including the scientists. But the bomb of Hiroshima suddenly woke us up to the fact that we have very little time. The hour is late and our work has scarcely begun. Now we are face to face with this urgent question, “Can education and tolerance, understanding and creative intelligence run fast enough to keep us abreast with our own mounting capacity to destroy”? That is the question which we shall have to answer one way or the other in this generation. Science must help us in the answer, but the main decision lies within ourselves.War can be stopped if:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:The greatest enemy of mankind, as people have discovered is not science, but war. Science merely reflects the social forces by which it is surrounded. It is found that when there is peace, science is constructive, when there is war, science is prevented to destructive ends. The weapons which science gives us do not necessarily create war, these make war increasingly more terrible. Until now it has brought us to the doorstep of doom. Our main problem, therefore, is not to curb science, but to stop war to substitute law for force and international government for anarchy in the relations of one nation with another. That is a job in which everybody must participate, including the scientists. But the bomb of Hiroshima suddenly woke us up to the fact that we have very little time. The hour is late and our work has scarcely begun. Now we are face to face with this urgent question, “Can education and tolerance, understanding and creative intelligence run fast enough to keep us abreast with our own mounting capacity to destroy”? That is the question which we shall have to answer one way or the other in this generation. Science must help us in the answer, but the main decision lies within ourselves.Which of the following is opposite in the meaning to the word ‘anarchy’ as used in the passage?

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:The greatest enemy of mankind, as people have discovered is not science, but war. Science merely reflects the social forces by which it is surrounded. It is found that when there is peace, science is constructive, when there is war, science is prevented to destructive ends. The weapons which science gives us do not necessarily create war, these make war increasingly more terrible. Until now it has brought us to the doorstep of doom. Our main problem, therefore, is not to curb science, but to stop war to substitute law for force and international government for anarchy in the relations of one nation with another. That is a job in which everybody must participate, including the scientists. But the bomb of Hiroshima suddenly woke us up to the fact that we have very little time. The hour is late and our work has scarcely begun. Now we are face to face with this urgent question, “Can education and tolerance, understanding and creative intelligence run fast enough to keep us abreast with our own mounting capacity to destroy”? That is the question which we shall have to answer one way or the other in this generation. Science must help us in the answer, but the main decision lies within ourselves.The phrase ‘our work has scarcely begun’ implies that our work:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:The greatest enemy of mankind, as people have discovered is not science, but war. Science merely reflects the social forces by which it is surrounded. It is found that when there is peace, science is constructive, when there is war, science is prevented to destructive ends. The weapons which science gives us do not necessarily create war, these make war increasingly more terrible. Until now it has brought us to the doorstep of doom. Our main problem, therefore, is not to curb science, but to stop war to substitute law for force and international government for anarchy in the relations of one nation with another. That is a job in which everybody must participate, including the scientists. But the bomb of Hiroshima suddenly woke us up to the fact that we have very little time. The hour is late and our work has scarcely begun. Now we are face to face with this urgent question, “Can education and tolerance, understanding and creative intelligence run fast enough to keep us abreast with our own mounting capacity to destroy”? That is the question which we shall have to answer one way or the other in this generation. Science must help us in the answer, but the main decision lies within ourselves.According to the writer, the main objective is to:

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option given below:Some theorists believe that the conditions of urban life harm the people who live in cities. Louis Wirth ___11___ in the 1930s that the huge number of people, population density and great social diversity of cities led to ____12_____ , impersonal relations, and stress. Many since then have agreed with him. People live _____13_____ close to one another but are socially distant. They make few friendships outside their own racial, social or economic group. And they are constantly attacked on all smells. They are _____14_____ bumped by others on the street. They hear their neighbours’ radios through him apartment walls, and sirens _____15____ at all hours of the day and night.Which of the following fits in gap 11?

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option given below:Some theorists believe that the conditions of urban life harm the people who live in cities. Louis Wirth ___11___ in the 1930s that the huge number of people, population density and great social diversity of cities led to ____12_____ , impersonal relations, and stress. Many since then have agreed with him. People live _____13_____ close to one another but are socially distant. They make few friendships outside their own racial, social or economic group. And they are constantly attacked on all smells. They are _____14_____ bumped by others on the street. They hear their neighbours’ radios through him apartment walls, and sirens _____15____ at all hours of the day and night.Which of the following fits in gap 12?

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option given below:Some theorists believe that the conditions of urban life harm the people who live in cities. Louis Wirth ___11___ in the 1930s that the huge number of people, population density and great social diversity of cities led to ____12_____ , impersonal relations, and stress. Many since then have agreed with him. People live _____13_____ close to one another but are socially distant. They make few friendships outside their own racial, social or economic group. And they are constantly attacked on all smells. They are _____14_____ bumped by others on the street. They hear their neighbours’ radios through him apartment walls, and sirens _____15____ at all hours of the day and night.Which of the following fits in gap 13?

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option given below:Some theorists believe that the conditions of urban life harm the people who live in cities. Louis Wirth ___11___ in the 1930s that the huge number of people, population density and great social diversity of cities led to ____12_____ , impersonal relations, and stress. Many since then have agreed with him. People live _____13_____ close to one another but are socially distant. They make few friendships outside their own racial, social or economic group. And they are constantly attacked on all smells. They are _____14_____ bumped by others on the street. They hear their neighbours’ radios through him apartment walls, and sirens _____15____ at all hours of the day and night.Which of the following fits in gap 14?

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option given below:Some theorists believe that the conditions of urban life harm the people who live in cities. Louis Wirth ___11___ in the 1930s that the huge number of people, population density and great social diversity of cities led to ____12_____ , impersonal relations, and stress. Many since then have agreed with him. People live _____13_____ close to one another but are socially distant. They make few friendships outside their own racial, social or economic group. And they are constantly attacked on all smells. They are _____14_____ bumped by others on the street. They hear their neighbours’ radios through him apartment walls, and sirens _____15____ at all hours of the day and night.Which of the following fits in gap 15?

Choose the order in which the three sentences (PQR) should appear to complete the paragraph. S1: The Indian woman wants S2: _________________________ S3: _________________________ S4: _________________________ S5: And it is not too much to be demanded P in a male dominated society Q her rightful place R as an equal partner Choose from the options given below:

Choose the order in which the three sentences (PQR) should appear to complete the paragraph. S1: We had in our village S2: ________________________ S3: ________________________ S4: ________________________ S5: near the river and throw stones into the water P Whom I well remember who from Q Morning till night would sit on a stone R Some thirty years ago a stupid boy Choose from the options given below:

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank from the given alternatives. My father _____________ as a teacher.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank from the given alternatives. Leela ____________ Raju for years about his smoking habits, but he just won’t listen.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank from the given alternatives. Had you told me the short cuts earlier, ___________ the contest.

Select the meaning of the given phrases/ idioms. “To bury the hatchet”

Select the meaning of the given phrases/ idioms. “To turn over a new leaf"

Select the meaning of the given phrases/ idioms. “Once in a blue moon.”

Select the meaning of the given phrases/ idioms. “A snake in the grass”

Select the meaning of the given phrases/ idioms. “To be above board”

Choose the word which best suits to fill in the blank: Mini was badly _____________ by the letter.

Choose the word which best suits to fill in the blank: The car driver was arrested for rash driving and his license was ________________

Choose the word which best suits to fill in the blank: The chairman will come here at 5 p.m. to _________________ a lecture.

Choose the word which best suits to fill in the blank: Cellular phone service has ____________ a new phase of communication

Choose the word which best suits to fill in the blank: AIDS is not a disease that can be ______________ through the air or by insects.

Choose the correct word to substitute the phrasal verb underlined. She could not put up with all his nonsense

Choose the correct word to substitute the phrasal verb underlined. They decided to do away with the old system.

Choose the correct word to substitute the phrasal verb underlined. Rosy put on her make-up very carefully.

Choose the correct word to substitute the phrasal verb underlined. The burglars got away through the window.

Choose the correct word to substitute the phrasal verb underlined. I am not able to make out anything from your speech.

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