AILET entrance exam Question Bank Solutions

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The country is ushering __________ a new era. 

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He is traitor __________ the country. 

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There is no culture in the world _________ absolutely pure.

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He led me ______________ the green lawn to the palatial building. 

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The lease of our premises has ___________ and we have to vacate it. 

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His boss _____________ an explanation of his conduct with his colleagues. 

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He ____________ his departure for a week as his mother was not well.

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Around the world, forests are being destroyed at a rate of about thirteen million hectares a year and deforestation accounts for an estimated 17% -20% of all global emissions. In addition, forests and other terrestrial carbon sinks play a ___(1)___ role in preventing runaway climate change, soaking up a full 2.6 Gt of atmospheric carbon every year. The destruction of forests, therefore, not only emits carbon -a staggering 1.6 Gt a year, which severely ___(2)___ forests' capacity to absorb emissions from other sources-but also drastically ___(3)___ the amount of forested land available to act as carbon on a sink in the future. However, the effects of deforestation extend beyond carbon. Rainforests ____(4)___ a wide variety of ecosystems services, from regulating rainfall to purifying groundwater and keeping fertile soil from ____(5)____; deforestation in one area can seriously damage food production and ____(6)____ to clean water in an entire region. The value of global ecosystem services has been estimated at 33 trillion USD each year (almost half of global GDP), but these services have been taken for granted without a mechanism to make the market reflect their value. Rain forests are also a home and _____(7)____ of income for a huge number of people in Africa, Asia, and South America. ___(8)____ this, economic pressures frequently drive both local communities and national governments in the developing world to ____(9)____ these forests in ways that are unsustainable, clear-cutting vast areas for fuel, timber, mining, or agricultural land.

1.
(a) tough
(b) Important
(c) vital
(d) biggest

2.
(a) affect
(b) diminish
(c) increases
(d) impairs

3.
(a) plagues
(b) develops
(c) reduces
(d) shortens

4.
(a) sell
(b) offer
(c) give
(d) provide

5.
(a) transforming
(b) decoding
c) erupting
(d) eroding

6.
(a) handiness
(b) excess
(c) availability
(d) access

7.
(a) beginning
(b) source
(c) ways
(d) reference

8.
(a) despite
(b) also
(c) in spite
(d) apart

9.
(a) exploit
(b) encompass
(c) nurture
(d) work

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When you are living with your ___________ values and principles, you can be straight forward, honest and ___________.

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The quality of ___________ between individuals and the organisation for which they work can be ___________ to the benefit of both parties.

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Genetic engineering in humans should be used to ___________ diseases, not to ___________ genetic uniformity.

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Stating that the ATM operations are ___________ losses, the nation’s largest bank, the State Bank plans to ___________ the management of some of its ATMs.

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Most journalistic writing could do with ___________ of paragraphs to make the prose more ___________.

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Angered by bureaucrat’s ___________ comments, the reporter insisted for a more ___________ response.

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One of the most productive researches ___________ in contemporary neurosciences is devoted to ___________ maps of human consciousness.

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I. (even though) II. (with) III. (seeing that) IV. (even if) (i) (ii)

I took my raincoat and a. _____ because Davies umbrella _____. is its captain 2. I still won't be able to get b. _____ despite a to a meeting at 8.30 ________ problem in digging the foundations 3. The team is likely to do well c. _____ as weather in this season _____ forecast was so bad. 4. The building work is still d. _____ whether or not on schedule _____ I catch an earlier train.

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I. (due to) II. (in order to) III. (in order that) IV. (so as to) (i) (ii)

1. We have decided not to go. ____ because there on holiday this year ______ had recently been a strike by postal workers. 2. The council have planted b. ____ to give Dave trees at the side of the somewhere private to road ______ study before his exams. 3. The parcel has been delayed c. ____ because we want ______ to save money for a new car. 4. We've put a table and chair d. ____ in an attempt in the spare bedroom to reduce traffic noise.

Complete the sentences on the right with appropriate compound nouns related to the two-word verbs used in the sentences on the left.

I. flashbacks II. Telling off III. hideout IV. downpour (i) (ii)

1. The teacher told me off for a. The children have a for handing in my homework secret _____at the late. bottom of the garden. 2. My mind flashed back b. I was caught in a to the time when I was sudden _____and got living in Stockholm. soaked through. 3. The escaped prisoners crept c. My father gave me an into an old barn and hid good _____for out until it got dark. knocking down his Prize roses. 4. The rain was Pouring d. There are a number of -down as we got out _____ in the film to the of the taxi. time before the robbery.

Complete the sentences on the right with appropriate compound nouns related to the two-word verbs used in the sentences on the left.

I. setbacks II. Tip-offs III. passers-by IV. Upbringing

1. The police were waiting for a. Harry had a very the thieves. Someone must strict _____ and was have tipped them off. glad to move away from his parents. 2. As I passed by her house, I b. The engine fault was could see people dancing in the latest of several —the front room. in the development of the car. 3. She was born and brought up c. We received several in central London. _____ that there would be an attempted break-out at the prison. 4. The injury has set back his d. The man was leaning chances of being fit to play out of the window, in the find shouting at ____ in the street below. 

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Under a zero-hour contract, a party described as a' casual worker' has a contract with an employer, but the contract may be of little benefit as its provisions do not (1) ________ any obligation upon the employer to offer work, and similarly, there is no obligation for the worker to accept it. A 'casual worker, is the correct term to define workers who do not have (2) ________ hours of work but instead supply services on an irregular, flexible basis when the employer needs them. A' worker' is not, therefore, an 'employee'. This is an important distinction, as employees enjoy significantly better protection under the law. Although workers do have basic rights, for example, the right to a national minimum (3) ________, the right not to be unlawfully discriminated against and the right to sick pay, but they are denied other important rights. For example, casual workers do not have the same rights when it comes to issues such as maternity or paternity pay, (4) ________, pay in the event that there is not enough work available and the right not to be unfairly (5) ________. These contracts are very unpopular with trade unions, who argue that employers are using this type of contract as a way of denying workers the benefits which they would otherwise be entitled to under current employment (6)________. As a result of public criticism, the Eurona government held an independent review to analyse the use of these contracts. In June 2016, Eurona Business Secretary, Zoro, concluded that zero-hour contracts were not to be declared (7) ________, as he considered that many groups of people benefited from them. However, he did change the law in order to prevent employers from banning casual workers from working elsewhere when bound by a zero-hour contract. This is not the end of the story, however. The use of zero-hour contracts is extremely popular in the food and retail (8)________ of the Eurona economy. For example, McDonald's and Burger King have recently disclosed that they use this type of contract for over 80% of their workers in the Eurona and another high-street giant, Sports Direct, has admitted that 90% of its workers are under this type of contract. However, the latter (9) _____ a legal challenge in November 2016 when Tera Phera filed a claim against the company in a Eurona Employment Tribunal. Tera Phera claimed that although she was contracted as a casual worker for Sports Direct, she had the same responsibilities and duties as an employee but without receiving the benefits of an employee. A (10) _____was reached according to which Sports Direct is now required at the time of advertising for future zero-hours staff to expressly state that the role does not (11) _____ work. The company must also produce clear written policies setting out what sick pay and paid holiday their zero-hours staff are entitled to.

1.
(a) impose
(b) compel
(c) force
(d) impress

2.
(a) fixed
(b) secure
(c) firm
(d) stable

3.
(a) salary
(b) wage
(c) earnings
(d) remuneration

4.
(a) let go
(b) redundancy
(c) termination
(d) release

5.
(a) dismissed
(b) discharged
(c) terminated
(d) laid off

6.
(a) statutes
(b) codes
(c) legislations
(d) acts

7.
(a) unlawful
(b) illegal
(c) illegitimate
(d) felonious

8.
(a) zones
(b) regions
(c) sectors
(d) areas

9.
(a) suffered
(b) bore
(c) endured
(d) faced

10.
(a) agreement
(b) settlement
(c) Deal
(d) Decision

11.
(a) provide
(b) entitle
(c) guarantee
(d) offer