AILET entrance exam Question Bank Solutions

In the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentence, there are four pairs of words. Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The film's hero, a Pearl Diver, naively expects that the purchasers will compete amongst themselves to pay him the best price for his pearl, but instead, they ____ to ____ him.

Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

A lyre was played in ancient Rome. The lyre is a _______

Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.

The President has a ______ of ______ Around him, where make public appearances.

Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

___________the green room now?

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The rumors were ________and she welcomed the opportunity _______them

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Can we see ___(1)___the Earth is a globe? Yes, we can, when we watch a ship that sails out to sea. If we watch closely, we see that the ship begins ___(2)___ The bottom of the ship disappears first and then the ship seems to sink lower and lower, ___(3)___ we can only see the top of the ship and then we see nothing at all. What is hiding the ship from us? It is the Earth. Stick a pin most of the way into an orange and ___(4)__ turn the orange away from you. You will see the pin disappear, ___(5)___ a ship does on the Earth.

1.
(a) if
(b) where
(c) that
(d) whether

2.
(a) being disappeared
(b) to be disappeared
(c) to have disappeared
(d) to disappear

3.
(a) until
(b) since
(c) after
(d) by the time

4.
(a) reluctantly
(b) accidentally
(c) slowly
(d) passionately

5.
(a) the same
(b) alike
(c) just as
(d) by the way

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

After months of colder weather, the days get longer, the buds ___(1)__ in the trees, birds sing and the world  ____(2)____ a green dress. Spring passes _____(3)____ summer. Everyone knows that summer will not ____(4)____ The power of all the wisest men and women in the world cannot keep it for us. The corn becomes ripe, the leaves turn brown and then drop to the ground, ____(5)____ the world changes its green dress for a dress of autumn colours

1.
(a) fall off
(b) take up
(c) put off
(d) come out

2.
(a) looks after
(b) puts on
(c) carries on
(d) comes round

3.
(a) into
(b) by
(c) from
(d) on

4.
(a) forego
(b) evaluate
(c) succumb
(d) last

5.
(a) yet
(b) therefore
(c) since
(d) whereas

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

____ (1) ____ people breathe, pollutants in the air ___ (2) ____in the lungs or absorbed into the body. And polluted air can harm animals and plants ____(3) ____ people. For this reason, our air supply should be ____ (4) _____watched and managed to assure ____ (5) ____ good quality.

1.

(a) When
(b) Until
(c) During
(d) If

2.

(a) have deposited
(b) are depositing
(c) had to be deposited
(d) may be deposited

3.
(a) as well as
(b) in addition
(c) even if
(d) in spite of

4.
(a) alternately
(b) previously
(c) hastily
(d) closely

5.
(a) them
(c) his
(b) its
(d) their

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

A century ago, the process of choosing a career was a much simpler matter than it is today. A boy often followed in his father's footsteps. His sister learned the household skills that ___ (I) ____her to become a wife and mother. Now-a-days, young people grow up in a much free society _____ ( 2) ____ they enjoy almost unlimited career opportunities. In recent years, there ____ ( 3)____ an enormous increase in the kinds of vocations from which it is possible to choose. In addition, many of the
barriers to career, opportunities that existed only a few decades ago, such as ___(4) ____ based on sex or religion or ethnic origins, are ____ (5) ____disappearing.

1. 
(a) had prepared
(b) may prepare
(c) was prepared
(d) would prepare

2.
(a) where
(b) when
(c) why
(d) whom

3.
(a) had been
(b) has been
(c) will be
(d) would have

4.
(a) judgement
(b) perception
(c) goodwill
(d) discrimination

5.
(a) rapidly
(b) incessantly
(c) categorically
(d) vigilantly

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

 It ____(1)___ that policing in the future will be ____(2)____ more different than it is today. Advances in technology— ____(3)____ in computers, television, and communication—will assist the police in solving and preventing crimes. Advances in forensic science ____(4)____ evidence more reliable and meaningful. All of these changes will be for the better if they help ____(5)____ the quality of police service.

1.
(a) predicted
(b) has predicted
(c) is predicted
(d) was predicting

2.
(a) any
(b) some
(c) such
(d) much

3.
(a) particularly
(b) placidly
(c) roughly
(d) widely

4.
(a) had to make
(b) would be made
(c) has made
(d) should make

5.
(a) improving
(b) be improved
(c) to improve
(d) have improved

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

King Mongkut ____ (I)___the King of Siam (Thailand) in the year 1851. Mongkut ____ (2) _____Siam for seventeen years. Mongkut was a _____(3) _____A dynast is a ____ (4) ____ ruler. This means that Mongkut became King because his family had been ruling Siam before him. Mongkut was the fourth member of his family to be king of Siam and so he was ______(5) _____ Rama IV. How did Mongkut's family become the rulers of Siam? In the previous century, Taksin had been the King of Siam and for a number of years,  e had slowly gone_____ (6) _____ Many of the King's advisers turned against him and asked a powerful. eneral (Chakri) to ____(7) _____ Taksin and become the new King of Siam. General Chakri overthrew Taksin and ____ (8) ____ himself King of Siam. He was known as Rama I and was the first ruler of the Chakri Dynasty. The Chakri Dynasty was ____ (9) ____ and it has ____ (10) ____ to the present day.

1.
(a) became
(b) insane
(c) overthrow
(d) called

2.
(a) made
(b) ruled
(c) dynasty
(d) became

3.
(a) hereditary
(b) insane
(c) dynasty
(d) called

4.
(a) became
(b) ruled
(c) dynasty
(d) hereditary

5.
(a) hereditary
(b) called
(c) overthrow
(d) insane

6.
(a) hereditary
(b) insane
(c) overthrow
(d) called

7.
(a) overthrow
(b) ruled
(c) dynasty
(d) made

8.
(a) before
(b) ruined
(c) dynamic
(d) made

9.
(a) hereditary
(b) established
(c) overthrow
(d) called

10.
(a) survived
(b) insane
(c) overthrow
(d) called

Choose the explanation that best reflects the spirit of the idiom/proverb/phrase given in the question.

To make clean breast of

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A man of straw

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A wild-goose chase

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Put on the market

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To meet someone halfway

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She exhibited remarkable sang froid during the crisis.

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The co-operation and esprit do corps between the soldiers and the officers was directly responsible for their victory.

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Alpha and Omega

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Ante-diluvium