AILET entrance exam Question Bank Solutions for English Language

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Perhaps because something in us instinctively distrusts such displays of natural fluency, some readers approach John Updike's fiction with _____________.

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Despite the mixture's ____________ nature, we found that by lowering its temperature in the laboratory, we could dramatically reduce its tendency to vaporize.

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I _____________ you can swim so well and I can't.

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They even passed ________ without any untoward incident. 

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Please give me ____________ to drink.

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Her true feelings manifested themselves in her sarcastic asides; only then was her _________ revealed. 

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The tapeworm is an example of __________ organism, one that lives within or on another creature, deriving some or all its nutrients from its host. 

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While the disease in a latent state it is almost impossible to determine its existence by ___________. 

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Language, culture and personality may be considered independently of each other in thought, but they are __________in fact. 

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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.