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Answer (c): A specific body part of a specific person takes the definite article: punched on the nose.
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Answer (c): A specific body part of a specific person takes the definite article: punched on the nose.
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Answer (a): 'He had better' is positive, so the question tag is negative and uses 'had': hadn't he.
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Answer (c): The subject is the singular 'One', so the verb is 'was'.
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Answer (a): After 'I hope' we use a future form for a future event: it won't rain.
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Answer (c): First conditional: if + present simple, then will + base verb.
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Answer (d): 'Report on' a subject is the fixed collocation.
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Answer (c): The reporting verb 'says' is present, so no tense change is needed: She says that boiling water is hot.
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Answer (a): Causative 'have + object + base verb': had the mechanics check the brakes.
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Answer (d): Both (a) and (c) are correct passive forms of the active sentence, so the answer is 'both a and c'.
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Answer (d): 'The reason why' is the standard relative construction.
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Answer (a): 'While' joins an action in progress (playing) with the event.
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Answer (a): The subject is 'He', so the reflexive pronoun is 'himself'.
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Answer (a): 'As many pens as I (brought)' is the natural comparison; 'as they' would compare the subject with itself and 'us/she' do not fit the nominative after 'as'.
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Answer (b): Agitate means to shake up or disturb.
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Answer (c): Accessible means reachable; its opposite is hidden (out of reach).
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Answer (d): The idiom means being alert and doing a job well.
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Answer (b): The opposite of agree is disagree.
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Answer (d): 'Afflicted with' is the fixed collocation.
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Answer (a): Unreal present conditional uses 'were' for all subjects.
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Answer (b): The tag for 'Let me' as an imperative request is 'will you'.
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Answer (d): Ordinal numbers take 'the': the second boy.
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Answer (c): The present perfect fits an event with present relevance: Man has walked on the moon.
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Answer (a): 'Get + object + to-infinitive' is the correct causative: gets me to clean.
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Answer (a): Imperative passive: Let + object + be + past participle.
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Answer (a): Only 'ebullient' is a real word, meaning cheerful and full of energy.
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Answer (b): Cynophobia (Greek kyon, dog) is the fear of dogs.
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Answer (c): Latin rex, king, gives regicide.
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Answer (d): nec-es-sar-y has four syllables.
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Answer (a): Yes/no questions normally take a rising intonation.
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Answer (c): pho-to-GRAPH-ics: the stress falls on the third syllable.
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Answer (b): 'One has to' is formed with do, so the tag is 'doesn't one'.
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Answer (d): Furniture is an uncountable noun, so it takes a singular verb: was.
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Answer (d): An adverb of manner is needed; 'fluently' suits speaking a language ('well' also works but 'fluently' is the intended choice).
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Answer (d): One article for both nouns means one person who is both novelist and poet, so the verb is singular: is.
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Answer (d): Datum is the singular; data, ova and syllabi are plurals.
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Answer (c): Abstract nouns used generally take no article.
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Answer (a): This is a causative sentence meaning 'have the tree cut down'. The intended word is 'fell/felled'; of the options only 'to fell' contains the right verb.
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Answer (a): Third conditional: if + past perfect, would have + past participle.
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Answer (a): Past simple active becomes were/was + past participle; plural 'trees' takes 'were'.
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Answer (b): Keep 'said'; would becomes will and 'the following day' becomes tomorrow.
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Answer (c): $n(A\cup B)=n(A)+n(B)-n(A\cap B)$ is largest when $n(A\cap B)=0$, giving $80+60=140$.
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Answer (a): The interval has midpoint $5$ and half-length $6$, so $|x-5|\le 6$.
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Answer (c): $y=(x-2)^2+1\ge 1$, so the range is $[1,\infty)$.
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Answer (c): Period of $\cos kx$ is $2\pi/k=2\pi/2=\pi$.
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Answer (d): $9^x=81=9^2$, so $x=2$.
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Answer (a): $x+1=\log_a(abc)$, so $\frac1{x+1}=\log_{abc}a$. The three terms sum to $\log_{abc}(abc)=1$.
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Answer (b): Geometric series with $a=1.5$, $r=0.01$: $S=\frac{1.5}{0.99}=\frac{50}{33}$.
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Answer (a): The exponent is $\sum n/2^{n+1}=\frac12\sum n/2^n=\frac12\cdot 2=1$, so the product is $2^1=2$.
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Answer (d): Unique solution needs a nonzero determinant: $3k+2\ne0$, so $k\ne -\frac23$.
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Answer (b): Roots $\alpha,\alpha^2$: $(\alpha+\alpha^2)^3=\alpha^3+\alpha^6+3\alpha^3(\alpha+\alpha^2)$. Substitute sum $=-b/a$, product $\alpha^3=c/a$ to get $b^3+a^2c+ac^2=3abc$.
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Answer (c): $1-i$ lies in the fourth quadrant with $\tan\theta=-1$, so $\theta=-45^\circ$, i.e. $315^\circ$.
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Answer (b): Mean proportional $=\sqrt{4\times16}=8$.
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Answer (b): Taking A $=45$ and B $=60$ days (15 days apart, ratio 3:4), together they need $\frac{45\cdot60}{105}=25\frac57$ days.
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Answer (c): $\frac{1500}{v}-\frac{1500}{v+250}=\frac12$ gives $v(v+250)=750000$, so $v=750$.
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Answer (d): Present worth $=\frac{2040}{1+4\times0.05}=\frac{2040}{1.2}=1700$.
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Answer (c): Interest equals principal: $P\cdot r\cdot10/100=P$, so $r=10%$.
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Answer (d): One part is Rs 300, so Binita gets $3\times300=900$.
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Answer (d): $p(A\cup B)=\frac23+\frac35-\frac23\cdot\frac35=\frac{10+9-6}{15}=\frac{13}{15}$.
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Answer (b): In a negatively skewed distribution the tail is on the left: mean < median < mode.
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Answer (a): $n!$ divides both $(n+1)!$ and $(n+2)!$, so it is the HCF.
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Answer (a): Taking tangent of $\tan^{-1}x+\tan^{-1}y=\frac\pi2-\tan^{-1}z$ gives $\frac{x+y}{1-xy}=\frac1z$, so $xy+yz+zx=1$.
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Answer (c): $\sqrt2\sin(\theta+\frac\pi4)=\sqrt2$ gives $\theta+\frac\pi4=2n\pi+\frac\pi2$, so $\theta=2n\pi+\frac\pi4$.
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Answer (c): $\sin B=\sin(A+C)$, so $\sin(A+C)=\sin(A+C)+\sin(C-A)$, giving $\sin(C-A)=0$, $A=C$.
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Answer (d): Distance $=\frac{|12-6|}{\sqrt{3^2+2^2}}=\frac6{\sqrt{13}}$.
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Answer (a): $\tan\theta=\frac{2\sqrt{h^2-ab}}{a+b}=\frac{2\sqrt{49/4-12}}{8}=\frac18$.
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Answer (b): Intercept $=2\sqrt{f^2-c}=2\sqrt{\frac14+20}=2\cdot\frac92=9$.
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Answer (c): $r^2=1+\frac94-k=\frac14$, so $k=3$.
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Answer (d): Put $t=x^{1/6}\to2$: $\frac{t-2}{t^2-4}=\frac1{t+2}=\frac14$.
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Answer (b): $\frac{e^{\sin x}-1}{\sin x}\cdot\frac{\sin x}{x}\to1\cdot1=1$.
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Answer (b): $\cos^{-1}(\sin x)=\frac\pi2-x$ (principal range), so the derivative is $-1$.
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Answer (a): Take logs: $p\ln x+q\ln y=(p+q)\ln(x+y)$. Differentiating and simplifying gives $\frac{dy}{dx}=\frac yx$.
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Answer (b): Standard result: $\frac{d}{dx}\sin^{-1}x=\frac1{\sqrt{1-x^2}}$.
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Answer (c): At a critical point $f'(x)=0$, so the function is momentarily stationary.
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Answer (c): $\int\frac{\cos x}{\sin x}dx=\ln|\sin x|+c$.
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Answer (d): Write the integrand as $1-\frac2{e^x+1}$; the integral is $2\ln(e^x+1)-x=2\ln\left(e^{x/2}+e^{-x/2}\right)$.
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Answer (b): By parts with $u=\log x$, $dv=dx$: $x\log x-\int1,dx=x\log x-x$.
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Answer (c): Standard result for two parabolas of this form: area $=\frac{16ab}{3}$.
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Answer (c): The World Trade Organization oversees and regulates international trade rules.
Answer (b): Among the options only India is a major tea producer.
Answer (b): The Caspian Sea is the largest inland water body in the world.
Answer (a): Historian Baburam Acharya is called the father of Nepali history.
Answer (a): ADB was founded on 19 December 1966.
Answer (a): Lhasa is at about 3,650 m, higher than the others.
Answer (a): Earth Day is observed every year on 22 April.
Answer (c): In the 2009 cost-of-living survey of that period Tokyo ranked first.
Answer (b): The Queensland swine flu vaccine work was reported as using insect cell lines (caterpillar cells) rather than eggs, so caterpillar cell is the intended answer.
Answer (d): Michael Jackson won 13 competitive Grammy Awards.
Answer (c): DRAM stores bits in capacitors that leak, so they need refreshing every few milliseconds; SRAM does not.
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Answer (d): Main storage is the computer's primary memory.
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Answer (a): Laser printers give high-quality, fast output suited to desktop publishing.
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Answer (b): Blocking factor is the count of logical records per physical block.
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Answer (a): Optical (laser) disks encode data as microscopic pits read by a laser.
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Answer (a): A magnetic card holds small amounts of data; the other options are bulk media or input devices.
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Answer (b): Functional languages are also called applicative languages, since programs are built by applying functions. 'Application language' is the closest option.
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Answer (c): A monitor is a Visual Display Unit (VDU).
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Answer (c): Output on screen is not permanent, so it is soft copy.
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Answer (c): Word processors provide the Change Case command for this.
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