Practice Quiz or MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) with solutions are available for Practice, which would help you prepare for "Comprehension" under Verbal Aptitude. You can practice these practice quizzes as per your speed and improvise the topic. The same topic is covered under various competitive examinations like - CAT, GMAT, Bank PO, SSC and other competitive examinations
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He saw nothing, he had no knife or sharp instrument, the grating of the window was of iron and he had too often assured himself of its solidity. His furniture consisted of a bed, a chair, a table, a pail, and a jug. The bed had iron clamps, but they were screwed to the wall and it would have required a screwdriver to take them off.
Dantes had but one resource which was to break the jug and with one of the sharp fragments attack the wall. He left the jug fall on the floor and it broke in pieces. He concealed two or three of the sharpest fragments in his bed, leaving the rest on the floor. The breaking of the jug was too natural an accident to excite suspicion, and next morning gaoler went grumblingly to fetch another, without giving himself the trouble to remove the fragments. Dantes heard joyfully the key grate in the lock as guard departed.
Dantes was in
He saw nothing, he had no knife or sharp instrument, the grating of the window was of iron and he had too often assured himself of its solidity. His furniture consisted of a bed, a chair, a table, a pail, and a jug. The bed had iron clamps, but they were screwed to the wall and it would have required a screwdriver to take them off.
Dantes had but one resource which was to break the jug and with one of the sharp fragments attack the wall. He left the jug fall on the floor and it broke in pieces. He concealed two or three of the sharpest fragments in his bed, leaving the rest on the floor. The breaking of the jug was too natural an accident to excite suspicion, and next morning gaoler went grumblingly to fetch another, without giving himself the trouble to remove the fragments. Dantes heard joyfully the key grate in the lock as guard departed.
The guard left the fragments because he
He saw nothing, he had no knife or sharp instrument, the grating of the window was of iron and he had too often assured himself of its solidity. His furniture consisted of a bed, a chair, a table, a pail, and a jug. The bed had iron clamps, but they were screwed to the wall and it would have required a screwdriver to take them off.
Dantes had but one resource which was to break the jug and with one of the sharp fragments attack the wall. He left the jug fall on the floor and it broke in pieces. He concealed two or three of the sharpest fragments in his bed, leaving the rest on the floor. The breaking of the jug was too natural an accident to excite suspicion, and next morning gaoler went grumblingly to fetch another, without giving himself the trouble to remove the fragments. Dantes heard joyfully the key grate in the lock as guard departed.
Dantes was planning to
Directions: In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.
Q. Leave or remove from a place considered dangerous.
In spite of his __________ Stevie Wonder became a top singer.
When he found the wallet his face glowed but soon it faded as the wallet was _____ .
"(No sooner the advertisement regarding the launch of new smart phone appeared) than there was a rush on the online website for prebooking the same."
Directions(Q1-Q30): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
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Direction: In each of the questions given below, a paragraph is given which has some blanks and those blanks have to be filled with the same word out of five words given below it. You have to choose that same word as your answer and fill up the blanks with that appropriate word.
There is no ____________ that can stop a winner since the will to win is more important than anything. Any ____________ coming in between you and your destination can be used as an experience. This experience will give you mental strength to face any such ____________ in the future.
An Indian ship / laden with merchandise / got drowned in the Pacific Ocean / No error.
I could not put up in a hotel / because the boarding and lodging charges / were exorbitant / No errors.
As part of the Financial Inclusion the following acts as an alternative to the Branch Banking.
Which among the following is defined as an Initial Public Offering?
Liquid funds are the funds that invest in securities with a maturity period of upto ______________ days.
ATMs use security features like fingerprint scanners and eye scanners for the customer to access their bank details. Such ATM is called as _____________.
At present the UPI transfer limit per UPI transaction is ________?
The insurance in which the number of employees and their dependents are insured under a single policy is known as _______.
RBI has five wholly-owned subsidiaries. Which of the following is not a subsidiary of RBI?
The rearrangement of a distressed company's outstanding commitments to its creditors aims to restore a company's liquidity so that it can avoid bankruptcy is called ________________.
What are the reasons to name Credit and Debit Cards Plastic Money?
____________ is set up as the principal development financial institution (DFIs) for infrastructure financing.
Which of the following is the oldest stock exchange in Asia?
Where is India's largest landfill gas-tocompressed biogas plant located?
Which of the following are the types of Computer Architecture?
Which of the following layer is used to link the network support layers and user support layers?
In what table does the operating system keep track of all the open files?
Which of the following tabs of display dialog box is used to change an icon?