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NDA General Ability 14th September 2025
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+4
-1.33

Directions : Following items have sentences in active voice with four options. One of the options converts the active voice into passive voice correctly. Select the most appropriate option and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. 

The king who the people loved built the castle five centuries ago 

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The castle was built five centuries ago by the king who was loved by the people
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The castle was built five centuries ago by the king who loved the people
3
The castle built five centuries ago by the king loved by the people
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The castle was built five centuries ago by the people who were loved by the king 
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NDA General Ability 14th September 2025
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+4
-1.33

Directions : Following items have sentences in active voice with four options. One of the options converts the active voice into passive voice correctly. Select the most appropriate option and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. 

The company has recruited four hundred engineers who will have to complete an internship for three weeks 

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Four hundred engineers have been recruited by the company and an internship of three weeks will have to be completed by them 
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Four hundred engineers have been recruited by the company and they will have to complete an internship of three weeks
3
The company has been recruited by four hundred engineers and an internship of three week will have to be completed by them
4
Four hundred engineers have been recruited by the company. Internship of three weeks will have had to be completed by them
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NDA General Ability 13 April 2025
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+4
-1.33
An attempt to determine the number of languages in the world is affected by other factors. A few new languages do continue to be discovered, even these days, as unexplored regions of the world begin to be opened up. The discovery does not usually take place straight away. Often there are similarities with an already known language which make the investigators assume that what they have found is just a dialect of that language. Only after a considerable period of contact does it transpire that the speech is so different that it has to be considered a different language. It takes a language survey to establish the facts, and there are still many countries where such surveys are incomplete or have not even begun. The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be. Because many such peoples are bilingual or multilingual, and converse with outsiders in lingua franca, it may take a while before linguists come to realize that there is an ethnic language there at all.
Which one of the following is NOT the reason for the difficulty in estimating the number of languages of the world ?
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New languages continue to be discovered
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There are still unexplored regions
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New languages are considered a dialect of a known language
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People who speak the language do not claim their language
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NDA General Ability 13 April 2025
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+4
-1.33
An attempt to determine the number of languages in the world is affected by other factors. A few new languages do continue to be discovered, even these days, as unexplored regions of the world begin to be opened up. The discovery does not usually take place straight away. Often there are similarities with an already known language which make the investigators assume that what they have found is just a dialect of that language. Only after a considerable period of contact does it transpire that the speech is so different that it has to be considered a different language. It takes a language survey to establish the facts, and there are still many countries where such surveys are incomplete or have not even begun. The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be. Because many such peoples are bilingual or multilingual, and converse with outsiders in lingua franca, it may take a while before linguists come to realize that there is an ethnic language there at all.
Which one of the following is a way to establish the discovery of a new language ?
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By establishing contact over a period of time with the speakers of the language
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By finding the similarities with the language with other languages
3
By comparing with the lingua franca of the region
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By conducting a survey of all languages of the region