GATE ME 2024 | Verbal Ability Question 2 | General Aptitude

GATE ME 2024

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

-1.33

In the given text, the blanks are numbered (i)–(iv). Select the best match for all the blanks.

Prof. P __(i)__ merely a man who narrated funny stories. __(ii)__ in his blackest moments he was capable of self-deprecating humor.

Prof. Q __(iii)__ a man who hardly narrated funny stories.__(iv)__ in his blackest moments was he able to find humor.

(i) was (ii) Only (iii) wasn’t (iv) Even

(i) wasn’t (ii) Even (iii) was (iv) Only

(i) was (ii) Even (iii) wasn’t (iv) Only

(i) wasn’t (ii) Only (iii) was (iv) Even

GATE ME 2023

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

-0.66

Which one of the sentence sequences in the given options creates a coherent narrative?

(i) I could not bring myself to knock.

(ii) There was a murmur of unfamiliar voices coming from the big drawing room and the door was firmly shut.

(iii) The passage was dark for a bit, but then it suddenly opened into a bright kitchen.

(iv) I decided I would rather wander down the passage.

(iv), (i), (iii), (ii)

(iii), (i), (ii), (iv)

(ii), (i), (iv), (iii)

(i), (iii), (ii), (iv)

GATE ME 2020 Set 1

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

-0.66

Crowd funding deals with mobilisation of funds for a project from a large number of people, who would be willing to invest smaller amounts through web-based platforms in the project.
Based on the above paragraph, which of the following is correct about crowd funding?

Funds raised through unwilling contributions on web-based platforms.

Funds raised through large contributions on web-based platforms.

Funds raised through coerced contributions on web-based platforms.

Funds raised through voluntary contributions on web-based platforms

GATE ME 2019 Set 1

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

-0.67

Congo was named by Europeans. Congo’s dictator Mobuto later changed the name of the country and the river to Zaire with the objective of Africanising names of persons and spaces. However, the name Zaire was a Portuguese alternation of Nzadi o Nzere, a local African term meaning 'River that swallows Rivers'. Zaire was the Portuguese name for the Congo river in the 16^th and 17^th centuries.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the paragraph above?

The term Nzadi o Nzere was of Portuguese origin

As a dictator Mobuto ordered the Portuguses to alter the name of the river to Zaire

Mobuto was not entirely successful in Africanising the name of his country

Mobuto’s desire to Africanise names was prevented by the Portuguese