NDA General Ability 13 April 2025 | NDA Year Wise Previous Years Questions

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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 words from passage means ‘come to be known’ ?

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transpire

2

lingua franca

3

straight

4

variant

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NDA General Ability 13 April 2025

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

+4

-1.33

Directions : The following items have a sentence in direct or indirect speech with four options. One of the options converts the direct or indirect speech into indirect or direct correctly. Select the correct option and mark your response on the Answer Sheet.

Convert from direct speech to indirect speech :
Charu said to her friend, “I want you to be here at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting.”

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Charu told her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. the next day for the meeting

2

Charu told her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting

3

Charu requested her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting

4

Charu told her friend that she will want her to be here at 6.00 p.m. the next day for the meeting

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NDA General Ability 13 April 2025

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

+4

-1.33

Directions : The following items have a sentence in direct or indirect speech with four options. One of the options converts the direct or indirect speech into indirect or direct correctly. Select the correct option and mark your response on the Answer Sheet.

Convert from direct speech to indirect speech :
Nitin said to his brother, “What a beautiful painting it is ?”

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Nitin wondered to his brother that what a beautiful painting it was

2

Nitin wondered before his brother that it was a beautiful painting

3

Nitin exclaimed that it is a beautiful painting

4

Nitin asked his brother whether it was beautiful painting

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NDA General Ability 13 April 2025

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

+4

-1.33

Directions : The following items have a sentence in direct or indirect speech with four options. One of the options converts the direct or indirect speech into indirect or direct correctly. Select the correct option and mark your response on the Answer Sheet.

Convert from indirect speech to direct speech :
The teacher asked her students why they had been quiet in the previous class.

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The teacher asked her students, “Why were they keeping quiet in the previous class ?”

2

The teacher said to her students, “Why were you quiet in the previous class ?”

3

The teacher said to her students, “Why had you been quiet in the previous class ?”

4

The teacher said to her students, “Why were you quiet in previous class ?”