Dear Aspirants,

Welcome to D2G’s English Quiz. Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got!!

Cloze test:-

The socialists of Venezuela, first led by the late President Hugo Chávez then by President Nicolás Maduro, have had a near-total ______(1)______ over power for the past 17 years. But the results of the parliamentary elections held on December 6, in which the centre-right opposition ______(2)______ a ‘supermajority’ with 112 seats out of the total 167, demonstrate that the socialist narrative which Chávez painstakingly built over the _______(3)_______ of West-backed dictatorships and the failures of free-market capitalism has started losing its grip over the Venezuelan voters. Though an opposition victory was expected, their performance was better than even the most ______(4)_______ forecasts. With a two-thirds majority in the legislature, the opposition now has the strength to remove Supreme Court justices, pass laws and even draft a new Constitution, a move that could end Mr. Maduro’s presidential tenure. What has led to such a huge defeat of the socialists? The Venezuelan election comes close on the ______(5)_______ of the defeat of the leftist candidate, Daniel Scioli, in the Argentine presidential election.

1)
a)supremacy
b)hegemony
c)dominance
d)ascendancy

2)
a)appended
b)tacked
c)hitched
d)secured

3)
a)ruins
b)devastate
c)ravage
d)dilapidation

4)
a)buoyant
b)pessimistic
c)optimistic
d)sanguine

5)
a)heels
b)take
c)whole
d)move

Sentence Rearrangement:-

(A) Existence never judges because it is not written anywhere that one thing is good and some other thing is bad.
(B) If you don’t do the right things, the right things do not happen to you.
(C) It is only individual human beings who try to judge you as good and bad.
(D) It is only social situations that try to judge people as good and bad.
(E) Existence is not making a judgment about who is good or bad.
(F) It is just that if you do the right things, the right results happen to you.

1) Which of the following should be the SIXTH (LAST) sentence after rearrangement?
a) B
b) C
c) D
d) E
e) F

2) Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?
a) B
b) C
c) D
d) E
e) F

3) Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
a) C
b) B
c) F
d) D
e) E

4) Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
a) F
b) B
c) A
d) D
e) E

5) Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E

6) Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E

Happy Reading!!

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