PREDICTION MODULE
AcEPT 5
COMPOSING SKILL 1
PART A - PARAPHRASING SENTENCES
Numbers 1-10 contain complete and correct sentences. For each number, you are required to
choose the most appropriate paraphrased sentence closest in meaning to the original one.
1. My father regretted working for that
company.
A. My father didn't like working for that
company.
B. If only my father was not working for
that company.
C. It is my father's regret working for that
company.
D. My father wished he hadn't worked for
that company.
2. Learning English is not easy.
A. It is not easy to learning English
B. It is easy learning English.
C. It is not easy to learn English.
D. It is not difficult to learn English.
3. The coffee was too hot for me to drink.
A. The coffee is so hot that I can't drink it. 7. It's possible that we won't go camping this
B. The coffee is so hot that I can't drink.
C. The coffee was so hot that I couldn't
drink.
D. The coffee was so hot that I couldn't
drink it.
4. Jane is a better cook than Daisy.
A. Daisy can't cook as good as Jane.
B. Daisy isn't a cook as good as Jane.
C. Daisy can cook as badly as Jane.
D. Daisy can't cook as well as jane.
5. Most of Ann's friends work less hard than
her.
A. Ann works more hard than most of her
friends do.
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B. Ann works more hardly than most of
her friends do.
C. Ann works harder than most of her
friends do.
D. Ann works as hard as most of her
friends do.
6. Every student is required to write an essay
on the topic.
A. Every student might write an essay on
the topic.
B. Every student must write an essay on
the topic.
C. They require every student write an
essay on the topic.
D. Every student should write an essay on
the topic.
weekend.
A. We will probably go camping this
weekend.
B. We will not go camping this weekend
C. We may not go camping this weekend.
D. We must not go camping this weekend
8. People say Chinese food is the best in the
world .
A. Chinese food is said to be the best in
the world.
B. I agree that Chinese food is the best in
the world.
C. Chinese food is eaten all over the
world.
D. No food in the world is eaten as much
as Chinese food.
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9. When I met my long-lost brother, I was at
a loss for words.
A. When the speaker met his brother, he
was puzzled about what to say.
B. When the speaker met his brother, he
had much to say.
C. When the speaker met his brother, he
refused to say anything.
D. When the speaker met his brother, he
had nothing pleasant to say.
10. Donald could not help weeping when he
heard the bad news.
A. Donald could not stop himself from
weeping at the bad news.
B. Donald could not allow himself to
weep at the bad news.
C. Donald could not help himself and so
he wept.
D. Donald could not help himself because
he was weeping.

PART B – EDITING

Numbers 11-20 contain incorrect sentences. The incorrect part of the sentence has been identified
for you. You are required to find the correct option to replace the underlined part.
11. Because they are so secretive, blind snakes D. Biographer
are seldom seen, and its habits are not well
known. 15. Each of the chemical elements have its
A. Theirs own standard symbol.
B. They A. Has
C. Them B. It has
D. Their C. Are having
D. Have had
12. The Franklin stove, which became
common in the 1780s, burned wood more 16. Flying buttresses enabled builders to put
efficiency than an open fireplace. up tall but thinnest stone walls.
A. Efficient A. Thinner
B. Efficiently B. The thinner
C. Efficacy C. The thinnest
D. Efficacious D. Thin

13. Metals can be beaten into thin sheets, 17. Because it is gravitationally bound to the
melted and poured into molds, or drawing Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy is
into fine wire. currently approach Earth.
A. Draw A. Approached
B. Drew B. Approaching
C. Drawn C. To approach
D. Were drawn D. Have been approached

14. The poet Amy Lowell sometimes wrote 18. Many roads and railroads were built in the
literary criticism and biographical. 1880s because of the industrial cities
A. Biography needed network to link them with sources
B. Biographically of supply.
C. Biographic A. Due to

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B. Since
C. Although
D. However
19. Minoru Yamasaki is an American architect
which works departed from the austerity
frequently associated with architecture in
the United States after the Second World
War.
A. Who
B. Whom
PART C – CORRECT SENTENCES
Numbers 21-30, choose the most appropriate and correct sentence.
21.
A. He has learned French for six years.
B. It was six years ago did he start
learning French.
C. He hasn't learnt French for six years.
D. It is six years since he has learned
French.
22.
A. Your homework ought to be done
every day.
B. Your homework ought be done every
day
C. Your homework ought to do every day
by you
D. Your homework should to be done
every day
23.
A. Would I have catch the train if I hadn't
had an accident on the road.
B. If I hadn't had an accident on the road,
I would have caught the train.
C. Missing the train, I had an accident on
the road.
D. Due for the accident on the road, I
missed the train.
24.
A. A new house is bought next year
B. A new house will be bought next year
C. A new house has been bought next
year
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C. Whose
D. From which
20. Bromyrite crystals have a diamond –like
luster and are usually colorless, but they
dark to brown when exposed to light.
A. Darks
B. Darkness
C. Darkly
D. Darken
D. A new house will been bought next
year
25.
A. Because she was sick she stayed in
bed.
B. She was sick because she stayed in
bed.
C. Because being sick she stayed in bed.
D. She was sick because of staying in bed.
26.
A. Because her carefulness she didn't
make any mistakes in her answers.
B. Because she was careful, she made
many mistakes in her answers.
C. Because she was careful, she didn't
make any mistakes in her answers.
D. Because she was careful, so she didn't
make any mistakes in her answers.
27.
A. If it doesn't rain, there will be a
shortage of water.
B. There will be a shortage of water if it
rains.
C. There will be a shortage of water if it
will rain.
D. If it doesn't rain, there would be a
shortage of water.
28.
A. He is said that he was in London last
summer.
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B. He was said that he was in London last D. I spoke slowly to make the foreigners
summer. could understand me.
C. He was said to be in London last 30.
summer. A. Before Mike went to bed, he had
D. He was said being in London last turned off the light.
summer. B. Before Mike turned off the light, he
29. had gone to bed.
A. I spoke slowly so that the foreigners C. After Mike had gone to bed, he turned
could understand me. off the light.
B. I spoke slowly in order to the D. Mike turned off the light as soon as he
foreigners could understand me. had gone to bed.
C. I spoke such slowly that the foreigners
could understand me.

PART D – LOGICAL ORDER

Numbers 31-36 contain jumbled sentences. One of the sentences has been underlined. You are
required to choose the next sentence which logically follows the underlined one.
31. Buddhism is a way to salvation.
A. But Buddhism is more severely analytical.
B. In the Christian tradition there is also a concern for the fate of human society conceived as a
whole, rather than merely as a sum or network of individuals.
C. Salvation is a property, or achievement of individuals.
D. Not only does it dissolve society into individuals; the individual in turn is dissolved into
component parts and instants- a stream of events.

32. Until the MBA arrived on the scene, the IIT graduate was king.
A. A degree from one of the five IIT’S was a passport to a well-paying job, great prospects abroad
and for some, a decent dowry to boot.
B. From the day they crack their joint entrance examination, the IIT student commanded the awe
of neighbours and close relatives.
C. IIT students had, meanw-hile, also developed their own special culture, comp-lete with lingo
and attitude, which they passed down.
D. True, the success stories of IIT graduates are legion and they now constitute the cream of the
Indian diaspora.

33. Management deals with complex social systems joined by physical and informational mechanisms
to other social systems that are the responsibility of other managers.
A. The managers are themselves parts of various hierarchies of managerial influence.
B. They are coupled to one another by explicit and implicit codes of behavior and information
network.
C. Management science and MIS have introduced new elements of complexity into the
manager’s world.
D. If this seems to make the social system appear complex, it is so intended.

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34. As a senior economist associated with the reforms programme used to say, a sure indication that
the new economic policy was succeeding would be when foreign investors start trekking to Delhi
in the sweltering heat of May and June.
A. If nothing else, India Power ‘94 came as a welcome break to the power ministry; most of the
participants had complimentary things to say about government policy.
B. And there were would-be entrants like the Hong Kong-based China Light and Power Company
who had turned up armed with a fax from the power ministry listing available projects in India.
C. Were that the only yardstick, then judging by the attendance at India Power ‘94, at least the
reforms in the power sector could be declared a success.
D. There were the familiar names – Enron, AES, Cogentrix, and Spectrum Technologies.

35. A recent advertisement of Premier Instruments and Controls Ltd., a leading manufacturer of
dashboard instruments, in a financial daily, summed it all up.
A. The fact is that executives from companies, ranging from Daimler Benz to General Motors,
have been scouring the Indian countryside looking for suppliers of cheap components for
products made in their European and American plants.
B. It obviously does not even have the time to make the investments required to set up a new
plant.
C. Today, most Indian automobile component manufactures cannot produce enough to meet
demand both domestic and international.
D. The company was soliciting spare capacities for the supply of intricate machines and sheet-
metal components.

36. But in the industrial era destroying the enemy's productive capacity means bombing the factories
which are located in the cities.
A. So, in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, what you want
to do is bum his fields, or if you're really vicious, salt them.
B. How do you do battle with your enemy?
C. The idea is to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, and depending upon the economic
foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case.
D. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared
to do battle with its enemy.

PART E – JUMBLED SENTENCES

Numbers 37-40 contain jumbled sentences. You are required to identify the correct order to form a
good paragraph.

1. Malignancies were diagnosed in three family members on the basis of this abnormality and
then surgically removed.
2. It appears to be the first instance in which this specific abnormality – in this case an exchange
of material between the chromosomes number three and eight in all cells of the person's body
– has been traced from generation to generation and thus permitted identification of cancer
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3. An inherited genetic abnormality has been linked to a specific type of kidney cancer in a family
in which ten members were affected over three generations.
4. The discovery by scientists at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, USA, provides a potentially
important clue to the origin of at least some cancers.
37.
A. 4-3-1-2
B. 3-2-4-1
C. 1-2-3-4
D. 4-1-2-3

1. In what has since become the first, legendary tale of computer forensics, Dr. Stoll spent a year
of meticulous work tracking and recording the hacker's movements.
2. This was an intriguing problem for Clifford Stoll.
3. In August 1986, an astronomer at the University of California, noticed a 75 percent
discrepancy in the accounts for a computer in his library.
4. When he investigated, he found that somebody had broken into his computer and used it for
a short time without permission just enough to unbalance the accounts.
38.
A. 3-1-2-4
B. 3-2-4-1
C. 3-2-1-4
D. 3-4-2-1

1. A curved titanium plate with five tiny screws would hold the bone in place and help reform
the damaged margin of the eye.
2. Deftly, he replaced the wedge of bone in Tenneh's face.
3. Intravenous antibiotics would take care of any lingering infection.
4. When he'd eliminated most of the diseased tissue, he stopped.
39.
A. 1-2-3-4
B. 4-3-1-2
C. 4-3-2-1
D. 1-3-2-4

1. This linking of politics and music is of course ancient and even Aristotle in his book ‘Politics’
said, “We may compare the best form of government to the most harmonious piece of music.”
2. Mixing metaphors, Mr. Clinton referred to the symphony so central to western music and said,
“It is time both nations heard the musical compositions of each other and understood each
other better.”
3. The oligarchic and despotic to the more violent tunes; and the democratic to the soft and
gentler airs.
4. The US President was confident that if governments and people of the two democracies made
a determined bid to understand each other’s perspectives scripts, they could create new
symphonies.

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5. Such attempts to secure symphony would be so much better than the individual bids for
virtuoso improvisations and adherence to classical compositions.
40.
A. 2-1-3-4-5
B. 4-3-1-5-2
C. 4-5-3-1-2
D. 2-4-5-1-3

COMPOSING SKILL 2

PART A - PARAPHRASING SENTENCES

Numbers 1-10 contain complete and correct sentences. For each number, you are required to
choose the most appropriate paraphrased sentence closest in meaning to the original one.
1. This is the first time I have lived in a city
with a high crime rate.
A. I am very afraid to living in a city with a
high crime rate.
B. I am very afraid of living in a city with a
high crime rate.
C. I am not used to living in a city with a
high crime rate.
D. I don't like to live in such a high crime
rate.
2. I was astonished that she didn't pass her
exam.
A. That she failed in her exam astonished
me.
B. I was astonished that her exam is not
over.
C. I was astonished that she did pass her
exam.
D. She didn't pass her exam, which
astonished her.
3. No sooner had they found her number
than they called her.
A. They called her as soon as they found
her number.
B. They found her number sooner or
later.
C. They called her number sooner or
later.
D. They found her number as soon as
they called her.
4. I regret buying the second-hand
motorbike.
A. I wish I don't buy the second-hand
motorbike.
B. I wish I didn't buy the second-hand
motorbike.
C. I wish I hadn't bought the second-hand
motorbike.
D. I wish I had bought the second-hand
motorbike.
5. People are using computers in almost
every field.
A. Computers are using in almost every
field.
B. Computers are used in almost every
field.
C. Computers are being used in almost
every field.
D. Computers being used in almost every
field
6. I would like you to help me to lift this heavy
box up.
A. Do you mind to help me to lift this
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B. Would you mind help me to lift this
heavy box up?
C. Do you mind helping me to lift this
heavy box up?
D. Do you mind to helping me to lift this
heavy box up?
7. You didn't work hard. You got bad marks.
A. Had you worked hard, you would have
got bad marks.
B. If you had worked hard, you would not
have got bad marks.
C. If you worked hard, you would not get
bad marks.
D. Did you work hard, you would not get
bad marks.
8. She worked hard so she got high wages.
A. If she didn't work hard, she wouldn't
get high wages.
B. If she had worked hard, she would
have got high wages.
C. If she hadn't worked hard, she
wouldn't have got high wages.
D. If she worked hard, she would get high
wages.
9. I'm sorry that I lent him much money.
A. I wish had lent him much money.
B. I wish did not lent him much money.
C. I wish had not lent him much money.
D. I wish lent him much money.
10. I regret not studying French when I had a
chance.
A. I wish I had studied French when I had
a chance.
B. I wish I studied French when I had a
chance.
C. I wish I would study French when I had
a chance.
D. I wish I study French when I had a
chance.

PART B – EDITING

Numbers 11-20 contain incorrect sentences. The incorrect part of the sentence has been identified
for you. You are required to find the correct option to replace the underlined part.
11. A balloon rises because of the hot air or gas A. Because
inside the balloon is lighter than the air B. Because of
outside. C. Caused
A. Since D. Cause by
B. Due to
C. Despite 14. Engineering is a profession who puts
D. Instead of scientific knowledge to practical use.
A. Which
12. Just three years after Martha Graham's B. Whom
first dance lesson, she starring in the ballet C. Whose
Xochitl. D. In which
A. Stars
B. Stared 15. A metallic object that is in contact with a
C. Who starts magnet becomes a magnet themselves.
D. Who starred A. Their
B. Them
13. The delicate color of rose quartz is due the C. It
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16. Many people have stopped to smoke C. which named

because they are afraid that it may be D. is named
harmful to their health.
A. smoking 19. Publishing by Penguin Press almost eighty
B. smoke years ago, Ernest Hemingway’s book A
C. smokes Farewell to Arms was the first paperback
D. smoked book offered to the public.
A. To publish
17. Stained glass becomes even more B. Published
beautiful when it aging because the C. Having published
corrosion diffuses light. D. To be published
A. will age
B. ages 20. The first full-length animated movie, Snow
C. are aging White, was produced by Walt Disney which
D. aged creative genius also inspired such
animated classics as Bambi and Cinderella.
18. La Guardia Airport in New York City named A. who
for Fiorello La Guardia, one of New York’s B. whose
most popular mayors. C. whom
A. which is named D. of whom
B. are named

PART C – CORRECT SENTENCES

Numbers 21-30, choose the most appropriate and correct sentence.

21.
A. The bridge was so low that the lorry
couldn't go under it.
B. It was so a slow bridge low that the
lorry couldn't go under it.
C. It was such a slow bridge low that the
lorry couldn't go under it.
D. The bridge was too low one for the
lorry to go under. 24.
22.
A. I'll give you my phone number. I want
you to phone me when necessary.
B. I'll give you my phone number so that
to phone me when necessary.
C. I'll give you my phone number so that
you can be phoned me when
necessary.
D. I'll give you my phone number so to 25.
phone me when necessary.
23.
A. I couldn't come there on time because
I got up late.
B. Because of I getting up late, I couldn't
come there on time.
C. If I hadn't got up late, I could come
there on time.
D. I got up late because I couldn't come
there on time.
A. That pupil is so lazy that my sister can't
teach him English.
B. That pupil is such lazy that my sister
can't teach him English.
C. That pupil is too lazy for my sister can't
teach him English.
D. That pupil is so lazy for my sister to
teach him English.
A. We have to keep these explosives in a
safe place.

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B. These explosives have to keep in a safe 28.

place.
C. These explosives have been keep in a
safe place.
D. These explosives be kept in a safe
place.
26.
A. It was such a good film that we decided
to go and see it again.
B. The film was so good one that we
decided to go and see it again.
C. The film was too good for us go and
see again.
D. The film was very good that we
decided go and see it again.
27.
A. The thief drove very quickly and the
police couldn't catch him.
B. The thief drove too quickly that the
police couldn't catch him.
C. The thief drove too quickly for the
police to catch.
D. The thief drove so quickly the car that
the police couldn't catch him.
A. Someone rang the alarm as soon as the
burglars left the shop.
B. No sooner the burglars left the shop
than someone rang the alarm.
C. No sooner had the burglars left the
shop than he rang the alarm.
D. No sooner the burglars had left the
shop than someone rang the alarm.
29.
A. He hardly to put down the phone when
his wife rang back.
B. Hardly he had put down the phone
when his wife rang back.
C. Hardly had he put down the phone
when his wife rang back.
D. Hardly did he have put down the
phone when his wife rang back.
30.
A. Unless you phone me tonight, you
won't get any information.
B. If you didn't phone me tonight, you
won't get any information.
C. If you do phone me tonight, you won't
get any information.
D. You won't get any information if you
phone me.

PART D – LOGICAL ORDER

Numbers 31-36 contain jumbled sentences. One of the sentences has been underlined. You are
required to choose the next sentence which logically follows the underlined one.
31. After two decades of growing student enrolments and economic prosperity, business schools in
the United States have started to face harder times.
A. Since 1990, the number of people receiving Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
degrees, has dropped about 3 percent to 75,000, and the trend of lower enrollment rates is
expected to continue.
B. Only Harvard’s MBA School has shown a substantial increase in enrollment in recent years.
Both Princeton and Stanford have seen decreases in their enrollments.
C. The first one is that many graduates of four- year colleges are finding that MBA degree does
not guarantee a plush job on Wall Street, or in other financial districts of major American
cities.
D. Many of the entry-level management jobs are going to students graduating with Master of
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32. A geyser occurs when rainwater seeps into the ground and volcanic magma beneath the surface
heat it.
A. Yellowstone National Park has more geysers than all of the rest of the world together.
B. There have not been any volcanic eruptions in the Yellowstone area for 70,000 years.
C. The rainwater then turns into steam.
D. The most famous of these geysers is Old Faithful, which erupts in a high arc of steam about
once an hour.

33. It was an impulsive decision.

A. Buying tickets, therefore, was no problem.
B. Four of us, all room-mates in the hostel, decided to travel by train from Gwalior to Delhi and
witness the republic Day parade.
C. Ashok pretended sickness and prevailed upon the man nearest to the window to buy four
more tickets one for him and three for his sisters.
D. There was a large crowd in the station and a long queue in front of the ticket window.

34. Abraham went to the great slave market in New Orleans.

A. From that day onwards he hated the entire slave-trade.
B. The slaves were auctioned like cattle there.
C. The sight of these miserable human beings made him very sad.
D. He resolved to do every-thing he could to abolish it.

35. He was always taciturn.

A. When soldiers marched though Munich accompanied by drums and pipes, children
enthusiastically joined in.
B. Indeed, it was a very long time before Albert learned to speak.
C. But when little Albert passed such a parade, he began to cry and told his parents, “When I
grow up, I don’t want to be one of those people”.
D. He saw the parade as a move-ment of people compelled by drums and pipes, children
enthusiastically joined in.

36. The headmaster looked at the boy more closely.

A. Although he must have been about eighteen years old, he wore a child’s suit.
B. He noticed the strange mixture of clothes that he wore.
C. His shoes were too broken and old even for a beggar.
D. It was amazingly short in the arms and legs and yet wide enough for his thin body.

PART E – JUMBLED SENTENCES

Numbers 37-40 contain jumbled sentences. You are required to identify the correct order to form a
good paragraph.

1. A complex geometric design on a woman’s back identifies her as Nuba-and also makes her
more beautiful in the eyes of her people.

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2. A tattoo is a design or mark made by putting a kind of dye (usually dark blue) into a cut in the
skin.
3. In scarification, dirt or ashes are put into the cuts instead of dye.
4. Two common types of body decoration in tribal societies are tattooing and scarification.
5. In both of these cases, the result is a design that unique to the person’s tribe.
6. Three lines on each side of a man’s face identify him as a member of the Yoruba in Nigeria.
37.
A. 4 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 1
B. 4 – 3 – 2 – 6 – 5 – 1
C. 4 – 1 – 5 – 3 – 4 - 2
D. 1 – 6 – 2 – 3 – 5 - 4

1. Moreover, salaries in public sector enterprises are not as competitive as those offered
byprivate or foreign corporate.
2. This trend should be a wake-up call for stakeholders to examine why employee are seeking
better opportunities with private companies in India and abroad.
3. Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) have been experiencing severe challenges in
attracting,motivating and retaining their key staff.
4. Having identified these as the reasons why employees leave PSEs, it is important toempower
stakeholders to find ways to remedy the situation.
5. One reason is that young employees lured away by private firms are more willing toundertake
professional risks.
6. Employees in specialist roles especially have become increasingly difficult to retain.
38.
A. 3-6-5-2-1-4
B. 3-6-2-4-1-5
C. 3-6-2-5-1-4
D. 3-6-2-5-4-1

1. Assuming that all these reasons are true, the fact remains that there is an urgent needto check
the accelerated costs and initiate suitable measures.
2. Some people attribute it to the increasing greediness among the medicos.
3. The Impact of these measures will be visible only after a considerable passage of time.
4. Healthcare costs have been Skyrocketing in our country.
5. The measures include yoga classes with emphasis on physical and mental exercises andalso
change in food habits.
6. Certain others feel that it is because of drastic changes in people’s lifestyle and eatinghabits.
39.
A. 4-2-6-1-5-3
B. 4-2-1-6-5-3
C. 4-2-6-5-1-3
D. 4-2-6-1-3-5

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1. As a result the non-stop tensions and anxieties at work often result in

health-related problems.
2. The truth is we cannot change the world of work.
3. We spend at least half our waking hours at work.
4. We have therefore to take charge and transform the way in which we respond to our work
environment.
5. So how can we control these problems and perform at work?
6. However, we can change the way we feel and deal with various situations.
40.
A. 3-5-1-2-6-4
B. 3-1-2-5-6-4
C. 3-1-5-2-6-4
D. 3-1-5-2-4-6

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