PSC /BANK PREVIOUS QUESTIONS PEQ1a

In each of the following questions five words are given which are denoted by A,B,C,D, and E. By using all five words, each only once, you have to frame a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence. The correct order of the words is the answer. Choose from the five alternatives the one having the correct order of words and mark it.
1.(a)HIM (b)THEY (c)SAW (d)OUT(e)GOING
a.DECAB
b.EADCB
c.BCAED
d.CBDEA
e.AEDBC
2.(a)HIM (b)WHY(c)DID(d)IRRITATE(e)YOU
a.ADECB
b.BCEDA
c.CDAEB
d.DCAEB
e.EABCD
3.(a)THE(b)PROBLEM (c)WE (d)SOLVE (e)SHALL
a.BADCE
b.ADCEB
c.CDAEB
d.CEDAB
e.EADCB
4.(a)EXERCISE (b)IS(c)GOOD (d)SWIMMING (e)A
a.EBDCA
b.AECBD
c.CDAEB
d.BADEC
e.DBECA
5.(a)CANDIDATE (b)ARE (c)ELIGIBLE (d)YOU (e)AN
a.DBECA
b.EADBC
c.CADEB
d.BCDAE
e.AEDBC

In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. their numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits into the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word

Most experts agree that even people who think they are sleeping enough would …………. (6) be better off with more ………………….(7). As evidence of general sleep deficit, they ……………..(8) the use of the beside alarm clock used by people to ………………(9) their working hours. The most relentless robber of ……………….(10) is the complexity of everyday life. Whenever pressures from work, family and community ……………….(11) many people ……………………(12) with sleep. Another ……………….(13) of sleep is the stuff work.
6.(a)probably (b)meaningfully (c)attentively (d)mainly(e)suddenly
7.(a)work (b)freedom (c)rest (d)time (e)energy
8.(a)explain (b)overlook (c)ignore (d)prove (e)cite
9.(a)widen (b)prolong (c)disturb (d)minimise (e)improve
10.(a)sleep (b)pleasure (c)stress (d)leisure (e)motivation
11.(a)unite (b)diminish (c)happen (d)mount (e)disappeare
12.(a)depend (b)detach (c)deprive (d)desist (e)dispense
13.(a)thief (b)study (c)contributor (d)product (e)drawback

ANSWER

1.C
2.B
3.D
4.E
5.A
6.A
7.C
8.E
9.E
10.A
11.D
12.E
13.A