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Building Standards in Educational and Professional Testing
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Building Standards in Educational and Professional Testing
VERBAL
Question (1) following the passage refers to the numbered sentences in the passage. Answer the question by choosing the best alternative using logic and organization.
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When television is good, nothing-not the theater, not the magazines or
2
newspapers-nothing is inferior.
But when television is bad, nothing is
worse. 3 I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, or anything else to distract you. 1. The word inferior in sentence 1 should be A. B. C. D. E. Left as it is Changed to Changed to Changed to Changed to worse the best anterior better
Each of the following questions consists of a sentence with all or part of the sentence underlined. Select one phrase that has the same or nearly the same meaning as the original and, follows the requirements of standard written English.
2. There is a small number of apples still remaining on the tree. A. B. C. D. E. is a short amount of is a small amount of are very few is very few were very few
Read each group of sentences, then choose the best answer to the question or the best completion of the statement.
3. I like Oliver Twist better than Huckleberry Finn. Dickens is better writer than Twain. What is happening in the sentences? A. B. C. D. E. A comparison is made in terms of British and American authors. A conclusion is drawn on the basis of opinion. A conclusion is drawn on the basis of fact. A comparison is made in terms of growing up in England or America. A relationship is drawn between the writing style of Dickens and Twain. 2
Sample Paper SBP
Building Standards in Educational and Professional Testing
Read the passage to answer questions 4-7
At the turn of the twentieth century, people's
Sample Paper State Bank of Pakistan
Sample Paper SBP
1
Building Standards in Educational and Professional Testing
VERBAL
Question (1) following the passage refers to the numbered sentences in the passage. Answer the question by choosing the best alternative using logic and organization.
1
When television is good, nothing-not the theater, not the magazines or
2
newspapers-nothing is inferior.
But when television is bad, nothing is
worse. 3 I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, or anything else to distract you. 1. The word inferior in sentence 1 should be A. B. C. D. E. Left as it is Changed to Changed to Changed to Changed to worse the best anterior better
Each of the following questions consists of a sentence with all or part of the sentence underlined. Select one phrase that has the same or nearly the same meaning as the original and, follows the requirements of standard written English.
2. There is a small number of apples still remaining on the tree. A. B. C. D. E. is a short amount of is a small amount of are very few is very few were very few
Read each group of sentences, then choose the best answer to the question or the best completion of the statement.
3. I like Oliver Twist better than Huckleberry Finn. Dickens is better writer than Twain. What is happening in the sentences? A. B. C. D. E. A comparison is made in terms of British and American authors. A conclusion is drawn on the basis of opinion. A conclusion is drawn on the basis of fact. A comparison is made in terms of growing up in England or America. A relationship is drawn between the writing style of Dickens and Twain. 2
Sample Paper SBP
Building Standards in Educational and Professional Testing
Read the passage to answer questions 4-7
At the turn of the twentieth century, people's