SAP Off Campus Hiring_ March 2015 Verbal Skills

Q1)Rearrange the given phrases to form a meaningful sentence.
(1) seating and the all important photo /(2) liveliest part of the show /(3) the jostling melee of entry, /(4) taking constitutes the /(5) from a layman's perspective,

5 1 4 3 2
5 3 1 4 2
3 5 1 2 4
3 5 2 1 4


Q2)Arrange the given phrases to form a meaningful sentence.
(1) he had resorted to the old feature writer's device / (2) in a lot of hot water by cheerfully revealing / (3) of cobbling together a composite character/ (4) in the mid-eighties, / (5) Alastair Reid  got himself and the magazine / (6) that in a reporting piece he had done from Spain /

5,4,1,2,6,3
1,3,4,5,2,6
4,5,2,6,1,3
4,5,6,1,2,3


Q3)Identify the error and choose the option that correctly rephrases the given sentence.
Jairam's seat on the NAC has now entrusted him to have a say in unessential matters, along with other civil luminaries.

has now entrusted him to have a say in unessential matters, along with other
has now entrusted him to have a say in essential matters, along with other
has now empowered him to have a say in unessential matters, along with other
has now empowered him to have a say in essential matters, along with other


Q4)Identify the error and choose the option that correctly rephrases the given sentence. McDonnell Aircraft Company was the brainchild of Princeton and MIT trained engineers J.S. McDonnell and J.M. Messing, who had been working for a range of aircraft companies before they finally establish their own company in 1998.

who had been working for a range of aircraft companies before they finally establish their own company in 1998.
whom had been working for a range of aircraft companies before he finally established his own company in 1998.
who were working for a range of aircraft companies before they finally establishing their own company in 1998.
who had been working for a range of aircraft companies before finally being able to establish their


Q5)Identify the error in the given sentence.
The author further states that as the number of homeless families increase, the allocation of funding from the federal government continues to shrink.

as
increase
of
continues
No Error
Clear Response


Q6)Arrange the given sentences in a proper sequence to make a coherent paragraph.
A. A new model of the chemistry of the early solar system finds that up to half the water now on Earth was inherited from an abundant supply of interstellar ice as our sun formed.
B. This raises hopes that life could indeed exist elsewhere in the universe.
C. That means our solar system's moisture wasn't the result of local conditions in the proto-planetary disk, but rather a regular feature of planetary formation.
D. But it turns out that much of the water we swim in and drink here on Earth is even older.
E. The sun, at 4.6 billion years old, predates all the other bodies in our solar system.

EBACD
EDACB
ABCDE
ACEDB

Q7)Find the odd word among the given options.

cinnamon
fenugreek
asparagus
cumin

Q8)Which word is most similar to ingenuous?

innocent
complex
adulterated
ruffled

Q9)The new congressman was considered a ________ because he refused to follow his party's platform on nearly every issue.

mentor
maverick
protagonist
visionary

Q10)Ludicrous is most dissimilar to

absurd
somber
reasonable
charitable