SINDH MDCAT 2014 PAPER

1. Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters..

DISTRESS:

2. SWIFT:

3. Read the passage to answer questions 3-4

What is life? A little scum of no importance on the surface of an unimportant globe circling round a second-rate star? An accidental conglomeration globe of atoms which have come together by an odd chance. The result of an exceedingly improbable happening? That is what some astronomers would have us think. Looking out into the depth of space, they have discovered a universe of unthinkable dimensions. A billion suns in our own galaxy, beyond it perhaps a billion galaxies. only revealed to us as tiny smudges on a photographic plate. No wonder they are Impressed by the enormous disparity between the scaffolding and the result. Life seemed to be as Jeans said, ‘an utterly unimportant by-product in ‘a universe which was clearly ‘designed for life, and which, to all appearances. is either totally indifferent or definitely hostile to it. It seemed ‘incredible that the universe can have been designed primarily to produce life like our own: had it been so, surely we might have expected to find a better proportion between the magnitude of the mechanism and the amount of the product .

The title of the passage can be:

4. According to author if universe have been designed primarily to produce life like our own then:

5. Complete the sentences by choosing the most appropriate options. from the given lettered choices (A to E ) below each.

The tree must _____ planted over fifty years ago.

6. It is quite people _____ for poor people to he happier than rich

7. Identify the word or phrase that needs to be changed for the sentence to he correct:

The officer is so busy that two extra clerks have had to he taken on. No error.

8. Mr. Ahmed is to old to work now; he depends upon his son. No error

9. Choose the word most similar in meaning to the capitalized one.

MEDITATIVE:

10. AMAZEMENT: