What amount will be credited to the Income and Expenditure Account for the year 2023-24 for subscriptions?

₹4,85,000. Subscription for the year = Total Received - Received for Previous Year - Received for Next Year + Outstanding for Current Year = ₹5,00,000 - ₹25,000 - ₹40,000 + ₹50,000 (i.e., ₹55,000 - ₹5,000 irrecoverable).

What is the corrective action if the partnership deed is silent on interest on drawings but the accountant charged 6%?

Credit P's, Q's, and R's Capital Accounts with the interest wrongly debited. When the deed is silent, no interest is charged.

What happens in a Common-Size Income Statement if the percentage of 'Cost of Revenue from Operations' to 'Revenue' increases?

It indicates a deterioration in gross profit margin, as a larger portion of revenue is being consumed by costs.

CUET English Mock Test 5 Solutions & Explanations

Q1. Which of the following statements best captures the central paradox described in the passage?

Correct Answer: Option C (Social media platforms promote happiness, which makes people feel alienated from their own reality.)

Explanation: The phrase highlights how nuanced feelings are reduced to simple, pre-defined symbols, thereby "flattening" or diminishing the richness of human emotion.

Q2. The author uses the phrase "flattened into a reaction emoji" to illustrate:

Correct Answer: Option A (The efficiency of modern communication tools.)

Explanation: The passage defines this term by contrasting the high quantity of "connections" with the low quality of being "in touch," creating a feeling of intimacy that isn't real.

Q3. What does the author mean by the "illusion of intimacy"?

Correct Answer: Option C (The deceptive nature of technology that promises privacy but fails to deliver it.)

Explanation: The author analyzes a modern phenomenon (digital communication) and critiques its negative consequences on human connection, using a thoughtful and evaluative tone.

Q4. The tone of the passage can be best described as:

Correct Answer: Option A (Optimistic and celebratory)

Explanation: This is a dangling modifier because the phrase "After reading the original study" logically refers to a person, but the subject of the main clause is "the article." The article itself cannot read.
Concept Highlighted: Dangling Modifiers. (Expected Type)

Q5. Identify the sentence with a dangling modifier.

Correct Answer: Option C (To improve his score, he decided to study for three hours every day.)

Explanation: The original sentence is in Present Continuous Tense ("is looking"). The passive form for this tense is `is/am/are + being + V3 (past participle)`.
Concept Highlighted: Active/Passive Voice (Continuous Tense). (PYQ-based)

Q6. Choose the option that correctly changes the following sentence into passive voice: "The committee is looking into the matter."

Correct Answer: Option B (The matter has been looked into by the committee.)

Explanation: The correct order is: "Central to the new research paper (S) is the startling revelation (P) about the universe's accelerating expansion, (R) that has long been a subject of debate among cosmologists (Q)."
Concept Highlighted: Para Jumbles/Sentence Rearrangement. (PYQ-based)

Q7. Arrange the following parts (P, Q, R, S) to form a coherent sentence:
P: that has long been a subject of debate among cosmologists
Q: is the startling revelation
R: about the universe's accelerating expansion,
S: Central to the new research paper

Correct Answer: Option A (QSPR)

Explanation: 'Censor' means to remove or suppress objectionable material. 'Censure' means to express severe disapproval or criticism.
Concept Highlighted: Homophones/Confusing Words. (Expected Type)

Q8. The board decided to the controversial scenes from the film and publicly the director for his lack of judgment.

Correct Answer: Option C (sensor, censure)

Explanation: 'Laconic' means using very few words; concise. 'Verbose' means using more words than needed; wordy. 'Terse' and 'pithy' are synonyms of laconic.
Concept Highlighted: Antonyms (Nuanced). (PYQ-based)

Q9. The manager’s speech was unexpectedly laconic, leaving the team wanting more details.
Choose the most appropriate ANTONYM for the word in bold.

Correct Answer: Option B (Pithy)

Explanation: The car is not literally a rocket. It is being directly compared to a rocket to emphasize its speed, without using "like" or "as."
Concept Highlighted: Figures of Speech (Metaphor vs. Simile). (PYQ-based)

Q10. Identify the figure of speech in the following line: "His new sports car is a rocket, leaving everyone else in the dust."

Correct Answer: Option C (Personification)

Explanation: This is the standard definition of the idiom, which originates from King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans.
Concept Highlighted: Idioms and Phrases. (Expected Type)

Q11. The phrase "A Pyrrhic victory" refers to:

Correct Answer: Option A (A victory achieved with little to no effort.)

Explanation: This word, meaning the treatment of light and shade in art, is notoriously difficult to spell. The correct spelling is C-H-I-A-R-O-S-C-U-R-O.
Concept Highlighted: Spelling (Advanced Vocabulary). (Expected Type)

Q12. Find the correctly spelt word.

Correct Answer: Option B (Chiarascuro)

Explanation: The structure 'No sooner...than' requires inversion (`had + subject + V3`). The past participle (V3) of 'ring' is 'rung', not 'rang' (which is V2).
Concept Highlighted: Inversion and Verb Forms. (PYQ-based)

Q13. Choose the option that best replaces the underlined part of the sentence to make it grammatically correct. If the sentence is correct as it is, choose 'No improvement'.
No sooner had the bell rang than the children rushed out of the classrooms.

Correct Answer: Option B (No sooner had the bell rung)

Explanation: The correct phrasal verb is 'absolved of' something (meaning freed from). The action was done 'by' the committee (agent).
Concept Highlighted: Phrasal Verbs and Prepositions. (PYQ-based)

Q14. He was absolved _ all blame _ the inquiry committee after a thorough investigation.

Correct Answer: Option A (from, by)

Explanation: This correctly matches each literary device to its definition: Apostrophe (address to absent), Anaphora (repetition at start), Alliteration (initial consonants), Euphemism (mild word).
Concept Highlighted: Literary Devices. (Expected Type)

Q15. Match the literary devices in Column A with their correct definitions in Column B.

| Column A | Column B |
| :--- | :--- |
| (i) Apostrophe | (a) Repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| (ii) Anaphora | (b) An address to an absent person or an inanimate object |
| (iii) Alliteration | (c) A mild or indirect word substituted for one considered too harsh |
| (iv) Euphemism | (d) Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses |

Correct Answer: Option B (i-d, ii-b, iii-c, iv-a)

Explanation: A 'raconteur' is a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way. 'Orator' is a public speaker, and 'logophile' is a lover of words.
Concept Highlighted: One-Word Substitution (Niche Vocabulary). (Expected Type)

Q16. Which of the following is a one-word substitute for "a person who is skilled in storytelling"?

Correct Answer: Option A (Vociferator)

Explanation: This option correctly converts the exclamatory part ("What a brilliant deduction!") into a statement and the interrogative part ("How did you...") into an indirect question with the correct tense shift (did piece -> had pieced).
Concept Highlighted: Direct/Indirect Speech (Exclamatory & Interrogative). (PYQ-based)

Q17. The detective said to his assistant, "What a brilliant deduction! How did you piece it together?"
Choose the option that correctly changes the sentence into indirect speech.

Correct Answer: Option C (The detective exclaimed that it was a very brilliant deduction and enquired his assistant that how he had pieced it together.)

Explanation: The subject of the sentence is "The crew," which is a collective noun. Here, it is acting as a single, unified body, so it requires a singular verb. It should be "was finally able to see."
Concept Highlighted: Subject-Verb Agreement (Collective Nouns). (PYQ-based)

Q18. Identify the part of the sentence that has an error.
The crew of the ship, (A) / exhausted from the long voyage, (B) / were finally able to see (C) / the distant shoreline. (D) / No Error (E)

Correct Answer: Option B (/ were finally able to see (C) / the distant shoreline. (D) / No Error (E))

Explanation: A 'premise' is a previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion. 'Hypothesis' is the closest synonym in this context, representing the foundational assumption.
Concept Highlighted: Synonyms (Contextual). (PYQ-based)

Q19. Her argument, though logically sound, was based on a flawed premise, rendering her conclusion invalid.
Choose the most appropriate SYNONYM for the word in bold.

Correct Answer: Option D (Corollary)

Explanation: Pathetic fallacy is a specific type of personification where human emotions or traits are attributed to nature or inanimate objects (e.g., cruel wind, wise moon). Attributing "breath" to winter falls into this category. 'Transferred Epithet' is when an adjective is transferred from the noun it should describe to another (e.g., "sleepless night" - the person is sleepless, not the night). Pathetic Fallacy is more precise here.
Concept Highlighted: Literary Devices (Distinguishing between similar terms). (Expected Type)

Q20. The poet describes "winter's icy breath." This is a prime example of:

Correct Answer: Option A (Oxymoron)

Explanation: Detailed explanation will be updated shortly.

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