NDA (II) 2018 General Ability Test · Question 32 of 146

Correct — C, float. To float is to stay on the surface without swimming strokes, which is the one option that gives a tired swimmer a rest while still keeping them safely up — 'if you are tired of swimming, just float for a while'.

• (a)struggle — Struggling costs more effort than swimming did, so it is the opposite of the rest the sentence is offering and the very thing a tired swimmer must avoid.
• (b)stroke — A stroke is the arm-and-leg action of swimming itself, so this asks the tired swimmer to carry on doing exactly what they are tired of.
• (d)streak — 'Streak' means to move very fast in a straight line, which is effortful motion rather than rest.

• Choosing a word because it belongs to the same topic as the sentence rather than because it fits the logic.

Asked as a fill-in-the-blank item in which four topic-related verbs compete and the preceding clause selects one.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Choose the word that fits — The log continued to _____ downstream long after the flood had passed.

  • (a)sink
  • (b)float
  • (c)streak
  • (d)struggle

  Answer(b) float — it stays on the surface and is carried along.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Choose the word that fits — If you are out of breath, stop running and _____ for a few minutes.

  • (a)sprint
  • (b)walk
  • (c)race
  • (d)dash

  Answer(b) walk — the clause names exhaustion, so the advice must cost less effort.