GATE CSE 2016 | Set 2 | GA | Question: 02

Question

Nobody knows how the Indian cricket team is going to cope with the difficult and seamer-friendly wickets in Australia.

Choose the option which is closest in meaning to the underlined phrase in the above sentence.

• A. Put up with.
• B. Put in with.
• C. Put down to.
• D. Put up against.

Comments

Pehle question samjho :

Sentence:
“Nobody knows how the Indian cricket team is going to cope with the difficult and seamer-friendly wickets in Australia.”

• cope with ka matlab hota hai:
  kisi mushkil situation ko handle karna / sambhalna / face karna

Question pooch raha hai:
“cope with” ke closest meaning wala option kaunsa hai?

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Options ko ek-ek karke samjhte hain:

A. Put up with (Correct)

• Meaning: tolerate karna, handle karna, jhelna

• Difficult wickets ko handle/jhelna → meaning match karta hai

• Isliye sabse close meaning yahi hai 

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B. Put in with 

• Iska koi clear common meaning nahi hota is context me

• Zyada tar informal/rare usage

• “cope with” se koi relation nahi

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C. Put down to 

• Meaning: kisi cheez ka reason batana
  (e.g., “He put his failure down to bad luck”)

• Yahan reason nahi, situation handle karne ki baat ho rahi hai

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D. Put up against 

• Meaning: compare karna ya confront karna

• Team ko wickets ke against compare nahi kiya ja raha

• handle karna meaning nahi aata     
  
   So option (A) is correct

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First we have to understand question

Sentence:
Nobody knows how the Indian cricket team is going to cope with the difficult and seamer-friendly wickets in Australia.”

• cope with ka matlab hota hai:
  kisi mushkil situation ko handle karna / sambhalna / face karna

Question pooch raha hai:
“cope with” ke closest meaning wala option kaunsa hai?

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Options ko ek-ek karke samjhte hain:

A. Put up with (Correct)

• Meaning: tolerate karna, handle karna, jhelna

• Difficult wickets ko handle/jhelna → meaning match karta hai

• Isliye sabse close meaning yahi hai 

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B. Put in with 

• Iska koi clear common meaning nahi hota is context me

• Zyada tar informal/rare usage

• “cope with” se koi relation nahi

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C. Put down to 

• Meaning: kisi cheez ka reason batana
  (e.g., “He put his failure down to bad luck”)

• Yahan reason nahi, situation handle karne ki baat ho rahi hai

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D. Put up against 

• Meaning: compare karna ya confront karna

• Team ko wickets ke against compare nahi kiya ja raha

• handle karna meaning nahi aata     
  
   So option (A) is correct

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@Shaik Masthan sir pls correct the qs. There should be an underline under cope with

Answer 1

Answer is (A)

The closest meaning to cope with is put up with which means to tolerate. Cope with does not mean to place someone into competition with someone else.

Comments

cope = "Deal with reasonably well despite some difficulty; come to terms with"

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I totally agree with you. check out my explanation..
google put up with to see the meaning as tolerate/endure.
check this link :http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+up+against
for the meaning of put up against.
Now read the question again, it says about the difficult and seamer-friendly wickets in Australia rather than the Australian team it self.
So, clearly the Indian team has to endure the conditions in Australia rather than compete with the conditions in Australia

Answer 2

option d

put up with: tolerate
put in with: to partner with
put down to: attribute
put up against: to place someone into competition with someone else

Comments

option d is correct......because as per searching in google.....for put up against it shows "cope" as synonyms.....

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option d is not appropriate.
Because "put up against" can only be used as "put up 'someone' against 'someone' "

eg. Aaa puts up Bbb against Ccc for boxing match.

Answer 3

YOU JUST SEE THE LINK AND GET THE IDEA CLEARLY  

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/essential-american-english/put-up-with-someone-something