General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement.
They didn't see you, is it?
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5d42885729741f37c2546968- 1wasn't itfalse
- 2did theytrue
- 3no improvementfalse
- 4have theyfalse
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Answer : 2. "did they"
Q:Directions :Read the following passage to answer the given questions based on it. Some words/phrases are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
During the reign of king Veer, there lived a wise magistrate. Haripant’s verdicts were always just and people from all over vast kingdom came to him in ordered to settle their disputes. In the city where Haripant lived, there was a greedy ghee merchant named Niranjan. He always kept twenty barrels of ghee. Of these, fifteen would contain good quality ghee and the remaining could be adulterated. He would mix the two and sell it. This went on for a long time, till finally the people fed up of being cheated, complained to Haripant.
Haripant had the ghee examined and found to it be adulterated. He gave Niranjan a choice of punishment-drink the five barrels of adulterated ghee from his shop, or receive a hundred lashings, or pay a thousand gold coins to the treasury. Niranjan thought for a while. Losing a thousand gold coins was too much and a hundred lashings too painful. So he decided to drink the five barrels of ghee. Though Niranjan sold adulterated goods in his shop, he made sure his own food was of the best quality. So after drinking one barrel of ghee he began to feel sick. By the second barrel, he was vomiting. At this point he decided to opt for the lashings instead. But he was pampered and his body was unused to any harsh treatment. After ten lashes, he started trembling and by twenty he was giddy. ‘Stop!’ he screamed. ‘I will pay the thousand gold coins!’ And he handed them over.
So he ended up suffering all three punishments, something he did not forget in a hurry and the people of the city got to use only the best quality in their food from then on
How did old Sean manage to meet his food requirements?
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5e8ab401cbf02e5d987159faDuring the reign of king Veer, there lived a wise magistrate. Haripant’s verdicts were always just and people from all over vast kingdom came to him in ordered to settle their disputes. In the city where Haripant lived, there was a greedy ghee merchant named Niranjan. He always kept twenty barrels of ghee. Of these, fifteen would contain good quality ghee and the remaining could be adulterated. He would mix the two and sell it. This went on for a long time, till finally the people fed up of being cheated, complained to Haripant.
Haripant had the ghee examined and found to it be adulterated. He gave Niranjan a choice of punishment-drink the five barrels of adulterated ghee from his shop, or receive a hundred lashings, or pay a thousand gold coins to the treasury. Niranjan thought for a while. Losing a thousand gold coins was too much and a hundred lashings too painful. So he decided to drink the five barrels of ghee. Though Niranjan sold adulterated goods in his shop, he made sure his own food was of the best quality. So after drinking one barrel of ghee he began to feel sick. By the second barrel, he was vomiting. At this point he decided to opt for the lashings instead. But he was pampered and his body was unused to any harsh treatment. After ten lashes, he started trembling and by twenty he was giddy. ‘Stop!’ he screamed. ‘I will pay the thousand gold coins!’ And he handed them over.
So he ended up suffering all three punishments, something he did not forget in a hurry and the people of the city got to use only the best quality in their food from then on
- 1by buying food form the marketfalse
- 2His nephew Luke took care of his requirementsfalse
- 3He picked up fruits from the emperor's orchardtrue
- 4The emperor provided him with ample supply of fruitsfalse
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Answer : 3. "He picked up fruits from the emperor's orchard"
Q:Directions: In these questions, a part of the sentence is given in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at ( A ), ( B ) and ( C ) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is (D).
She has slept for eight hours last night.
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5f193cb99679b57327ada190- 1had sleptfalse
- 2has been sleepingfalse
- 3slepttrue
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 3. "slept "
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Answer : 4. "ungovernable"
Q:Change the voice in the sentences given below by selecting the correct alternative:
They have proved all his calculations wrong.
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5e6a509a0b8b1e6afc22c080- 1All his calculations have been proved wrong.true
- 2All his calculations are proved wrong.false
- 3All his calculations are being proved wrong.false
- 4All his calculations had been proved wrong.false
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Answer : 1. "All his calculations have been proved wrong. "
Q: Direction: In these questions, a part of the sentence is given in bold. Below are given alternative to the bold part at (A), (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed you answer is (D).
Q.8. Birds sit on the boughs of tree in my garden and with their sweet notes fill the air with music.
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5d7b44b1392abc227b4b4dcdQ.8. Birds sit on the boughs of tree in my garden and with their sweet notes fill the air with music.
- 1fill their sweet notes in the airfalse
- 2by their sweet notes fill the airfalse
- 3fill the air by their sweet notestrue
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 3. "fill the air by their sweet notes "
Q:Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language-so the argument runs-must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.
Now it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits, one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers..
The author believes that the first stage towards the political regeneration of the language would be –
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5d7f868f26eba62f09bfc5ecNow it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits, one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers..
- 1Taking the necessary trouble to avoid bad habitsfalse
- 2Avoiding being frivolous about itfalse
- 3Clear thinkingtrue
- 4For professional writers to helpfalse
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Answer : 3. "Clear thinking"
Q:In each of the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word (s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate your choice for the correct answer.
Even if two horses may look ________, they may not be of the same age.
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5f05549026cfc348bd70f0f1- 1comparablefalse
- 2only samefalse
- 3on parfalse
- 4aliketrue
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