English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verb from the given options:
Mohan_____ rather tired today.
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5e6a4ba1bb5e0741068634b9- 1seemstrue
- 2is seemingfalse
- 3is seemfalse
- 4do seems thefalse
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Answer : 1. "seems "
Q:Direction: In the question a sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expressed the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.
People call him a fool.
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5f228c084e7e0d508b551fef- 1He has been called a fool.false
- 2He is called a fool by the people.true
- 3The people have been calling him a fool.false
- 4We all people have called him a fool.false
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Answer : 2. "He is called a fool by the people."
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 you answer is (D ) .
She reminded where to leave the papers.
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5f21188dec5b045afeaf6b46- 1me where I had to leavefalse
- 2where I had to leavefalse
- 3me where to leavetrue
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 3. "me where to leave"
Q:Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
With Lok Sabha speaker Purno Sangma abolishing the discretionary quota for gas and telephone connections enjoyed by members of parliament last week, demands are being made for doing away with the same privilege for Union ministers.
Imposing a fine of Rs. 50 lakh on former petroleum minister Satish Sharma for arbitrarily allotting petrol pumps, the Supreme Court had said last year that absolute discretion was an anathema to the Constitution and advised the ‘judicious’ use of discretionary powers.
Citing the use of the so-called privileges as “prejudicial to public interest and a breach of trust”, HD Shourie of Common Cause has sought the prime minister’s intervention to “stop this practice of discretionary quota for ministers to present to the public an image of clean functioning of the government.”
In a letter written to the Cabinet Secretary, he has drawn the PM’s attention to the misuse of this privilege by more than a dozen ministers. In the railways, discretionary quota covers platform stalls, passes, tickets and berths on trains. In civil aviation and tourism, the largesse includes free international air tickets, out-of-turn seats and stalls in ITDC hotels.
What did the Supreme Court suggest ?
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5e8aae227b82aa7479fb09eeWith Lok Sabha speaker Purno Sangma abolishing the discretionary quota for gas and telephone connections enjoyed by members of parliament last week, demands are being made for doing away with the same privilege for Union ministers.
Imposing a fine of Rs. 50 lakh on former petroleum minister Satish Sharma for arbitrarily allotting petrol pumps, the Supreme Court had said last year that absolute discretion was an anathema to the Constitution and advised the ‘judicious’ use of discretionary powers.
Citing the use of the so-called privileges as “prejudicial to public interest and a breach of trust”, HD Shourie of Common Cause has sought the prime minister’s intervention to “stop this practice of discretionary quota for ministers to present to the public an image of clean functioning of the government.”
In a letter written to the Cabinet Secretary, he has drawn the PM’s attention to the misuse of this privilege by more than a dozen ministers. In the railways, discretionary quota covers platform stalls, passes, tickets and berths on trains. In civil aviation and tourism, the largesse includes free international air tickets, out-of-turn seats and stalls in ITDC hotels.
- 1not to use discretionary powerfalse
- 2not to allot petrol pumpfalse
- 3fair use of quotatrue
- 4abolition of quotafalse
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 3. "fair use of quota"
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.
There was a ________ of traffic as the road was impassable.
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5ff6bf677925496d2ab7139f- 1relocationfalse
- 2allocationfalse
- 3diversiontrue
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Answer : 3. "diversion"
Q:What, one wonders, is the lowest common denominator of Indian culture today? The attractive Hema Malini ? The songs of Vinidh Barati? The attractive Hema Malini? The sons of Vinidh Barati?
Or the mouth-watering Masala Dosa? Delectable as these may be, each yield pride of place to that false (?) symbol of a new era-the synthetic fibre. In less than twenty years the nylon sari and the terylene shirt have swept the countryside, penetrated to the farthest corners of the land and persuaded every common man, woman and child that the key to success in the present day world lie in artificial fibers: glass nylon, crepe nylon, tery mixes, polyesters and what have you. More than the bicycles, the wristwatch or the transistor radio, synthetic clothes have come to represent the first step away form the village square. The village lass treasures the flashy nylon sari in her trousseau most delay; the village youth gets a great kick out of his cheap terrycot shirt and trousers, the nearest he can approximate to the expensive synthetic sported by his wealthy citybred contemporaries. And the Neo-rich craze for ‘phoren’ is nowhere more apparent than in the price that people will pay for smuggled, stolen, begged borrowed second hand or thrown away synthetics. Alas, even the uniformity of nylon.
The latest symbol of modernity for the rural people is –
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5d7f7f05b4835d15d82018b6Or the mouth-watering Masala Dosa? Delectable as these may be, each yield pride of place to that false (?) symbol of a new era-the synthetic fibre. In less than twenty years the nylon sari and the terylene shirt have swept the countryside, penetrated to the farthest corners of the land and persuaded every common man, woman and child that the key to success in the present day world lie in artificial fibers: glass nylon, crepe nylon, tery mixes, polyesters and what have you. More than the bicycles, the wristwatch or the transistor radio, synthetic clothes have come to represent the first step away form the village square. The village lass treasures the flashy nylon sari in her trousseau most delay; the village youth gets a great kick out of his cheap terrycot shirt and trousers, the nearest he can approximate to the expensive synthetic sported by his wealthy citybred contemporaries. And the Neo-rich craze for ‘phoren’ is nowhere more apparent than in the price that people will pay for smuggled, stolen, begged borrowed second hand or thrown away synthetics. Alas, even the uniformity of nylon.
- 1The bicyclefalse
- 2The wristwatchfalse
- 3The transistorfalse
- 4The synthetic clothtrue
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Answer : 4. "The synthetic cloth"
Q:In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'
Nobody else but (a)/ you might be declared (b)/ responsible for the (c)/ loss of those articles. (d)/ No error (e)
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5d7113471a67ca48146776d3- 1Afalse
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Answer : 5. "E"
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Q:In these questions read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. If there is no error, the answer is (D).
Our new neighbors (A) /had been living in Arizona (B) / since ten years before moving to their present house (C)/ No error (D).
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5d9479f515db5f22bbeb48e6- 1Afalse
- 2Bfalse
- 3Ctrue
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