General English Questions and Answers for Competitive Exam
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
One who has the ability to do many different things
(A) Versatile
(B) Adaptable
(C) Expert
(D) Specialist
Correct Answer : A
Explanation :
Versatile describes someone who is capable of adapting and performing various tasks or roles.
Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.
There are
P. reports that toy shops and other
Q. to prepare for the Christmas rush
R. non-food retailers are struggling to
S. get enough stock into their warehouses
(A) RPSQ
(B) PRSQ
(C) SQRP
(D) QRPS
Correct Answer : B
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Beat around the bush
(A) Avoid praising someone and demean
(B) Avoid the main point by talking in a roundabout way
(C) Avoid saying what you mean, usually because it is not funny
(D) Avoid using foul words to make someone uncomfortable
Correct Answer : B
Explanation :
"Beat around the bush" means to avoid addressing the main issue or topic and instead talk in a vague or indirect manner.
The petition before the court prayed for ____________ the appointment orders issued by the management.
(A) removing
(B) granting
(C) posting
(D) quashing
Correct Answer : D
"To beat the air"
In the following questions, four alternatives are given for idioms/phrases in now. Choose the one that best expresses the meaning of the given idiom/phrase.
(A) to settle a dispute
(B) to gamble
(C) to make efforts that are useless
(D) to try to do the impossible
Correct Answer : C
The long list of words for any language is termed as:
(A) Morpheme
(B) Phoneme
(C) Lexicon
(D) Pragmatics
Correct Answer : D
A teacher wants to conduct class and for that, she asks the students to work in pairs. In the first step, one student is the interviewer and the other is the interviewee. In the second step, students reverse their roles. In the third step each shares with her/his partner what she/he learned during the two interviews. Here the teacher is conducting ______ "
(A) Community based teaching
(B) Cooperative Teaching
(C) Content based teaching
(D) Communicative language teaching
Correct Answer : D
In class VIII a teacher presents new material in dialogue form and structural pattern by using repetitive drills. here which methods are adopted by the teacher to present the material?
(A) Audio-lingual method
(B) Classical method
(C) Series method
(D) Direct method
Correct Answer : D
What is a language?
(A) a broad term simply referring to human patterned verbal behaviour in general
(B) a set of specific rules for generating speech
(C) another word for a dialect
(D) words and letters
Correct Answer : B
What is the best time to learn a second language in?
(A) early childhood
(B) junior school
(C) senior secondary school
(D) college
Correct Answer : A
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