English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Directions: Read each sentence to find out if there is any error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer if there is no error, the answer is (e).
The criminal was (a)/ sentenced to the (b)/ death and was (c) hung for his crime (d)/ No error.(e)
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61790f265ef9de5e412ba829- 1Afalse
- 2Bfalse
- 3Cfalse
- 4Dtrue
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Answer : 4. "D"
Q: Which of the phrase (A), (B), (C), and (D) given below should replace the phrase given in the following sentence grammatically meaningful and correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark (E) as the answer.
Barring the few, all the customers are defaulters.
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5d494e1685c77648500b87baBarring the few, all the customers are defaulters.
- 1Barred a fewfalse
- 2Leave a fewfalse
- 3Barring a lessfalse
- 4Barring a fewtrue
- 5No correction requiredfalse
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Answer : 4. "Barring a few"
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 тАУ
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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:Directions: In question four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it is the Answer Sheet.
Sita is not cut out for this kind of work.
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6128c10393f022066083b019- 1trainedfalse
- 2recommendedfalse
- 3consideredfalse
- 4suitabletrue
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Answer : 4. "suitable"
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
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- 3Ctrue
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Answer : 3. "C"
Q: The most suitable тАШone word substituteтАЩ of the following words are ; ( in right order ) ;
( a ) fear of confined spaces ;
( b ) a person who has an irresistible desire to steal. Options:┬а
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5e706dbc3550c37dbe3840fb( a ) fear of confined spaces ;
( b ) a person who has an irresistible desire to steal. Options:┬а
- 1( a ) agoraphobia; ( b ) pyromaniacfalse
- 2( a ) spacepnobia; ( b ) dipsomaniacfalse
- 3( a ) clastophobia; ( b ) theftomaniacfalse
- 4( a ) claustrophobia; ( b ) kleptomaniactrue
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Answer : 4. "( a ) claustrophobia; ( b ) kleptomaniac"
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 ) .
The greater the demand, higher the price
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5d7b4b9945d25422746e51cb- 1highfalse
- 2the highfalse
- 3the highertrue
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 3. "the higher "
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.
They will ask you a lot of questions at the interview.┬а
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5daebb52622dcb0d2631adb0- 1You will be asked a lot of questions at the interviewtrue
- 2You are asked a lot of questions at the interviewfalse
- 3You are being asked lot of questions at the interviewfalse
- 4You were being asked a lot of questions at the interviewfalse
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