English Practice Question and Answer

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Four words are given, out of which only one word is spelt correctly. Choose the correctly spelt word.

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    Pontifical
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    Pontiffical
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    Pontifecal
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    Pontificol
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Answer : 1. "Pontifical"

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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
The National Highways Network of India measures over 70,934 km as of 2010, including over 1,000 km of limited-access expressways. Out of 71,000 km of National Highways 15,000 plus km are 4 or 6 lanes and remaining 50,000 km are 2 lanes. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is the nodal agency responsible for building upgrading and maintaining most of the national highways network. The national Highways Development Project (NHDP) is a major effort to expand and upgrade the network of highways. NHAI often uses a public-private partnership model for highway development, maintenance and toll collection. National highways constituted about 2% of all the roads in India, but carried about 40% of the total road traffic as of 2010. The majority of existing national highways are two-lane roads (one lane in each direction), though much of this is being expanded to four-lanes, and some to six or eight lanes. Some sections of the network are toll roads. Over 30,000 km of new highways are planned or under construction as par of the NHDP as of 2011. This includes over 2,600 km of expressways currently under construction. 

What is the responsibility of the NHAI? 

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    planning of National Highways
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    building, upgrading and maintaining of National Highways
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    control of National Highways
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    expansion of National Highways
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Answer : 2. "building, upgrading and maintaining of National Highways "

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.

Uncle always welcomes us to his home with a big smile.

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    A big smile is used by uncle always when he is welcoming us.
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    Welcoming by uncle with a big smile to us is always done.
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    We are always welcomed by uncle to his home with a big smile.
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    Uncle is always welcoming us to his home with a big smile.
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Answer : 3. "We are always welcomed by uncle to his home with a big smile."

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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. 

Many people believe that nothing can be done about the English language because – 

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    Bad habits spread by imitation
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    We live in a decadent civilization
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    There are too may bad writers
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    People are too lazy to change their bad habits
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Answer : 2. "We live in a decadent civilization"
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In the question a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.

Sachin said, "My grandfather recites the Geeta every morning. 

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    Sachin told that his grandfather has recited the Geeta every morning.
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    Sachin told that his grandfather recited the Geeta every morning.
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    Sachin said that his grandfather recites the Geeta every morning.
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    Sachin said that his grandfather is recited the Geeta every morning.
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Answer : 3. "Sachin said that his grandfather recites the Geeta every morning. "

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Choose the word which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word given in capital letters:

GROTESQUE

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    Literal
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    Solid
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    Distorted
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    Fantastic
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Answer : 3. "Distorted"

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Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.

That cannot be approached easily

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    inevitable
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    invincible
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    inaccessible
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    inaudible
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Answer : 3. "inaccessible"

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