English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Identify the synonym for the word – ruthless
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5ff6c14cc24e1471a7f1e36c- 1calloustrue
- 2porousfalse
- 3viscousfalse
- 4ponderousfalse
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Answer : 1. "callous"
Q:Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
The medicines made miracles and healed me in two days.
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5fbca26a433ab9498d23c19f- 1The medicines brought miraclesfalse
- 2The medicines worked miraclestrue
- 3The medicines performed miraclesfalse
- 4No Improvementfalse
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Answer : 2. "The medicines worked miracles"
Q:Parts of the given sentence have been given as options. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
The General have ordered that the troops should move immediately.
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645b3b7a45f1450a80b4b361- 1immediatelyfalse
- 2No errorfalse
- 3that the troops should movefalse
- 4The General have orderedtrue
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Answer : 4. "The General have ordered"
Q: In the following choose the correctly spelt word.
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5dde146cb025ff571dd9a095- 1Necessarytrue
- 2Necessarryfalse
- 3Necesaryfalse
- 4Neecessaryfalse
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Answer : 1. "Necessary"
Q:Please Read carefully the passage and give answer the following questions.
If you prefer mountains_(52)_ deserts, try Darjeeling, West Bengal’s hill resort that _(53)_ at the foothills of the mightly Himalayas__(54)__while in Bengal, if your spirit of adventure gets the better of you, _(55)_ the ferry to the Sunderbans, the world’s largest delta. But if these places do not attract you there’s Bhutan, the quiet Himalayan Kingdom_(56)_West Bengal.
Mark your answer at (56).
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5f21138fec5b045afeaf5fb7- 1adjoiningfalse
- 2surroundingfalse
- 3skirtingfalse
- 4borderingtrue
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Answer : 4. "bordering"
Q:Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Indeed the western recession is really the beginning of good news for India! But to understand that we will have to move away for a while from the topic of western recession . . . . . . . to the Japanese recession! For years the Japanese style of management has been admired. However, over the last decade or so, one key question has sprung up ‘if Japanese management style is as wonderful as described then why has Japan been in a recession for more than a decade?'
The answer to this question is very simple. Culture plays a very important part in shaping up economies. What succeeds in one culture fails in another. Japanese are basically nonmaterialistic. And however rich they become, unlike others, they cannot just keep throwing and buying endlessly. And once they have everything they need; there is a saturation point. It was only when companies like Toyota realized that they cannot keep selling cars endlessly to their home market that they went really aggressive in the western markets-and the rest is history. Japanese companies grew bigger by catering to the world markets when their home markets shrunk.
served equally well. They were lured through advertising and marketing techniques of ‘dustbinisation' of the customer; and then finally, once they became ready customers, they were given loans and credits to help them buy more and more. When all the creditworthy people were given loans to a logical limit, they ceased to be a part of the market. Even this would have been understandable if it could work as an eye-opener. Instead of taking the 'Right Step' as Toyota did, they preferred to take a 'shortcut'. Now banks went to the noncredit worthy people and gave them loans. The people expectedly defaulted and the entire system collapsed.
Now like Toyota western companies will learn to find new markets. They will now lean towards India because of its common man! The billion-plus population in the next 25 years will become, a consuming middle-class. Finally, there will be a real surge in income of these people and in the next fifty odd years, one can really hope to see an equal world in terms of material plenty, with poverty being almost nonexistent! And this will happen not by selling more cars to Americans and Europeans. It will happen by creating markets in India, China, Latin America and Africa, by giving their people purchasing power and by making products for them.
The recession has made us realize that it is not because of worse management techniques, but because of limits to growth. And they will realize that it is great for planet earth. After all, how many cars and houses must the rich own before calling it enough? It's time for them to look at others as well. Many years back, to increase his own profits, Henry Ford had started paying his workers more, so that they could buy his cars. In similar fashion, now the developed world will pay the developing world people so that they can buy their cars and washing machines.
The recession will kick - start the process of making the entire world more prosperous, and lay the foundation of limits to growth in the west and the foundation of real globalization in the world - of the globalization of prosperity. And one of its first beneficiaries will be India.
Although admired since years, why did the scepticism over the Japanese management style start since the last decade?
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5e3cf9f1c805647d5e365adfIndeed the western recession is really the beginning of good news for India! But to understand that we will have to move away for a while from the topic of western recession . . . . . . . to the Japanese recession! For years the Japanese style of management has been admired. However, over the last decade or so, one key question has sprung up ‘if Japanese management style is as wonderful as described then why has Japan been in a recession for more than a decade?'
The answer to this question is very simple. Culture plays a very important part in shaping up economies. What succeeds in one culture fails in another. Japanese are basically nonmaterialistic. And however rich they become, unlike others, they cannot just keep throwing and buying endlessly. And once they have everything they need; there is a saturation point. It was only when companies like Toyota realized that they cannot keep selling cars endlessly to their home market that they went really aggressive in the western markets-and the rest is history. Japanese companies grew bigger by catering to the world markets when their home markets shrunk.
served equally well. They were lured through advertising and marketing techniques of ‘dustbinisation' of the customer; and then finally, once they became ready customers, they were given loans and credits to help them buy more and more. When all the creditworthy people were given loans to a logical limit, they ceased to be a part of the market. Even this would have been understandable if it could work as an eye-opener. Instead of taking the 'Right Step' as Toyota did, they preferred to take a 'shortcut'. Now banks went to the noncredit worthy people and gave them loans. The people expectedly defaulted and the entire system collapsed.
Now like Toyota western companies will learn to find new markets. They will now lean towards India because of its common man! The billion-plus population in the next 25 years will become, a consuming middle-class. Finally, there will be a real surge in income of these people and in the next fifty odd years, one can really hope to see an equal world in terms of material plenty, with poverty being almost nonexistent! And this will happen not by selling more cars to Americans and Europeans. It will happen by creating markets in India, China, Latin America and Africa, by giving their people purchasing power and by making products for them.
The recession has made us realize that it is not because of worse management techniques, but because of limits to growth. And they will realize that it is great for planet earth. After all, how many cars and houses must the rich own before calling it enough? It's time for them to look at others as well. Many years back, to increase his own profits, Henry Ford had started paying his workers more, so that they could buy his cars. In similar fashion, now the developed world will pay the developing world people so that they can buy their cars and washing machines.
The recession will kick - start the process of making the entire world more prosperous, and lay the foundation of limits to growth in the west and the foundation of real globalization in the world - of the globalization of prosperity. And one of its first beneficiaries will be India.
- 1Japanese companies have been moving out of their home markets since the last decade.false
- 2Japanese banks have provided loans indiscriminately to the creditworthy as well as non-creditworthy people.false
- 3Because Japanese markets have been going through a period of continuous recession since the last decade.true
- 4The unlimited growth of the Japanese markets has come at the cost of the wester market.false
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Answer : 3. "Because Japanese markets have been going through a period of continuous recession since the last decade. "
Q:Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
It is generally acknowledged that children learn a lot from their parents. It is not so commonly admitted that parents learn a great deal from their children. As adults, it is easy to assume that we are always right, but the laugh was on me one beautiful day.
My daughter Kashmira knew how much I loved flowers. One day when she was of nine years, she picked some branches from our neighbour's blossoming fruit tree. Realising she intended to please me, I didn't scold her, but chose a different approach. "These are lovely, dear, but do you realise that if you had left them on the tree, each of these blossoms would have become a cherry?" "No, they wouldn't have", she said firmly.
"Oh, yes they would have. Each of these blossoms would have grown into a cherry". "Well okay, mother, if you insist", she finally conceded, "but they were plums last year".
The mother did not scold the daughter because-
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608bdca836f5727dff2b843eIt is generally acknowledged that children learn a lot from their parents. It is not so commonly admitted that parents learn a great deal from their children. As adults, it is easy to assume that we are always right, but the laugh was on me one beautiful day.
My daughter Kashmira knew how much I loved flowers. One day when she was of nine years, she picked some branches from our neighbour's blossoming fruit tree. Realising she intended to please me, I didn't scold her, but chose a different approach. "These are lovely, dear, but do you realise that if you had left them on the tree, each of these blossoms would have become a cherry?" "No, they wouldn't have", she said firmly.
"Oh, yes they would have. Each of these blossoms would have grown into a cherry". "Well okay, mother, if you insist", she finally conceded, "but they were plums last year".
- 1she did not understand why her daughter had done so.false
- 2she decided to indirectly make her daughter realise her mistake.true
- 3she loved flowers.false
- 4she liked cherry blossoms.false
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 2. "she decided to indirectly make her daughter realise her mistake. "
Q:The 1st and the last sentences of the passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence and find out which of the four combinations is correct. The find the correct answer and indicate it in the answer sheet.
1. An educator named Rowland Hill of England is considered the Father of Philately.
P. Brazil and two Swiss cantons were next to issue stamp
Q. The US used its first stamps on July 1, 1847.
R. The world's first postage stamp was issued by Great Britain, in 1840.
S. Two years later, in 1842, stamps were issued by a private postal service in New York.
6. India's first stamp appeared in 1852.
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5f3392b36137a81348605754P. Brazil and two Swiss cantons were next to issue stamp
Q. The US used its first stamps on July 1, 1847.
R. The world's first postage stamp was issued by Great Britain, in 1840.
S. Two years later, in 1842, stamps were issued by a private postal service in New York.
6. India's first stamp appeared in 1852.
- 1QRSPfalse
- 2RPSQfalse
- 3RSPQtrue
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