English Practice Question and Answer

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Directions: In the following questions, 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.

Who gave you ice-cream ?

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    Who has given you icecream?
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    By whom were you given ice-cream ?
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    By whom was you given icecream ?
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    Who had given you icecream?
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Answer : 2. "By whom were you given ice-cream ? "

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Answer : 2. "had"

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In the following question, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

MERETRICIOUS

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    Simple
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    Firm
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    Docile
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    Duplicate
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Answer : 1. "Simple"

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Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word as your answer.

Meddle

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    manage
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    interfere
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    repair
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    elaborate
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Answer : 2. "interfere"

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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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    Japanese companies have been moving out of their home markets since the last decade.
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    Japanese banks have provided loans indiscriminately to the creditworthy as well as non-creditworthy people.
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    Because Japanese markets have been going through a period of continuous recession since the last decade.
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    The unlimited growth of the Japanese markets has come at the cost of the wester market.
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Answer : 3. "Because Japanese markets have been going through a period of continuous recession since the last decade. "

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Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-

He meditates upon revenge.

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    Meditates
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    Meditates for
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    Meditates on
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    No improvement
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Answer : 1. "Meditates"

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Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.

The man played the flute and led all the mouse out of the town.

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    all the mouse
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    the flute and led
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    out of the town
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    The man played
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Answer : 1. "all the mouse"
Explanation :

Some nouns are not made plural by adding 's/es'. It is done in a different manner.
Criterion- criteria, mouse- mice, phenomenon- phenomena, radius- radii, syllabus- syllabi, etc.
For example: You don't fulfill the criterions set by the commission.(wrong)
You don't fulfill the criteria set by the commission.(Right)
We need the plural form of the given noun in the sentence i.e. mice.

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