English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Choose the correct spelling of the underlined word in the given sentence.
The committee could not reach a conscence even after a six-hour long meeting yesterday.
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649c01011a612ce001fc13a7- 1consensustrue
- 2consciusfalse
- 3cautiusfalse
- 4conscientiosfalse
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Answer : 1. "consensus"
Explanation :
The correct spelling is "consensus."
Q: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.
Divisive
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5f0d3c109b26c36beb2fa10e- 1Agreeingfalse
- 2Conflictingtrue
- 3Cooperatingfalse
- 4Unifyingfalse
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Answer : 2. "Conflicting"
Q:In the questions given below, choose the word most opposite in meaning to the given word and mark your answer.
FRESH
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6013f8fa5beea84b8ece8137- 1Sourfalse
- 2Staletrue
- 3Ladenfalse
- 4Softfalse
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Answer : 2. "Stale"
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: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.
Confluence
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5f55f712d094fa460c0772d9- 1Influencefalse
- 2Deceptionfalse
- 3Amalgamationtrue
- 4Confusionfalse
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Answer : 3. "Amalgamation"
Q:In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
Now, what exactly does big business want? Though they cite some ____________ worded performance indicators to compile the index, the true intention appears to be
something ___________. They want land at throwaway prices even _____________ it is fertile agriculture land; they want licenses to be issued immediately even if the
proposed activities are likely to result in environmental _____________; they want labour laws to be favourable to them so it becomes easy to hire _______ fire and
exploit workers; and they want the government to respond favourably to their ‘bailout’ demands from time to time so they can transfer their risk on to taxpayers,
notwithstanding the fact that they enjoyed their profits during their heyday..
easy to hire ________ fire and exploit
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5e7b276b2d7b20791650b835Now, what exactly does big business want? Though they cite some ____________ worded performance indicators to compile the index, the true intention appears to be
something ___________. They want land at throwaway prices even _____________ it is fertile agriculture land; they want licenses to be issued immediately even if the
proposed activities are likely to result in environmental _____________; they want labour laws to be favourable to them so it becomes easy to hire _______ fire and
exploit workers; and they want the government to respond favourably to their ‘bailout’ demands from time to time so they can transfer their risk on to taxpayers,
notwithstanding the fact that they enjoyed their profits during their heyday..
- 1andtrue
- 2iffalse
- 3thusfalse
- 4sofalse
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Answer : 1. "and"
Q:Direction (A-E): In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blank appropriately.
The Sam Kee Building, located at 8 West Pender Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is (A) the "shallowest commercial building in the world", according to the Guinness Book of Records. The Sam Kee Company—one of the wealthiest firms in Chinatown— purchased a standard-sized lot in 1903. In 1912, however, Vancouver widened Pender Street and expropriated 24 feet (7.3 m) of the above-ground (B) —effectively (or so it was first believed) making conventional commercial use of the remaining frontage impractical, if not impossible. Refusing the neighbors offer to (C), Sam Kee decided to build anyway. In 1913, the architects Brown and Gillam designed this narrow, steel-framed building's ground-floor depth (from storefront to rear of building) to measure 4'11" (1.50 m), with a second-floor depth (from overhanging bay window to rear) of 6' (1.83 m). The basement (D) sidewalk and originally housed public baths, while the ground floor was used for offices and shops and the (E) for living quarters.
Choose the correct answer from the given options to fill the blanks which are numbered. (D)
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60a26494de4c2e1331dc0a89The Sam Kee Building, located at 8 West Pender Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is (A) the "shallowest commercial building in the world", according to the Guinness Book of Records. The Sam Kee Company—one of the wealthiest firms in Chinatown— purchased a standard-sized lot in 1903. In 1912, however, Vancouver widened Pender Street and expropriated 24 feet (7.3 m) of the above-ground (B) —effectively (or so it was first believed) making conventional commercial use of the remaining frontage impractical, if not impossible. Refusing the neighbors offer to (C), Sam Kee decided to build anyway. In 1913, the architects Brown and Gillam designed this narrow, steel-framed building's ground-floor depth (from storefront to rear of building) to measure 4'11" (1.50 m), with a second-floor depth (from overhanging bay window to rear) of 6' (1.83 m). The basement (D) sidewalk and originally housed public baths, while the ground floor was used for offices and shops and the (E) for living quarters.
- 1Is devoid of anyfalse
- 2Seems to be not therefalse
- 3Seems cloggedfalse
- 4Extends beneath thetrue
- 5Submerged intofalse
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Answer : 4. "Extends beneath the"
Q:In each of the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word (s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate your choice for the correct answer.
If you________of wild animals at night, there will be no trouble.
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5f3382b17bd3dc09197ab6f0- 1are awarefalse
- 2take carefalse
- 3are bewarefalse
- 4are warytrue
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