English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:In each of the questions given below a/an idiom/phrase is given in bold which is then followed by five options which then try to decipher its meaning. Choose the option which gives the correct meaning of the phrases.
Toot you own horn
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5d7725e857a87607c79bdca1- 1To always beat about the bushfalse
- 2To end up in doing the loss of oneselffalse
- 3To boast about the achievements of oneselftrue
- 4To prove to be the best of allfalse
- 5None of the abovefalse
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Answer : 3. "To boast about the achievements of oneself"
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Q: Choose the correct English translation of the following sentence from the options given below:
वह दौड़ रही है ।
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636cfab3825f2247ad815a77वह दौड़ रही है ।
- 1She is running.true
- 2She has run.false
- 3She may be running.false
- 4She was running.false
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Answer : 1. "She is running."
Q:Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
(A) Colony losses last year weren’t as dramatic as the declines associated with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which was first identified in October 2006.
(B) Beekeepers tapped for the survey manage a total of 400,000 colonies, representing about 14.5 percent of the United States' honeybee colonies.
(C) Overall, colony losses during the 12-month period that ended in April reached 42.1 percent – the second-highest annual loss to date.
(D) Summer colony losses reached 27.4 percent, exceeding winter losses that came in at 23.7 percent.
(E) For the first time, beekeepers watched more of their colonies disappear during the summer than in winter.
(F) A new survey outlining honeybee colony losses in the U.S. has scientists scratching their heads.
Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
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5e354858b25095726168c0f7(A) Colony losses last year weren’t as dramatic as the declines associated with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which was first identified in October 2006.
(B) Beekeepers tapped for the survey manage a total of 400,000 colonies, representing about 14.5 percent of the United States' honeybee colonies.
(C) Overall, colony losses during the 12-month period that ended in April reached 42.1 percent – the second-highest annual loss to date.
(D) Summer colony losses reached 27.4 percent, exceeding winter losses that came in at 23.7 percent.
(E) For the first time, beekeepers watched more of their colonies disappear during the summer than in winter.
(F) A new survey outlining honeybee colony losses in the U.S. has scientists scratching their heads.
- 1Etrue
- 2Ffalse
- 3Afalse
- 4Bfalse
- 5Cfalse
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Answer : 1. "E"
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Answer : 3. "3"
Q:Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.
Looking back on those days Isee myself as a kind of centaur, half boy, half bike, forever wheeling down suburban streets under the poincianas, on my way to football practice or the library or to a meeting of the little group of us, girls and boys, that came together on someone's verandah in the evenings after tea.
I might come across the Professor then on his after dinner stroll; and as often as not, he would be accompanied by my father, who would stop me and demand (partly, I thought, to impress the Professor) where I was off to or where I had been; insisting, with more than his usual force, that I come home right away, with no argument I spent long hours cycling back and forth between our house and Ross McDowell or Jimmy Larwood's, my friends from school, and the Professor's house was always on the route, I was always aboard and waiting for something significant to occur, for life somehow to declare it self and catch me up I rode my bike in slow circles or figures-of-eight, took it for sprints across the gravel of the park, or simply hung motionless in the saddle, balanced and waiting.
The narrator described himself as 'a kind of centaur" because
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5f3a1d2ec306f54abeccdd50I might come across the Professor then on his after dinner stroll; and as often as not, he would be accompanied by my father, who would stop me and demand (partly, I thought, to impress the Professor) where I was off to or where I had been; insisting, with more than his usual force, that I come home right away, with no argument I spent long hours cycling back and forth between our house and Ross McDowell or Jimmy Larwood's, my friends from school, and the Professor's house was always on the route, I was always aboard and waiting for something significant to occur, for life somehow to declare it self and catch me up I rode my bike in slow circles or figures-of-eight, took it for sprints across the gravel of the park, or simply hung motionless in the saddle, balanced and waiting.
- 1he felt that the bike was a part of himtrue
- 2he enjoyed riding his bike in a reckless mannerfalse
- 3he used his bike to escape from his family in the eveningfalse
- 4he knew that the Professor was watching him as he rode his bikefalse
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Answer : 1. "he felt that the bike was a part of him"
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.
I know that the children get in your hair, but you should try not to be let it upset you.
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5f476019036b8a325d161465- 1bother and make you very angrytrue
- 2make fun of youfalse
- 3pull your hairfalse
- 4make a lot of noisefalse
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Answer : 1. "bother and make you very angry"
Q:Which of the following phrases (I), (II), and (III) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence grammatically correct? Choose the best option among the five given alternatives that reflect the correct use of phrase in the context of the grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (e) i.e., “No correction required” as the answer.
Although as they now stand none appear to be of earlier date than the ninth or tenth century, these stories all breathe the very breath of a primitive world.
I. Even as they now stand
II. Though as they now stand
III. Even though as they now stand
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5e7362e7ab844a18ffeb00e0I. Even as they now stand
II. Though as they now stand
III. Even though as they now stand
- 1Only I is correctfalse
- 2Only II is correctfalse
- 3Only I and III are correctfalse
- 4Both I and II are correctfalse
- 5No correction requiredtrue
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Answer : 5. "No correction required "
Q:Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.
The act of speaking about one’s thoughts when one is alone.
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5fbca3bc67d8e52df723df3f- 1Silencefalse
- 2Monologuetrue
- 3Dialoguefalse
- 4Soliloquyfalse
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