English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Read the following passage carefully and give answer the question.
Great books do not spring from something accidental in the great men who write them. They are the affluence of their very core, the expression of the life itself of the authors. And literature cannot be said to have served its true purpose until it has been translated into the actual life of him who reads. It is the vast reservoir of true ideas and emotions. In a world deprived of literature, the broad, the noble, the generous would tend to disappear and life would be correspondingly degraded because the wrong idea and the petty emotion would never feel the upward pull of the ideas and emotions of genius. Only by conceiving a society without literature can it be clearly realized that the function of literature is to raise the plain towards the top level of the peaks. Literature exists so that where a man has lived finely, ten thousand may afterward live finely. it is a means of life, it concerns the living essence.
Literature cannot be said to have served its true purpose until it has been ______ into the actual life of the person who reads.
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5f489239036b8a325d1c16aeGreat books do not spring from something accidental in the great men who write them. They are the affluence of their very core, the expression of the life itself of the authors. And literature cannot be said to have served its true purpose until it has been translated into the actual life of him who reads. It is the vast reservoir of true ideas and emotions. In a world deprived of literature, the broad, the noble, the generous would tend to disappear and life would be correspondingly degraded because the wrong idea and the petty emotion would never feel the upward pull of the ideas and emotions of genius. Only by conceiving a society without literature can it be clearly realized that the function of literature is to raise the plain towards the top level of the peaks. Literature exists so that where a man has lived finely, ten thousand may afterward live finely. it is a means of life, it concerns the living essence.
- 1transfiguredfalse
- 2transgressedfalse
- 3translatedtrue
- 4transmutedfalse
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Answer : 3. "translated"
Q:Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice.
All weapons were surrendered by them.
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646b473c0e79a6cedf05a5a6- 1They have surrendered all weapons.false
- 2They surrendered all weapons.true
- 3They had surrendered all weapons.false
- 4They are surrendering all weapons.false
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Answer : 2. "They surrendered all weapons."
Q:A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives.
Teaching about compassion and empathy in schools can help deal with problems of climate change and environmental degradation,” says Barbara Maas, secretary, Standing Committee for Environment and Conservation, International Buddhist Confederation (IBC). She was in New Delhi to participate in the IBC’s governing council meeting, December 10-11, 2017. “We started an awareness campaign in the year 2005-2006 with H H The Dalai Lama when we learnt that tiger skins were being traded in China and Tibet. At that time, I was not a Buddhist; I wrote to the Dalai Lama asking him to say that ‘this is harmful’ and he wrote back to say, “We will stop this.” He used very strong words during the Kalachakra in 2006, when he said, ‘If he sees people wearing fur and skins, he doesn’t feel like living. ‘This sent huge shock waves in the Himalayan community. Within six months, in Lhasa, people ripped the fur trim of their tubba, the traditional Tibetan dress.
The messenger was ideal and the audience was receptive,” says Maas who is a conservationist. She has studied the battered fox’s behavioral ecology in Serengeti, Africa. She heads the endangered species conservation at the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) International Foundation for Nature, Berlin. “I met Samdhong Rinpoche, The Karmapa, HH the Dalai Lama and Geshe Lhakdor and I thought, if by being a Buddhist, you become like this, I am going for it, “says Maas, who led the IBC initiative for including the Buddhist perspective to the global discourse on climate change by presenting the statement, ‘The Time to Act is Now: a Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change,’ at COP21 in Paris.
“It was for the first time in the history of Buddhism that leaders of different sanghas came together to take a stand on anything! The statement lists a couple of important things: the first is that we amass things that we don’t need; there is overpopulation; we need to live with contentment and deal with each other and the environment with love and compassion,” elaborates Maas. She is an ardent advocate of a vegan diet because “consuming meat and milk globally contributes more to climate change than all "transport in the world.”
Turning vegetarian or vegan usually requires complete change of perspective before one gives up eating their favorite food. What are the Buddhist ways to bring about this kind of change at the individual level? “To change our behavior, Buddhism is an ideal vehicle; it made me a more contented person,” says Maas, who grew up in Germany, as a sausage chomping, meat-loving individual. She says, “If I can change, so can anybody.
According to the passage, what do you infer from ''The messenger was ideal and the audience was receptive''?
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601b4846552e5f41f7b35d57The messenger was ideal and the audience was receptive,” says Maas who is a conservationist. She has studied the battered fox’s behavioral ecology in Serengeti, Africa. She heads the endangered species conservation at the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) International Foundation for Nature, Berlin. “I met Samdhong Rinpoche, The Karmapa, HH the Dalai Lama and Geshe Lhakdor and I thought, if by being a Buddhist, you become like this, I am going for it, “says Maas, who led the IBC initiative for including the Buddhist perspective to the global discourse on climate change by presenting the statement, ‘The Time to Act is Now: a Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change,’ at COP21 in Paris.
“It was for the first time in the history of Buddhism that leaders of different sanghas came together to take a stand on anything! The statement lists a couple of important things: the first is that we amass things that we don’t need; there is overpopulation; we need to live with contentment and deal with each other and the environment with love and compassion,” elaborates Maas. She is an ardent advocate of a vegan diet because “consuming meat and milk globally contributes more to climate change than all "transport in the world.”
Turning vegetarian or vegan usually requires complete change of perspective before one gives up eating their favorite food. What are the Buddhist ways to bring about this kind of change at the individual level? “To change our behavior, Buddhism is an ideal vehicle; it made me a more contented person,” says Maas, who grew up in Germany, as a sausage chomping, meat-loving individual. She says, “If I can change, so can anybody.
- 1It means that HH Dalai Lama was a perfect choice of messenger for the message to be received by the audience.true
- 2It means that messenger was tested and was working properly.false
- 3It means that the audience found the messenger attractive and that they wanted to listen to him more and more.false
- 4It means that audience’s reaction goes hand in hand with the speaker’s effectiveness.false
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Answer : 1. "It means that HH Dalai Lama was a perfect choice of messenger for the message to be received by the audience."
Q: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.
This is place where Krishna was born.
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60bf65592aecd10d8a04d02dThis is place where Krishna was born.
- 1This be the placefalse
- 2This is a placefalse
- 3This is the placetrue
- 4No substitution requiredfalse
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Answer : 3. "This is the place"
Q: Parts of the following sentence are given as options. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Craze for a thing that are not easily available in our country is a common phenomenon.
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64b77df6568e7ff594b8152f- 1Craze for afalse
- 2thing that are not easilytrue
- 3is a common phenomenonfalse
- 4available in our countryfalse
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Answer : 2. "thing that are not easily"
Explanation :
The correct form is "Craze for things that are not easily" to match the plural subject "things."
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Answer : 1. "Detritus"
Q:Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.
One who does not make mistakes-
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5f2273630d44c43edf0686b9- 1Pessimistfalse
- 2Optimistfalse
- 3Infallibletrue
- 4Hypocritefalse
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Answer : 3. "Infallible"
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