English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains an INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Shanu’s inquisitive mind could not / accept the seemingly ingenous reply / of the man and he resolved to solve the mystery / to mitigate the pain of the old couple.

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    Shanu’s inquisitive mind could not
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    of the man and he resolved to solve the mystery
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    to mitigate the pain of the old couple
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    accept the seemingly ingenous reply
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Answer : 4. "accept the seemingly ingenous reply"

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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.

To lie on hands 

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    to be in a great demand
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    to be out of order
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    to remain unused
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    to be in a great crisis
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Answer : 3. "to remain unused "

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
If the census tells us that India has two or three hundred languages, it also tells us, I believe, that Germany has about fifty or sixty languages. I do not remember anyone pointing out this fact in proof of the disunity or disparity of Germany. As a matter of fact, a census mentions all manner of petty languages, sometimes spoken by a few thousand persons only; and often dialects are classed for scientific purposes as different languages. India seems to me to have surprisingly few languages, considering its area. Compared to the same area in Europe, it is far more closely allied in regard to language, but because of widespread illiteracy, common standards have not developed and dialects have formed. The principal languages of India are Hindustani (of the two varieties, Hindi and Urdu), Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. If Assamese, Oriya, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Pushtu and Punjabi are added, the whole country is covered except for some hill and forest tribes. Of these, the Indo-Aryan languages, which cover the whole north, centre and west of India, are closely allied; and the southern Dravidian languages, though different, have been greatly influenced by Sanskrit, and are full of Sanskrit words. 

The Dravidian languages have been greatly influenced by Sanskrit. This- 

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    makes them inferior to the Indo-Aryan languages
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    makes them superior to the Indo-Aryan languages
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    brings them close to the Indo-Aryan languages
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    makes them very different from the other Indian languages
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Answer : 3. "brings them close to the Indo-Aryan languages "

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Read the following passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.

The cyber–world is ultimately ungovernable. This is alarming as well as convenient; sometimes, convenient because alarming. Some Indian politicians use this to great advantage. When there is an obvious failure in governance during a crisis they deflect attention from their own incompetence towards the ungovernable. So, having failed to prevent nervous citizens from fleeing their cities of work by assuring them of proper protection, some national leaders are now busy trying to prove to one another, and to panic-prone Indians, that a mischievous neighbour has been using the internet and social networking sites to spread dangerous rumours. And the Centre's automatic reaction is to start blocking these sites and begin elaborate and potentially endless negotiations with Google, Twitter and Facebook about access to information. If this is the official idea of prompt action at a time of crisis among communities, then Indians have more reason to fear their protectors than the nebulous mischief-makers of the cyber world. Wasting time gathering proof, blocking vaguely suspicious websites, hurling accusations across the border and worrying about bilateral relations are ways of keeping busy with inessentials because one does not quite known what to do about the essentials of a difficult situation. Besides, only a fifth of the 245 websites blocked by the Centre mention the people of the Northeast or the violence in Assam. And if a few morphed images and spurious texts can unsettle an entire nation, then there is something deeply wrong with the nation and with how it is being governed. This is what its leaders should be addressing immediately, rather than making a wrongheaded display of their powers of censorship.
 It is just as absurd, and part of the same syndrome, to try to ban Twitter accounts that parody despatches from the Prime Minister's Office. To describe such forms of humour and dissent as "misrepresenting" the PMO–as if Twitter would take these parodies for genuine despatches from the PMO — makes the PMO look more ridiculous than its parodists manage to. With the precedent for such action set recently by the chief minister of West Bengal, this is yet another proof that what Bengal thinks today India will think tomorrow. Using the cyber–world for flexing the wrong muscles is essentially not funny. It might even prove to be quite dangerously distracting.

‘Parody’ means

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    twist
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    jeopardize
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    ridicule
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    imitate
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Answer : 3. "ridicule"

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Choose the correct Active voice of the following sentence from the options given below:
 Can a car be driven by her?

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    A car can be driven by her.
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    A car could be driven by her.
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    Can she drive a car?
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    Could she drive a car?
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Answer : 3. "Can she drive a car? "

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Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
 The doctor directed the nurse to administer an __________ medicine to the patient.

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    official
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    eminent
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    alternative
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    insightful
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Answer : 3. "alternative"
Explanation :

The sentence would then read: "The doctor directed the nurse to administer an alternative medicine to the patient."

In this context, "alternative" suggests a different or substitute medicine than the one initially considered.

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