English Practice Question and Answer
8 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.
‘Was always aboard' in the passage means
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5f3a1cdce2e6e42e42b78141I 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.
- 1was always engaged in adventurefalse
- 2was always on the biketrue
- 3was always doing stuntsfalse
- 4was always the outdoor typefalse
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Answer : 2. "was always on the bike"
Q:Instructions: Some sentences related to a topic are given in each question. Find the sentence which is out of context of the main theme of the paragraph and rearrange the remaining sentences to make a coherent paragraph. If the given sentence is correct as it is then choose option E. If the sequence is the one which is not given then choose option D as your choice.
(A) And students aged 6 to 17 spend at least three hours a day (B)/ For children as young as 10 years old (C)/ According to a recent survey commissioned by HP and conducted by Wakefield Research, (D)/ On devices with Internet access (E)/ computers become a significant part of homework assignments
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5e737f3bc8bf4623349e047a- 1CBEDfalse
- 2CBADfalse
- 3BCAEfalse
- 4None of thesetrue
- 5No correction requiredfalse
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Answer : 4. "None of these"
Q:Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Doing an internship at the University of Lille in France, I almost always found myself stuck whenever I had to speak to non-Indians about India or on anything 'Indian'. This was more because of the subtle differences in the way the French understood India in comparison to what I thought was 'Indian'. For instance, when I, or any Indian for that matter, say 'Hindi' is an Indian language, what it means is that it is one of the languages widely spoken in India. This need not be similar to the understanding that the French would have when they hear of 'Hindi' as an Indian language. Because for them Hindi then becomes the only language spoken in India. This is a natural inference that the French, Germans, Italians and many other European nationals would tend to make, because that is generally how it is in their own respective countries. The risk of such inappropriate generalisations made about 'Indian' is not restricted to language alone but also for India's landscape, cuisine, movies, music, climate, economic development and even political ideologies. The magnitude of diversity of one European country can be easily compared to that of one of the Indian State, isn't it? Can they imagine that India is one country whose diversity can be equated to that of the entire European continent? The onus is upon us to go ahead and clarify the nuances in 'Indianness' while we converse. But why should one do so? How does it even matter to clarify?
The writer compares diversity of one European country to the diversity of ____________.
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601a51a708ff1450d90c64f4- 1The whole continent of Asiafalse
- 2The whole worldfalse
- 3One major city in Indiafalse
- 4One Indian Statetrue
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Answer : 4. "One Indian State"
Q:Comprehension: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Digital India can be the prime (1)________ behind making a reality of the government’s promise of minimum government, maximum governance. Such a transformation requires technology to be firmly (2)_________ into government, something that the Digital India project lists as one of its foremost objectives. Embedding technology into government (3) _________ will do three things; transform the government and make it more transparent and efficient, transform the lives of citizens especially those at the bottom of the (4)_________ pyramid and make our economy more efficient and competitive. A 2014 McKinsey Global Institute report predicts that the large-scale (5) ________ of technology through Digital India positions India with the biggest opportunity yet to accelerate economic growth.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.
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6479e61023e51f4777f0dad4- 1impactfalse
- 2mightfalse
- 3factorsfalse
- 4forcetrue
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Answer : 4. "force"
Q: The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The students / and the teachers / worked hardly / to make the event a success.
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6458e16513eb5908ae455d1f- 1and their teachersfalse
- 2worked hardlytrue
- 3The studentsfalse
- 4to make the event a successfalse
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Answer : 2. "worked hardly"
Q:The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.
We don't really / want a large house; / we are looking for some comfort / and some convenience on a moderate price.
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64901a32bf323e479ac4baa6- 1and some convenience on a moderate pricetrue
- 2want a large housefalse
- 3We don't reallyfalse
- 4we are looking for some comfortfalse
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Answer : 1. "and some convenience on a moderate price"
Explanation :
The correct phrasing should be "and some convenience at a moderate price." The preposition "on" should be replaced with "at."
Q: Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
His friends arranged for the ambulance and took him immediately to the hospital.
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6458e2667f8252086628dccc- 1His friends would have arranged for the ambulance and taken him immediately to the hospital.false
- 2His friends were arranged for the ambulance and taken him immediately to the hospital.false
- 3The ambulance arranged for his friends and took him immediately to the hospital.false
- 4The ambulance was arranged for by his friends and he was immediately taken to the hospital.true
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Answer : 4. "The ambulance was arranged for by his friends and he was immediately taken to the hospital."
Explanation :
The sentence is rewritten in passive voice, putting the emphasis on the object (ambulance) and the person receiving the action (he).
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.
The entry of foreign media has to be ______ by strict rules. Any intention to ______ the country politically or economically or any attempt at cultural ______ in order to make the country a slave to the designs of international powers would not be ______. If the foreign media is keen on making a presence on the Indian soil, respect for the country’s unity and ______ is essential.
Any intention to ______ the country politically.
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60193ee0552e5f41f7ad3d7f- 1scruplefalse
- 2stripplefalse
- 3grapplefalse
- 4crippletrue
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