English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.
Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us into some corner of the world where people are not interested in minutes and seconds. The unpunctuality of the orient, for example is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-times and regular train services. For a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accepts the blank hours with linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home. Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second; men will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organisation needed to control technology shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.
In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in C.P. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.
If a person believes that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, he is
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638f378934f83f1472982921In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in C.P. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.
- 1a believer in devotion to duty.false
- 2a believer in taking things for granted.false
- 3a believer in doing what he is told, right or wrong.true
- 4a believer in the honesty of machines.false
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Answer : 3. "a believer in doing what he is told, right or wrong."
Q:The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The careful crafted personality / of Anahita / did not help her much / in the electoral campaign.
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645b4f401efb290ac240e6cf- 1did not help her muchfalse
- 2The careful crafted personalitytrue
- 3of Anahitafalse
- 4in the electoral campaignfalse
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Answer : 2. "The careful crafted personality"
Q:Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
My grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she once had been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather’s portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room. He wore a big turban and loose fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his chest and he looked at least a hundred years old. He did not look the sort of person who would have a wife or children. He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren. As my grandmother being young and pretty, the thought was almost revolting. She often told us of the games she used to play as a child. That seemed quite absurd and undignified on her part and we treated it like the fables of the Prophets she used to tell us.
Select the most appropriate fact from the given options.
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64aa8666f9f3b58259fded76- 1The author and grandma lived for twenty years.false
- 2Grandma was twenty years old.false
- 3The author was twenty when grandma died.true
- 4The author was twenty years old when he wrote the storyfalse
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Answer : 3. "The author was twenty when grandma died."
Q: Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.
Michael Holding, who
P. 20 years, has finally drawn curtains on
Q. commentary panel for more than
R. was a member of the Sky Sports
S. his stint behind the microphone
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646c722745f1450a80e3aa7dMichael Holding, who
P. 20 years, has finally drawn curtains on
Q. commentary panel for more than
R. was a member of the Sky Sports
S. his stint behind the microphone
- 1RQPStrue
- 2QPRSfalse
- 3SPQRfalse
- 4PSQRfalse
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Answer : 1. "RQPS"
Q: Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Obedient
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64243f5c2b960e1a41862470Obedient
- 1Compliantfalse
- 2Submissivefalse
- 3Cheeryfalse
- 4Resistanttrue
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Answer : 4. "Resistant"
Q: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
In order to win the competition, one has to be creative.
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646227690827e80a9f8df11dIn order to win the competition, one has to be creative.
- 1most creativefalse
- 2more creativetrue
- 3creativestfalse
- 4creativerfalse
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Answer : 2. "more creative"
Q:Direction (A - E): In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers. Against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which would fill the blank appropriately.
Mark the suitable word as the answer. Use of plastic has become part of a (A) in which those who consume and litter are not supposed to be responsible for (B) cleaning after themselves or to bother about what will happen to the waste they are producing. The (C) of this kind of lifestyle are reflected in the festering garbage in the over spilling landfill sites, with the height of the Ghazipur landfill in Delhi touching 65 metres. Such (D) dumps are emerging as a serious threat to life with leachates in the mixed and untreated waste contaminating water and the carcinogenic pollution (E) when it is set to fire.
Find out the appropriate word in each case. (B)
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60a4feea63194a66f2d0918e- 1But alsofalse
- 2Norfalse
- 3Neitherfalse
- 4Eithertrue
- 5Not onlyfalse
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Answer : 4. "Either"
Q: Select the wrongly spelt word.
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60ba0c5e41fbe0438167c541- 1dividefalse
- 2devinetrue
- 3divefalse
- 4deviatefalse
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