General English Practice Question and Answer

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 tries to decipher its meaning as used in the sentence. Choose the option which gives the meaning of the phrase most appropriately in the context of the given sentence.

She might not be the most attractive but you can’t judge a book by its cover. I’m sure she is a sweetheart.

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    to prove someone innocent
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    to make someone a cheater
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    to select a book by seeing its contents
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    to select a book by its quantity
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    to not judge someone or something based solely on appearance
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Answer : 5. "to not judge someone or something based solely on appearance "
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Direction: In the question a sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expressed the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.

They told us to walk on the right track. 

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    We were told to walk on the right track.
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    We are told to walk on the right track.
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    We are being told to walk on the right track.
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    We were being told to walk on the right track.
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Answer : 1. "We were told to walk on the right track. "

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Find out the correct superlative degrees.

High 

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    Next
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    Nearest
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    Worst
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    Highest
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Answer : 4. "Highest "

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

Love for dogs

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    Canophilia
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    Zoophilia
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    Paedophilia
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    Sinophile
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Answer : 1. "Canophilia"

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Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow based on the information given in the passage.

IN GORILLA society, power belongs to silverback males. These splendid creatures have numerous status markers besides their back hair: they are bigger than the rest of their band, strike space-filling postures, produce deeper sounds, thump their chests lustily and, in general, exude an air of physical fitness. Things are not that different in the corporate world. The typical chief executive is more than six feet tall, has a deep voice, a good posture, a touch of grey in his thick, lustrous hair and, for his age, a fit body. Bosses spread themselves out behind their large desks. They stand tall when talking to subordinates. Their conversation is laden with prestige pauses and declarative statements. The big difference between gorillas and humans is, of course, that human society changes rapidly. The past few decades have seen a striking change in the distribution of power—between men and women, the West and the emerging world and geeks and non-geeks.

Women run some of America’s largest firms, such as General Motors (Mary Barra) and IBM (Virginia Rometty). More than half of the world’s biggest 2,500 public companies have their headquarters outside the West. Geeks barely out of short trousers run some of the world’s most dynamic businesses. Peter The, one of Silicon Valley’s leading investors, has introduced a blanket rule: never invest in a CEO who wears a suit. Yet it is remarkable, in this supposed age of diversity, how many bosses still conform to the stereotype. First, they are tall: in research for his 2005 book, “Blink”, Malcolm Gladwell found that 30% of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are 6 feet 2 inches or taller, compared with 3.9% of the American population. People who “sound right” also have a marked advantage in the race for the top. Quantified Communications, a Texas-based company, asked people to evaluate speeches delivered by 120 executives. They found that voice quality accounted for 23% of listeners’ evaluations and the content of the speech only accounted for 11%.
 Academics from the business schools of the University of California, San Diego and Duke University listened to 792 male CEOs giving presentations to investors and found that those with the deepest voices earned $187,000 a year more than the average.
 Physical fitness seems to matter too: a study published this month, by Peter Limbach of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Florian Sonnenburg of the University of Cologne, found that companies in America’s S&P 1500 index whose CEOs had finished a marathon were worth 5% more on average than those whose bosses had not.

Good posture makes people act like leaders as well as look like them: Amy Cuddy of Harvard Business School notes that the very act of standing tall, with your feet planted solidly and somewhat apart, your chest out and your shoulders back, boosts the supply of testosterone to the blood and lowers the supply of cortisol, a steroid associated with stress. (Unfortunately, this also increases the chance that you will make a risky bet.) Besides relying on all these supposedly positive indicators of fitness to lead, those who choose bosses also rely on some negative stereotypes. Overweight people—women especially—are judged incapable of controlling themselves, let alone others. Those who “uptalk”—habitually ending their statements on a high note as if asking a question—rule themselves out on the grounds that they sound tentative and juvenile.

Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Uptalk

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    Aptly
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    Loud
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    Talk up
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    High
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    Held
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Answer : 3. "Talk up"

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Choose the word which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word given in capital letters:

ABANDON

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    Admit
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    Forsake
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    Refrain
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    Abstain
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Answer : 2. "Forsake"

Q:

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.

The monsoon have, in the past five days, retreated from most parts of the country.

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    The monsoon have
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    in the past five days
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    No error
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    retreated from most parts
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Answer : 1. "The monsoon have"

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