General English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

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

A person who preserves skin of animals

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    Taxidermist
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    Oculist
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    Biloquist
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    Philologist
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Answer : 1. "Taxidermist"

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Direction : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words In the passage have been printed In bold to help you locate them when answering some of the questions. 

Can the last fifteen years be called the most successful decade and a half in Indian history and will the next fifteen be equally successful? Consider a culture where independent thinking is not encouraged. Or take the example of traditional family run business with vast resistance to change or a whole nation who believes that breakthrough ideas can be generated abroad but never at home. Partly responsible is socialization from early years we are taught not to question our elders but at workplaces this creates a hurdle for new thinking. Being unable to change radically gives rise to a culture where even the smallest change is heralded as a break through. Indian corporate leaders have done well standing up to global giants as their companies have grown in size and market share. To be successful in international markets they need to be distinct distinct products, processes, technologies, business models and organisations. The bottom line will be Innovation. Creativity workshops are organized to channel people to think differently. There are fantastic ideas being generated all the time but no Industry. breakthrough. Simply because of gravity regressive force exerted by a mindset. Thinking has therefore to happen at three, levels idea, frame and paradigm. From a narrow focus on either product or process innovation organizations need to look at innovating the whole ecosystem of the organization. Many a time waiting for a hundred percent solution before going to the market the organization forgets that it could end up waiting forever. Moreover, sometimes organizations are too focused on today to see tomorrow. Since management mandates are short-term, sowing the seed for a revenue stream today and leaving Its benefits to be reaped by a successor doesn’t appeal to today’s business leader. This is a serious hurdle to into Ovation. Establishing a function called innovation management or training employees through creativity workshops will have few benefits unless each frontline employee is empowered to Share his innovative ideas with the management. What happens to this system when the person driving the change leaves the organization? The approach to innovation hence needs to be system driven rather than people driven. In thirty years, India can be the largest world economy save China and the US. However, as companies grow there exists a resemblance in their products, services, promotions, processes and pricing and so on. There remains only one escape from this trap. 

An appropriate title for the passage would be  

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    Industry Problems
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    Creativity Boon or Curse
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    What Ails Innovation
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    India Next Superpower
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    None of these
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Answer : 5. "None of these "

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Find the correct Spelt word.

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    Abstemius
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    Abstemious
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    Abstemous
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    Abstemouse
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Answer : 2. "Abstemious"

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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Upgrade

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    Advance
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    Lean
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    Demote
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    Elevate
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Answer : 3. "Demote "
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"Upgrade" involves improving or raising to a higher level, so the opposite or antonym would be "Demote," which involves lowering or reducing to a lower level. Therefore, option (C) Demote is the most suitable antonym in this context.


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Select the most appropriate meaning of the highlighted idiom.

The team members seem to be running around in circles.

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    To be very active but with few results
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    Very dynamic and hardworking
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    Hardly any time to breathe
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    To be extremely successful
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Answer : 1. "To be very active but with few results"

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What, one wonders, is the lowest common denominator of Indian culture today? The attractive Hema Malini ? The songs of Vinidh Barati? The attractive Hema Malini? The sons of Vinidh Barati?
 Or the mouth-watering Masala Dosa? Delectable as these may be, each yield pride of place to that false (?) symbol of a new era-the synthetic fibre. In less than twenty years the nylon sari and the terylene shirt have swept the countryside, penetrated to the farthest corners of the land and persuaded every common man, woman and child that the key to success in the present day world lie in artificial fibers: glass nylon, crepe nylon, tery mixes, polyesters and what have you. More than the bicycles, the wristwatch or the transistor radio, synthetic clothes have come to represent the first step away form the village square. The village lass treasures the flashy nylon sari in her trousseau most delay; the village youth gets a great kick out of his cheap terrycot shirt and trousers, the nearest he can approximate to the expensive synthetic sported by his wealthy citybred contemporaries. And the Neo-rich craze for ‘phoren’ is nowhere more apparent than in the price that people will pay for smuggled, stolen, begged borrowed second hand or thrown away synthetics. Alas, even the uniformity of nylon. 

‘The lowest common denominator’ of the Indian culture today is – 

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    Hema Malini
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    Songs of Vividh Barati
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    Masala Dosa
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    Synthetic fibre
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Answer : 4. "Synthetic fibre "

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