General English Practice Question and Answer

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Complete the phrasal verb in the following sentence:
 The tourist guide pointed …………….. the most important buildings.

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    in
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    out
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    off
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    on
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Answer : 2. "out "

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

I said to my father, "I want to build a raft which can hold four people ."

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    I told my father that that I am wanting to build a raft which could hold four people.
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    I told my father that I wanted to build a raft which could hold four people.
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    I told my father that I am wanting to build a raft which could hold four people.
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    I told my father that that I wanted to build a raft which could hold four people.
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Answer : 2. "I told my father that I wanted to build a raft which could hold four people."

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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.

No sooner did Priya / get her report card / when she started jumping / with joy.

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    get her report card
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    with joy
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    No sooner did Priya
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    when she started jumping
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Answer : 4. "when she started jumping"
Explanation :

The correct form should be "No sooner did Priya get her report card than she started jumping with joy." The conjunction "when" should be replaced with "than."

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

The problem of water pollution by pesticides can be understood only in context, as part of the whole to which it belongs – the pollution of the total environment of mankind. The pollution entering our waterways comes from many sources, radioactive wastes from reactors, laboratories and hospitals; fallout from nuclear explosions; domestic wastes from cities and towns; chemical wastes from factories. To these is a added a new kid of fallout - the chemical sprays applied to crop lands and gardens, forests and fields. Many of the chemical agents in this alarming melange initiate and augment the harmful effects of radiation, and within the groups of chemicals themselves there are sinister and little - understood interactions, transformations and summations of effect.

Ever since the chemists began to manufacture substances that nature never invented, the problem of water purification have become complex and the danger to users of water has increased. As we have seen, the production of these synthetic chemicals in large volume began in the 1940’s. It has now reached such proportion that an appalling deluge of chemical pollution is daily poured into the nation’s waterways. When inextricably mixed with domestic and other wastes discharged into the same water, these chemicals sometimes defy detection by the methods in ordinary use by purification plants. Most of them are so complex that they cannot be identified. In rivers, a really incredible variety of pollutants combine to produce deposits that sanitary engineers can only despairingly refer to as “gunk”.

The main argument of paragraph 1 is:

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    that there are sinister interaction the use of chemicals.
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    that there are numerous reason for contamination of water supplies.
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    that there are many dangers from nuclear fallout.
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    that pesticides are dangerous.
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Answer : 2. "that there are numerous reason for contamination of water supplies."

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Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word as your answer.

Installed

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    Settled
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    Prepared
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    Started
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    Established
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Answer : 4. "Established"

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Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.

Identification with the feelings of another-

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    Empathy
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    Apathy
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    Sympathy
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    Antipathy
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Answer : 1. "Empathy"

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Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
 BRICS leaders are gathered in the Russian town of Ufa for the bloc’s annual summit, and Internet governance is high on their (1). The summit comes at a (2) juncture in India’s internet diplomacy. Last month in Buenos Aires, at a conference organised by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad offered an “Indian (3) for the Internet”. ICANN is the organisation that manages the Domain Name System, which serves as the (4) for all technical and commercial activity in cyberspace. In his recorded message, Mr. Prasad declared India would move away from state-led approaches to (5) the Internet, preferring instead a mechanism that co-opts the private sector and civil society into the policymaking process. India’s (6) of this model – called “multi-stakeholderism” – was followed at home by the launch of the “Digital India week”, which underlined the enormous political capital that the Narendra Modi government has (7) in technological solutions to governance. The Buenos Aires declaration, however, (8) stated New Delhi’s position: in Ufa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his delegation will be queried extensively by their interlocutors on the (9) cyber strategies India will (10).

Choose the correct option for the blank 5.

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    marginal
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    legislating
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    governing
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    dominating
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    deregulating
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Answer : 3. "governing "

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