General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:A passage is given with Five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.
It's nothing short of a revolution in how we eat, and it's getting closer every day. Yes, a lot of people are obese, and yes, the definition of "healthy eating" seems to change all the time. But in labs and research centres around the world, scientists are racing to match our genes and our taste buds, creating the perfect diet for each of us, a diet that will fight disease, increase longevity, boost physical and mental performance, and taste great to boot. As food scientist J.Bruce German says, "The foods we like the most will be the most healthy for us."
Is that going to be a great day, or what?
All this will come to pass, thanks to genomics, the science that maps and describes an individual's genetic code. In the future, personalized DNA chips will allow us to assess our own inherited predispositions for certain diseases, then adjust our diets accordingly. So, if you're at risk for heart disease, you won't just go on a generic low-fat diet. You'll eat foods with just the right amount and type of fat that's best for you. You'll even be able to track your metabolism day-to-day to determine what foods you should eat at any given time, for any given activity. "Since people differ in their genetics and metabolism, one diet won't fit all," says German.
As complex as all this sounds, it could turn out to be relatively simple.
What are scientists doing?
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5efd6ac77228dd6b06e336f5It's nothing short of a revolution in how we eat, and it's getting closer every day. Yes, a lot of people are obese, and yes, the definition of "healthy eating" seems to change all the time. But in labs and research centres around the world, scientists are racing to match our genes and our taste buds, creating the perfect diet for each of us, a diet that will fight disease, increase longevity, boost physical and mental performance, and taste great to boot. As food scientist J.Bruce German says, "The foods we like the most will be the most healthy for us."
Is that going to be a great day, or what?
All this will come to pass, thanks to genomics, the science that maps and describes an individual's genetic code. In the future, personalized DNA chips will allow us to assess our own inherited predispositions for certain diseases, then adjust our diets accordingly. So, if you're at risk for heart disease, you won't just go on a generic low-fat diet. You'll eat foods with just the right amount and type of fat that's best for you. You'll even be able to track your metabolism day-to-day to determine what foods you should eat at any given time, for any given activity. "Since people differ in their genetics and metabolism, one diet won't fit all," says German.
As complex as all this sounds, it could turn out to be relatively simple.
- 1Racing in labs and research centres around the worldfalse
- 2Asking us to start dietingfalse
- 3Creating the perfect diet for ustrue
- 4Try and make us tallerfalse
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Answer : 3. "Creating the perfect diet for us"
Q:Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the word opposite in meaning of the given word as your answer.
RECKLESS
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60484de74d11fa23aeaa0928- 1brashfalse
- 2heedlessfalse
- 3daringfalse
- 4cautioustrue
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Answer : 4. "cautious"
Q:Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
It is generally acknowledged that children learn a lot from their parents. It is not so commonly admitted that parents learn a great deal from their children. As adults, it is easy to assume that we are always right, but the laugh was on me one beautiful day.
My daughter Kashmira knew how much I loved flowers. One day when she was of nine years, she picked some branches from our neighbour's blossoming fruit tree. Realising she intended to please me, I didn't scold her, but chose a different approach. "These are lovely, dear, but do you realise that if you had left them on the tree, each of these blossoms would have become a cherry?" "No, they wouldn't have", she said firmly.
"Oh, yes they would have. Each of these blossoms would have grown into a cherry". "Well okay, mother, if you insist", she finally conceded, "but they were plums last year".
The mother was caught in the wrong because the daughter-
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608bdd0136f5727dff2b8490It is generally acknowledged that children learn a lot from their parents. It is not so commonly admitted that parents learn a great deal from their children. As adults, it is easy to assume that we are always right, but the laugh was on me one beautiful day.
My daughter Kashmira knew how much I loved flowers. One day when she was of nine years, she picked some branches from our neighbour's blossoming fruit tree. Realising she intended to please me, I didn't scold her, but chose a different approach. "These are lovely, dear, but do you realise that if you had left them on the tree, each of these blossoms would have become a cherry?" "No, they wouldn't have", she said firmly.
"Oh, yes they would have. Each of these blossoms would have grown into a cherry". "Well okay, mother, if you insist", she finally conceded, "but they were plums last year".
- 1reminded her that the branch with blossoms was from a plum tree.true
- 2proved that those blossoms would not yield any fruit.false
- 3proved that she has not picked the branch with the blossom.false
- 4reminded her that she loved flowers.false
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 1. "reminded her that the branch with blossoms was from a plum tree. "
Q:Directions: In the following question, some parts of the sentence may have an error. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from errors, select 'No error' as your answer.
They coin money in (A)/ honest and accurate measures (B)/ and allow this money trade (C)/ freely on open markets. (D)/ No error (E)/.
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64e3452c60749cb6f2ddd2df- 1Afalse
- 2Bfalse
- 3Ctrue
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Answer : 3. "C"
Q: Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.
A person who loves wealth and spends as little money as possible
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6005683744bc0714877469acA person who loves wealth and spends as little money as possible
- 1Curmudgeonfalse
- 2Money grabberfalse
- 3Scrimpfalse
- 4Misertrue
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Answer : 4. "Miser"
Q:Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the five given alternatives.
Almost everybody allows himself or herself or herself some entirely unjustifiable generalizations on the subject of women. Married men, when they generalize on that subject, judge by their wives; women judge by themselves. It would be amusing to write a history of the views of men on women.
In antiquity, when male supremacy was unquestioned and Christian ethics were still unknown, women were harmless, rather silly, and a man who took them seriously was somewhat despised.
Plato’s great objection to the drama was that the playwright had to imitate women in creating his female roles. With the coming of Christianity, the woman took on a new part, that of the temptress; but at the same time, she was also found capable of being a saint.
In those days, a man who took women seriously was
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5f3a421ac306f54abecdd496- 1despisedtrue
- 2admiredfalse
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Answer : 1. "despised"
Q:Direction : which of the phrase (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark (e) as the answer.
The thief finally decide to confess his crime just before the trial started.
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5e6b42c08fcee56af201fd6f- 1decision to confessfalse
- 2decided to confessedfalse
- 3decide to confessionfalse
- 4decided to confesstrue
- 5No correction requiredfalse
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Answer : 4. "decided to confess "
Q:In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.
Rama was a naughty boy __(1) ____ lived in the village of Tenali. His mother did not ___(2)___ what to do with him since he ___(3)___ to study or do any work. One day ___(4)___ took him to see a Guru. She told the __(5)____ man that she wanted him to take Rama under his guardianship.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.1.
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5f6186b48561dc09cc760b47Rama was a naughty boy __(1) ____ lived in the village of Tenali. His mother did not ___(2)___ what to do with him since he ___(3)___ to study or do any work. One day ___(4)___ took him to see a Guru. She told the __(5)____ man that she wanted him to take Rama under his guardianship.
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- 2hefalse
- 3thatfalse
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