General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
Marvel Comics created Superman.
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64a69f07aa4c004ce321a606- 1Superman was created by Marvel Comics.true
- 2Superman was created.false
- 3Superman is created by Marvel Comics.false
- 4Marvel Comics is creating Superman.false
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Answer : 1. "Superman was created by Marvel Comics."
Q: Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Like a cakewalk
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6479dca588eeb54769295882Like a cakewalk
- 1Smooth surfacefalse
- 2Pleasant experiencefalse
- 3Easy tasktrue
- 4Activefalse
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Answer : 3. "Easy task"
Explanation :
"Like a cakewalk" describes something that is extremely easy or a task that requires little effort.
Q: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.
INTEGRATION
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60c1f603c8f0c93c707750cc- 1Divisionfalse
- 2Separationfalse
- 3Unificationtrue
- 4Segregationfalse
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Answer : 3. "Unification"
Q: The given question has one blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the word for the given options that could fit in the blank correctly.
If the _______ of investing in the stock market scares you, you are not alone.
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64e4886a3be218b6cdbe31aa- 1songfalse
- 2viewfalse
- 3sourcefalse
- 4thoughttrue
- 5keyfalse
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Answer : 4. "thought"
Q:Direction : passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases are given in bold in the passage to help you locale them while answering some of the questions.
Governments have traditionally equated economic progress with steel mills and cement factories. While urban centres thrive and city dwellers get rich, hundreds of millions of famers remain mired in poverty. However fears of food shortages, a rethinking of anti-poverty priorities and crushing recession in 2008 are causing a dramatic shift in world economic policy in favour of greater support for agriculture. last time when the world's farmers felt such love was in the 1970's. At that time, as food prices spiked, there was real concern that the world was facing a crisis in which the planet was simply unable to produce enough grain and meat for an expanding population. Governments across the developing world and international aid organisations plowed investment agriculture in technological breakthroughs, like high-yield strains of important food crops, boosted production. The result was the Green Revolution and food production exploded. into the early 1970s, while But the Green Revolution became a victim of its own success. Food prices plunged by some 60% by the late 1980's from their peak in the mid- 1970's. Policy-makers and aid workers turned their attention to the poor's other pressing needs, such as health care and education. Farming got starved of resources and investment. By 2004's aid directed at agriculture sank to 3.5% and "agriculture lost its glitter", “Also, as consumers in high-growth giants such as China and India became wealthier, they began eating more meat. So grain once used for human consumption got diverted to beef up livestock. By early 2008, panicked buying by importing countries and restrictions slapped on grain exports by some big producers helped drive prices up to heights not seen for three decades. Making matters worse, land and resources got reallocated to product cash crop such as bio fuels and the result was that voluminous reserves of grain evaporated. Protests broke out across the emerging world and fierce food riots toppled governments.
This spurred global leaders into action. This made them aware that food security is one of the fundamental issues in the world that has to be dealt with in order to maintain administrative and political stability. This also spurred the US, which traditionally provisioned food aid from American grain surpluses to help needy nations to move towards investing in farm sectors around the globe to boost productivity. This move helped countries become more productive for themselves and be in a better position to feed their own people. Africa, which missed out on the first Green Revolution due to poor policy and limited resources, also witnessed a 'change. Swayed by the success of East Asia, the primary poverty- fighting method favoured by many policy-makers in Africa was to get farmers off their farms and into modern jobs in factories and urban centres. But that started proved to be highly insufficient. Income levels in the countryside badly trailed those in cities while the FAO estimated that the number of poor going hungry in 2000 reached an all-time high at more than one billion. In India, on the other hand, with only 40% of its farmland irrigated, entire economic boom currently underway is held hostage by the unpredictable monsoon. With much of India's farming areas suffering from drought this year, the government will haw a tough time meeting its economic growth targets. In report, Goldman Sachs predicted that if this year too receives weak rains. It could cause agriculture to contract by 2% this Fiscal years, making the government's 7% GDP-growth target look a bit rich-. Another Green revolution is the need of the hour and to make it a reality, the global community still has much backbreaking farm work to do What motivated the US to focus on investing in agriculture across the globe?
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5e8ef3cc33cfe77e56cd0cb1- 1To make developing countries become more reliant on US aidfalse
- 2To ensure grain surpluses so that the US had no need to import foodfalse
- 3To make those countries more self-sufficient to whom it previously provided foodtrue
- 4To establish itself in the market before the high growth giants such a India and China could establish themselvesfalse
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 3. "To make those countries more self-sufficient to whom it previously provided food "
Q:The 1st and the last sentences of the passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence and find out which of the four combinations is correct. The find the correct answer and indicate it in the answer sheet.
1. Yesterday evening a gang of more than fifty armed people robbed the villagers.
P. Angry villagers blocked the highway for several hours to protest police inaction.
Q. It is alleged, however, that the police arrived at the scene of the crime several hours later.
R. While the looting was going on. the police were called repeatedly over the telephone.
S. Many people who tried to prevent the crime were beaten mercilessly by the robbers.
6. The blockade was lifted after the DSP himself arrived and promised action will be taken.
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5f34d2b26137a8134864ed6bP. Angry villagers blocked the highway for several hours to protest police inaction.
Q. It is alleged, however, that the police arrived at the scene of the crime several hours later.
R. While the looting was going on. the police were called repeatedly over the telephone.
S. Many people who tried to prevent the crime were beaten mercilessly by the robbers.
6. The blockade was lifted after the DSP himself arrived and promised action will be taken.
- 1SRQPtrue
- 2PQRSfalse
- 3RSPQfalse
- 4QPSRfalse
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Answer : 1. "SRQP "
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.
I had seen the magic shop from afar several times. I had passed (1)______ once or twice, a shop window of (2)______ little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, magic dolls and all those (3)______ of things. But never had I thought of going in (4)______ one day, Gip hauled me by my finger – right (5)______ to the window.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.2.
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605d8cbb47d9117fefcd2a3aI had seen the magic shop from afar several times. I had passed (1)______ once or twice, a shop window of (2)______ little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, magic dolls and all those (3)______ of things. But never had I thought of going in (4)______ one day, Gip hauled me by my finger – right (5)______ to the window.
- 1alluringtrue
- 2allurefalse
- 3alluredfalse
- 4alluresfalse
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Answer : 1. "alluring"
Q:In the questions given below, choose the word most opposite in meaning to the given word and mark your answer.
Scurrilous
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611a2df014663c47a2308478- 1Insolentfalse
- 2Complimentarytrue
- 3Coarsefalse
- 4Sophisticatedfalse
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