General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. What was supposed to be a holiday of a lifetime turned into a dangerous experience for 1,300 passengers on a cruise ship off the coast of Norway.
B. The Norwegian Government decided to evacuate the passengers with the help of helicopters.
C. The ship broke down in rough seas and high-speed winds caused it to rock heavily from side to side.
D. From the first 371 evacuated passengers, 17 had to be taken to hospital.
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5d42984fd1e5bb3ada644cf2- 1CBDAfalse
- 2ACBDtrue
- 3ABCDfalse
- 4CABDfalse
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Answer : 2. "ACBD"
Q: In each of the following sentences, an idiomatic expression or a proverb. Select the alternatives which best describes its use in the sentence.
When the girl wanted to stay out past midnight, her father put his foot down.
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5d49601d2ef8ad44d161deb5When the girl wanted to stay out past midnight, her father put his foot down.
- 1Gave in to her requestfalse
- 2Walked away disapprovinglyfalse
- 3Obstructed her from leaving the housetrue
- 4Requested her to be home on timefalse
- 5None of the abovefalse
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Answer : 3. "Obstructed her from leaving the house"
Q: Directions (2): In the following passages, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Mark your answer in the Answer-Sheet. (Mark your answer 2)
Jawaharlal Nehru was probably the first important public leader to realise that if India were to (1) its problems, it would have to (2) the age of science. The Government of free India was one of the first in the world to set up a department of science and technology. The (3) the Government has attached to science is also clear (4) the fact that the portfolio of science and technology has always been (5) by the Prime Minister himself.
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5d71e7322442194806644a15Jawaharlal Nehru was probably the first important public leader to realise that if India were to (1) its problems, it would have to (2) the age of science. The Government of free India was one of the first in the world to set up a department of science and technology. The (3) the Government has attached to science is also clear (4) the fact that the portfolio of science and technology has always been (5) by the Prime Minister himself.
- 1Comefalse
- 2Entertrue
- 3Continuefalse
- 4Directfalse
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Answer : 2. "Enter"
Q: Direction: In each of the following questions, choose the correctly spelt word.
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5d78e9d09b43216ae13baf5b- 1Bouquetefalse
- 2Bouquettrue
- 3Boquetfalse
- 4Bouquettefalse
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Answer : 2. "Bouquet"
Q:Direction: In the following questions, a passage given in the below. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question.
As my train was not due to leave for another hour, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some magazines to read on the journey, I made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase I had left there three days before. There were only a few people waiting, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt did not seem to be where I had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and the railway tickets, money, scraps of paper, and photographs tumbled out of it; but no matter how hard I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.
I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me suspiciously as if to say he had heared this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case. I told him that it was an old, brown looking object no different from the many suitcases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me form and told me to make a list of the contents of the case. If they were correct, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down.
After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment , it occurred to me that if someone had picked the receipt up , he could easily have claimed the case already , Fortunately this had not happened , for after a time , I found the case lying on its side high up in the corner . After examining the articles inside, the assistant gave me the case .
I took out my walled to pay him. I pulled out a ten-shilling note and out slipped my “lost” receipt with it! I could not help blushing . The assistant noded his head knowingly, as if to say that he had often seen this happen too!!
The writer needed the receipt
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5d95bfcd31f48d43df255495- 1To claim his suitcasetrue
- 2To pay at the luggage officefalse
- 3To prove that he had paid at the luggage officefalse
- 4To prove that he had bought the suitcasefalse
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Answer : 1. "To claim his suitcase"
Q:Fill in the blanks by choosing an appropriate alternative.
The sun rises in the east and………………………….in the west.
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5e5f5936860fb849c8e909de- 1is settingfalse
- 2setstrue
- 3setfalse
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Answer : 2. "sets "
Q: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.
Are the officers finishing the work on time?
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5f34d9aa6137a8134865197e- 1Was the work being finished on time by the officers?false
- 2Is the work finished on time by the officers ?false
- 3Is the work being finished on time by the officers?true
- 4Was the work finished on time by the officers?false
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Answer : 3. "Is the work being finished on time by the officers? "
Q: Choose the correct form of the verb to fill in the blank in the sentence given below.
She _____ all the entries before he submitted her application form.
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633ff052da15932e53e7d599She _____ all the entries before he submitted her application form.
- 1had revisedtrue
- 2was revisedfalse
- 3revisesfalse
- 4will have revisefalse
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