English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:In the following question, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Mere
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5d70e543eb96471d6f369618- 1immensetrue
- 2unadornedfalse
- 3sheerfalse
- 4bluntfalse
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Answer : 1. "immense"
Q: We should take_____ measures to prevent recurrence of such incidents.
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60c1d91d5370593eb9ee58a6- 1substitutefalse
- 2effectivetrue
- 3casualfalse
- 4properlyfalse
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Answer : 2. "effective"
Q: Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
CONTAMINATE
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605d91d4c5cd476495a2d1db- 1pollutetrue
- 2cleansefalse
- 3sanctifyfalse
- 4purifyfalse
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Answer : 1. "pollute"
Q: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 latest symbol of modernity for the rural people is –
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5d8f164d1afb4111d6e67946Or 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.
- 1The bicyclefalse
- 2The wristwatchfalse
- 3The transistorfalse
- 4The synthetic clothtrue
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Answer : 4. "The synthetic cloth"
Q:Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
Anyone of these two ideas will be used to execute the project.
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5f488643e7f09063e62e5fde- 1Either of these twotrue
- 2Either two of thesefalse
- 3Two of any of thesefalse
- 4Anyone of those twofalse
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Answer : 1. "Either of these two"
Q:Read each part of the sentence to find out if there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, mark your answer as (5).
His team (1)/ has yet not (2) / revealed its (3)/ future strategy (4)/ No Error (5)
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5e955ff9372df70fd1ad024c- 11false
- 22true
- 33false
- 44false
- 55false
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Answer : 2. "2 "
Q: Direction: In the following questions choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
PROFESSIONAL
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5f44f17f8d39ed5d2ac68f57PROFESSIONAL
- 1Dabblerfalse
- 2Apprenticefalse
- 3Novicefalse
- 4Amateurtrue
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Answer : 4. "Amateur "
Q:Directions : In the following questions, a sentence is divided into five parts with one of the parts of each sentence is highlighted in bold suggesting the grammatically correct part of the sentence. Out of the four other parts, choose the part of the sentence which contains grammatical or contextual error in it. If the given sentence is both grammatically correct and contextually meaningful, choose option (E) i.e., “No error” as your answer.
All six writers (A)/ who made it to the finals (B)/ of the Booker’s prize (C)/ are from the UK, (D)/ the US, and Canada.
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5e904bddd646bd6677d0a2d0- 1Afalse
- 2Bfalse
- 3Cfalse
- 4Dfalse
- 5No errortrue
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