English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Directions: In question four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it is the Answer Sheet.
Jump on the bandwagon
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5f6aeae7473e9b04bc28005a- 1To take a long ridefalse
- 2To insult someonefalse
- 3To join a popular trendtrue
- 4To trust someone blindlyfalse
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Answer : 3. "To join a popular trend"
Q:Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.
The name of the garment worn by a nun-
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5f34d5f74e31882c0439fb71- 1Frockfalse
- 2Gownfalse
- 3housecoatfalse
- 4habittrue
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Answer : 4. "habit"
Q: Rajesh is not very - well these days.
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5f4613459d816875be40fa13- 1unwelltrue
- 2indifferentfalse
- 3in povertyfalse
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 1. "unwell "
Q:Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Five words/ phrases have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Jerimoth Hill (812 ft, 247 m) is the highest point in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. (1) town of Foster near Providence, the site is used as an observatory. It is also a (2) highpointers, and prior to 2005 was known for being difficult to access due to a local landowner who prohibited entry. The hill is located on Route 101 in Foster, a half mile from the Connecticut line. To (3), for which there is a sign, there is a .3-mile (480 m) long trail that has a mere 10-foot (3.0 m) elevation gain. The mountain is 812 feet (247 m) high and is located 15 miles (24 km) west of Providence, Rhode Island, and 35 miles (56 km) east of Willimantic, Connecticut. The high point was donated to Brown University by Walter Raymond Turner, a Brown alumnus of the class of 1911. In 1938 (4) saltbox house to the west and the surrounding 360 acres (150 ha). Turner provided a right of way, straight north from the high point to Route 101, though eventually (5).
Find out the appropriate word for blank 1.
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5eafb962caa4f678cf749786Jerimoth Hill (812 ft, 247 m) is the highest point in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. (1) town of Foster near Providence, the site is used as an observatory. It is also a (2) highpointers, and prior to 2005 was known for being difficult to access due to a local landowner who prohibited entry. The hill is located on Route 101 in Foster, a half mile from the Connecticut line. To (3), for which there is a sign, there is a .3-mile (480 m) long trail that has a mere 10-foot (3.0 m) elevation gain. The mountain is 812 feet (247 m) high and is located 15 miles (24 km) west of Providence, Rhode Island, and 35 miles (56 km) east of Willimantic, Connecticut. The high point was donated to Brown University by Walter Raymond Turner, a Brown alumnus of the class of 1911. In 1938 (4) saltbox house to the west and the surrounding 360 acres (150 ha). Turner provided a right of way, straight north from the high point to Route 101, though eventually (5).
- 1Placed in thefalse
- 2Located in thetrue
- 3Built atfalse
- 4Expressed byfalse
- 5Conveyed through thefalse
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Answer : 2. "Located in the"
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:Directions: In question four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it is the Answer Sheet.
Money given to a school by only burn a hole in his pocket.
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5d947ba7a8f493490051c99e- 1Gets spent quicklytrue
- 2Makes a hole in his pocketfalse
- 3Catches fire soonfalse
- 4Does not have valuefalse
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Answer : 1. "Gets spent quickly"
Q:In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
After one's own heart
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5e7b287050339c736667334c- 1Sharing or having one's tastes or views.true
- 2Infatuation with a person which is not reciprocated.false
- 3Memorise some thing by heart.false
- 4Don’t have the courage to do something bad for a good person.false
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Answer : 1. "Sharing or having one's tastes or views."
Q:Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.
An Abandoned child of unknown parents who is found by somebody-
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5f2272374e7e0d508b54f13a- 1Foundingtrue
- 2Siblingfalse
- 3Urchinfalse
- 4Orphanfalse
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