English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:In each of the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word (s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate your choice for the correct answer.
Every year millions of tourists ______ the Anna Centenary Library in Chennai.
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5f3e24619ab97f7febefcc70- 1is visitingfalse
- 2are visitingfalse
- 3has visitedfalse
- 4visittrue
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Answer : 4. "visit"
Q:Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
You should give ear to what the teacher says.
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5f36210f5977f60e81343498- 1an earfalse
- 2a earfalse
- 3the earfalse
- 4No improvementtrue
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Answer : 4. "No improvement"
Q: Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
A wild goose chase
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604721d6f4cbdc23485992a3A wild goose chase
- 1Useless searchtrue
- 2Fruitful searchfalse
- 3Timely searchfalse
- 4Wrong decisionfalse
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Answer : 1. "Useless search"
Q: Direction(47): In the following, pick out the correct meaning of the following idioms:
On the Cards
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5d75d6f934e9db73cc628ec7On the Cards
- 1To run awayfalse
- 2Anticipatedtrue
- 3Anticipatedfalse
- 4Sanctionfalse
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Answer : 2. "Anticipated "
Q: Choose the correct meaning of the given idiom.
In weal and woe
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647ef248f4063d472f2ba58bIn weal and woe
- 1In sad and gloomy daysfalse
- 2In happiness and good timesfalse
- 3In prosperity and adversitytrue
- 4In despair and failurefalse
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Answer : 3. "In prosperity and adversity"
Explanation :
"In weal and woe" means in both good times (prosperity) and bad times (adversity).
Q:Directions: In questions a sentence has been given in Active / Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive / Active Voice and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.
This shirt cannot be worn by me any longer.
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5f1939ba209bcc11a78558c9- 1This shirt is too worn out to be worn any longer.false
- 2This worn out shirt cannot be worn any longer.false
- 3I cannot wear this shirt any longer.true
- 4Wearing of this shirt any longer is not possible.false
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Answer : 3. "I cannot wear this shirt any longer. "
Q:In each of the questions given below a/an idiom/phrase is given in bold which is then followed by five options which then tries to decipher its meaning as used in the sentence. Choose the option which gives the meaning of the phrase most appropriately in the context of the given sentence.
John is just never on time to work, it’s really irritating. O wow, speak of the devil here she come.
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5d772ad155dae01e575491dc- 1the person you’re just talking about actually turns up at that momenttrue
- 2the person you're talking about actually turns out to be angryfalse
- 3the person you're talking about actually turns out to be happyfalse
- 4the person you're talking about actually turns out to be celebratingfalse
- 5none of the abovefalse
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Answer : 1. "the person you’re just talking about actually turns up at that moment"
Q: Directions: In the following sentence, 4 words are given in bold. Two or more of these words are incorrectly placed and need to be interchanged. If there is no need for interchanging then ‘No Error’ can be selected.
Vikram was very demolishing (A) with his handling of the chinaware (B), he ended up reckless (C) most of the pieces before they even turned up (D). No Error (E)
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64edc1f12bbb242750d5ae11- 1ABDCfalse
- 2BACDfalse
- 3CBADtrue
- 4DCBAfalse
- 5No Errorfalse
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Answer : 3. "CBAD"
Explanation :
From the context of the sentence, we can see that Vikram was a certain way because of which something happened to chinaware.
Let's look at the meaning of the words:

Now let's assume that the emboldened words in the passage are replaced by blanks:
The people of Hong Kong have expressed their _________over the _________laws ________on them by the ________country of China.
The second blank requires an adjective that can be used to describe the 'laws' that involve Hong Kong and China.
'Foisted' is a verb and is thus not a quality that can represent the characteristics of something.
The third blank requires a verb that can represent the action taken by the laws 'on' Hong Kong by China.
'Draconian' is an adjective and thus cannot act on the country of Hong Kong.
Thus, the terms 'draconian' and 'foisted' need to be interchanged in order to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Hence, the correct sentence will be: The people of Hong Kong have expressed their apprehension over the draconian laws foisted on them by the autocratic country of China.

