English Practice Question and Answer

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.

To hear something straight from the horse's mouth

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    To get rebuked or scolded by someone
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    To hear something from the authoritative source
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    To hear something bad from an uncivilized person
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    To hear rumors about oneself by someone
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    To hear something commendable for someone and then get jealous
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Answer : 4. "To hear rumors about oneself by someone"
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Choose the correct tense of the verb from the given options:
 Sita told them that they ______ wrong.

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    are
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    will be
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    were
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    can
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Answer : 3. "were"

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Directions: In the following questions, you have to passage with 5 questions following each passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Some people say that man's desire for war is due to his fight for survival and that war is necessary to preserve his virility. Yet, war nowadays leaves a legacy of the weakest men and stimulates not the noble but the bestial qualities of mankind.
 A venture of some kind is necessary for man; he will inevitably deteriorate physically and mentally if his life is one of ease and luxury lived in an atmosphere of ‘Safety First.’ This is the real reason behind our love of sports in the open air. It is no use being a millionaire if one suffers from chronic in digestion; a tramp with good innards is far happier. Nothing that money can buy is worthwhile without good health. There is no better way to perfect health and physical fitness than to walk over or climb hills and mountains.
 But mountains give us much more than mere physical fitness; they exercise the mental faculties as well. Climbing a high and difficult peak is as much a mental exercise as a physical exercise. It calls for sense and judgement for planning and thinking ahead, for anticipating difficulty and danger, for responsibility towards one's companions, and best of all, it brings the mountaineer into touch with the beauties of the universe. 

War nowadays stimulates 

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    noble qualities of mankind
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    man's virility
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    bestial qualities of mankind
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    man's fight for survival
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Answer : 3. "bestial qualities of mankind "

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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
The National Highways Network of India measures over 70,934 km as of 2010, including over 1,000 km of limited-access expressways. Out of 71,000 km of National Highways 15,000 plus km are 4 or 6 lanes and remaining 50,000 km are 2 lanes. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is the nodal agency responsible for building upgrading and maintaining most of the national highways network. The national Highways Development Project (NHDP) is a major effort to expand and upgrade the network of highways. NHAI often uses a public-private partnership model for highway development, maintenance and toll collection. National highways constituted about 2% of all the roads in India, but carried about 40% of the total road traffic as of 2010. The majority of existing national highways are two-lane roads (one lane in each direction), though much of this is being expanded to four-lanes, and some to six or eight lanes. Some sections of the network are toll roads. Over 30,000 km of new highways are planned or under construction as par of the NHDP as of 2011. This includes over 2,600 km of expressways currently under construction. 

What is the measurement of two-lane National Highways of India ? 

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    15,000 km
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    61,000 km
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    50,000 km
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    71,000 km
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Answer : 3. "50,000 km"

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Which one of the following suffixes can be added to the word below to form a new word:
 Infant

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    ___dom
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    ___ry
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    ___су
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    ___ish
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Answer : 2. "___ry"

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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

"An interview after the campaign ends (is the normal) for every candidate and every campaigner in every election," he said.

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    is the normally
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    is continuality
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    is the norm
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    No improvement
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Answer : 3. "is the norm"

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Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.

Identification with the feelings of another-

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    Empathy
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    Apathy
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    Sympathy
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    Antipathy
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Answer : 1. "Empathy"

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