English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the five given alternatives.
Almost everybody allows himself or herself or herself some entirely unjustifiable generalizations on the subject of women. Married men, when they generalize on that subject, judge by their wives; women judge by themselves. It would be amusing to write a history of the views of men on women.
In antiquity, when male supremacy was unquestioned and Christian ethics were still unknown, women were harmless, rather silly, and a man who took them seriously was somewhat despised.
Plato’s great objection to the drama was that the playwright had to imitate women in creating his female roles. With the coming of Christianity, the woman took on a new part, that of the temptress; but at the same time, she was also found capable of being a saint.
In those days, a man who took women seriously was
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5f3a421ac306f54abecdd496- 1despisedtrue
- 2admiredfalse
- 3respectedfalse
- 4ignoredfalse
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Answer : 1. "despised"
Q: Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice.
‘Don Quixote’ was written by Miguel Cervantes.
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645cd70b19bbd20a9ac53327‘Don Quixote’ was written by Miguel Cervantes.
- 1Miguel Cervantes was writing ‘Don Quixote’.false
- 2Miguel Cervantes wrote ‘Don Quixote’.true
- 3Miguel Cervantes had written ‘Don Quixote’.false
- 4Miguel Cervantes has written ‘Don Quixote’.false
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Answer : 2. "Miguel Cervantes wrote ‘Don Quixote’."
Explanation :
The sentence is transformed into active voice, making Miguel Cervantes the author of "Don Quixote."
Q: Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.
Study of the nature of God
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5ff9d169beaf081e1b1c8d42Study of the nature of God
- 1Philologyfalse
- 2Theologytrue
- 3Humanismfalse
- 4Philosophyfalse
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Answer : 2. "Theology"
Q:In the questions given below, choose the word most opposite in meaning to the given word and mark your answer.
HAPPINESS
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6013f8b15beea84b8ece8121- 1Renunciationfalse
- 2Beatitudefalse
- 3Contentmentfalse
- 4Grieftrue
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Answer : 4. "Grief"
Q:Violence has played a great part in the would's history. It is today playing an equally important part and probably it will continue to do so for a considerable time. It is impossible to ignore the importance of violence in the past and present. To do so is to ignore life. Yet violence is undoubtedly bad and brings an unending trail of evil consequences with it. And worse even than violence are the motives of hatred, cruelty, revenge and punishment which very often accompany violence. Indeed violence is bad, not intrinsically, but because of these motives that go with it. There can be violence without these movies there can be violence of a good object as well as for an evil object. But it is extremely difficult to separate violence from these motives, and therefore, it is desirable to avoid violence as far as possible. In avoiding it, however someone can not accept a negative attitude of submitting to bad and far greater evils. Submission to violence or the acceptance of an unjust regime based on violence is against the spirit of non-violence. The non-violent method, in order to justify itself, must be dynamic and capable of changing such a regime of social order.
Non-violence, according to the writer, means:
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5dddf92db025ff571dd977ca- 1violence without the evil motives.false
- 2giving in to the tyranny of the powerful.false
- 3accepting violence as a fact of life.false
- 4none of the above.true
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Answer : 4. "none of the above."
Q: Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select 'No improvement required'.
I noticed some strawberries grown in which of the gardens.
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641af291dcb650c14551bd2c- 1growing in which offalse
- 2grows upon one offalse
- 3No improvement requiredfalse
- 4growing in one oftrue
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Answer : 4. "growing in one of"
Q:Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
The other shirt will cost you more.
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5f3e42ae72dcfe7bdc6c8b1e- 1would costfalse
- 2will be costingfalse
- 3could be costingfalse
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Answer : 4. "No improvement"
Q:In the following sentence found out whether there is any error in any part of the sentence. If there is error mark your answer letter corresponding to that part a,b,c or d.If there is no error mark your answer ‘e’.
Vanita managed to (a) / answers all the questions (b) / whereas her friend could (c) answer only a few(d)/ No error (e)
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5e6b491d8fcee56af20259e4- 1afalse
- 2btrue
- 3cfalse
- 4dfalse
- 5efalse
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