English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

Select the most appropriate words to fill in the blank.
 Please go with ______ sister to the match. 

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    me and mine
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    I and my
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    me and my
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    I and mine
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Answer : 3. "me and my "

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the given questions.
It is impossible for a well-educated, intellectual or brave man to make money the chief object of his thought, just as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy people like their dinners, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthy-minded people like making money-ought to like it, and to enjoy the sensation of winning it, but the main object of their life is not money, it is something better than money. A good soldier, for instance mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay, very properly so, and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years without it - still his main notion of life is to win battles not to be paid for winning them. So of the doctor. They like fees, no doubt, ought to like them, yet if they are brave and well-educated, the entire object of their lives is not fees. They, on the whole, desire to cure the sick, and if they are good doctors, and the choice were fairly put to them, they would rather cure their patient, and lose the fees, than kill him and get it. And so with all other brave and rightly trained men, their work is first, their fees second - very important, no doubt, but still second. But in every nation, there are a vast number of people who are ill-educated, cowardly and stupid. And with these people, just as certainly the fee is first and work second, as with brave people the work is first and fee second.

All the following words mean ‘notion’ except -

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    idea
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    concept
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    subject
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    view
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Answer : 3. "subject"

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Which is the correct passive voice of the following sentence?
 They have painted the door. 

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    The door was painted
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    The door has been painted
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    The door is painted
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    The door be painted.
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Answer : 2. "The door has been painted "

Q:

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word

 GUILE

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    Intuition
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    Surfeit
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    Deceit
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    Sincerity
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Answer : 3. "Deceit"

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Directions : Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. 

For months the old tanker, African Queen , lay turned over on her side, stuck fast in the sands off the coast of Maryland. She had run aground so badly that her owners had decided to leave her to her fate. It was considered impossible to refloat her and the ship began to rust and sink deeper and deeper into the sands. Men frequently came out in small boats and removed any parts that could be sold-until two men decided to attempt the impossible : to float the African Queen once more. Both men were engineers and had no experience of ships so that few people thought they could succeed. 

The men began by studying the exact state of the African Queen and came to the conclusion that she would float again if air was pumped into the tanks which were now full of sea-water. A diver was sent down to examine the underside of the ship. In the cold, dark water he found an enormous hole in her side which had been torn when the ship ran aground. It was plain that nothing could be done until the hole was repaired. As no single sheet of steel would cover it, the men were obliged to order a great number of sheets which had to be joined together. For several weeks divers worked continually to close the hole. At times, the sea was so rough that it was difficult to go down; and on more than one occasion, they had to contend with sharks. 

At last the hole was covered and the men began to pump the sea-water out of the ship’s tanks. It seemed as if they were bound to succeed, for when the tanks were full of air, the African Queen began to stir in the water. The men could not understand why she still would not float until they discovered that her rudder was embedded in mud. Huge cranes were brought to haul the sunken rudder out and the ship was again afloat. By this time, the men were almost exhausted. They had worked ceaselessly for three months to save the African Queen and had succeeded when everyone thought they would fail. Now they stood on the bridge of the ship, tired but proud, as tugs brought the African Queen into the harbour. 

Men frequently went out to the African Queen because 

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    it was a rare sight to see a sunken ship.
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    they attempted to float the ship once again.
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    they wanted to take parts of the ship and sell them.
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    it was an interesting exercise.
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Answer : 3. "they wanted to take parts of the ship and sell them. "

Q:

Choose the correct meaning of the given idiom.
 A skeleton in the cupboard

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    A popular fact which is not hidden
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    A popular fact to be kept secret
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    An embarrassing fact not to be kept secret
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    An embarrassing fact to be kept secret
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Answer : 4. "An embarrassing fact to be kept secret"
Explanation :

An embarrassing fact to be kept secret. This idiom refers to a hidden and potentially shameful or embarrassing truth.

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