English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

Rewrite the sentence in direct speech.

 Malini said that she would go for the meeting.

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    Malini said, "I go for the meeting"
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    Malini said, "I am going for the meeting"
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    Malini said, "I will go for the meeting"
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    Malini said, "I went for the meeting"
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Answer : 3. "Malini said, "I will go for the meeting" "

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Fill in the blanks by choosing an appropriate alternative. 

The committee…………………………. divided on the issue. 

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    is
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    was
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    were
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    will
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Answer : 3. "were"

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Fill in the blank with the correct option:
She must _________ herself to her new surroundings.

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    adopt
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    adapt
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    adept
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    adjure
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Answer : 2. "adapt"

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Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us into some corner of the world where people are not interested in minutes and seconds. The unpunctuality of the orient, for example is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-times and regular train services. For a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accepts the blank hours with linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home. Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second; men will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organisation needed to control technology shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.
 In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in C.P. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.

Near-instantaneous communications may be regarded as a symbol of

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    anachronization
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    mischronization
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    desynchronization
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    synchronization
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Answer : 4. "synchronization"

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Direction: In the following questions, a sentence has been given in Active voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive voice.

A few bags were bought by me.

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    I had bought a few bags
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    I have bought a few bags
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    I bought a few bags
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    I buy a few bags
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Answer : 3. "I bought a few bags "

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Directions: The following question has four different sentences. Select the most preferable sentence with respect to grammar, meaning, and usage. If all four sentences are correct or all of them are incorrect, mark option 5" as your answer.

Option

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    My bike that has a broken seat is in the garage.
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    Older people who are unfamiliar with computer technology often have an aversion to it.
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    Pierre turned away with repugnance, and closing his eyes quickly fell back on the carriage seat.
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    I like that sweater; however, it only comes in one colour.
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    All are correct.
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Answer : 5. "All are correct."

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