English Practice Question and Answer

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Choose the correct Passive Voice transformation of the given sentence.
 An old woman was helping the wounded soldier. 

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    An old women helped by the wounded soldier
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    The wounded soldier was being helped by an old woman.
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    The wounded soldier was been helped by an old woman.
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    The wounded soldier has helped by an old woman.
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Answer : 2. "The wounded soldier was being helped by an old woman."

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Select the most appropriate direct form of the given sentence.

Taru told me that Avika was having her online cooking class then.

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    Taru said to me, “Avika will be having her online cooking class now.”
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    Taru said to me, “Avika is having her online cooking class at that time.”
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    Taru said to me, “Avika is having her online cooking class now.”
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    Taru said to me, “Avika was having her online cooking class at this time.”
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Answer : 3. "Taru said to me, “Avika is having her online cooking class now.”"

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Use the correct word in the following:
 Not everybody shares my _______.

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    principals
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    principalities
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    principles
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    personalities
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Answer : 2. "principalities"

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Select the most appropriate direct form of the given sentence.

She exclaimed that I looked very beautiful in that dress.

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    She said, “How beautiful you look in this dress!”
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    She said, “How beautiful I look in this dress!”
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    She said, “How beautiful she looks in this dress!”
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    She said, “How beautiful I looked in that dress!”
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Answer : 1. "She said, “How beautiful you look in this dress!”"

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Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions as directed.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage these days. A recent article noted that ‘robots’ — shorthand for AI in the tabloids — will be able to write a fiction bestseller within 50 years. I suppose that would be shocking to me as a novelist if most fiction bestsellers were not already being written by ‘robots’. Or so one feels, keeping publishing and other vogues in mind: a bit of this, a bit of that, a dash of something else, and voila you have a bestseller! In that sense, perhaps the rise of AI will make us reconsider what we mean by human intelligence. This discussion has been neglected for far too long. Take my field: literature. The Chinese company, Cheers Publishing, lately offered a collection of poems written by a computer program. So, are poets, generally considered to be suicidal in any case, jumping off the cliffs in droves as a consequence?
 Well, this is a selection from one of the AI poems I found online: “The rain is blowing through the sea / A

bird in the sky / A night of light and calm / Sunlight / Now in the sky / Cool heart / The savage north wind

/ When I found a new world.”
 Yes, there are aspiring poets — and sometimes established ones — who write like this, connecting words centripetally or centrifugally to create an effect. I think they should have been pushed off literary cliffs a long time ago. Because this is not poetry; this is just the technique of assembling words like poetry. There is a difference between the intelligence required to write poetry and the skills required to write it. That poetic intelligence is lost without the required poetic skills, but the skills on their own do not (A)suffice either. The fact that lines like this, written by AI, can be considered poetry does not reflect on the intelligence of AI. It reflects on the intelligence of those readers, writers, critics, editors, publishers and academics who have not yet distinguished between gimmickry and mimicry on the one side and the actual freshness of a chiselled line on the other. But this is a small example. Surely, AI might also make (B)_____________, including that of considering something like IQ to be a sufficient index of human mental capacity! Because if we think that AI can replace human intelligence, then we are simply not thinking hard enough. (C) One of the major (1) activity here is that of considering (2) intelligence to be something (3) different from and raised above the (4) failures of living. This leads to the misconception that intelligence can be (D)___ to something else — say, a robot — without becoming something else. Human intelligence cannot be passed on to something else: What is “passed on” is always a different kind of ‘intelligence’. Even the arguments that AI — or, as in the past, robots — can enable human beings to lead a gloriously workless existence is based on a similar misconception. Because human intelligence is embedded in human existence, ‘work’ as human activity in the world is not something human beings can do without.

Which of the following phrases should fill the blank given in (B) to make it grammatically and contextually correct and meaningful?

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    has always been a mistake to expect him to ‘solve’ problems without human effort
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    us discover our basic lack of intelligence in other areas
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    often atheistic fans of AI who believe that it is ‘The solution’ are making the same mistake
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    has had a crucial role in shaping cognitive capacity and brain evolution
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    None of the Above
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Answer : 2. "us discover our basic lack of intelligence in other areas"

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Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
Design has manifold applications and usages ranging from the most obvious or surface-level usages to the subtler and indirect usages that have far-reaching and deeper impact. The significance of design lies in its ability to fulfil these demands, whether aesthetic, teleological or semiotic. By aesthetics, it is broadly understood as its sensory and beauty values, i.e. Concerned with the judgment of visual taste, here it is meant as the sensory appreciation of graphic design. While by functionality is meant the practical aspects of a given graphic design such as usability, communicability, readability and making an impact. Its efficiency lies in its ability to do so. Design has function as well as some purpose. In theoretical terms the ability of design to fulfil the function or purpose is called ‘teleology’ of design. Apart from the above two, there is one more aspect of design called ‘content’ or meaning of design that can be broadly called as semiotic value of design. A simple discussion might elaborate this case. Food has taste that caters to our taste buds which is a sensory quality of food. Sometimes the colour of food is attractive therefore we like it and probably other times we get attracted towards it because it is presented in an appealing manner. Aroma, taste and decoration or garnishing cater to our sensory expectations. Food also has nutritional value that is concerned with supplying energy to the body that helps in its overall physical growth and maintenance of general health and work efficiency and at times such food may not be visually attractive. This is the teleological significance. Now if the food is cooked by a mother, sister or wife, then it has a special meaning and a highly personal significance attached to it. It may not be very nutritious or properly garnished, still the food will have its own unique significance which is the semiotic value of the food. 

Aesthetics is mainly concerned with:

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    purpose of creation
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    usefulness of the product
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    sensory appeal
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    relevance of content
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Answer : 3. "sensory appeal"

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Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

If you want to save your money, start living an ______ life.

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    improper
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    economical
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    extravagant
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    indulgent
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Answer : 2. "economical"
Explanation :

(B) economical - Living an "economical" life aligns with the idea of saving money.

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