English Practice Question and Answer

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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.

His friends arranged for the ambulance and took him immediately to the hospital.

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    His friends would have arranged for the ambulance and taken him immediately to the hospital.
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    His friends were arranged for the ambulance and taken him immediately to the hospital.
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    The ambulance arranged for his friends and took him immediately to the hospital.
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    The ambulance was arranged for by his friends and he was immediately taken to the hospital.
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Answer : 4. "The ambulance was arranged for by his friends and he was immediately taken to the hospital."
Explanation :

The sentence is rewritten in passive voice, putting the emphasis on the object (ambulance) and the person receiving the action (he).

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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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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
 Rebellion

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    Uprising
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    Loyalty
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    Sedition
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    Allotment
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Answer : 2. "Loyalty "
Explanation :

The most appropriate antonym for "rebellion" is "loyalty." Rebellion involves resisting or opposing authority, while loyalty implies faithfulness and allegiance to a person, group, or cause. The other options— "uprising" (an act of resistance or rebellion), "sedition" (incitement to rebellion), and "allotment" (the action of allotting or assigning something)— are either synonyms or closely related to the concept of rebellion.


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Directions :Read the given passage carefully and answer the following questions. Certain parts have been highlighted to help answer the questions.
  Every year, around one million people die of mosquitoborne diseases according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This is why mosquitoes are considered one of the deadliest living creatures on the planet — not because they are lethal themselves, but because many of the viruses and parasites they transmit are
 In the absence of an effective vaccine for dengue fever, Zika fever, chikungunya and other mosquito-borne diseases, researchers have developed genetic strategies to reduce mosquito populations. One such strategy involves the release into the wild of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes that express a lethal gene — a strategy believed to have little impact on the overall DNA of wild populations of mosquitoes
 The transfer of new genes from GM organisms to wild or domesticated non-GM populations is a key criticism of GM crops like soybean and corn. There are concerns that the introduction of GM genes into non-target species could have negative consequences for both human and environmental health.
 Oxitec, a company that spun out of research at Oxford University in the early 2000s, developed and trademarked GM Friendly™ mosquitoes (also known as strain OX513A of Aedes aegypti). These male GM mosquitoes have what the company describes as a “self-limiting” gene, which means that when these so-called friendly mosquitoes’ mate, their offspring inherit the self-limiting gene which is supposed to prevent them surviving into adulthood.
 In theory, when these mosquitoes are released in high numbers, a dramatic reduction in the mosquito population should follow. According to research published by Oxitec researchers in 2015, field trials involving recurring releases of Friendly™ mosquitoes demonstrated a reduction of nearly 95 per cent of target populations in Brazil. In these field trials, experiments were not performed to assess whether GM mosquitoes might persist in the wild.
 A recent study from the Powell lab at Yale University has since confirmed that some of the offspring of the GM mosquitoes didn’t succumb to the self-limiting lethal gene and survived to adulthood. They were able to breed with native mosquitoes and thereby introduce some of their genes into the wild population
 Meanwhile, the impact of mosquitoes carrying these new genes remains largely unknown. One significant worry is that a new breed of mosquito might emerge that is more difficult to control. These new genes could also potentially alter evolutionary pressures on viruses carried by mosquitoes, like dengue fever, in unpredictable ways. This includes potentially increasing their virulence or changing their host-insect interactions. These are hypothetical risks that have been raised by scientists, and reflect the need for further study.

What is one of the methods being developed to control population of mosquitoes?

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    Spraying of pesticides using established procedures.
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    Introduction of a lethal gene into wild populations of mosquitoes using genetically modified ones.
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    Not letting any stagnant water build-up near homes
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    Both (a) and (b)
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    None of the above
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Answer : 2. "Introduction of a lethal gene into wild populations of mosquitoes using genetically modified ones. "

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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word.

Their reverence reaches its zenith here at the birthplace of the country's founder.

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    crest
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    Nadir
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    horizon
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    pinnacle
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Answer : 2. "Nadir"

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