English Practice Question and Answer

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Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

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    Perterb
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    Perceive
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    Pigeon
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    Passive
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Answer : 1. "Perterb"

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Read the passage carefully and answer the question accordingly. 

One should consciously engage in activities that will nourish your soul. Just as we nourish the body, we need to nurture the soul to connect to the creative power of the universe and to manifest joy in our lives. Often, we forget to address the soul, lost as we are in a jungle of material and sensual pleasures. But the more you embrace what feeds your soul, the happier you become. So if you want to enjoy the abundance of life, engage in what enriches your soul. Nurturing the soul is all about finding calm amidst chaos. There are a number of practices that empower people towards this end including silent contemplation, various forms of meditation, yoga and tai chi However, the rigor and discipline involved in the pursuit of such practices often seems to discourage people. Add to this, the temptations of the material world that leave little time and motivation for anyone to pursue the spiritual path. Poet Walt Whitman declared: “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth”. The good news is that simple, everyday activities can also nutrify the soul — like spending time in the midst of nature, dancing in the rain or just putting thoughts on paper. Do whatever is calming and pleases you. Creative pursuits are particularly appealing as inside each one of us, there is an artist craving for release and awaiting an opportunity for expression. One of the ways to indulge the artist within is to get started with the practice of any one or more of the creative art forms such as music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction or essay writing. 

When you engage in such soul nourishing activities, all thought and energy gets focused toward goal accomplishment. At this point, you will find that even unknown forces of the universe are conniving to assist you in your amateurish but sincere attempts. As you progress, you are motivated to do better. You touch and access a faculty, a part of you that you never knew existed. Your inner artist is unleashed, baring the beauty of your soul that has found a fond medium of expression. For instance, a sculptor’s soul is seen in his artwork; a musician’s in his compositions; an actor’s in his acting, a painter’s in his paintings and so on. It is immaterial whether your effort is an immaculate artwork or just a clumsy attempt by a layperson. The idea is to try, be inspired and to create giving free rein to the mind. As Michelangelo remarked: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free”!

According to the passage, why even our amateurish attempts motivate us?

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    Because these amateur attempts of ours are insincere ones.
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    Because they still are clumsy and need improvement.
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    Because even unknown forces of the universe are assisting us in them.
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    Because we never knew that this part ever existed inside us.
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Answer : 3. "Because even unknown forces of the universe are assisting us in them."

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

The problem of water pollution by pesticides can be understood only in context, as part of the whole to which it belongs – the pollution of the total environment of mankind. The pollution entering our waterways comes from many sources, radioactive wastes from reactors, laboratories and hospitals; fallout from nuclear explosions; domestic wastes from cities and towns; chemical wastes from factories. To these is a added a new kid of fallout - the chemical sprays applied to crop lands and gardens, forests and fields. Many of the chemical agents in this alarming melange initiate and augment the harmful effects of radiation, and within the groups of chemicals themselves there are sinister and little - understood interactions, transformations and summations of effect.

Ever since the chemists began to manufacture substances that nature never invented, the problem of water purification have become complex and the danger to users of water has increased. As we have seen, the production of these synthetic chemicals in large volume began in the 1940’s. It has now reached such proportion that an appalling deluge of chemical pollution is daily poured into the nation’s waterways. When inextricably mixed with domestic and other wastes discharged into the same water, these chemicals sometimes defy detection by the methods in ordinary use by purification plants. Most of them are so complex that they cannot be identified. In rivers, a really incredible variety of pollutants combine to produce deposits that sanitary engineers can only despairingly refer to as “gunk”.

Water contamination has become serious:

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    since water pollution was difficult to assess.
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    since nature has taken a hand in pollution.
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    since chemists began to use new substances.
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    since businessmen authorised the use of chemicals.
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Answer : 3. "since chemists began to use new substances."

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Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

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    Occurrence
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    Accommodation
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    Priviledge
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    Erroneous
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Answer : 3. "Priviledge"

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Select the correct direct form of the given sentence.

Saaransh said he had solved the crossword the previous day.

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    Saaransh said, “I solved the crossword yesterday.”
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    Saaransh said, “He have solved the crossword yesterday.”
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    Saaransh said, “I have solved the crossword the previous day.”
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    Saaransh said, “He has solved the crossword the previous day.”
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Answer : 1. "Saaransh said, “I solved the crossword yesterday.”"

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Choose the correct negative transformation of the assertive sentence given below without changing the meaning: Brutus loved Caesar.

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    Brutus had no love for Caesar.
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    Brutus was not without love for Caesar.
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    Caesar too, had no love for Brutus.
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    Brutus and Caesar both, had no love for one another.
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Answer : 2. "Brutus was not without love for Caesar."

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

Reap the whirlwind

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    An indication that something is accepted or regarded favourably
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    Believing that moderation is more satisfying than excess
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    Providing that other factors or circumstance remain the same
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    Suffer negative consequences as a result of one’s actions
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Answer : 4. "Suffer negative consequences as a result of one’s actions"

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