English Practice Question and Answer

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Read the passage carefully and answer the question accordingly.

The saddest part of life lies not in the act of dying, but in failing to truly live while we are alive. Too many of us play small with our lives, never letting the fullness of our humanity see the light of day. I’ve learned that what really counts in life, in the end, is not how many toys we have collected or how much money we’ve accumulated, but how many of our talents we have liberated and used for a purpose that adds value to this world. What truly matters most are the lives we have touched and the legacy that we have left. Tolstoy put it so well when he wrote: “We live for ourselves only when we live for others.” It took me forty years to discover this simple point of wisdom.

Forty long years to discover that success cannot really be pursued. Success ensues and flows into your life as the unintended yet inevitable byproduct of a life spent enriching the lives of other people. When you shift your daily focus from a compulsion to survive towards a lifelong commitment to serve, your existence cannot help but explode into success. I still can’t believe that I had to wait until the “half-time” of my life to figure out that true fulfillment as a human being comes not from achieving those grand gestures that put us on the front pages of the newspapers and business magazines, but instead from those basic and incremental acts of decency that each one of us has the privilege to practice each and every day if we simply make the choice to do so. Mother Teresa, a great leader of human hearts if ever there was one, said it best: “There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love.” I learned this the hard way in my life. Until recently, I had been so busy striving, I had missed out on living. I was so busy chasing life’s big pleasures that I had missed out on the little ones, those micro joys that weave themselves in and out of our lives on a daily basis but often go unnoticed. My days were overscheduled, my mind was overworked and my spirit was underfed.

What according to the passage is success?

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    Success is true fulfillment.
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    Success is incremental act of decency.
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    Success cannot be pursued.
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    Success is an unintended ye t inevitable byproduct of a life spent enriching the lives of others.
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Answer : 4. "Success is an unintended ye t inevitable byproduct of a life spent enriching the lives of others."

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Have you heard the news?
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    Have the news heard by you?
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    Have the news been heard by you?
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    The news has been heard by you?
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    Has the news been heard by you?
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Answer : 4. "Has the news been heard by you?"

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Answer : 4. "4"

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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
 Kiara will sign all the documents tomorrow.

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    Kiara was to be signed by tomorrow for all the documents.
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    Tomorrow Kiara will be signed by all the documents.
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    All the documents will be signed by Kiara tomorrow.
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    Kiara would have been signed tomorrow by all the documents.
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Answer : 3. "All the documents will be signed by Kiara tomorrow."

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Choose the correct option for the underlined part of the sentence:
 The man whom I sold my house was a cheat.

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    to whom I sell
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    to who I sell
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    to who I sold
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    to whom I sold
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Answer : 4. "to whom I sold"

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Directions : You have a passage with 10 questions. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Long ago men spent most of their time looking for food. They ate anything they could find. Some lived mostly on plants. They ate the fruit, stems, and leaves of some plants and the roots of others. When food was scarce, they ate the bark of trees. If they were lucky, they would find a bird’s nest with eggs. People who lived near the water ate fish or anything that washed ashore, even rotten whales. Some people also ate insects and small animals like lizards that were easy to kill.

Later, men learned to make weapons. With weapons, they could kill larger animals for meat. These early people had big appetites. If they killed an animal, they would drink the blood, eat the meat, and chew the bones. When they finished the meal, there was nothing left.

At first men wandered from place to place to find their food. But when they began to grow plants, they stayed in one place and ate what they could grow. They tamed animals, trained them to work, and killed them for meat. Life was a little better then, but there was still not much variety in their meals. Day after day people ate the same food.

Gradually men began to travel greater distances. The explorers who sailed unknown seas found new lands. And in these lands they found new food and spices and took them back home.

The Portuguese who sailed around the stormy Cape of Good Hope to reach China took back “Chinese apples”, the fruit we call oranges today. Later, Portuguese colonists carried orange seeds to Brazil. From Brazil oranges were brought to California, the first place to grow oranges in the United States. Peaches and melons also came from China. So did a new drink, tea.

What does the word stormy in the expression the stormy Cape of Good Hope mean?

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    Volcanic
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    Strong
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    Hopeless
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    Rough
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Answer : 4. "Rough"

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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.

Which of the following statements is true?

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    The main object of a good soldier is to kill people.
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    The main object of a good soldier is to do his fighting well.
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    The main object of a good soldier is to earn well.
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    The main object of a good soldier is to attach no importance to money.
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Answer : 2. "The main object of a good soldier is to do his fighting well."

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Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the underlined group of words.
 Mohan frequently wastes his money on luxurious objects such as cars and digital devices.

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    Extravagant
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    Businessman
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    Consumer
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    Capitalist
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Answer : 1. "Extravagant "

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