English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select 'No improvement required'.
I knew very little Spanish when I came here, but I have been learning and can now make myself understood.
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64198b645bff3d098df612acI knew very little Spanish when I came here, but I have been learning and can now make myself understood.
- 1when I come here, howeverfalse
- 2upon arriving here, sincefalse
- 3No improvement requiredtrue
- 4as soon as I came here, butfalse
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Answer : 3. "No improvement required "
Q: Choose the correctly spelt word.
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6447a1a8cd6ea382cf823607- 1HEIRARCHYfalse
- 2APPAULLINGfalse
- 3PESTILLENTIALfalse
- 4MALODOROUStrue
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Answer : 4. "MALODOROUS"
Q:Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the underlined group of words.
The fishermen of our village are constantly complaining of the poor number of fishes getting caught these days.
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645a207fab9384ee0ad89473- 1Hostfalse
- 2Hordefalse
- 3Heapfalse
- 4Haultrue
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Answer : 4. "Haul"
Explanation :
Haul refers to the amount of fish caught or the process of catching fish.
Q:Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
(A) Colony losses last year weren’t as dramatic as the declines associated with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which was first identified in October 2006.
(B) Beekeepers tapped for the survey manage a total of 400,000 colonies, representing about 14.5 percent of the United States' honeybee colonies.
(C) Overall, colony losses during the 12-month period that ended in April reached 42.1 percent – the second-highest annual loss to date.
(D) Summer colony losses reached 27.4 percent, exceeding winter losses that came in at 23.7 percent.
(E) For the first time, beekeepers watched more of their colonies disappear during the summer than in winter
(F) A new survey outlining honeybee colony losses in the U.S. has scientists scratching their heads.
(A) or to read a single word of the books which the dastardly heretic had written. (B)/ declared Luther an outlaw before God and man, (C)/ and forbade all Germans to give him shelter or food or drink, (D)/ the Reformation was no longer a spiritual and religious affair (E)/ The Diet of Worms, after due deliberation,
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5e7460ccc8bf4623349fa0f5(A) Colony losses last year weren’t as dramatic as the declines associated with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which was first identified in October 2006.
(B) Beekeepers tapped for the survey manage a total of 400,000 colonies, representing about 14.5 percent of the United States' honeybee colonies.
(C) Overall, colony losses during the 12-month period that ended in April reached 42.1 percent – the second-highest annual loss to date.
(D) Summer colony losses reached 27.4 percent, exceeding winter losses that came in at 23.7 percent.
(E) For the first time, beekeepers watched more of their colonies disappear during the summer than in winter
(F) A new survey outlining honeybee colony losses in the U.S. has scientists scratching their heads.
- 1EBDCfalse
- 2EBCAtrue
- 3BCEDfalse
- 4None of thesefalse
- 5No correction requiredfalse
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Answer : 2. "EBCA "
Q:Direction (A - E): In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers. Against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which would fill the blank appropriately.
Mark the suitable word as the answer. Use of plastic has become part of a (A) in which those who consume and litter are not supposed to be responsible for (B) cleaning after themselves or to bother about what will happen to the waste they are producing. The (C) of this kind of lifestyle are reflected in the festering garbage in the over spilling landfill sites, with the height of the Ghazipur landfill in Delhi touching 65 metres. Such (D) dumps are emerging as a serious threat to life with leachates in the mixed and untreated waste contaminating water and the carcinogenic pollution (E) when it is set to fire.
Find out the appropriate word in each case. (B)
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60a4feea63194a66f2d0918e- 1But alsofalse
- 2Norfalse
- 3Neitherfalse
- 4Eithertrue
- 5Not onlyfalse
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Answer : 4. "Either"
Q:In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
Can you ____(1)____ a world without human beings? Who but humans ___(2)____ have utilized the resources and created a ____(3)____ and cultural environment? The people living in a country are important to ____(4)____ the economy and the society. They ____(5)___are the greatest resource.
Select the most appropriate option that will fill in the blank number 5.
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60c1ebb7b0fa62518b3ec93dCan you ____(1)____ a world without human beings? Who but humans ___(2)____ have utilized the resources and created a ____(3)____ and cultural environment? The people living in a country are important to ____(4)____ the economy and the society. They ____(5)___are the greatest resource.
- 1itselffalse
- 2themselvestrue
- 3yourselvesfalse
- 4ourselvesfalse
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Answer : 2. "themselves"
Q:Directions: In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. Your answer is (4) i.e. No error.
Judge in him (1)/ prevailed upon the father (2)/ and he sentenced his son to death. (3)/ No error
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6308bb6d1ff92f3f9e750698- 11true
- 22false
- 33false
- 44false
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Answer : 1. "1"
Q:Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the five given alternatives.
Almost everybody allows himself or herself or herself some entirely unjustifiable generalizations on the subject of women. Married men, when they generalize on that subject, judge by their wives; women judge by themselves. It would be amusing to write a history of the views of men on women.
In antiquity, when male supremacy was unquestioned and Christian ethics were still unknown, women were harmless, rather silly, and a man who took them seriously was somewhat despised.
Plato’s great objection to the drama was that the playwright had to imitate women in creating his female roles. With the coming of Christianity, the woman took on a new part, that of the temptress; but at the same time, she was also found capable of being a saint.
In antiquity, male supremacy was
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5f3a41cf75fb0f4f9bb4200a- 1unquestionedtrue
- 2dubiousfalse
- 3doubtfulfalse
- 4questionablefalse
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