English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Choose the correct form of Passive Transformation of the sentence given:
The Vice-Chancellor kept the staff members waiting.
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636cfba1d1a5e52b96e5150aThe Vice-Chancellor kept the staff members waiting.
- 1The staff members were waiting for the Vice-Chancellor.false
- 2The staff members are kept waiting for the Vice-Chancellor.false
- 3The staff members were kept waiting by the Vice-Chancellor.true
- 4The staff members were being kept waiting by the Vice-Chancellor.false
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Answer : 3. "The staff members were kept waiting by the Vice-Chancellor. "
Q:In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
A group of researchers has (1) ______ that pleasure and positive states of mind are better for our health. This new intellectual approach to health is not only more powerful, but also has no side effects. Central to this claim are recent findings that even getting an education may add as much as 10 years to your (2) ______. That is why National Geographic featured John de Rosen in its book The Incredible Machine, which discussed old age. De Rosen, an artist, continued to paint until the week he died at age 91. The book notes: "Some scientists believe that retirement to a (3) ______ lifestyle initiates or aggravates medical problems, thus shortening life. According to a study of retired people, adults over 65 can learn a (4) ______ skill, like oil painting, as readily as younger students." So retiring from a job in a sense means retiring from life unless (5) ______ by some other, preferably new activity. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.
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641996f55bff3d098df656eb- 1complimentaryfalse
- 2sanitaryfalse
- 3sedentarytrue
- 4segmentaryfalse
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Answer : 3. "sedentary"
Q:Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underline segment in the given sentence.
A dishonest employee plays fast with his boss.
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645a27a3131c83edd3e75935- 1plays stop and runfalse
- 2plays quick and slowfalse
- 3plays run and stopfalse
- 4plays fast and loosetrue
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Answer : 4. "plays fast and loose"
Q: In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part, which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, choose the alternative that indicates 'No improvement'.
Although both the United States and China are formidable world powers, India should side with the later.
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64d4cda980ef1e74b4d3f05c- 1India should side along the laterfalse
- 2India should side with the lattertrue
- 3India should side along the latterfalse
- 4India should be siding with the laterfalse
- 5No Improvementfalse
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Answer : 2. "India should side with the latter"
Q:Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
Walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace
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648711d9a33e0f47b783bbc1- 1Ambletrue
- 2Strutfalse
- 3Rompfalse
- 4Prancefalse
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Answer : 1. "Amble"
Explanation :
Amble refers to a leisurely and unhurried walk or movement.
Q: Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. It is impossible to reach the space as there is no passage that leads to it.
B. The void seems to have no meaning at all and was perhaps just left there for construction reasons.
C. It is about the size of the Grand Gallery which is a known passageway that leads to the King’s Chamber.
D. The newly found chamber in the Egyptian pyramid is 30 metres long.
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64c3aa29a919c8488e135b85- 1CADBfalse
- 2DCABtrue
- 3DCBAfalse
- 4BDCAfalse
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Answer : 2. "DCAB"
Q:Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.
Looking back on those days I see myself as a kind of centaur, half boy, half bike, forever wheeling down suburban streets under the poincianas, on my way to football practice or the library or to a meeting of the little group of us, girls and boys, that came together on someone's verandah in the evenings after tea.
I might come across the Professor then on his after dinner stroll; and as often as not, he would be accompanied by my father, who would stop me and demand (partly, I thought, to impress the Professor) where I was off to or where I had been; insisting, with more than his usual force, that I come home right away, with no argument I spent long hours cycling back and forth between our house and Ross McDowell or Jimmy Larwood's, my friends from school, and the Professor's house was always on the route, I was always aboard and waiting for something significant to occur, for life somehow to declare it self and catch me up I rode my bike in slow circles or figures-of-eight, took it for sprints across the gravel of the park, or simply hung motionless in the saddle, balanced and waiting.
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5f3a1c8fe2e6e42e42b780ebI might come across the Professor then on his after dinner stroll; and as often as not, he would be accompanied by my father, who would stop me and demand (partly, I thought, to impress the Professor) where I was off to or where I had been; insisting, with more than his usual force, that I come home right away, with no argument I spent long hours cycling back and forth between our house and Ross McDowell or Jimmy Larwood's, my friends from school, and the Professor's house was always on the route, I was always aboard and waiting for something significant to occur, for life somehow to declare it self and catch me up I rode my bike in slow circles or figures-of-eight, took it for sprints across the gravel of the park, or simply hung motionless in the saddle, balanced and waiting.
- 1an adult reflecting on his boy hoodtrue
- 2a boy recounting his summer holidayfalse
- 3an outsider observing life in the suburbsfalse
- 4an adolescent describing his communityfalse
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Answer : 1. "an adult reflecting on his boy hood"
Q: Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.
I had never seen him lose his temper, and he governed our company with an iron hand.
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642ac7f972ca731a991546f4- 1In anxietyfalse
- 2At the servicefalse
- 3To any degreefalse
- 4strict and harsh controltrue
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