English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom that can be substituted in the following sentence.
 He was murdered in cold blood.

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    in cold weather
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    deliberately
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    when blood was cold
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    regretfully
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Answer : 2. "deliberately"

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Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select 'No improvement'.

The teacher advised the children to not went near the lake.

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    don't go
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    No improvement
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    not to go
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    not to be going
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Answer : 3. "not to go"

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Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.

If somebody attacks you, you needs be able to defend yourself.

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    No substitution required
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    need to be able
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    need being able
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    need be able
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Answer : 2. "need to be able"
Explanation :

The correct sentence should be:

If somebody attacks you, you need to be able to defend yourself.

Explanation: The verb "needs" should be changed to "need," and the word "be" should be included for the sentence to be grammatically correct. The corrected sentence indicates the necessity of being able to defend oneself if attacked.

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Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select ‘No improvement’.

A hole is in my pocket.

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    A hole are there
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    A hole there is
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    There is a hole
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    No improvement
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Answer : 3. "There is a hole"
Explanation :

An adverb is a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, etc. The adverb 'there' is used to introduce the subject of a sentence, especially before the verbs be, seem, and appear. Example: There seemed to be a problem with finding a date for the meeting. Hence in the given underlined part of the sentence, the correct choice will be the 1st option i.e. There is a hole.

Q:

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underline segment in the given sentence.
 If we do nothing to curb this pollution, I guarantee we will face the wall in the future.

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    face the wind
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    face the music
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    face the dark
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    face the stick
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Answer : 2. "face the music"

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Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.

The giraffe is the tallest land mammal alive, its long legs and neck contributing to its impressive stature. Males can be up to 18ft (5.5m tall), females a little less.

In the wild, these beautiful creatures stretch their necks beyond those of antelope, kudu and even elephants to strip leaves from the untouched upper reaches of trees. The French zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is usually credited as the first person to suggest that long necks have evolved in giraffes because they allow them to get to the parts other herbivores cannot reach.

As the giraffe lives "in places where the soil is nearly always arid and barren, it is obliged to browse on the leaves of trees and to make constant efforts to reach them," he wrote in his 1809 book ‘Philosophie Zoologique’. "From this habit long maintained in all its race, it has resulted that the animal's fore-legs have become longer than its hind legs, and that its neck is lengthened."

The English naturalist Charles Darwin also thought the giraffe's extraordinary legs and neck must have something to do with foraging. "The giraffe, by its lofty stature, much elongated neck, fore-legs, head and tongue, has its whole frame beautifully adapted for browsing on the higher branches of trees," he wrote in ‘On the Origin of Species’ in 1859. In short, giraffes' long necks are the result of generation upon generation of repeated stretching and inheritance.

During the dry season when feeding competition should be most intense giraffe generally feed from low shrubs, not tall trees. What's more, giraffes feed most often and faster with their necks bent

Male giraffes often fight for access to females, a ritual referred to as "necking". The rivals stand flank to flank, then start to whack each other with their heads. The top or back of the well-armoured skull is used as a club to strike the neck, chest, ribs, or legs of the opponent with a force capable of knocking a competitor off balance or unconscious. The largest males usually win these battles and do most of the breeding, says zoologist Anne Innis Dagg of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, who has been studying giraffes since the 1950s. "The other giraffes don't get much breeding opportunity." There is also evidence that females are more receptive to advances from larger males.

Giraffe’s feeding is faster when it feeds with its neck:

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    bent
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    elongated
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    straight
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    entangled
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Answer : 1. "bent"

Q:

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word. 

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    Mismatche
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    Securities
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    Essentially
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    Fiscal
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Answer : 1. "Mismatche "

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