English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Four corners of the earth
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5e85c1f8d931ca3febbaf7b8Four corners of the earth
- 1from the very beginningfalse
- 2from morning till nightfalse
- 3from all parts of the worldtrue
- 4from beginning to endfalse
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Answer : 3. "from all parts of the world"
Q:Choose the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Tenders are
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5e6a4a708fcee56af2fd8a8c- 1written quotations to complete a jobtrue
- 2public notices about jobs to be donefalse
- 3advertisements for a new productfalse
- 4payment for jobs donefalse
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Answer : 1. "written quotations to complete a job "
Q:What, one wonders, is the lowest common denominator of Indian culture today? The attractive Hema Malini ? The songs of Vinidh Barati? The attractive Hema Malini? The sons of Vinidh Barati?
Or the mouth-watering Masala Dosa? Delectable as these may be, each yield pride of place to that false (?) symbol of a new era-the synthetic fibre. In less than twenty years the nylon sari and the terylene shirt have swept the countryside, penetrated to the farthest corners of the land and persuaded every common man, woman and child that the key to success in the present day world lie in artificial fibers: glass nylon, crepe nylon, tery mixes, polyesters and what have you. More than the bicycles, the wristwatch or the transistor radio, synthetic clothes have come to represent the first step away form the village square. The village lass treasures the flashy nylon sari in her trousseau most delay; the village youth gets a great kick out of his cheap terrycot shirt and trousers, the nearest he can approximate to the expensive synthetic sported by his wealthy citybred contemporaries. And the Neo-rich craze for ‘phoren’ is nowhere more apparent than in the price that people will pay for smuggled, stolen, begged borrowed second hand or thrown away synthetics. Alas, even the uniformity of nylon.
The synthetic fibre has –
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5d7f7dc25d5653223cdd06ecOr the mouth-watering Masala Dosa? Delectable as these may be, each yield pride of place to that false (?) symbol of a new era-the synthetic fibre. In less than twenty years the nylon sari and the terylene shirt have swept the countryside, penetrated to the farthest corners of the land and persuaded every common man, woman and child that the key to success in the present day world lie in artificial fibers: glass nylon, crepe nylon, tery mixes, polyesters and what have you. More than the bicycles, the wristwatch or the transistor radio, synthetic clothes have come to represent the first step away form the village square. The village lass treasures the flashy nylon sari in her trousseau most delay; the village youth gets a great kick out of his cheap terrycot shirt and trousers, the nearest he can approximate to the expensive synthetic sported by his wealthy citybred contemporaries. And the Neo-rich craze for ‘phoren’ is nowhere more apparent than in the price that people will pay for smuggled, stolen, begged borrowed second hand or thrown away synthetics. Alas, even the uniformity of nylon.
- 1Always been popular in Indiafalse
- 2Become popular during the last twenty yearstrue
- 3Never been popular the last twenty yearsfalse
- 4Been as popular as other kinds of fibrefalse
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Answer : 2. "Become popular during the last twenty years"
Q: Direction: Choose the correct alternative of the following sentences.
Ram says, “I get up early in the morning.”
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5d7a0466d6a7c937bb55ad46Ram says, “I get up early in the morning.”
- 1Ram says that he got up early in the morningfalse
- 2Ram says that she gets up early in the morningfalse
- 3Ram says that he gets up early in the morningtrue
- 4Ram says that he will get up early in the morningfalse
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Answer : 3. "Ram says that he gets up early in the morning"
Q: In the current year (1)/ small lenders, who global banks have(2)/ long sneered at are performing (3)/ more better than the giants (4)/ No error (5).
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5eb25ee2abc20c4c2f0e7498- 1In the current yearfalse
- 2small lenders, who global banks havefalse
- 3long sneered at are performingfalse
- 4more better than the giantstrue
- 5No errorfalse
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Answer : 4. "more better than the giants "
Q:In the following questions, the first and the last part of the sentence are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence is split into four parts and named P Q R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the parts and find out which of the four combinations is correct. Then find the correct answer and indicate the correct response.
(1) The traveler said, " Can you tell me the way to the nearest inn? "
(P) " Do you want one in which you can spend the night? "
(Q) " Yes”, said the peasant.
(R) " Go right down the road and turn to the left. "
(S) " Yes “, replied the traveler.
(6) " Thank a lot. "
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5daebf4d5579ac410a052858(P) " Do you want one in which you can spend the night? "
(Q) " Yes”, said the peasant.
(R) " Go right down the road and turn to the left. "
(S) " Yes “, replied the traveler.
(6) " Thank a lot. "
- 1PSRQfalse
- 2QPSRtrue
- 3SPORfalse
- 4QSRPfalse
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Answer : 2. "QPSR "
Q:Directions: Which of the phrases (A), (B), (C) and (D) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the sentence grammatically correct. If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (E), i.e., 'No correction required' as the answer.
The last few decades has seen a great deal of political instability in India.
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5ea6be255657c22f78037ef8- 1Decade had seenfalse
- 2Decade has seenfalse
- 3Decades have seentrue
- 4Decade have seenfalse
- 5No change requiredfalse
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Answer : 3. "Decades have seen"
Q:Directions : In these questions , a part of the sentence is given in bold . Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (A) , (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence . Choose the correct alternative . In case no improvement is needed you answer is (D ) .
His acting is too good.
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5f2115674ab50b169742a3e7- 1bestfalse
- 2much betterfalse
- 3very goodtrue
- 4No improvementfalse
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