General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Direction: In the following questions, a passage given in the below. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question.
As my train was not due to leave for another hour, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some magazines to read on the journey, I made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase I had left there three days before. There were only a few people waiting, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt did not seem to be where I had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and the railway tickets, money, scraps of paper, and photographs tumbled out of it; but no matter how hard I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.
I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me suspiciously as if to say he had heared this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case. I told him that it was an old, brown looking object no different from the many suitcases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me form and told me to make a list of the contents of the case. If they were correct, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down.
After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment , it occurred to me that if someone had picked the receipt up , he could easily have claimed the case already , Fortunately this had not happened , for after a time , I found the case lying on its side high up in the corner . After examining the articles inside, the assistant gave me the case .
I took out my walled to pay him. I pulled out a ten-shilling note and out slipped my “lost” receipt with it! I could not help blushing . The assistant noded his head knowingly, as if to say that he had often seen this happen too!!
The writer needed the receipt
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5d95bfcd31f48d43df255495- 1To claim his suitcasetrue
- 2To pay at the luggage officefalse
- 3To prove that he had paid at the luggage officefalse
- 4To prove that he had bought the suitcasefalse
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Answer : 1. "To claim his suitcase"
Q:Directions: In the 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 your answer is (D).
He is adequately provided for the necessities of life.
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5f2d175679b9e641a760d448- 1tofalse
- 2withfalse
- 3byfalse
- 4No improvementtrue
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Answer : 4. "No improvement "
Q:In each of the following sentences, there is a blank space. Below each sentence,there are five words out of which one can be used to fill the blank to make the sentence grammatically and coherently correct. Find the most appropriate word that fit into the blank contextually.
The visit will focus on _____ , sustainable development, urban development and scientific research with both countries exploring ways to _____ mutual exchanges in the areas of trade and science.
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5e8ef9f390613f3f9420a308- 1newness, elevatefalse
- 2innovation, enhancetrue
- 3modification, reducefalse
- 4modernization, appreciatefalse
- 5stagnation, amplifyfalse
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Answer : 2. "innovation, enhance"
Q: Direction: In these questions, a part of the sentence is given in bold. Below are given alternative 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).
When the owner offered tea, the poet denied it
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5d7b4ede328c71253aaa1892- 1dislikedfalse
- 2declinedtrue
- 3disobeyedfalse
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Answer : 2. "declined "
Q:Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.
If I knew about him before I will have recommended him.
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5f6af431558d255013bb7c5e- 1If I knewfalse
- 2recommended himfalse
- 3about him beforefalse
- 4I will havetrue
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Answer : 4. "I will have"
Q:Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.
One of the American Navy's greatest losses during World War if was inflicted not by the Japanese, but by the weather. On the evening of 17 December 1944, destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers of the Third Fleet Task Force 38 were replenishing stocks of food, fuel and ammunition during a sea rendezvous with support ships when a savage tornado struck the Philippine Sea. One of the commanders said later: 'My ship was riding as though caught in some giant washing machine. We were rolling between heaving clifs of water, caught in so strong a vice of wind and sea that our 50,000 horse- power engines were helpless. It was nine hours before he regained control of his ship, after the fleet had bobbed like helpless shuttlecocks, unable to prevent collisions in the sledge hammer waves.
The ships caught in the tornado
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5dde1fa5e983b256fe6b4d3aOne of the American Navy's greatest losses during World War if was inflicted not by the Japanese, but by the weather. On the evening of 17 December 1944, destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers of the Third Fleet Task Force 38 were replenishing stocks of food, fuel and ammunition during a sea rendezvous with support ships when a savage tornado struck the Philippine Sea. One of the commanders said later: 'My ship was riding as though caught in some giant washing machine. We were rolling between heaving clifs of water, caught in so strong a vice of wind and sea that our 50,000 horse- power engines were helpless. It was nine hours before he regained control of his ship, after the fleet had bobbed like helpless shuttlecocks, unable to prevent collisions in the sledge hammer waves.
- 1are compared to shuttlecockstrue
- 2had a cargo of shuttlecocksfalse
- 3scattered shuttlecocks in the seafalse
- 4traded in shuttlecocksfalse
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Answer : 1. "are compared to shuttlecocks "
Q:Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
William Shakespeare is the greatest of all other writers.
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5f3e413e9ab97f7febf05d53- 1any otherfalse
- 2all thetrue
- 3the otherfalse
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Answer : 2. "all the"
Q:Select the correct prefix/suffix to change the form of the given word.
Natural
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