General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
Time perception raises a number of ______ puzzles, including what it means to say we perceive time.
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6017cc2f6d6bae40a631ab44- 1boringfalse
- 2befoolingfalse
- 3discriminatingfalse
- 4intriguingtrue
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Answer : 4. "intriguing"
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: Read each part of the sentence to find out if there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, mark your answer as (5).
He is (1)/ survived by (2) / his wife (3)/ or three sons (4)/ No Error (5)
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5e95b5ade6fbf153faa78094- 11false
- 22false
- 33false
- 44true
- 55false
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Answer : 4. "4"
Q: Nothing about the accident has come to her knowledge.
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5f4613cef2f3ef4eee7b396c- 1has been known by herfalse
- 2is known to hertrue
- 3was learnt by herfalse
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 2. "is known to her "
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 ) .
The commissions are set up to ask into the incidents.
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5f211b40ec5b045afeaf72f0- 1demandfalse
- 2inquiretrue
- 3lookfalse
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 2. "inquire"
Q:Direction: In the question a sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expressed the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.
Post the letter.
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5ddb66ed5137d252a2b55471- 1The letter is posted.false
- 2The letter was posted.false
- 3Let the letter be posted.true
- 4The letter will be posted.false
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Answer : 3. "Let the letter be posted. "
Q:In these questions read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. If there is no error, the answer is (D).
He is (a)/having many (b)/ friends here (c)/ No error (d).
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602b42f37df798448f464c79- 1(a)false
- 2(b)false
- 3(c)false
- 4(d)true
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Answer : 4. "(d)"
Q:Directions: In question four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it is the Answer Sheet.
He didn’t tell me directly, but reading between the lines. I think he is not happy with them.
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5da84f0bb247ec0cc95f8480- 1reading slowly and haltinglyfalse
- 2understanding the sense rather than the actual wordstrue
- 3understanding the meaning of words and not the sensefalse
- 4reading superficially.false
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