General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word as your answer.
ENERVATE
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5efd7af1eb90be58c59257a8- 1Energisefalse
- 2Lurefalse
- 3Weakentrue
- 4Calmfalse
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Answer : 3. "Weaken"
Q: Direction: Use the verbs given in brackets either in Active or Passive according to sense of the given sentence.
Do it or you…..(punish)
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5d7a211d3d295c1c06834813Do it or you…..(punish)
- 1will be punishedtrue
- 2would be punishfalse
- 3will punishedfalse
- 4shall be punishedfalse
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Answer : 1. " will be punished "
Q:In the question a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.
She said to me, “ It has been raining heavily and you cannot go”.
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5ddb599ed566ad537af911ef- 1She told me that it had been raining heavily and I could not go.true
- 2She told me that it was raining heavily and I could not go.false
- 3She told me that it has been raining heavily and I could not go.false
- 4She told me that it is raining heavily and I could not go.false
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Answer : 1. "She told me that it had been raining heavily and I could not go."
Q: Select the sentence with the appropriate use of preposition.
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64802ae762f8ada0354f9d07- 1It has been raining till morning.false
- 2It has been raining from morning.false
- 3It has been raining by morning.false
- 4It has been raining since morning.true
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Answer : 4. "It has been raining since morning."
Q:In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternative given.
Every day for a whole year, all kind of holy men, hermits, scholars and nobles came, and related to the priests their deeds of ___(1)___, and the priests in solemn council heard their calms. At last, they decided that the one who seemed to be the greatest lover of ____(2)_____was a rich man who had that very year given all his ___(3)___to the poor. So they gave him the plate of gold, but when he took it in his hand, it turned into ___(4)___lead; thought, when he dropped it on the floor, to his __(5)___, it become gold again.
Select the most appropriate option that will fill in the blank (1).
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611b4dfbdc4e2547a1c8d9ad- 1Charitytrue
- 2kindnessfalse
- 3happinessfalse
- 4sympathyfalse
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Answer : 1. "Charity"
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.
Afraid of one’s own shadow
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5f3e4a6c72dcfe7bdc6cec5a- 1to make public something embarrassing that should be kept secret.false
- 2everything is ready.false
- 3a person who is angry or upset about something.false
- 4to become easily frightened.true
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Answer : 4. "to become easily frightened."
Q: Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
CONTAMINATE
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605d91d4c5cd476495a2d1db- 1pollutetrue
- 2cleansefalse
- 3sanctifyfalse
- 4purifyfalse
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Answer : 1. "pollute"
Q: Identify the tense in the following sentence; I ate three apples on last Wednesday.
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633feed0da15932e53e7d0e5- 1Past Perfectfalse
- 2Present Perfectfalse
- 3Past Continuousfalse
- 4Simple Pasttrue
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