General English Practice Question and Answer

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Direction (A-E): In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blank appropriately.

The Sam Kee Building, located at 8 West Pender Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is (A) the "shallowest commercial building in the world", according to the Guinness Book of Records. The Sam Kee Company—one of the wealthiest firms in Chinatown— purchased a standard-sized lot in 1903. In 1912, however, Vancouver widened Pender Street and expropriated 24 feet (7.3 m) of the above-ground (B) —effectively (or so it was first believed) making conventional commercial use of the remaining frontage impractical, if not impossible. Refusing the neighbors offer to (C), Sam Kee decided to build anyway. In 1913, the architects Brown and Gillam designed this narrow, steel-framed building's ground-floor depth (from storefront to rear of building) to measure 4'11" (1.50 m), with a second-floor depth (from overhanging bay window to rear) of 6' (1.83 m). The basement (D) sidewalk and originally housed public baths, while the ground floor was used for offices and shops and the (E) for living quarters.

Choose the correct answer from the given options to fill the blanks which are numbered. (E)

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    Road besides
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    Building inside
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    Lake nearby
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    Top storey
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    Upper class in
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Answer : 4. "Top storey"

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Answer : 3. "C"

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ANNEXURE 

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    attachment
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    development
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    retirement
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    commencement
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Answer : 1. "attachment "

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Instruction: Choose the alternative which is an Adjective formed by adding a Suffix. 

Caution 

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    cautional
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    cautious
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    caution
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    None of these
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Answer : 2. "cautious "

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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.

COVENANT 

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    Case
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    Coupon
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    Contract
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    Settlement
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Answer : 3. "Contract "
Explanation :

The term "covenant" refers to a formal and binding agreement or contract between two or more parties. Among the provided options, "contract" is the word that best expresses the meaning of "covenant." A contract typically involves mutual promises and obligations agreed upon by the parties involved.


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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.

SUBVERT

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    reduce
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    abolish
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    overthrow
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    subdue
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Answer : 3. "overthrow"

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Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-

According to me, she is sick.

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    According to my opinion
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    in my opinion
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    According to my view
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    No improvement
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Answer : 2. "in my opinion"

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Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
 BRICS leaders are gathered in the Russian town of Ufa for the bloc’s annual summit, and Internet governance is high on their (1). The summit comes at a (2) juncture in India’s internet diplomacy. Last month in Buenos Aires, at a conference organised by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad offered an “Indian (3) for the Internet”. ICANN is the organisation that manages the Domain Name System, which serves as the (4) for all technical and commercial activity in cyberspace. In his recorded message, Mr. Prasad declared India would move away from state-led approaches to (5) the Internet, preferring instead a mechanism that co-opts the private sector and civil society into the policymaking process. India’s (6) of this model – called “multi-stakeholderism” – was followed at home by the launch of the “Digital India week”, which underlined the enormous political capital that the Narendra Modi government has (7) in technological solutions to governance. The Buenos Aires declaration, however, (8) stated New Delhi’s position: in Ufa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his delegation will be queried extensively by their interlocutors on the (9) cyber strategies India will (10).

Choose the correct option for the blank 3.

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    goal
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    sight
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    compute
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    objective
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    vision
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Answer : 5. "vision"

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