General English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
If the census tells us that India has two or three hundred languages, it also tells us, I believe, that Germany has about fifty or sixty languages. I do not remember anyone pointing out this fact in proof of the disunity or disparity of Germany. As a matter of fact, a census mentions all manner of petty languages, sometimes spoken by a few thousand persons only; and often dialects are classed for scientific purposes as different languages. India seems to me to have surprisingly few languages, considering its area. Compared to the same area in Europe, it is far more closely allied in regard to language, but because of widespread illiteracy, common standards have not developed and dialects have formed. The principal languages of India are Hindustani (of the two varieties, Hindi and Urdu), Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. If Assamese, Oriya, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Pushtu and Punjabi are added, the whole country is covered except for some hill and forest tribes. Of these, the Indo-Aryan languages, which cover the whole north, centre and west of India, are closely allied; and the southern Dravidian languages, though different, have been greatly influenced by Sanskrit, and are full of Sanskrit words. 

ln the question given below choose the word most opposite in meaning to the given word and mark your answer.
Prolix 

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    Tedious
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    Baleful
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    Precise
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    Clear
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Answer : 3. "Precise "

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Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error. If there is no error, then select option 'No error'.
The prices of tomatoes has/ soared up /to Rs. 65-70 per kg /in many parts of the country.

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    The prices of tomatoes has
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    in many parts of the country
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    soared up
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    No error
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Answer : 1. "The prices of tomatoes has"

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Choose the correctly spelt word.

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    Grammar
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    Grammer
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    Gramar
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    Gramer
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Answer : 1. "Grammar"

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SHALLOW

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    Artificial
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    Superficial
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    Foolish
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    Worthless
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Answer : 2. "Superficial"

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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.

The teacher told to the student “Why do you disturb the class?”

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    The teacher said to the student why he disturbed the class.
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    The teacher told the student why he had disturbed the class.
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    The teacher asked the student why he disturbed the class.
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    The teacher asked the student why he had disturbed the class.
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Answer : 3. "The teacher asked the student why he disturbed the class."

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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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    Always been popular in India
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    Become popular during the last twenty years
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    Never been popular the last twenty years
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    Been as popular as other kinds of fibre
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Answer : 2. "Become popular during the last twenty years"

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Antonym of Eradicate

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    insignificant
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    branch
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    concealed
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    create
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Answer : 4. "create"

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Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the word opposite in meaning of the given word as your answer.

Fetid

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    Foul
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    Stubborn
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    Fragrant
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    Laziness
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Answer : 3. "Fragrant"

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