General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Read the following passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.
The cyber–world is ultimately ungovernable. This is alarming as well as convenient; sometimes, convenient because alarming. Some Indian politicians use this to great advantage. When there is an obvious failure in governance during a crisis they deflect attention from their own incompetence towards the ungovernable. So, having failed to prevent nervous citizens from fleeing their cities of work by assuring them of proper protection, some national leaders are now busy trying to prove to one another, and to panic-prone Indians, that a mischievous neighbour has been using the internet and social networking sites to spread dangerous rumours. And the Centre's automatic reaction is to start blocking these sites and begin elaborate and potentially endless negotiations with Google, Twitter and Facebook about access to information. If this is the official idea of prompt action at a time of crisis among communities, then Indians have more reason to fear their protectors than the nebulous mischief-makers of the cyber world. Wasting time gathering proof, blocking vaguely suspicious websites, hurling accusations across the border and worrying about bilateral relations are ways of keeping busy with inessentials because one does not quite known what to do about the essentials of a difficult situation. Besides, only a fifth of the 245 websites blocked by the Centre mention the people of the Northeast or the violence in Assam. And if a few morphed images and spurious texts can unsettle an entire nation, then there is something deeply wrong with the nation and with how it is being governed. This is what its leaders should be addressing immediately, rather than making a wrongheaded display of their powers of censorship.
It is just as absurd, and part of the same syndrome, to try to ban Twitter accounts that parody despatches from the Prime Minister's Office. To describe such forms of humour and dissent as "misrepresenting" the PMO–as if Twitter would take these parodies for genuine despatches from the PMO — makes the PMO look more ridiculous than its parodists manage to. With the precedent for such action set recently by the chief minister of West Bengal, this is yet another proof that what Bengal thinks today India will think tomorrow. Using the cyber–world for flexing the wrong muscles is essentially not funny. It might even prove to be quite dangerously distracting.
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5f28e8ca921df808289196ffIt is just as absurd, and part of the same syndrome, to try to ban Twitter accounts that parody despatches from the Prime Minister's Office. To describe such forms of humour and dissent as "misrepresenting" the PMO–as if Twitter would take these parodies for genuine despatches from the PMO — makes the PMO look more ridiculous than its parodists manage to. With the precedent for such action set recently by the chief minister of West Bengal, this is yet another proof that what Bengal thinks today India will think tomorrow. Using the cyber–world for flexing the wrong muscles is essentially not funny. It might even prove to be quite dangerously distracting.
- 1the centre should start negotiations with Google, Twitter and Facebook.false
- 2the centre should help the citizens evacuate their city.false
- 3the centre should not block the sites.false
- 4the centre should arrest the guilty.true
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Answer : 4. "the centre should arrest the guilty."
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Answer : 3. "spectacular"
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5f43928997c6dd29b39043c2- 1neutralfalse
- 2formalfalse
- 3imaginaryfalse
- 4casualtrue
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Answer : 4. "casual "
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Answer : 4. "tease"
Q:Choose the word which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word given in capital letters:
QUELL
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5d70bf9c9004b376a58bec60- 1Provokefalse
- 2Abetfalse
- 3Suppresstrue
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Answer : 3. "Suppress"
Q:In each of the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word (s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate your choice for the correct answer.
Mahesh is very happy because the value of his shares has_____.
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5f605a532eed863f3a80a593- 1Diminishedfalse
- 2complimentedfalse
- 3applaudedfalse
- 4Appreciatedtrue
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Answer : 4. "Appreciated"
Q: Select the most appropriate word for the given group of words.
Persons who rob ships
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64c8e4da29beb3482a4afd63- 1robbersfalse
- 2banditsfalse
- 3dacoitsfalse
- 4piratestrue
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Answer : 4. "pirates"
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.
MENACE
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5e53a69045ac3921da27603b- 1Requestfalse
- 2Prayerfalse
- 3Threattrue
- 4Cursefalse
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