General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Read the following passage carefully and answer the given questions.
It is impossible for a well-educated, intellectual or brave man to make money the chief object of his thought, just as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy people like their dinners, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthy-minded people like making money-ought to like it, and to enjoy the sensation of winning it, but the main object of their life is not money, it is something better than money. A good soldier, for instance mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay, very properly so, and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years without it - still his main notion of life is to win battles not to be paid for winning them. So of the doctor. They like fees, no doubt, ought to like them, yet if they are brave and well-educated, the entire object of their lives is not fees. They, on the whole, desire to cure the sick, and if they are good doctors, and the choice were fairly put to them, they would rather cure their patient, and lose the fees, than kill him and get it. And so with all other brave and rightly trained men, their work is first, their fees second - very important, no doubt, but still second. But in every nation, there are a vast number of people who are ill-educated, cowardly and stupid. And with these people, just as certainly the fee is first and work second, as with brave people the work is first and fee second.
The writer’s main argument in the passage is -
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61277b5cb05363065a01842dIt is impossible for a well-educated, intellectual or brave man to make money the chief object of his thought, just as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy people like their dinners, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthy-minded people like making money-ought to like it, and to enjoy the sensation of winning it, but the main object of their life is not money, it is something better than money. A good soldier, for instance mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay, very properly so, and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years without it - still his main notion of life is to win battles not to be paid for winning them. So of the doctor. They like fees, no doubt, ought to like them, yet if they are brave and well-educated, the entire object of their lives is not fees. They, on the whole, desire to cure the sick, and if they are good doctors, and the choice were fairly put to them, they would rather cure their patient, and lose the fees, than kill him and get it. And so with all other brave and rightly trained men, their work is first, their fees second - very important, no doubt, but still second. But in every nation, there are a vast number of people who are ill-educated, cowardly and stupid. And with these people, just as certainly the fee is first and work second, as with brave people the work is first and fee second.
- 1that money is not the main object in life for all right-thinking peopletrue
- 2that money is the main object in life for all right-thinking peoplefalse
- 3that money is the main object in life for some right-thinking peoplefalse
- 4that society is not important at all for all right-thinking people.false
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Answer : 1. "that money is not the main object in life for all right-thinking people"
Q:Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.
The practice of giving best jobs to the member of one’s family
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61277ac58bc9f114ff510a2c- 1Nepotismtrue
- 2Favouritismfalse
- 3Partialityfalse
- 4Corruptionfalse
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Answer : 1. "Nepotism"
Q:Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.
A person who brings suit in a court of law.
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6127797593f02206607f9e9e- 1Litigantfalse
- 2Deponentfalse
- 3Defendantfalse
- 4Plaintifftrue
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Answer : 4. "Plaintiff"
Q:Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.
A person who believes that pleasure is the most important thing in life
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612778e58bc9f114ff5103ed- 1Hedonisttrue
- 2Foodiefalse
- 3Materialistfalse
- 4Stoicfalse
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Answer : 1. "Hedonist"
Q:Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select No Improvement.
What does it matter most is the quality of the goods that we require.
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6127788fb05363065a017ba3- 1what it matters morefalse
- 2what does it matterfalse
- 3what matters mosttrue
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 3. "what matters most"
Q:Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select No Improvement.
He paid the caretaker for his board and lodging.
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6127782593f02206607f9d56- 1roomfalse
- 2furniturefalse
- 3boardingfalse
- 4No improvementtrue
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Answer : 4. "No improvement"
Q:Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select No Improvement.
The new king has been able to bear up all opposition.
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6127778d93f02206607f9aab- 1bear offfalse
- 2bear downfalse
- 3bear outfalse
- 4No improvementtrue
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Answer : 4. "No improvement"
Q:Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select No Improvement.
While crossing the road, a snake was seen.
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61277707dbe92e068b91f882- 1a snake was movingfalse
- 2he saw a snaketrue
- 3a snake was observedfalse
- 4No improvementfalse
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