General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.
Articulate
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5e7aeedd50339c736666443b- 1Uncleartrue
- 2Enunciatefalse
- 3Eloquentfalse
- 4Coherentfalse
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Answer : 1. "Unclear"
Q: Select the most appropriate word that means the same as the group of words given.
Hard and difficult to bend
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643d456301d99786d0edb909- 1Flexiblefalse
- 2Strongfalse
- 3Pliablefalse
- 4Rigidtrue
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Answer : 4. "Rigid"
Explanation :
Rigid means hard and difficult to bend, making it the most appropriate word for the given context.
Q:A passage is given with Five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.
It's nothing short of a revolution in how we eat, and it's getting closer every day. Yes, a lot of people are obese, and yes, the definition of "healthy eating" seems to change all the time. But in labs and research centres around the world, scientists are racing to match our genes and our taste buds, creating the perfect diet for each of us, a diet that will fight disease, increase longevity, boost physical and mental performance, and taste great to boot. As food scientist J.Bruce German says, "The foods we like the most will be the most healthy for us."
Is that going to be a great day, or what?
All this will come to pass, thanks to genomics, the science that maps and describes an individual's genetic code. In the future, personalized DNA chips will allow us to assess our own inherited predispositions for certain diseases, then adjust our diets accordingly. So, if you're at risk for heart disease, you won't just go on a generic low-fat diet. You'll eat foods with just the right amount and type of fat that's best for you. You'll even be able to track your metabolism day-to-day to determine what foods you should eat at any given time, for any given activity. "Since people differ in their genetics and metabolism, one diet won't fit all," says German.
As complex as all this sounds, it could turn out to be relatively simple.
What will be possible in the future?
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5efd6c10eb90be58c59203bbIt's nothing short of a revolution in how we eat, and it's getting closer every day. Yes, a lot of people are obese, and yes, the definition of "healthy eating" seems to change all the time. But in labs and research centres around the world, scientists are racing to match our genes and our taste buds, creating the perfect diet for each of us, a diet that will fight disease, increase longevity, boost physical and mental performance, and taste great to boot. As food scientist J.Bruce German says, "The foods we like the most will be the most healthy for us."
Is that going to be a great day, or what?
All this will come to pass, thanks to genomics, the science that maps and describes an individual's genetic code. In the future, personalized DNA chips will allow us to assess our own inherited predispositions for certain diseases, then adjust our diets accordingly. So, if you're at risk for heart disease, you won't just go on a generic low-fat diet. You'll eat foods with just the right amount and type of fat that's best for you. You'll even be able to track your metabolism day-to-day to determine what foods you should eat at any given time, for any given activity. "Since people differ in their genetics and metabolism, one diet won't fit all," says German.
As complex as all this sounds, it could turn out to be relatively simple.
- 1Personalised DNA chips for people to assess their own inherited predispositionstrue
- 2You are at great risk for heart diseasefalse
- 3You will not be able to determine what food you should eatfalse
- 4You will be unable to adjust your dietfalse
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Answer : 1. "Personalised DNA chips for people to assess their own inherited predispositions"
Q:Which of the phrases (A), (B), (C) and (D) are given below sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required ‘, mark (E) as the answer.
Came what may, she never missed a single sermon.
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5deb271b0c76b7071ae32329- 1come whatever mayfalse
- 2come what maytrue
- 3Come what may befalse
- 4Came what may befalse
- 5No correction requiredfalse
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Answer : 2. "come what may"
Q:Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
It is generally acknowledged that children learn a lot from their parents. It is not so commonly admitted that parents learn a great deal from their children. As adults, it is easy to assume that we are always right, but the laugh was on me one beautiful day.
My daughter Kashmira knew how much I loved flowers. One day when she was of nine years, she picked some branches from our neighbour's blossoming fruit tree. Realising she intended to please me, I didn't scold her, but chose a different approach. "These are lovely, dear, but do you realise that if you had left them on the tree, each of these blossoms would have become a cherry?" "No, they wouldn't have", she said firmly.
"Oh, yes they would have. Each of these blossoms would have grown into a cherry". "Well okay, mother, if you insist", she finally conceded, "but they were plums last year".
What the daughter picked from the neighbour's garden were-
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608bdb825c992217d5821d33It is generally acknowledged that children learn a lot from their parents. It is not so commonly admitted that parents learn a great deal from their children. As adults, it is easy to assume that we are always right, but the laugh was on me one beautiful day.
My daughter Kashmira knew how much I loved flowers. One day when she was of nine years, she picked some branches from our neighbour's blossoming fruit tree. Realising she intended to please me, I didn't scold her, but chose a different approach. "These are lovely, dear, but do you realise that if you had left them on the tree, each of these blossoms would have become a cherry?" "No, they wouldn't have", she said firmly.
"Oh, yes they would have. Each of these blossoms would have grown into a cherry". "Well okay, mother, if you insist", she finally conceded, "but they were plums last year".
- 1some branches with blossomstrue
- 2some branches with fruitfalse
- 3some branchesfalse
- 4some flowersfalse
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 1. "some branches with blossoms "
Q:In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
I said to my father, "I want to build a raft which can hold four people ."
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601a76d6552e5f41f7b13635- 1I told my father that that I am wanting to build a raft which could hold four people.false
- 2I told my father that I wanted to build a raft which could hold four people.true
- 3I told my father that I am wanting to build a raft which could hold four people.false
- 4I told my father that that I wanted to build a raft which could hold four people.false
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Answer : 2. "I told my father that I wanted to build a raft which could hold four people."
Q:Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the word opposite in meaning of the given word as your answer.
TERMINATE
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5faceaa1fad0560d3b7edf4e- 1Confinefalse
- 2Repealfalse
- 3Commencetrue
- 4Progressfalse
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Answer : 3. "Commence"
Q: Direction: Use the verbs given in brackets either in Active or Passive according to sense of the given sentence.
It…….to al that she returned from America last month. (know)
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5d7a2389f3d940085f6df35bIt…….to al that she returned from America last month. (know)
- 1is to knownfalse
- 2was knownfalse
- 3was to knowfalse
- 4is knowntrue
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