General English Practice Question and Answer

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Find the correct synonym for the word 

INDIGENT

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    Poverty
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    Royal
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    Rich
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    Poor
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Answer : 4. "Poor"

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Answer : 4. "An irritating problem"

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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.

DEMOLISH

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    Diminish
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    Establish
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    Debunk
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    Deter
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Answer : 2. "Establish"

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A sentence/ a part of a sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the meaning of the sentence. Choose the correct alternatives. In case no improvement needed, click the option corresponding to 'No improvement'.

To improve into one’s health is one’s own responsibility as a healthy mind can reside only in a healthy body.

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    in one's health
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    at one's health
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    to one's health
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    upon one's health
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    No improvement
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Answer : 4. "upon one's health"

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A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives.

Teaching about compassion and empathy in schools can help deal with problems of climate change and environmental degradation,” says Barbara Maas, secretary, Standing Committee for Environment and Conservation, International Buddhist Confederation (IBC). She was in New Delhi to participate in the IBC’s governing council meeting, December 10-11, 2017. “We started an awareness campaign in the year 2005-2006 with H H The Dalai Lama when we learnt that tiger skins were being traded in China and Tibet. At that time, I was not a Buddhist; I wrote to the Dalai Lama asking him to say that ‘this is harmful’ and he wrote back to say, “We will stop this.” He used very strong words during the Kalachakra in 2006, when he said, ‘If he sees people wearing fur and skins, he doesn’t feel like living. ‘This sent huge shock waves in the Himalayan community. Within six months, in Lhasa, people ripped the fur trim of their tubba, the traditional Tibetan dress.
 The messenger was ideal and the audience was receptive,” says Maas who is a conservationist. She has studied the battered fox’s behavioral ecology in Serengeti, Africa. She heads the endangered species conservation at the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) International Foundation for Nature, Berlin. “I met Samdhong Rinpoche, The Karmapa, HH the Dalai Lama and Geshe Lhakdor and I thought, if by being a Buddhist, you become like this, I am going for it, “says Maas, who led the IBC initiative for including the Buddhist perspective to the global discourse on climate change by presenting the statement, ‘The Time to Act is Now: a Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change,’ at COP21 in Paris.
 “It was for the first time in the history of Buddhism that leaders of different sanghas came together to take a stand on anything! The statement lists a couple of important things: the first is that we amass things that we don’t need; there is overpopulation; we need to live with contentment and deal with each other and the environment with love and compassion,” elaborates Maas. She is an ardent advocate of a vegan diet because “consuming meat and milk globally contributes more to climate change than all "transport in the world.”
 Turning vegetarian or vegan usually requires complete change of perspective before one gives up eating their favorite food. What are the Buddhist ways to bring about this kind of change at the individual level? “To change our behavior, Buddhism is an ideal vehicle; it made me a more contented person,” says Maas, who grew up in Germany, as a sausage chomping, meat-loving individual. She says, “If I can change, so can anybody.

Why did Ms. Barbara Mass say “If I can change, so can anybody”?

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    She did not believe in Buddhism but the religion attracted her.
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    She grew up eating non vegetarian but turned vegan.
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    She never wanted to change but she still did, so anyone else can.
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    She was a complete vegan but still turned non vegetarian.
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Answer : 2. "She grew up eating non vegetarian but turned vegan."

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Answer : 4. "D"

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Parts of the following sentence have been given as options. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.

The reduced air pressure on airline flights can lessen the amount of oxygen in passengers' blood for twenty-five percent.

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    The reduced air pressure on airline flights
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    No error
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    in passengers' blood for twenty-five percent
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    can lessen the amount of oxygen
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Answer : 3. "in passengers' blood for twenty-five percent"

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Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

EFFICIENCY

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    Disability
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    Fluency
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    Tendency
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    Capability
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Answer : 4. "Capability"

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