General English Practice Question and Answer

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Select the correctly spelt word.

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    Lisence
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    Patner
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    Knowledge
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    Neice
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Answer : 3. "Knowledge"

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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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    that money is not the main object in life for all right-thinking people
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    that money is the main object in life for all right-thinking people
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    that money is the main object in life for some right-thinking people
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    that society is not important at all for all right-thinking people.
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Answer : 1. "that money is not the main object in life for all right-thinking people"

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Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language-so the argument runs-must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes. 
Now it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits, one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers. 

The author believes that -

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    English is become ugly
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    Bad language
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    Our thoughts are becoming uglier because we ae making the language uglier
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    Our civilization is decadent so nothing can be done to stop the decile of the language
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Answer : 3. "Our thoughts are becoming uglier because we ae making the language uglier "

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Find the part of the given sentence that has an error in it. If there is no error, choose ‘No error’.

We have more then 6 years of experience in field hockey.

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    then 6 years of
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    We have more
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    experience in field hockey.
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    No error
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Answer : 1. "then 6 years of"

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases are printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.

Survival is the most essential factor for every living organism. People resort to different tricks to make both ends meet. One such live instances is mentioned here. Villagers of Makhrada village believed that a witch lived in the denseforest near Makhrada. The passers by were much harassed by the witch who used to frighten them and also took their belongings. In the village there lived a young man named Dhiru who was fond of adventures. When he heard about the witch, he did not believe that it was one of the witches who ate flesh. But there was something elseabout the witch, which made Dhiru curious. She did not eat flest but took away the belongings of the people. Therefore, he was keen to solve this mystery.

He set out with a bag of mangoes. He walked through the forest till it was midway. He took shelter under a shady tree and pretended to be fast asleep. However, after some time, he really fell as leep. After a while, he felt that someone was trying to snatch his bag of mangoes, Suddenly, he woke up and caught hold of the person. It was the witch who tried to frighten Dhiru and run away. But Dhiru was strong and bold enough to hold the withc fast. The witch finally surrendered. Dhiru forced has to tell him who she really was. The witch removed her mask and narrated her and story. She told that she was a poor old widow and she had nobody to look after her. Therefore, she used to live in the forest, wearing a fearful-looking mask. People passing through the forest got frightened due to her appearance and took her for a witch. She then robbed the people of their belongings to make both ends meet. Dhiru took pity on her and gave her the bag of ranages.

How was the ‘witch’ described in this passage different from other witches? 

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    Other witches used to eat flesh; this witch didn’t
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    Other witches were not as fearful as this witch was
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    While other witches used to frighten the people, this witch didn’t
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    Other witches used to take people’s belonings; this witch didn’t
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Answer : 1. "Other witches used to eat flesh; this witch didn’t "

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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.

“And you believe all this?” asked Sriram, in surprise.

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    Sriram asked me in surprise if I believed all this.
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    Sriram asked me in disbelief if I was believing all this.
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    Surprised, Sriram asked me whether I believed all that.
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    Sriram was amazed that I believed all that.
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Answer : 3. "Surprised, Sriram asked me whether I believed all that."

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DISPARAGE 

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    comfort
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    connect
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    compliment
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    convince
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Answer : 3. "compliment "

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Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
CONDEMN

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    denounce
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    commend
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    compliment
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    approve
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Answer : 1. "denounce"

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