General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.
Notwithstanding logistical challenges posed by COVID19 pandemic, India continues to expand its rice exports footprint in the African, Asian and European Union markets, thus having the largest share in global rice trade. The robust global demand also helped India’s growth in rice exports.
In 2020-21, India’s rice exports (Basmati and Non-Basmati) rose by a huge 87 per cent to 17.72 Million Tonne (MT) from 9.49 MT achieved in 2019-20. In terms of value realisation, India’s rice exports rose by 38 per cent to USD 8815 million in 2020-21 from USD 6397 million reported in 2019-20. In terms of Rupees, India’s rice export grew by 44 per cent to Rs 65298 crore in 2020-21 from Rs 45379 crore in the previous year. In the first seven months of the current financial year (2021-22), India’s rice exports rose by more than 33 per cent to 11.79 MT from 8.91 MT achieved during April-October, 2020-21. It is anticipated that India’s rice exports in 2021-22 would likely surpass the record feet of 17.72 MT achieved in 2020-21.
In 2020-21, India shipped non-basmati rice to nine countries - Timor-Leste, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Eswatini, Myanmar and Nicaragua, where exports were carried out for the first time or earlier the shipment was smaller in volume. India’s Non-Basmati rice exports was valued at USD 4796 million (Rs 35448crore) in 2020- 21, with Basmati Rice exports a close second at USD 4018 million (Rs 29,849 crore). In terms of volume of Basmati rice exports in 2020-21, top ten countries – Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Kuwait, United Kingdom, Qatar and Oman have a share of close to 80 per cent in total shipments of aromatic long grained rice from India.
Top ten countries – Nepal, Benin, Bangladesh, Senegal, Togo, Cote D Ivoire, Guinea, Malaysia, Iraq, United Arab Emirates – have a share of 57 per cent in India’s total exports of non-Basmati rice in 2020-21 in terms of volume.
Which of the following questions cannot be answered on the basis of the above passage?
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64aadcb36390ae7fc7a8deb7- 1How much Basmati rice was exported by India in 2020-21?true
- 2How much rice (Basmati and Non Basmati) was exported by India in 2020-21?false
- 3Which top 10 countries buy Non -Basmati rice from India?false
- 4What was the value of Basmati rice export from India?false
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Answer : 1. "How much Basmati rice was exported by India in 2020-21?"
Q:Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
To throw an event into confusion or disorder
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64900dbde8d2170cb3c05785- 1Explodefalse
- 2Detonatefalse
- 3Disrupttrue
- 4Eruptfalse
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Answer : 3. "Disrupt"
Explanation :
Disrupt means to interrupt or cause disorder, often in an organized event or system.
Q:Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.
A woman with dark brown hair-
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5f477c058733fc33258cf437- 1Blondefalse
- 2Brunettetrue
- 3Auburnfalse
- 4Blondfalse
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Answer : 2. "Brunette"
Q:Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
"An interview after the campaign ends (is the normal) for every candidate and every campaigner in every election," he said.
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60195fe468d5c24bfe7f006a- 1is the normallyfalse
- 2is continualityfalse
- 3is the normtrue
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Answer : 3. "is the norm"
Q:Read the passage carefully and give answer the following questions.
Childhood is a time when there are __(1) ___ responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child ___(2)____ good parents, he is fed, looked __(3) _____ and loved, whatever he may do, it is improbable that he will ever again in his life __(4) _____ given so much without having to do anything __(5)_____ return. In addition, life is always __(6)___ new things to the child. A child finds __(7)_____ in playing in the rain or in the snow.
Mark at option (7).
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5f0d4d47cec10557a8dec9d3Childhood is a time when there are __(1) ___ responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child ___(2)____ good parents, he is fed, looked __(3) _____ and loved, whatever he may do, it is improbable that he will ever again in his life __(4) _____ given so much without having to do anything __(5)_____ return. In addition, life is always __(6)___ new things to the child. A child finds __(7)_____ in playing in the rain or in the snow.
- 1painfalse
- 2progressfalse
- 3pressurefalse
- 4pleasuretrue
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Answer : 4. "pleasure"
Q: Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘No improvement’.
Hope you had a pleasant stay on the hotel.
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60a36028d3afc7379b0bea42Hope you had a pleasant stay on the hotel.
- 1fromfalse
- 2attrue
- 3offalse
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 2. "at"
Q: Choose the correct option:
The language in a tender should be
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63726f9a5c301501850089e6The language in a tender should be
- 1wordy and difficult to understandfalse
- 2informalfalse
- 3objective and very cleartrue
- 4ambiguousfalse
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Answer : 3. "objective and very clear"
Q: INFLUX
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5f44e7f28d39ed5d2ac6367b- 1effluentfalse
- 2exodustrue
- 3reflexfalse
- 4deflectionfalse
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