General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Direction :In the following passage there are blanks, each of which been passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
When sound (1) the world of cinema, mime made a gracious exit. (2) then, it stood proudly as a performing art in itself, independent and (3) in style, approach, treatment and performance not matched however, by (4) acceptance. During the silent era, actors in silent films had to (5) totally on mime as the only way of (6) their emotions, expressions, incidents, events and interactions between and among characters. German Expressionist cinema, a performing ema, the acting of classic performers like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton used mime they had (7) as part of their theatrical (8) in their films with great effect. A French mime artist once said, "Mime is the poetry of silence." But once talking (9) entered the scenario, mime was (10) ever used in films, even through a character introduced as a mime artist.
Mark your answer (9).
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5d8b42493be741271679e4bb- 1Toysfalse
- 2worldsfalse
- 3filmstrue
- 4Peoplefalse
- 5mimesfalse
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Answer : 3. "films"
Q: Select the option that contains a grammatical error in the underlined portion.
It would be impossible for them to continue living in this world if each of them knew exactly what fate had it store for them.
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647eec88e72c4684a1e10dccIt would be impossible for them to continue living in this world if each of them knew exactly what fate had it store for them.
- 1It would be impossible for them to continue living in this world if each of them knew exactly what fate had it store for them.false
- 2It would be impossible for them to continue living in this world if each of them knew exactly what fate had it store for themfalse
- 3It would be impossible for them to continue living in this world if each of them knew exactly what fate had it store for them.false
- 4It would be impossible for them to continue living in this world if each of them knew exactly what fate had it store for them.true
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Answer : 4. "It would be impossible for them to continue living in this world if each of them knew exactly what fate had it store for them."
Q:Directions: In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. Your answer is (4) i.e. No error.
It is time you (1)/ decide on your next (2)/ course of action. (3)/ No error (4)
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6308b2a41ff92f3f9e74ac95- 11false
- 22true
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Answer : 2. "2"
Q:In the following passage some of the word have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.
A civilised life is a rule __(177)___ violence, against taking __(178)__ in to our hands. It is a rule which _(179)__of use observe so often, indeed, that a great __(180)__ of people go through life __(181)___ orderliness and non-violence as apart of the scheme of nature. But when __(182)__ comes into their midst __(183)___refuses to observe the current rules, and ___(184)__ the simplest rule that might is right, the law abiding members___(185)__ society do not know what to do, and look on in _(186)__ bewildered confusion.
Mark your answer at (177).
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5f28f3dd921df8082891a512A civilised life is a rule __(177)___ violence, against taking __(178)__ in to our hands. It is a rule which _(179)__of use observe so often, indeed, that a great __(180)__ of people go through life __(181)___ orderliness and non-violence as apart of the scheme of nature. But when __(182)__ comes into their midst __(183)___refuses to observe the current rules, and ___(184)__ the simplest rule that might is right, the law abiding members___(185)__ society do not know what to do, and look on in _(186)__ bewildered confusion.
- 1afterfalse
- 2atfalse
- 3againsttrue
- 4uponfalse
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Answer : 3. "against"
Q:Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
(A) Colony losses last year weren’t as dramatic as the declines associated with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which was first identified in October 2006.
(B) Beekeepers tapped for the survey manage a total of 400,000 colonies, representing about 14.5 percent of the United States' honeybee colonies.
(C) Overall, colony losses during the 12-month period that ended in April reached 42.1 percent – the second-highest annual loss to date.
(D) Summer colony losses reached 27.4 percent, exceeding winter losses that came in at 23.7 percent.
(E) For the first time, beekeepers watched more of their colonies disappear during the summer than in winter
(F) A new survey outlining honeybee colony losses in the U.S. has scientists scratching their heads.
(A) And although there is great interest among intellectual historians today in (B)/ No major study has focused on the visual documents integral to this epistemic shift (C)/ Even though the philosophical visualizations of Meurisse, Chéron, and Gaultier had (D)/ challenges to Aristotelian orthodoxies during the “scientific revolution”, (E)/ An international reputation in the early modern period, they have since been largely forgotten,
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5e745c8eab844a18ffed74f4(A) Colony losses last year weren’t as dramatic as the declines associated with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which was first identified in October 2006.
(B) Beekeepers tapped for the survey manage a total of 400,000 colonies, representing about 14.5 percent of the United States' honeybee colonies.
(C) Overall, colony losses during the 12-month period that ended in April reached 42.1 percent – the second-highest annual loss to date.
(D) Summer colony losses reached 27.4 percent, exceeding winter losses that came in at 23.7 percent.
(E) For the first time, beekeepers watched more of their colonies disappear during the summer than in winter
(F) A new survey outlining honeybee colony losses in the U.S. has scientists scratching their heads.
- 1DAEBfalse
- 2CAEDfalse
- 3CBEAfalse
- 4None of thesefalse
- 5No correction requiredtrue
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Answer : 5. "No correction required "
Q: Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
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6450e26756b58a423694d391- 1Laxuryoustrue
- 2Innocentfalse
- 3Zealousfalse
- 4Judicialfalse
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Answer : 1. "Laxuryous"
Q:Directions: In each question given below a sentence is given and is divided into three parts I,II and III. For each part a correction statement is also given, you have to determine which part requires correction and select it as your answer.
Competitive Hindutva has become the name of the game in the ongoing election season/, with the ostensibly secular Congress party trying desperately to/ demonstrate its Hindu credentials to cut from base of Hindu-nationalist BJP.
I. Competitive Hindutva has becoming the name of the game in the ongoing election season
II. with the ostensibly secular Congress party trying desperately to
III. demonstrate its Hindu credentials to cut into the base of Hindu-nationalist BJP
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5e871a98c08cf316ddc8f5acI. Competitive Hindutva has becoming the name of the game in the ongoing election season
II. with the ostensibly secular Congress party trying desperately to
III. demonstrate its Hindu credentials to cut into the base of Hindu-nationalist BJP
- 1IIfalse
- 2II,IIItrue
- 3I,IIIfalse
- 4Ifalse
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 2. "II,III"
Q:Select the correct option of the idiom/phrase.
"A black sheep"
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6322fbc8e3985052c811e463- 1To muniplate the accountfalse
- 2To give credit to what is good in a disliked personfalse
- 3To go fast, hurryfalse
- 4An unlucky person, Bad characterstrue
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