General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.
Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us into some corner of the world where people are not interested in minutes and seconds. The unpunctuality of the orient, for example is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-times and regular train services. For a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accepts the blank hours with linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home. Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second; men will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organisation needed to control technology shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.
In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in C.P. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.
The type of society which the author has mentioned makes a plea for
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638f37c158400a550dc9503aIn such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in C.P. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.
- 1a mind assimilative of modern scientific ideas.false
- 2a critical mind having insight into future.true
- 3a mind well-versed in cultural heritagefalse
- 4a mind with firm principles of life.false
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Answer : 2. "a critical mind having insight into future."
Q:In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
Violence takes a heavy toll and affects public life ______. High or low, known or unknown, rich or poor, popular or unpopular, no one is safe or secure today. It appears that one can harm anybody at any time and at ______. A mad and sad rat race is on to make money and ______ power at any cost and by any means. The result is that no political party or group can now ______ into claim to total innocence in so far as ______ of violence against innocent person for personal or political gains is concerned. Violent demonstrations, rallies, hartals have become the order of the day.
Violence takes a heavy toll and affects public life ______.
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6019f8fc552e5f41f7af4206- 1relativelyfalse
- 2ultimatelyfalse
- 3adverselytrue
- 4moderatelyfalse
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Answer : 3. "adversely"
Q: The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
But this immortality / will have purchased / at the price of / his immortal part.
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642ac506dcb650c145770461- 1will have purchasedtrue
- 2at the price offalse
- 3his immortal partfalse
- 4But this immortalityfalse
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Answer : 1. "will have purchased "
Q: Choose the appropriate synonym of the given word:
Adage:
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6392d677d319b37ca198f973Adage:
- 1Proverbtrue
- 2Youthfalse
- 3Supplementfalse
- 4Hardnessfalse
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Answer : 1. "Proverb"
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.
A cup of coffee (1)/ is an excellent complement (2)/ to smoked salmon. (3)/ No error (4) Directions
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6308b4b76bc0cb50e89cd0c8- 11false
- 22false
- 33false
- 44true
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Answer : 4. "4"
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Answer : 5. "home "
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.
One of the biggest failure of India’s rural policies has been seeking to shift people away from agriculture/. Non-numerative farming was leading to distress migration/. Considering the even graver threat climate change poses now, revamping of agriculture should proceed in a serious manner.
I. One of the biggest failures of India’s rural policies has been seeking to shift people away from agriculture.
II. Non- numerative farming has led to distress migration.
III. Considering the even graver threat which climate change pose now, revamping of agriculture should proceed in a serious manner.
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5e8719795375e016cf0dc0c8I. One of the biggest failures of India’s rural policies has been seeking to shift people away from agriculture.
II. Non- numerative farming has led to distress migration.
III. Considering the even graver threat which climate change pose now, revamping of agriculture should proceed in a serious manner.
- 1IIfalse
- 2II,IIIfalse
- 3I,IItrue
- 4I,IIIfalse
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 3. "I,II"
Q:In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.
One fireman died while 14 others had a narrow escape when a part of the factory-cum-outlet of a well-known battery ___(1)___ firm where they were battling a major ___(2)___ collapsed following a series of sudden explosions in west Delhi. The brave fireman who had joined the department last year and got married ___(3)___, was buried under a pile of debris following explosions which were triggered by a compressor burst. The fireman died due to excessive bleeding and smoke inhalation. It took firemen five hours to pull his body out of the debris.
Select the most appropriate option for blank number 3.
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5ff7f6bc3f9f9a23d7260ea4- 1evidentlyfalse
- 2generouslyfalse
- 3eventuallyfalse
- 4recentlytrue
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