General English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice.
 A trip to the village temple was made by Bhavani yesterday.

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    Bhavani was going to make a trip to the temple yesterday.
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    Bhavani made a trip to the village temple yesterday.
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    Bhavani tripped to the village temple yesterday.
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    Bhavani is going to make a trip to the temple today.
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Answer : 2. "Bhavani made a trip to the village temple yesterday."
Explanation :

The sentence is transformed from passive to active voice, making Bhavani the doer of the action.

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Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it

Amidst a maze of rocks tucked in the Aravalli mountain ranges of Haryana, a team of archaeologists discovered cave paintings they believe belong to the Upper Palaeolithic age. The cave paintings have been discovered just outside the national capital and a stone’s throw away from a holy grove called Mangar Bani- the region’s only surviving patch of primary forest.

While the residents of the villages have been familiar with the paintings for ages, the Haryana government’s museum and archaeology department took note of them just recently. A fact-finding team was sent to the area in the last week of June. The team came across cave paintings comprising images of human figurines, animals, foliage, and geometric drawings. While some have paled over time, others are still very visible. They also discovered rock art and open-air ceremonial sites.

Banani Bhattacharyya, deputy director of the department of archaeology and museums informed, “So far, cave paintings in Delhi-NCR have only been found here. The paintings are yet to be dated but at least some of them belong to the Upper Palaeolithic period in all likelihood. We are viewing the paintings in continuation with the Soanian culture which has been found in Shivalik hills, Narmada and Aravallis.”

Most of the cave paintings found were in ochre colour, but some were in white. As per experts, cave paintings in white are usually from a later stage (early contemporary era), while Stone Age paintings are more often than not in ochre. “Stone age paintings generally use red and ochre colours. Stones of these colour used to be available locally and inhabitants crushed the stones for preparing the colour for paintings,” added Bhattacharyya

The Upper Paleolithic Age began around 40,000 years ago and lasted till around 10,000 years ago. While yet to be established through archaeological dating, Bhattacharyya says the Mangar cave art is 20,000-40,000 years old. Bhattacharyya claimed that the discovery is extremely significant. “Starting from the Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic then Upper Palaeolithic, we see the evolution here. We have found significant remains from Lower Palaeolithic till Middle and Upper Palaeolithic period too,” she explained. “Though tools from the Palaeolithic Age have been identified earlier in parts of the Aravallis, it is for the first time that cave paintings and rock art of a large magnitude have been found in Haryana,” she added.

The cave paintings found in Aravalli hills are significant mainly because

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    they are the only prehistoric cave paintings found in Aravalli Hills.
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    they are found in such a large magnitude for the first time.
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    they have been discovered just outside the national capital, Delhi
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    they depict the evolution from Lower to Upper Paleolithic period
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Answer : 4. "they depict the evolution from Lower to Upper Paleolithic period"

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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.

"It's not my business," said the postman. "Let the government do whatever it has to." 

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    The postman said that it was the government's and not his business to do that.
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    The postman said that the government did not do what it was expected to do.
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    The postman said that it was not his business and that the government should do whatever it had to.
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    The postman said that it was the business of the government to do whatever it had to.
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Answer : 3. "The postman said that it was not his business and that the government should do whatever it had to. "

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Select the synonyms for the given words
Apparent

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    Considerable
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    Doubtful
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    Obvious
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    Questionable
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Answer : 3. "Obvious"

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Choose the most appropriate translation of the given sentence into English:
 अभिव्यक्ति की स्वतंत्रता हमारा मूल अधिकार है।

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    Freedom of speech is our original right.
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    Independence of expression is our fundamental right.
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    Freedom of expression is our fundamental right.
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    Our fundamental right is freedom of speech.
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Answer : 3. "Freedom of expression is our fundamental right. "

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Groups of four words are given. In each group, one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.

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    Eccumenikal
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    Ecumenical
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    Ecuemenicel
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    Ekumanical
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Answer : 2. "Ecumenical"

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The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
 He used to reply / that the only place / for which he went / was the town library.

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    was the town library
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    for which he went
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    He used to reply
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    that the only place
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Answer : 2. "for which he went"

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