General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Direction : In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
Education is for life, not merely for a livelihood. As long as we are unmindful of this _____, the _____ of our educational curriculum as well as that of our _____and students is likely to remain _____. It is not enough for a society to have experts. It needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and _____.
is likely to remain _____. It is not enough for a society to have experts.
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5f488f6f8733fc332592329c- 1inadequatetrue
- 2indifferentfalse
- 3representedfalse
- 4unmeasurablefalse
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Answer : 1. "inadequate "
Q:India and 25 other countries agreed to the Copenhagen Accord even as other developing countries accepted it as an irreversible decision later. The Accord came out of__(a)___ bargaining lasting almost 20 hours among ___(b)___ of governments of some of the most__(c)__ countries of the world. At the__(d)__of the day on Saturday, India___(e)__ to have given ground on some issues but blocked intrusion on other red lines. It had become evident within the first week of the talks that the best the emerging and praiseworthy economies of the developing world were going to do was to defend the existing economic resource sharing regimes.
Fill the blank at (e).
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5f56fb0879cfd646ddd2b836- 1provedfalse
- 2appearedtrue
- 3viewedfalse
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Answer : 2. "appeared"
Q:Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. We reached there at about 10 a.m.
B. The first ride we took was the Fury Wheel. It was really big, all of us were yelling and crying!
C. Yesterday, my friends and I went on a short picnic to an amusement park.
D. Even though we had reached on time there was a serpentine queue for the tickets. I took the entrance ticket.
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649abd251a612ce001f6a164- 1CADBtrue
- 2ABCDfalse
- 3CDBAfalse
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Answer : 1. "CADB"
Q: Parts of the following sentence are given as options. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Each one of the children in a nursery class require individual attention.
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64c103a3c3da05b22152d67a- 1in a nursery classfalse
- 2Each onefalse
- 3of the childrenfalse
- 4require individual attentiontrue
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Answer : 4. "require individual attention"
Explanation :
The correct form is "requires individual attention" to match the singular subject "each one."
Q: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.
The mother advised her son to be careful and not to enter into a quarrel with the goons.
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5f36385aefa02861bb1c2777- 1The mother advised her son, "Be careful and not enter into a quarrel with the goon"false
- 2The mother said to her son, "Do not enter into a quarrel with the goons."false
- 3The mother said to her son, "Be careful, Do not enter into a quarrel with the goons."true
- 4The mother said to her son to "be careful".false
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Answer : 3. "The mother said to her son, "Be careful, Do not enter into a quarrel with the goons." "
Q:Direction : passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases are given in bold in the passage to help you locale them while answering some of the questions.
Governments have traditionally equated economic progress with steel mills and cement factories. While urban centres thrive and city dwellers get rich, hundreds of millions of famers remain mired in poverty. However fears of food shortages, a rethinking of anti-poverty priorities and crushing recession in 2008 are causing a dramatic shift in world economic policy in favour of greater support for agriculture. last time when the world's farmers felt such love was in the 1970's. At that time, as food prices spiked, there was real concern that the world was facing a crisis in which the planet was simply unable to produce enough grain and meat for an expanding population. Governments across the developing world and international aid organisations plowed investment agriculture in technological breakthroughs, like high-yield strains of important food crops, boosted production. The result was the Green Revolution and food production exploded. into the early 1970s, while But the Green Revolution became a victim of its own success. Food prices plunged by some 60% by the late 1980's from their peak in the mid- 1970's. Policy-makers and aid workers turned their attention to the poor's other pressing needs, such as health care and education. Farming got starved of resources and investment. By 2004's aid directed at agriculture sank to 3.5% and "agriculture lost its glitter", “Also, as consumers in high-growth giants such as China and India became wealthier, they began eating more meat. So grain once used for human consumption got diverted to beef up livestock. By early 2008, panicked buying by importing countries and restrictions slapped on grain exports by some big producers helped drive prices up to heights not seen for three decades. Making matters worse, land and resources got reallocated to product cash crop such as bio fuels and the result was that voluminous reserves of grain evaporated. Protests broke out across the emerging world and fierce food riots toppled governments.
This spurred global leaders into action. This made them aware that food security is one of the fundamental issues in the world that has to be dealt with in order to maintain administrative and political stability. This also spurred the US, which traditionally provisioned food aid from American grain surpluses to help needy nations to move towards investing in farm sectors around the globe to boost productivity. This move helped countries become more productive for themselves and be in a better position to feed their own people. Africa, which missed out on the first Green Revolution due to poor policy and limited resources, also witnessed a 'change. Swayed by the success of East Asia, the primary poverty- fighting method favoured by many policy-makers in Africa was to get farmers off their farms and into modern jobs in factories and urban centres. But that started proved to be highly insufficient. Income levels in the countryside badly trailed those in cities while the FAO estimated that the number of poor going hungry in 2000 reached an all-time high at more than one billion. In India, on the other hand, with only 40% of its farmland irrigated, entire economic boom currently underway is held hostage by the unpredictable monsoon. With much of India's farming areas suffering from drought this year, the government will haw a tough time meeting its economic growth targets. In report, Goldman Sachs predicted that if this year too receives weak rains. It could cause agriculture to contract by 2% this Fiscal years, making the government's 7% GDP-growth target look a bit rich-. Another Green revolution is the need of the hour and to make it a reality, the global community still has much backbreaking farm work to do. What motivated the US to focus on investing in agriculture across the globe?
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5e8ef3cc33cfe77e56cd0cb1- 1To make developing countries become more reliant on US aidfalse
- 2To ensure grain surpluses so that the US had no need to import foodfalse
- 3To make those countries more self-sufficient to whom it previously provided foodtrue
- 4To establish itself in the market before the high growth giants such a India and China could establish themselvesfalse
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 3. "To make those countries more self-sufficient to whom it previously provided food "
Q:Direction: In the following questions, in the following passage some of words 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.
I am forty year old, rather tall and I have blue eyes ___(21)__ long black hair. I wear ___(22)___ clothes as I teach students in a relaxed atmosphere. I enjoy my job __(23)__ I get to meet and help so many different people from all over the word. ___(24)___ my spare time, I like playing tennis which I __(25)___ at least three times a week.
Fill at (23).
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6018fb8865f0475903812cfd- 1becausetrue
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Answer : 1. "because"
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.
Our reputation and image is most definitely determined by our ______. Also our ______ tend to be habit forming, in that we have a ______ to act in a particular manner. Hence most people are ______ by their deeds and seem to have little control over their actions. We usually act according to or in response to our surroundings-our circumstances and the environment which to a great extent ______ our priorities and objectives.
people are ______ by their deeds and seem.
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60194f7a6d6bae40a6376404Our reputation and image is most definitely determined by our ______. Also our ______ tend to be habit forming, in that we have a ______ to act in a particular manner. Hence most people are ______ by their deeds and seem to have little control over their actions. We usually act according to or in response to our surroundings-our circumstances and the environment which to a great extent ______ our priorities and objectives.
- 1shapedtrue
- 2killedfalse
- 3bornfalse
- 4alivefalse
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