General English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

Find the same words of the following:
Attaining

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    Growing
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    Capturing
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    Lifting
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    Achieving
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Answer : 4. "Achieving"

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Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
 A wise king’s wisdom _____________the land like the sun.

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    illuminates
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    darkens
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    dims
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    spreads
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Answer : 1. "illuminates"
Explanation :

(A) illuminates - The phrase "wisdom illuminates the land like the sun" implies that the king's wisdom brightens and enlightens the land, making "illuminates" the most appropriate choice.

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Read the following passage carefully and give answer the following questions.
Two hundred years after Malthus predicted that population growth would overtake food production by a margin of 256 to 9, the simple fact is that food production had always been ahead of the population growth. Malthus’ doomsday prediction simply did not come true due to two major reasons: first, population did not grow geometrically and birth rates in all Western countries fell during the 20- Century, resulting in very slow population growth. Over the past quarter century, birth rates have been falling in the developing countries too. Second, modern agricultural practices and better irrigation have resulted in tremendous growth in food production in almost all parts of the globe, with the notable exception of sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, at the global level, the Malthusian doomsday never befell on us.
India’s population grew by about two and a half times in the past 45 years — from 361 million in 1951 to an estimated 916 million in 1995. But during the same period, India’s food grain production grew by nearly four times — from 51 million tonnes in 1951 to 191 million tonnes in 1995. As a result, the per capita food grain availability in India has gone up considerably since the Independence. That is, the Malthusian prediction has not come true even in India.

The food production has always been_________of   population growth.

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    ahead
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    slow
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    adequate
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    stagnant
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Answer : 1. "ahead"

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Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.

One who travels by foot

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    propagandist
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    protagonist
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    paediatrician
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    pedestrian
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Answer : 4. "pedestrian"

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Back up
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    Stand up to fight
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    Think about the past
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    Defend or support
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    Withdraw
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Answer : 3. "Defend or support"

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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

"DEMOLISH"

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    Abolish
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    Construct
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    Cherish
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    Obstruct
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Answer : 2. "Construct"

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Read the following passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.

Art both reflects and interprets the notion that produced it. Portraiture was the dominant theme of British painting up to the end of the eighteenth century because of a persistent demand for it. It would be unfair to say that human vanity and pride of possessions were the only reasons for this persistent demand, but certainly these motives played their part in shaping the course of British painting. Generally speaking, it is the artist's enthusiasm that accounts for the vitality of the picture, but it is the client who dictates its subject-matter. The history of national enthusiasms can be pretty accurately estimated by examining the subject-matter of a nation's art.
 There is one type of subject which recurs again and again in British painting of the late eighteenth century and the jart half of the nineteenth and which is hardly met with in the jart of any other country ---- the sporting picture, or rather the picture in which a love of outdoor life is directed into the channel of sport. The sporting picture is really an extension of the conversation piece. In it the emphasis is even more firmly based on the descriptive side of painting. It made severe demands on the artist and it must be-confessed that painters capable of satisfying these demands were rare. The ability to paint a reasonably convincing landscape is not often combined with the necessary knowledge of horses and dogs in movement and the power to introduce a portrait when necessary. To weld such diverse elements into a satisfactory aesthetic unity requires exceptional ability. It is not surprising, therefore, that while sporting pictures abound in England, especially in the private collections of country squires, not many of them are of real importance as works of art. What makes the sporting picture worth noting in, a history of British painting is the fact that it is as truly indigenous and as truly popular a form of art in England as was the religious ikon in Russia.

It' in the line 'It made severe demands on the artist were rare' refers to-

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    the descriptive side of painting
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    a convincing landscape
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    the sporting picture
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    the artist's enthusiasm
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Answer : 3. "the sporting picture"

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