General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Read the passage carefully and answer the question accordingly.
One should consciously engage in activities that will nourish your soul. Just as we nourish the body, we need to nurture the soul to connect to the creative power of the universe and to manifest joy in our lives. Often, we forget to address the soul, lost as we are in a jungle of material and sensual pleasures. But the more you embrace what feeds your soul, the happier you become. So if you want to enjoy the abundance of life, engage in what enriches your soul. Nurturing the soul is all about finding calm amidst chaos. There are a number of practices that empower people towards this end including silent contemplation, various forms of meditation, yoga and tai chi However, the rigor and discipline involved in the pursuit of such practices often seems to discourage people. Add to this, the temptations of the material world that leave little time and motivation for anyone to pursue the spiritual path. Poet Walt Whitman declared: “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth”. The good news is that simple, everyday activities can also nutrify the soul — like spending time in the midst of nature, dancing in the rain or just putting thoughts on paper. Do whatever is calming and pleases you. Creative pursuits are particularly appealing as inside each one of us, there is an artist craving for release and awaiting an opportunity for expression. One of the ways to indulge the artist within is to get started with the practice of any one or more of the creative art forms such as music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction or essay writing.
When you engage in such soul nourishing activities, all thought and energy gets focused toward goal accomplishment. At this point, you will find that even unknown forces of the universe are conniving to assist you in your amateurish but sincere attempts. As you progress, you are motivated to do better. You touch and access a faculty, a part of you that you never knew existed. Your inner artist is unleashed, baring the beauty of your soul that has found a fond medium of expression. For instance, a sculptor’s soul is seen in his artwork; a musician’s in his compositions; an actor’s in his acting, a painter’s in his paintings and so on. It is immaterial whether your effort is an immaculate artwork or just a clumsy attempt by a layperson. The idea is to try, be inspired and to create giving free rein to the mind. As Michelangelo remarked: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free”!
According to the passage, why even our amateurish attempts motivate us?
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612c6ddfbcfda60575d54f20- 1Because these amateur attempts of ours are insincere ones.false
- 2Because they still are clumsy and need improvement.false
- 3Because even unknown forces of the universe are assisting us in them.true
- 4Because we never knew that this part ever existed inside us.false
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Answer : 3. "Because even unknown forces of the universe are assisting us in them."
Q: Choose the correct meaning of the following phrase.
Foot the bill
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624588430c8d6f4df14323c6Foot the bill
- 1To kick the billfalse
- 2To tear the billfalse
- 3To paytrue
- 4To throw the billfalse
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Answer : 3. "To pay "
Q: Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
His friends arranged for the ambulance and took him immediately to the hospital.
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6458e2667f8252086628dccc- 1His friends would have arranged for the ambulance and taken him immediately to the hospital.false
- 2His friends were arranged for the ambulance and taken him immediately to the hospital.false
- 3The ambulance arranged for his friends and took him immediately to the hospital.false
- 4The ambulance was arranged for by his friends and he was immediately taken to the hospital.true
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Answer : 4. "The ambulance was arranged for by his friends and he was immediately taken to the hospital."
Explanation :
The sentence is rewritten in passive voice, putting the emphasis on the object (ambulance) and the person receiving the action (he).
Q: The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The students / and the teachers / worked hardly / to make the event a success.
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6458e16513eb5908ae455d1f- 1and their teachersfalse
- 2worked hardlytrue
- 3The studentsfalse
- 4to make the event a successfalse
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Answer : 2. "worked hardly"
Q:Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.
Looking back on those days I see myself as a kind of centaur, half boy, half bike, forever wheeling down suburban streets under the poincianas, on my way to football practice or the library or to a meeting of the little group of us, girls and boys, that came together on someone's verandah in the evenings after tea.
I might come across the Professor then on his after dinner stroll; and as often as not, he would be accompanied by my father, who would stop me and demand (partly, I thought, to impress the Professor) where I was off to or where I had been; insisting, with more than his usual force, that I come home right away, with no argument I spent long hours cycling back and forth between our house and Ross McDowell or Jimmy Larwood's, my friends from school, and the Professor's house was always on the route, I was always aboard and waiting for something significant to occur, for life somehow to declare it self and catch me up I rode my bike in slow circles or figures-of-eight, took it for sprints across the gravel of the park, or simply hung motionless in the saddle, balanced and waiting.
‘Was always aboard' in the passage means
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5f3a1cdce2e6e42e42b78141I might come across the Professor then on his after dinner stroll; and as often as not, he would be accompanied by my father, who would stop me and demand (partly, I thought, to impress the Professor) where I was off to or where I had been; insisting, with more than his usual force, that I come home right away, with no argument I spent long hours cycling back and forth between our house and Ross McDowell or Jimmy Larwood's, my friends from school, and the Professor's house was always on the route, I was always aboard and waiting for something significant to occur, for life somehow to declare it self and catch me up I rode my bike in slow circles or figures-of-eight, took it for sprints across the gravel of the park, or simply hung motionless in the saddle, balanced and waiting.
- 1was always engaged in adventurefalse
- 2was always on the biketrue
- 3was always doing stuntsfalse
- 4was always the outdoor typefalse
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Answer : 2. "was always on the bike"
Q:Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
Usnis has not used the computer for weeks.
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645a1dcad47721ee2dac2502- 1The computer did not used by Usnis for weeks.false
- 2The computer has not been used by Usnis for weeks.true
- 3The computer was not been used by Usnis for weeks.false
- 4The computer has not being used by Usnis for weeks.false
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Answer : 2. "The computer has not been used by Usnis for weeks."
Explanation :
The sentence is converted into passive voice, emphasizing the object (computer) and making it the receiver of the action.
Q: Parts of the following sentence are given as options. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
A confluence is a place when two or more rivers meet.
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64c8e495a919c8488e22e7bf- 1rivers meetfalse
- 2A confluencefalse
- 3when two or moretrue
- 4is a placefalse
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Answer : 3. "when two or more"
Q:The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.
We don't really / want a large house; / we are looking for some comfort / and some convenience on a moderate price.
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64901a32bf323e479ac4baa6- 1and some convenience on a moderate pricetrue
- 2want a large housefalse
- 3We don't reallyfalse
- 4we are looking for some comfortfalse
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Answer : 1. "and some convenience on a moderate price"
Explanation :
The correct phrasing should be "and some convenience at a moderate price." The preposition "on" should be replaced with "at."

