General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Directions: In the following question, two columns are given, containing three phrases each. A phrase from the first column may or may not connect with a phrase from the second column to make a grammatically and contextually correct sentence. There are five options, four of which display the sequence(s) in which the phrases can be joined to form a correct sentence. If none of the phrases makes a correct sentence, mark None of these' as your answer.
Column (1) Column (2)
(A) When was the last time (D) since the setting up of the organisation?
(B) When will it dawn on the government (E) that you paid a visit to your family?
(C) When will it be 50 yr (F) that there is raging discontent in rural areas?
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64d0d7b62a08385b43d85d3c(A) When was the last time (D) since the setting up of the organisation?
(B) When will it dawn on the government (E) that you paid a visit to your family?
(C) When will it be 50 yr (F) that there is raging discontent in rural areas?
- 1B-F and A-Etrue
- 2A-F and C-Efalse
- 3C-Ffalse
- 4A-Dfalse
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 1. "B-F and A-E"
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Answer : 4. "Repetition"
Q:Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
My grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she once had been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather’s portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room. He wore a big turban and loose fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his chest and he looked at least a hundred years old. He did not look the sort of person who would have a wife or children. He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren. As my grandmother being young and pretty, the thought was almost revolting. She often told us of the games she used to play as a child. That seemed quite absurd and undignified on her part and we treated it like the fables of the Prophets she used to tell us.
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Revolting
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64aa875f9a74b54cff698e55- 1Attractivetrue
- 2Unpleasantfalse
- 3Rebelfalse
- 4Peacefalse
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Answer : 1. "Attractive"
Q:Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each questions.
The All India Radio,__(189)__as well as films have the __(190)___ of speeding up the process of __(191)__ awareness. National Programmes __(192)__ dance and drama on the broadcast _(193)__. Radio and Television support the __(194)_ of composite culture and exchange of __(195)__ and artistic forms between on region and another.
Fill in the blank at (191).
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5f3a2fc61269c22e1267f7e7- 1Regionalfalse
- 2localfalse
- 3nationaltrue
- 4globalfalse
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Answer : 3. "national"
Q:In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, four words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
The preparation (1) vegetarian Rajasthani food (2) the rich and poor of local communities in Rajasthan is almost the same. The difference lies in the (3) of other expensive items like fruit, which the rich bring home (4) returning from the city. Ghee, milk and milk products (5) an important part of rich people’s regular diet, but the poor can only (6) buttermilk. Therefore, it’s important to understand that (7) poverty, access to good (8) is possible if people make the right choices and vice-versa there are low cost but nutritious s available to (9) adequate nutrition. Local cooking and feeding (10) also have an important role to play in the same.
Choose the correct for (2).
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601a032265f047590384be7e- 1infalse
- 2onfalse
- 3bytrue
- 4forfalse
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Answer : 3. "by "
Q:Read the following passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.
The problem of water pollution by pesticides can be understood only in context, as part of the whole to which it belongs – the pollution of the total environment of mankind. The pollution entering our waterways comes from many sources, radioactive wastes from reactors, laboratories and hospitals; fallout from nuclear explosions; domestic wastes from cities and towns; chemical wastes from factories. To these is a added a new kid of fallout - the chemical sprays applied to crop lands and gardens, forests and fields. Many of the chemical agents in this alarming melange initiate and augment the harmful effects of radiation, and within the groups of chemicals themselves there are sinister and little - understood interactions, transformations and summations of effect.
Ever since the chemists began to manufacture substances that nature never invented, the problem of water purification have become complex and the danger to users of water has increased. As we have seen, the production of these synthetic chemicals in large volume began in the 1940’s. It has now reached such proportion that an appalling deluge of chemical pollution is daily poured into the nation’s waterways. When inextricably mixed with domestic and other wastes discharged into the same water, these chemicals sometimes defy detection by the methods in ordinary use by purification plants. Most of them are so complex that they cannot be identified. In rivers, a really incredible variety of pollutants combine to produce deposits that sanitary engineers can only despairingly refer to as “gunk”.
The words ‘gunk’ in the last line refers:
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5f28f041a5ce9779bd245eb9- 1to the waste products deposited by sanitary engineersfalse
- 2to the debris found in riversfalse
- 3to unidentifiable chemical found in water.true
- 4to the domestic water supplies.false
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Answer : 3. "to unidentifiable chemical found in water."
Q: Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Modest
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641b1748dcb650c145520997- 1Boldfalse
- 2Humbletrue
- 3Dismalfalse
- 4Gravefalse
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Answer : 2. "Humble"
Q: Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The planets are _______________ around the sun.
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646c7a6b45f1450a80e3d2ebThe planets are _______________ around the sun.
- 1revolvingtrue
- 2circlingfalse
- 3rotatingfalse
- 4roundingfalse
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Answer : 1. "revolving"
Explanation :
The sentence would then read: "The planets are revolving around the sun." This choice accurately describes the movement of planets in their orbits around the sun.

