General English Practice Question and Answer

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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 walks in sleep. 

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    Somniloquist
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    Egoist
    Correct
    Wrong
  • 3
    Somnambulist
    Correct
    Wrong
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    Altruist
    Correct
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Answer : 3. "Somnambulist "

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Directions : In these questions , a part of the sentence is given in bold . Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (A) , (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence . Choose the correct alternative . In case no improvement is needed you answer is (D ) .

I will be with you in one quarter of an hour

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    a quarter of one hour
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    a quarter of an hour
    Correct
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    a quarter of hour
    Correct
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    no improvement
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Answer : 2. "a quarter of an hour "

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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.

A government by officials. 

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    Oligarchy
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    Aristocracy
    Correct
    Wrong
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    Plutocracy
    Correct
    Wrong
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    Bureaucracy
    Correct
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Answer : 4. "Bureaucracy "

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Directions: In question four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it is the Answer Sheet.

The Earl of Leicester threw down the glove. 

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    accepted defeat
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    rejected the prize
    Correct
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    resorted to wrong tactics
    Correct
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    gave a challenge
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Answer : 4. "gave a challenge"

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Answer : 2. "Facade "

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Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the word opposite in meaning of the given word as your answer.

SANGUINE

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    Diffident
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    Hopeless
    Correct
    Wrong
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    Cynical
    Correct
    Wrong
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    Morose
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Answer : 2. "Hopeless"

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Direction: In the following questions, a passage given in the below. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question.

As my train was not due to leave for another hour, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some magazines to read on the journey, I made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase I had left there three days before. There were only a few people waiting, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt did not seem to be where I had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and the railway tickets, money, scraps of paper, and photographs tumbled out of it; but no matter how hard I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.

I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me suspiciously as if to say he had heared this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case. I told him that it was an old, brown looking object no different from the many suitcases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me form and told me to make a list of the contents of the case. If they were correct, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down.

After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment , it occurred to me that if someone had picked the receipt up , he could easily have  claimed the case already , Fortunately this had not happened , for after a time , I found the case lying on its side high up in the corner . After examining the articles inside, the assistant gave me the case . 

I took out my walled to pay him. I pulled out a ten-shilling note and out slipped my “lost” receipt with it! I could not help blushing . The assistant noded his head knowingly, as if to say that he had often seen this happen too!!

The assistant asked the writer to make a list of the contents to

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    ascertain his ownership of the case
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    test his memory
    Correct
    Wrong
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    charge him extra money
    Correct
    Wrong
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    embarrass the writer
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Answer : 1. "ascertain his ownership of the case"

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Direction: In the following questions, a passage given in the below. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question.

As my train was not due to leave for another hour, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some magazines to read on the journey, I made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase I had left there three days before. There were only a few people waiting, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt did not seem to be where I had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and the railway tickets, money, scraps of paper, and photographs tumbled out of it; but no matter how hard I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.

I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me suspiciously as if to say he had heared this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case. I told him that it was an old, brown looking object no different from the many suitcases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me form and told me to make a list of the contents of the case. If they were correct, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down.

After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment , it occurred to me that if someone had picked the receipt up , he could easily have  claimed the case already , Fortunately this had not happened , for after a time , I found the case lying on its side high up in the corner . After examining the articles inside, the assistant gave me the case . 

I took out my walled to pay him. I pulled out a ten-shilling note and out slipped my “lost” receipt with it! I could not help blushing . The assistant noded his head knowingly, as if to say that he had often seen this happen too!!

The writer had plenty of time to spare because

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    he had arrived three days before
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    he had arrived an hour earlier
    Correct
    Wrong
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    he had to collect his luggage
    Correct
    Wrong
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    he needed to buy magazines
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Answer : 2. "he had arrived an hour earlier"

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