General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.
The giraffe is the tallest land mammal alive, its long legs and neck contributing to its impressive stature. Males can be up to 18ft (5.5m tall), females a little less.
In the wild, these beautiful creatures stretch their necks beyond those of antelope, kudu and even elephants to strip leaves from the untouched upper reaches of trees. The French zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is usually credited as the first person to suggest that long necks have evolved in giraffes because they allow them to get to the parts other herbivores cannot reach.
As the giraffe lives "in places where the soil is nearly always arid and barren, it is obliged to browse on the leaves of trees and to make constant efforts to reach them," he wrote in his 1809 book ‘Philosophie Zoologique’. "From this habit long maintained in all its race, it has resulted that the animal's fore-legs have become longer than its hind legs, and that its neck is lengthened."
The English naturalist Charles Darwin also thought the giraffe's extraordinary legs and neck must have something to do with foraging. "The giraffe, by its lofty stature, much elongated neck, fore-legs, head and tongue, has its whole frame beautifully adapted for browsing on the higher branches of trees," he wrote in ‘On the Origin of Species’ in 1859. In short, giraffes' long necks are the result of generation upon generation of repeated stretching and inheritance.
During the dry season when feeding competition should be most intense giraffe generally feed from low shrubs, not tall trees. What's more, giraffes feed most often and faster with their necks bent
Male giraffes often fight for access to females, a ritual referred to as "necking". The rivals stand flank to flank, then start to whack each other with their heads. The top or back of the well-armoured skull is used as a club to strike the neck, chest, ribs, or legs of the opponent with a force capable of knocking a competitor off balance or unconscious. The largest males usually win these battles and do most of the breeding, says zoologist Anne Innis Dagg of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, who has been studying giraffes since the 1950s. "The other giraffes don't get much breeding opportunity." There is also evidence that females are more receptive to advances from larger males.
How does a giraffe knock its opponent off balance or unconscious?
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64c8ddd9a919c8488e22ad56- 1By pulling the legs of the opponentfalse
- 2By using its head as a club and hitting the opponenttrue
- 3By biting the opponent’s neck, chest and ribsfalse
- 4By entangling its neck in the opponent’s neckfalse
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Answer : 2. "By using its head as a club and hitting the opponent"
Q:Direction: The following sentences form a paragraph. The sentences are - A, B, C, D, E and F. Sentence E is fixed and its position cannot be changed. The rest of the sentences are not given in their proper order. Read the sentences and answer the following questions.
A. So a person that has integrity will act and behave as per set values and beliefs they hold dear.
B. There is a famous saying which perfectly describes integrity.
C. The word ‘integrity’ itself has a Latin origin.
D. “Honesty is telling the truth to other people; integrity is telling the truth to myself.”
E. So it refers to the sense of completeness and togetherness one enjoys when they live their lives honestly and morally.
F. It is derived from the word ‘integer’ and means to feel whole, i.e., a complete person.
Which sentence should be the first sentence in the paragraph?
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64d37736a7983774471e0112- 1Afalse
- 2Btrue
- 3Cfalse
- 4Dfalse
- 5Ffalse
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Answer : 2. "B"
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Answer : 4. "merit"
Q: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.
Ariel was convinced that something fishy is going up behind his back.
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64c8e2e13fde307e3f4f67a8- 1No substitution requiredfalse
- 2was going ontrue
- 3goes onfalse
- 4was going upfalse
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Answer : 2. "was going on"
Explanation :
The correct sentence should be:
Ariel was convinced that something fishy was going on behind his back.
Explanation: The verb tense in the reported speech should be consistent, so "is going" should be changed to "was going." Additionally, the preposition "on" should be replaced with "behind" for the sentence to convey the intended meaning.
Q:Directions: In each of the questions given below four words are given in bold. These four words may or may not be in their correct position. The sentence is then followed by options with the correct combination of words that should replace each other in order to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. Find the correct combination of the words that replace each other. If the sentence is correct as it then select option (e) as your choice.
In 2016, rising (A) violence in Pathankot (B) by Islamic militants culminated (C) in attacks on Indian forces at Uri and Kashmir (D).
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64ec8d8013af0928f84f8716- 1Both A-C and B-Dfalse
- 2Both A-D and B-Cfalse
- 3Only B-Dtrue
- 4C-Dfalse
- 5The sentence is correct.false
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Answer : 3. "Only B-D"
Q: Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘No improvement required’.
The smell of this flower make me felt dizzy.
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642ac11aed76c064b863b50f- 1making I feelfalse
- 2makes me feeltrue
- 3make me feelingfalse
- 4No improvement requiredfalse
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Answer : 2. "makes me feel "
Q:Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.
The giraffe is the tallest land mammal alive, its long legs and neck contributing to its impressive stature. Males can be up to 18ft (5.5m tall), females a little less.
In the wild, these beautiful creatures stretch their necks beyond those of antelope, kudu and even elephants to strip leaves from the untouched upper reaches of trees. The French zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is usually credited as the first person to suggest that long necks have evolved in giraffes because they allow them to get to the parts other herbivores cannot reach.
As the giraffe lives "in places where the soil is nearly always arid and barren, it is obliged to browse on the leaves of trees and to make constant efforts to reach them," he wrote in his 1809 book ‘Philosophie Zoologique’. "From this habit long maintained in all its race, it has resulted that the animal's fore-legs have become longer than its hind legs, and that its neck is lengthened."
The English naturalist Charles Darwin also thought the giraffe's extraordinary legs and neck must have something to do with foraging. "The giraffe, by its lofty stature, much elongated neck, fore-legs, head and tongue, has its whole frame beautifully adapted for browsing on the higher branches of trees," he wrote in ‘On the Origin of Species’ in 1859. In short, giraffes' long necks are the result of generation upon generation of repeated stretching and inheritance.
During the dry season when feeding competition should be most intense giraffe generally feed from low shrubs, not tall trees. What's more, giraffes feed most often and faster with their necks bent
Male giraffes often fight for access to females, a ritual referred to as "necking". The rivals stand flank to flank, then start to whack each other with their heads. The top or back of the well-armoured skull is used as a club to strike the neck, chest, ribs, or legs of the opponent with a force capable of knocking a competitor off balance or unconscious. The largest males usually win these battles and do most of the breeding, says zoologist Anne Innis Dagg of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, who has been studying giraffes since the 1950s. "The other giraffes don't get much breeding opportunity." There is also evidence that females are more receptive to advances from larger males.
Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?
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64c8dd4342082e8c9b7f53d1- 1The largest male giraffe usually wins the battles and does most of the breeding.false
- 2Giraffes' long necks are the result of repeated stretching over the years.false
- 3The giraffe can eat leaves from the upper reaches of a tree where other animals cannot reach.false
- 4A giraffe’s hind-legs are longer than its fore-legs and help it to bend.true
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Answer : 4. "A giraffe’s hind-legs are longer than its fore-legs and help it to bend."
Q:Direction: Three statements are given below at A, B and C. There may be some errors in the given statements. Mark the correct statement as the answer. If all the statements are incorrect, mark option E, i.e., "All are incorrect" as the answer.
(A) The supervisor charged his assistant of negligence towards duty.
(B) The report state that the project have been running on time.
(C) The government is heavily relying on the Atmanirbhar project to cope with the economic slump.
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64d9dd42d02c5c746bed52ab(B) The report state that the project have been running on time.
(C) The government is heavily relying on the Atmanirbhar project to cope with the economic slump.
- 1Only Afalse
- 2Only Bfalse
- 3Only Ctrue
- 4Both A and Cfalse
- 5All are incorrectfalse
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