General English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

She keeps blowing hot and cold and therefore, nobody can befriend her for long. 

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    being unfriendly and critical
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    being good and bad alternately
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    being friendly at one moment and unfriendly the next
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    trying to cool the situation down and then raking it up again
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Answer : 4. "trying to cool the situation down and then raking it up again "

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What, one wonders, is the lowest common denominator of Indian culture today? The attractive Hema Malini ? The songs of Vinidh Barati? The attractive Hema Malini? The sons of Vinidh Barati?
Or the mouth-watering Masala Dosa? Delectable as these may be, each yield pride of place to that false (?) symbol of a new era-the synthetic fibre. In less than twenty years the nylon sari and the terylene shirt have swept the countryside, penetrated to the farthest corners of the land and persuaded every common man, woman and child that the key to success in the present day world lie in artificial fibers: glass nylon, crepe nylon, tery mixes, polyesters and what have you. More than the bicycles, the wristwatch or the transistor radio, synthetic clothes have come to represent the first step away form the village square. The village lass treasures the flashy nylon sari in her trousseau most delay; the village youth gets a great kick out of his cheap terrycot shirt and trousers, the nearest he can approximate to the expensive synthetic sported by his wealthy citybred contemporaries. And the Neo-rich craze for ‘phoren’ is nowhere more apparent than in the price that people will pay for smuggled, stolen, begged borrowed second hand or thrown away synthetics. Alas, even the uniformity of nylon.

The synthetic fibre has –

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    Always been popular in India
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    Become popular during the last twenty years
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    Never been popular the last twenty years
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    Been as popular as other kinds of fibre
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Answer : 2. "Become popular during the last twenty years"

Q:

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Four corners of the earth

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    from the very beginning
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    from morning till night
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    from all parts of the world
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    from beginning to end
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Answer : 3. "from all parts of the world"

Q:

He made away with ten thousand rupees in the course of three months. 

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    squandered
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    saved
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    earned
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    ran away with
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Answer : 3. "earned "

Q:

Direction: Choose the correct alternative of the following sentences.
Ram says, “I get up early in the morning.”

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    Ram says that he got up early in the morning
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    Ram says that she gets up early in the morning
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    Ram says that he gets up early in the morning
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    Ram says that he will get up early in the morning
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Answer : 3. "Ram says that he gets up early in the morning"

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Answer : 1. "the fact that proper care of the child is not taken in the house or sufficient interest is not shown to him. "

Q:

Neither Shyam _______ Rohit came to the school today.

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    and
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    but
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    or
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    nor
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Answer : 4. "nor"

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