General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: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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5d7f7dc25d5653223cdd06ecOr 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.
- 1Always been popular in Indiafalse
- 2Become popular during the last twenty yearstrue
- 3Never been popular the last twenty yearsfalse
- 4Been as popular as other kinds of fibrefalse
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Answer : 2. "Become popular during the last twenty years"
Q:In each of the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word (s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate your choice for the correct answer.
He succeeded in proving his point with ______________ logic.
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5f310ba98fc12265db036060- 1diabolicalfalse
- 2analyticalfalse
- 3rationalfalse
- 4irrefutabletrue
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Answer : 4. "irrefutable"
Q: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 ) .
His acting is too good.
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5f2115674ab50b169742a3e7- 1bestfalse
- 2much betterfalse
- 3very goodtrue
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 3. "very good"
Q:In the following questions, the first and the last part of the sentence are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence is split into four parts and named P Q R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the parts and find out which of the four combinations is correct. Then find the correct answer and indicate the correct response.
(1) The traveler said, " Can you tell me the way to the nearest inn? "
(P) " Do you want one in which you can spend the night? "
(Q) " Yes”, said the peasant.
(R) " Go right down the road and turn to the left. "
(S) " Yes “, replied the traveler.
(6) " Thank a lot. "
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5daebf4d5579ac410a052858(P) " Do you want one in which you can spend the night? "
(Q) " Yes”, said the peasant.
(R) " Go right down the road and turn to the left. "
(S) " Yes “, replied the traveler.
(6) " Thank a lot. "
- 1PSRQfalse
- 2QPSRtrue
- 3SPORfalse
- 4QSRPfalse
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Answer : 2. "QPSR "
Q:Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
It took her a long time to get past her failure in the medical examination.
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5f361f43dcc3540833149f30- 1give upfalse
- 2go overfalse
- 3get over withfalse
- 4No improvementtrue
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Answer : 4. "No improvement"
Q:Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verb from the given options:
I was sure that he____ succeed.
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5e6a4c5c8fcee56af2fd8d4f- 1willfalse
- 2wouldtrue
- 3shallfalse
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Answer : 2. "would "
Q:In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".
We sat there (enjoy) the view.
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5e7b30007af3db16e17f103d- 1enjoyedfalse
- 2enjoyingtrue
- 3enjoysfalse
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Answer : 2. "enjoying"
Q: He made away with ten thousand rupees in the course of three months.
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5f3d2b2b2c4c89546e1bc75d- 1squanderedfalse
- 2savedfalse
- 3earnedtrue
- 4ran away withfalse
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