General English Practice Question and Answer

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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"

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Answer : 4. "irrefutable"

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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 ) .

His acting is too good.

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    best
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    much better
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    very good
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    No improvement
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Answer : 3. "very good"

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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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    give up
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    go over
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    get over with
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    No improvement
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Answer : 4. "No improvement"

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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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    will
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    would
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    shall
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    should
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Answer : 2. "would "

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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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    enjoyed
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    enjoying
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    enjoys
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    no improvement
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Answer : 2. "enjoying"

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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 "

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