General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Read the following passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.
The cyber–world is ultimately ungovernable. This is alarming as well as convenient; sometimes, convenient because alarming. Some Indian politicians use this to great advantage. When there is an obvious failure in governance during a crisis they deflect attention from their own incompetence towards the ungovernable. So, having failed to prevent nervous citizens from fleeing their cities of work by assuring them of proper protection, some national leaders are now busy trying to prove to one another, and to panic-prone Indians, that a mischievous neighbour has been using the internet and social networking sites to spread dangerous rumours. And the Centre's automatic reaction is to start blocking these sites and begin elaborate and potentially endless negotiations with Google, Twitter and Facebook about access to information. If this is the official idea of prompt action at a time of crisis among communities, then Indians have more reason to fear their protectors than the nebulous mischief-makers of the cyber world. Wasting time gathering proof, blocking vaguely suspicious websites, hurling accusations across the border and worrying about bilateral relations are ways of keeping busy with inessentials because one does not quite known what to do about the essentials of a difficult situation. Besides, only a fifth of the 245 websites blocked by the Centre mention the people of the Northeast or the violence in Assam. And if a few morphed images and spurious texts can unsettle an entire nation, then there is something deeply wrong with the nation and with how it is being governed. This is what its leaders should be addressing immediately, rather than making a wrongheaded display of their powers of censorship.
It is just as absurd, and part of the same syndrome, to try to ban Twitter accounts that parody despatches from the Prime Minister's Office. To describe such forms of humour and dissent as "misrepresenting" the PMO–as if Twitter would take these parodies for genuine despatches from the PMO — makes the PMO look more ridiculous than its parodists manage to. With the precedent for such action set recently by the chief minister of West Bengal, this is yet another proof that what Bengal thinks today India will think tomorrow. Using the cyber–world for flexing the wrong muscles is essentially not funny. It might even prove to be quite dangerously distracting.
The author’s seriousness regarding the situation can best be described in the following sentences, Pick the odd one out.
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5f28e982e3005114abd8ec50It is just as absurd, and part of the same syndrome, to try to ban Twitter accounts that parody despatches from the Prime Minister's Office. To describe such forms of humour and dissent as "misrepresenting" the PMO–as if Twitter would take these parodies for genuine despatches from the PMO — makes the PMO look more ridiculous than its parodists manage to. With the precedent for such action set recently by the chief minister of West Bengal, this is yet another proof that what Bengal thinks today India will think tomorrow. Using the cyber–world for flexing the wrong muscles is essentially not funny. It might even prove to be quite dangerously distracting.
- 1Our leaders should display their powers of censorship when needed.false
- 2If this is the official idea of prompt action at a time of crisis among communities, then Indians have more reason to fear their protectors than the nebulous mischief maker of the cyber-world.false
- 3The politician deflect attention from their own incompetence.true
- 4If a few morphed images and spurious texts can unsettle an entire nation, then there is something deeply wrong with the nation.false
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Answer : 3. "The politician deflect attention from their own incompetence."
Q: In spite of his recent financial troubles. Ashok has not learnt to cut his coat according to his cloth.
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5f3d135d5d47cc4ec7418e8a- 1improve his tailoring abilitiesfalse
- 2live within his incometrue
- 3overcome his problemsfalse
- 4wear modest clothesfalse
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Answer : 2. "live within his income "
Q:In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.
Wear the green willow
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601804ba6d6bae40a632c2ff- 1Cause someone to be very frightenedfalse
- 2Producing a lavish celebrating feastfalse
- 3To do something for someone as an act of kindnessfalse
- 4Suffer unrequited lovetrue
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Answer : 4. "Suffer unrequited love"
Q:The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Do you / recall to meet / her at the party / last night?
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64871182f4063d472f418656- 1last nightfalse
- 2her at the partyfalse
- 3Do youfalse
- 4recall to meettrue
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Answer : 4. "recall to meet"
Explanation :
The correct phrasing should be "Do you recall meeting her at the party last night?" The verb "recall" doesn't take the preposition "to."
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.
After the initial setback, he reconciled himself______ his office routine.
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5f55f5a3d094fa460c076715- 1totrue
- 2intofalse
- 3byfalse
- 4atfalse
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Answer : 1. "to"
Q:Directions : Which of the phrases (A), (B), (C) and (D) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and 'No correction is required', mark (E) as the answer.
Public health facilities are more scarce since patients have to wait for hours to see a doctor.
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5dfb1c838014020c0930f848- 1too scarce forfalse
- 2very scarce becausefalse
- 3so scarce thattrue
- 4quite scarce thatfalse
- 5No correction requiredfalse
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Answer : 3. "so scarce that "
Q: In the following questions, same of the error and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and mark your answer.
The five team members (A)/ shared the prize money (B)/ between themselves. (C)/ No error (D)
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60531e4ca01bc44789ae4d74- 1Afalse
- 2Bfalse
- 3Ctrue
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Answer : 3. "C"
Q:Directions : In each of the following sentences, there is a blank space. Below in each sentence, there are five words out of which one can be used to fill the blank to make the sentence grammatically and coherently correct. Find the most appropriate word that fit into the blank contextually.
Raipur despite being ________________ between two rivers, the Krishna and the Tungabhadra, it is a dust bowl in May first week.
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617bd7f975845b53557bbbbe- 1Surroundedfalse
- 2Locatedtrue
- 3Revealedfalse
- 4Settlefalse
- 5None of these.false
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