English Comprehensive Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Which of the phrase (A), (B), (C), and (D) given below should replace the phrase given in the following sentence grammatically meaningful and correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark (E) as the answer.
Barring the few, all the customers are defaulters.
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5d494e1685c77648500b87baBarring the few, all the customers are defaulters.
- 1Barred a fewfalse
- 2Leave a fewfalse
- 3Barring a lessfalse
- 4Barring a fewtrue
- 5No correction requiredfalse
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Answer : 4. "Barring a few"
Q: Select the most appropriate option for blank No. 5.
Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank. Canada is three times the size of India (1)______ its population is only about 26 million. The average (2)______ of population is less than three persons per square kilometer (3)______ Canada. The distribution of population is highly (4)______. Nearly 80 per cent of the people (5)______ in a narrow belt less than 300 kilometer wide along the southern border. The rest of the country has a very sparse population due to excessive cold.
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5d42872c29741f37c254695f- 1livetrue
- 2remainfalse
- 3survivefalse
- 4subsistfalse
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Answer : 1. "live"
Q: In each of the following sentences, an idiomatic expression or a proverb. Select the alternatives which best describes its use in the sentence.
The new law on ‘Right to Food safety’ will come into force next month.
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5d495f792ef8ad44d161de96The new law on ‘Right to Food safety’ will come into force next month.
- 1Be forced upon the peoplefalse
- 2Be associated from next month onwardsfalse
- 3Be implemented next monthtrue
- 4Be withdrawn next monthfalse
- 5Be widely rejected next monthfalse
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Answer : 3. "Be implemented next month"
Q: Each sentence below has a blank and each blank indicates that something has been omitted. Choose the word that best fits in meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Laxmi lost an important file and rather than confessing her ___ she blamed Sandra for losing it.
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5d49453b2ef8ad44d161911aLaxmi lost an important file and rather than confessing her ___ she blamed Sandra for losing it.
- 1respectfalse
- 2imagefalse
- 3attitudefalse
- 4defaultfalse
- 5mistaketrue
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Answer : 5. "mistake"
Q: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement.
They didn't see you, is it?
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5d42885729741f37c2546968- 1wasn't itfalse
- 2did theytrue
- 3no improvementfalse
- 4have theyfalse
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Answer : 2. "did they"
Q: In each of the following sentence, an idiomatic expression or a proverb. Select the alternatives which best describes its use in the sentence.
The team put their plan into execution the very next day.
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5d495da4e1ecb05378fb456cThe team put their plan into execution the very next day.
- 1Proposed a planfalse
- 2Discussed their planfalse
- 3Started thinking about a planfalse
- 4Started carrying out their plantrue
- 5None of the abovefalse
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Answer : 4. "Started carrying out their plan"
Q: In each of the following sentences, an idiomatic expression or a proverb. Select the alternatives which best describes its use in the sentence.
Mrs. Nayak opened the discussion on the ‘alarming rate of poverty in India’.
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5d495e9a2ef8ad44d161de62Mrs. Nayak opened the discussion on the ‘alarming rate of poverty in India’.
- 1Started the discussiontrue
- 2Gave her opinion in the discussionfalse
- 3Did not agree on the discussionfalse
- 4Welcomed the people to the discussionfalse
- 5None of the abovefalse
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Answer : 1. "Started the discussion"
Q: Each sentence below has a blank and each blank indicates that something has been omitted. Choose the word that best fits in meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Rajeev was upset because he____ forgotten his best friend’s birthday.
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5d49420985c77648500b510aRajeev was upset because he____ forgotten his best friend’s birthday.
- 1havefalse
- 2shallfalse
- 3willfalse
- 4mightfalse
- 5hadtrue
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