General English Practice Question and Answer

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Direction: In the question a sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expressed the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.

People call him a fool. 

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    He has been called a fool.
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    He is called a fool by the people.
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    The people have been calling him a fool.
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    We all people have called him a fool.
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Answer : 2. "He is called a fool by the people."

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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 ) .

She reminded where to leave the papers.

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    me where I had to leave
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    where I had to leave
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    me where to leave
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    No improvement
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Answer : 3. "me where to leave"

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Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
With Lok Sabha speaker Purno Sangma abolishing the discretionary quota for gas and telephone connections enjoyed by members of parliament last week, demands are being made for doing away with the same privilege for Union ministers.
Imposing a fine of Rs. 50 lakh on former petroleum minister Satish Sharma for arbitrarily allotting petrol pumps, the Supreme Court had said last year that absolute discretion was an anathema to the Constitution and advised the ‘judicious’ use of discretionary powers.
Citing the use of the so-called privileges as “prejudicial to public interest and a breach of trust”, HD Shourie of Common Cause has sought the prime minister’s intervention to “stop this practice of discretionary quota for ministers to present to the public an image of clean functioning of the government.”
In a letter written to the Cabinet Secretary, he has drawn the PM’s attention to the misuse of this privilege by more than a dozen ministers. In the railways, discretionary quota covers platform stalls, passes, tickets and berths on trains. In civil aviation and tourism, the largesse includes free international air tickets, out-of-turn seats and stalls in ITDC hotels

What did the Supreme Court suggest ?

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    not to use discretionary power
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    not to allot petrol pump
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    fair use of quota
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    abolition of quota
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    None of these
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Answer : 3. "fair use of quota"

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Answer : 3. "diversion"

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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 latest symbol of modernity for the rural people is –

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    The bicycle
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    The wristwatch
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    The transistor
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    The synthetic cloth
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Answer : 4. "The synthetic cloth"

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Answer : 5. "E"
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Answer : 3. "C"

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The most suitable ‘one word substitute’ of the following words are ; ( in right order ) ;
( a ) fear of confined spaces ;
( b ) a person who has an irresistible desire to steal. Options: 

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    ( a ) agoraphobia; ( b ) pyromaniac
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    ( a ) spacepnobia; ( b ) dipsomaniac
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    ( a ) clastophobia; ( b ) theftomaniac
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    ( a ) claustrophobia; ( b ) kleptomaniac
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Answer : 4. "( a ) claustrophobia; ( b ) kleptomaniac"

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