English Quiz 28/12/2015

#everydayquiz 15Q
  1. 1)/ Bihar was certainly not 2)/ an referendum on the national 3)/government but it does 4)/have national implications. 5)/No Error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No Error
    Answer
    B. 2
    Replace ‘an’ with ‘a’
  2. 1)/ When clueless men want to know what 2)/women want, they often turn to women’s magazines, 3)/that tell them that what women really want is 4)/a man good at listening to them. 5)/No Error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No Error
    Answer
    C. 3
    Replace ‘that’ with ‘Which’
  3. 1)/ NDA swept to power on the 2)/Centre last year with a 3)/positive and uplifting 4)/message of hope. 5)/No Error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No Error
    Answer
    A. 1
    Replace ‘on’ with ‘at’
  4. 1)/ India’s dream of providing electricity 2)/to each home without further damaging 3)/the environment seems 4)/more likely than ever. 5)/No Error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No Error
    Answer
    B. 2
    Replace ‘each’ with ‘every’
  5. 1)/ The NDA government has set 2)/an ambitious target to scale 3)/up India’s solar 4)/power capacity. 5)/No Error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No Error
    Answer
    E. 5 No Error
  6. 1)/ States must be persuaded 2)/to reduce these losses 3)/drastically and complete 100% 4)/meter of power. 5)/No Error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No Error
    Answer
    D. 4
    It should be “metering of power”
  7. 1)/ Few years ago, the court acquitted 2)/journalists from this paper’s Ahmedabad 3)/edition of sedition charges 4)/whimsically slapped on them. 5)/No Error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No Error
    Answer
    A. 1
    Replace ‘Few’ with ‘ A few’
  8. 1)/ Its place in the new republic was 2)/hotly contested, and Jawaharlal Nehru expressed 3)/his desire to take it out 4)/to the statute books. 5)/No Error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No Error
    Answer
    D. 4
    Replace ‘to’ with ‘of’
  9. 1)/ despite of, should the two split Lalu 2)/would again be isolated, while 3)/Nitish theoretically can still 4)/go back to BJP. 5)/No Error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No Error
    Answer
    A. 1
    Replace ‘despite of’ with ‘Besides’
  10. 1)/ The underlying message is that 2)/voters want material change in their 3)/lives and economic mobility, 4)/rather than identity wars. 5)/No Error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No Error
    Answer
    5)/No Error

Directions (Q. 11-15) In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (1), (2), (3)), ,(4) and (5). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningfully complete.

11. Poetry is the language of the imagination and the _______. It relates to whatever gives _______ pleasure or pain to the human mind.
1) thinking, permanent
2) analysis, temporary
3) passions, immediate
4) circumspection, sporadic
5) visualization, constant.

12. Success in business requires two things: a winning competitive _______ and superb organizational _______
1) advantage, satisfaction
2) planning, advantage
3) strategy, execution
4) philosophy, motivation
5) marketing, strategy

13. To _______ in today’s rapidly changing environment corporations need to _______ their learning capability.
l) develop, enlarge
2) surpass, align
3) project, assimilate
4) service, mitigate
5) compete, strengthen

14. A _______ reader gets much greater pleasure from reading books than a miser gets in _______ money.
1) powerful, accumulating
2) voracious, hoarding
3) desirous, stocking
4) proverbial, spending
5) profound, lavishing

15. The well-known judge who was earlier_______ to head the delegation has now given his 
1) reluctant, consent_______.
2) eager, approved
3) requested, chances
4) forced, unwillingness
5) expected, assurances
Answers 
11)3
12)3
13)5
14)2
15)1


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