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- Question
A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to "No improvement". You will be late if you do not leave now.
Options- A. will not leave now
- B. did not leave now
- C. left now
- D. No improvement
- Correct Answer
- No improvement
- 1. A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to "No improvement". London is one of the oldest towns of England.
Options- A. in
- B. at
- C. besides
- D. No improvement Discuss
- 2. A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to "No improvement". There are a good many tigers in this forest.
Options- A. some good many tigers
- B. the good many tigers
- C. an good many tigers
- D. No improvement Discuss
- 3. A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to "No improvement". This book is adopted to the needs of beginners.
Options- A. adapted to
- B. adapted for
- C. adopted for
- D. No improvement Discuss
- 4. Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it. The philosophy of putting another's welfare above one's own.
Options- A. Agnosticism
- B. Polytheism
- C. Altruism
- D. Iconoclasm Discuss
- 5. Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it. Providing relief
Options- A. Reissue
- B. Reprieve
- C. Rejoinder
- D. Refuge Discuss
- 6. A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to "No improvement". People ask me why I decide to start a new magazine.
Options- A. will decide
- B. am deciding
- C. have decided
- D. No improvement Discuss
- 7. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it. Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at secondhand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his nextdoor neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective. Learning is defined as
Options- A. the knowledge of that which is before us
- B. the knowledge about us
- C. the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others
- D. the knowledge related to the businesses of men Discuss
- 8. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it. Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at secondhand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his nextdoor neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective. A learned man, as described in the passage,
Options- A. cares about men and things
- B. does not care about men and things
- C. cares about the shapes of objects.
- D. cares about his neighbours Discuss
- 9. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it. Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at secondhand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his nextdoor neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective. The passage suggests that a learned man
Options- A. understands his neighbours
- B. does not know his old acquaintances
- C. is not concerned about names and dates
- D. is interested in travelling Discuss
- 10. In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'. Several great battles (1)/ took place among (2)/ the British and the Americans. (3)/No Error (4)
Options- A. 1
- B. 2
- C. 3
- D. 4 Discuss
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Correct Answer: No improvement
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Correct Answer: have decided
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Correct Answer: does not know his old acquaintances
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