English Questions

• Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives. It was for long the insurmountable peak for one day batting, but one man might now have a template to score double centuries repeatedly. After describing three famous innings in Bengaluru, Kolkata and Mohali, the passage quotes Rohit Sharma as saying that by the time he has reached his hundred he is set, seeing the ball nicely and understands what the bowlers are trying to do. He feels that after this point it is mainly about him not making a mistake, because it is very unlikely that the bowlers are going to get him out once he has scored a hundred. Based on this, what does Rohit think about the possibility of being bowled out after scoring a hundred in a match?
• Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives. After describing his three double centuries, Rohit Sharma explains that there is no special magic behind them. Once he is set, sees the ball well and understands what the bowlers are trying to do, he just tries not to make mistakes and to bat as long as possible. He openly says that there is no secret or formula to it, only disciplined batting on good pitches where he can trust the bounce and play his shots. According to the passage, what, in Rohit Sharma’s opinion, is the secret or formula to hitting centuries consistently on such grounds?
• Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives. The Amazon basin has been continuously inhabited for at least ten thousand years, perhaps longer. Its earliest inhabitants were stone age peoples living in hundreds of scattered tribes. It was from the west that European explorers first arrived. In 1541 a Spanish expedition from Quito, led by Gonzalo Pizarro, ran short of supplies while exploring east of the Andes in what is now Peru. Pizarro's cousin Francisco de Orellana offered to take sixty men and some boats and float downstream in search of food. He floated down the Rio Napo to its confluence with the Amazon near Iquitos and then on to the mouth of the Amazon. Along the way, his expedition suffered many attacks by Indians, some of whose warriors were female, like the legendary Amazons, hence the river's name. Later, Portuguese explorers and fortune seekers pushed deeper into the rain forest. Based on the passage, from which direction did the European explorers first arrive in the Amazon basin?
• Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives. The Amazon basin had long been inhabited by stone age peoples when European expeditions began to explore it. In 1541 a Spanish expedition from Quito, led by Gonzalo Pizarro, ran short of supplies while exploring east of the Andes in present day Peru. Pizarro's cousin Francisco de Orellana volunteered to take sixty men in boats to search for provisions. He floated down the Rio Napo to its confluence with the Amazon near Iquitos in Peru, and then continued down to the mouth of the Amazon. According to the passage, to which river did De Orellana float down in order to reach its confluence with the Amazon?
• Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives. The Amazon basin has been inhabited for thousands of years, but European powers tried to claim the region much later. No serious effort was made to control this territory until the Portuguese built a fort near the mouth of the river at Belem in 1616 and later sent Pedro Teixeira up the river and back between 1637 and 1639. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Portuguese adventurers pushed further into the forest. According to the passage, in which year did the Portuguese build the fort near the mouth of the river at Belem?
• Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives. The Amazon basin has a long history of exploitation connected with rubber. Amazonian Indians had long used the sap of rubber trees to make waterproof items. European explorers later recognised the potential value of natural latex but could not market it widely because it grew soft in heat and brittle in cold. In 1842, American Charles Goodyear developed vulcanisation, which made natural rubber durable, and in 1890 Ireland's John Dunlop patented pneumatic rubber tyres. The industrial world's demand for rubber soon became very strong. As profits rose, so did the exploitation of the seringueiros, or rubber tappers, who were drawn into the forest and trapped in systems of debt by the seringalistas, described in the passage as owners of rubber bearing forests. According to the passage, what does the term seringalistas refer to?
• Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives. The Amazon basin experienced a rubber boom after technological advances such as vulcanisation and pneumatic tyres. The passage notes that in 1842 American Charles Goodyear developed vulcanisation, making natural rubber durable, and that in 1890 Ireland's John Dunlop patented pneumatic rubber tyres. This innovation led to a surge in demand for rubber in industrial countries. According to the passage, who patented pneumatic rubber tyres?
• In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives. Those who argue in this way support their case by pointing to the lack of a general consensus of opinion which obtains in many parts of the field which the philosopher regards as his own, and also by pointing out that, even within this field, there is a growing tendency on the part of certain sciences to separate themselves from philosophy and become independent. Thus the psychologist and the logician are sometimes very anxious to have it understood that they belong among the scientists and not among the philosophers. Fill in the blank: _____________ who argue in this way support.
• In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives. Those who argue in this way support their case by pointing to the lack of a general consensus of opinion which obtains in many parts of the field which the philosopher regards as his own, and also by ____________ out that, even within this field, there is a growing tendency on the part of certain sciences to separate themselves from philosophy and become independent. Thus the psychologist and the logician are sometimes very anxious to have it understood that they belong among the scientists and not among the philosophers. Fill in the blank: own, and also by ____________ out that, even within this field.
• In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives. Those who argue in this way support their case by pointing to the lack of a general consensus of opinion which obtains in many parts of the field which the philosopher regards as his own, and also by pointing out that, even within this field, there is a growing tendency ___________ the part of certain sciences to separate themselves from philosophy and become independent. Thus the psychologist and the logician are sometimes very anxious to have it understood that they belong among the scientists and not among the philosophers. Fill in the blank: field, there is a growing tendency ___________ the part of certain sciences to separate.
• In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives. Those who argue in this way support their case by pointing to the lack of a general consensus of opinion which obtains in many parts of the field which the philosopher regards as his own, and also by pointing out that, even within this field, there is a growing tendency on the part of certain sciences to separate themselves from philosophy and _____________ independent. Thus the psychologist and the logician are sometimes very anxious to have it understood that they belong among the scientists and not among the philosophers. Fill in the blank: from philosophy and _____________ independent.
• In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives. Those who argue in this way support their case by pointing to the lack of a general consensus of opinion which obtains in many parts of the field which the philosopher regards as his own, and also by pointing out that, even within this field, there is a growing tendency on the part of certain sciences to separate themselves from philosophy and become independent. Thus the psychologist and the logician are sometimes very anxious to have it understood that they belong among the scientists and ___________ among the philosophers. Fill in the blank: among the scientists and ___________ among the philosophers.
• In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives. My tooth brush is a thing that haunts me when I am travelling, and ____________ my life a misery. I constantly worry that I have not packed it, wake up in a cold sweat and get out of bed to hunt for it. In the morning, I pack it before I have used it and then have to unpack again to get it, and it is always the last thing I turn out of the bag. Then I repack and forget it, and have to rush upstairs for it at the last moment and carry it to the railway station wrapped up in my handkerchief. Of course, when I really need it, I can never find it. Fill in the blank: when I am travelling, and ____________ my life a misery.
• In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives. My tooth brush is a thing that haunts me when I am travelling, and makes my life a misery. I _____________ that I have not packed it and wake up in a cold sweat and get out of bed to hunt for it. In the morning, I pack it before I have used it and then have to unpack again to get it, and it is always the last thing I turn out of the bag. Then I repack and forget it, and have to rush upstairs for it at the last moment and carry it to the railway station wrapped up in my handkerchief. Fill in the blank: I _____________ that I have not packed it.
• In this English cloze passage about a traveller who is haunted by his tooth brush while travelling, choose the correct option to fill in the blank so that the expression is grammatically correct and meaningful in the sentence: “I think that I have not packed it, and wake up in a cold ____________, and get out of bed and hunt for it.”
• In this English cloze passage about a forgetful traveller and his tooth brush, choose the correct linking word to fill in the blank so that the sequence of actions is logically and grammatically complete in the sentence “and it is always the last thing I turn out of the bag; and ____________ I repack and forget it, and have to rush upstairs for it at the last moment.”
• In this English cloze passage describing the narrator rushing at the last moment because of a forgotten tooth brush, choose the correct preposition to fill in the blank so that the phrase “have to rush upstairs __________ it at the last moment” is grammatically natural and meaningful.
• Read the passage about the system of naming cyclones in the north Indian Ocean, and then answer this comprehension question: “For the next cyclone, if it is the turn of an Indian name to be chosen from the official list, which Indian name will be used next according to the order given in the passage?”
• Based on the passage about how countries around the north Indian Ocean submit names for cyclones, answer this question: “Which one of the following countries did not contribute to the official list of cyclone names described in the passage?”
• From the passage explaining the meanings of various cyclone names such as Aila, Phaillin, Hudhud and Nilofar, answer this specific question: “Which of the following cyclone names mentioned in the passage refers to a type of precious stone?”