English Comprehension Question Papers
11th August 2017 (Shift-2)
Question-176: 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’.
Are not your father (1)/ and your elder brother (2)/ out of town? (3)/ No Error (4)
Options:
1) 1
2) 2
3) 3
4) 4
Correct Answer: 4
Question-177: 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’.
Our office building comprises (1)/ seven floors and a restaurant at the top in an (2)/ area of about eight hundred sq. metres. (3)/ No Error (4)
Options:
1) 1
2) 2
3) 3
4) 4
Correct Answer: 2
Question-178: In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
John as well as his friends always _____ the permission of his mother before going for a rugby match.
Options:
1) asks
2) receives
3) seeks
4) soughts
Correct Answer: seeks
Question-179: In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
My sister unlike my brothers __________ to have a career in Engineering.
Options:
1) wants
2) want
3) wish
4) aspire
Correct Answer: wants
Question-180: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.
Boisterous
Options:
1) Clamorous
2) Ferocious
3) Fissiparous
4) Voluminous
Correct Answer: Clamorous
Question-181: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.
Haggard
Options:
1) Emaciate
2) Insane
3) Rejected
4) Ridicule
Correct Answer: Emaciate
Question-182: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.
Ostentation
Options:
1) Comical
2) Insane
3) Modest
4) Swanky
Correct Answer: Modest
Question-183: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.
Commiserate
Options:
1) Debatable
2) Empathize
3) Indifferent
4) Legion
Correct Answer: Indifferent
Question-184: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Pillar to post
Options:
1) Main support of an object
2) One place to another
3) To be reluctant
4) To incite others
Correct Answer: One place to another
Question-185: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Hobson’s choice
Options:
1) To choose first in row
2) To make a careful choice
3) No real choice at all
4) To seek all favourable alternatives to choose from
Correct Answer: No real choice at all
Question-186: Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
William Shakespeare is the greatest of (all other) writers.
Options:
1) all the
2) any other
3) the other
4) No improvement
Correct Answer: all the
Question-187: Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
She is not used (to sleep) for so long.
Options:
1) to be sleeping
2) to sleep
3) to sleeping
4) No improvement
Correct Answer: to sleeping
Question-188: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.
Giving undue favours to one’s own kith and kin
Options:
1) Ableism
2) Iconoclast
3) Maiden
4) Nepotism
Correct Answer: Nepotism
Question-189: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.
One who does not care for literature or art
Options:
1) Dictator
2) Hypocrite
3) Philistine
4) Primitive
Correct Answer: Philistine
Question-190: In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is incorrectly spelt. Select the incorrectly spelt word.
Options:
1) Colonel
2) Hypocracy
3) Offence
4) Strength
Correct Answer: Hypocracy
Question-191: In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is incorrectly spelt. Select the incorrectly spelt word.
Options:
1) Preceed
2) Proceed
3) Recede
4) Succeed
Correct Answer: Preceed
Question-192: The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P- And if I think about something which didn’t happen I start thinking about all the other things which didn’t happen.
Q- But there is only ever one thing which happened at a particular time and a particular place.
R- And there are an infinite number of things which didn’t happen at that time and that place.
S- A lie is when you say something happened which didn’t happen.
Options:
1) QSRP
2) SQPR
3) SRQP
4) SQRP
Correct Answer: SQRP
Question-193: The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P- The magnitude of the interdependence depends on the technique of production causing the shifts in the food supply curve.
Q- Interdependence of food and labour market is important for the development process.
R- Similarly, an upward shift in the food supply curve shifts up the food demand curve.
S- An upward shift in the food supply curve would simultaneously result in an upward shift in the labour demand curve.
Options:
1) QSPR
2) QPRS
3) PSRQ
4) SPQR
Correct Answer: QSPR
Question-194: In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
Who teaches you Mathematics?
Options:
1) By whom are you taught Mathematics?
2) By whom were you taught Mathematics?
3) By whom will you be taught Mathematics?
4) Mathematics is taught by whom?
Correct Answer: By whom are you taught Mathematics?
Question-195: In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
“I don’t know the answer. Do you”? She asked.
Options:
1) She asked me if I knew the answer which she didn’t.
2) She said that she didn’t know the answer and did I know it.
3) She said that she didn’t know the answer and asked me if i did.
4) She told that she was not knowing the answer but wondered if I know.
Correct Answer: She said that she didn’t know the answer and asked me if i did.
Question-196: In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
Education is for life, not merely for a livelihood. As long as we are unmindful of this _____, the _____ of our educational curriculum, as well as that of our _____ and students, is likely to remain _____. It is not enough for a society to have experts. It needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and _____.
As long as we are unmindful of this _____,
Options:
1) measure
2) resource
3) story
4) truth
Correct Answer: truth
Question-197: In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
Education is for life, not merely for a livelihood. As long as we are unmindful of this _____, the _____ of our educational curriculum, as well as that of our _____ and students, is likely to remain _____. It is not enough for a society to have experts. It needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and _____.
the _____ of our educational curriculum as well as
Options:
1) efficiency
2) effectiveness
3) quality
4) quantity
Correct Answer: quality
Question-198: In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
Education is for life, not merely for a livelihood. As long as we are unmindful of this _____, the _____ of our educational curriculum as well as that of our _____ and students is likely to remain _____. It is not enough for a society to have experts. It needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and _____.
that of our _____ and students
Options:
1) friends
2) ideals
3) parents
4) teachers
Correct Answer: teachers
Question-199: In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
Education is for life, not merely for a livelihood. As long as we are unmindful of this _____, the _____ of our educational curriculum, as well as that of our _____ and students, is likely to remain _____. It is not enough for a society to have experts. It needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and _____.
is likely to remain _____. It is not enough for a society to have experts.
Options:
1) inadequate
2) indifferent
3) represented
4) unmeasurable
Correct Answer: inadequate
Question-200: In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
Education is for life, not merely for a livelihood. As long as we are unmindful of this _____, the _____ of our educational curriculum, as well as that of our _____ and students, is likely to remain _____. It is not enough for a society to have experts. It needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and _____.
the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and _____.
Options:
1) mechanics
2) monitors
3) robots
4) televisions
Correct Answer: robots