English - Online Test
Q1. Choose the grammatically CORRECT sentence:
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q2. Choose the most appropriate phrase from the options given below to complete the following sentence.
India is a post-colonial country because
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q3. 'Advice' is ________________.
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q4. Modern warfare has changed from large scale clashes of armies to suppression of civilian populations. Chemical agents that do their work silently appear to be suited to such warfare; and regretfully, there exist people in military establishments who think that chemical agents are useful tools for their cause. Which of the following statements best sums up the meaning of the above passage:
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q5. Choose the grammatically INCORRECT sentence:
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q6. “If you are looking for a history of India, or for an account of the rise and fall of the British Raj, or for the reason of the cleaving of the subcontinent into two mutually antagonistic parts and the effects this mutilation will have in the respective section, and ultimately on Asia, you will not find it in these pages; for though I have spent a lifetime in the country. I lived too near the seat of events, and was too intimately associated with the actors, to get the perspective needed for the impartial recording of these matters”.
Here, the word „antagonistic‟ is closest in meaning to
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q7. Out of the following four sentences, select the most suitable sentence with respect to
grammar and usage.
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q8. A poll of students appearing for masters in engineering indicated that 60 % of the students believed that mechanical engineering is a profession unsuitable for women. A research study on women with masters or higher degrees in mechanical engineering found that 99 % of such women were successful in their professions.
Which of the following can be logically inferred from the above paragraph?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q9. Directions: In each question below, is given a statement followed by two assumptions numbered I and II. An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions and decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement.
Statement Please send an official letter rather than semi-official on this subject this time.
Assumptions
I. The format and emphasis of different types of letters is different.
II. We can send different types of letters on the same subject.
Assumptions
I. The format and emphasis of different types of letters is different.
II. We can send different types of letters on the same subject.
Answer : Option E
Explaination / Solution:
It emphasis of different type of letter due to different type of letter. Hence, Both assumptions I and II are implicit.
Q10. Direction: Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. If the given sentence is correct as it is, ‘No error’ as the answer.
Though these programmes have proved (1) / to be extremely (2)/ effective they do have certain (3)/ drawbacks. (4)/ No error (5)
Answer : Option E
Explaination / Solution:
The sentence is grammatically and logically correct.
