Practice Section 1 question answer - general english mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Directions:
Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blanks to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-1) You must refrain ________ such an act.
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Directions:
Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blanks to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-2) My friend's father died ________ I cancer
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Directions:
Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blanks to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-3) She has been supporting her family ________ her husband’s death
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences, there is a blank space. Below each such sentence, there are five options with one word each. Fill up the blank with the word that makes the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Q-4) I always fall ________ old friends in times of need
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences, there is a blank space. Below each such sentence, there are five options with one word each. Fill up the blank with the word that makes the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Q-5) The worker used ________ to patch up the hole in the wall
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Directions:
In each of the questions given below, a paragraph is given which has some blanks and those blanks must be filed with the same word out of five words given below it. You must choose that same as your answer and fill up the blanks with that appropriate answer.
Q-6) Mr. Bhagat, a loco pilot of the Bamanhat-Siliguri Jn. passenger train applied the brakes after spotting a __________ of elephants close to the track between Sivok and Gumla stations in northern West Bengal on August 24 evening. My assistant [Mr. Kumar] spotted the_____ at about 5.35 p.m. The __________ was not visible from my side of the locomotive because of a bend in the track.
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Only the option (a) ‘herd’, upon filling the blanks, satisfy the contextual and grammatical requirements of the blanks. Hence, Option (a) is the correct answer.
herd [noun] means ‘a large group of animals, especially hoofed mammals, that live together or are kept together as livestock’;
Pronouncement [noun] means ‘a formal or authoritative announcement or declaration’;
Army [noun] means ‘a group of soldiers’; Fleet [noun] means ‘a group of ships’;
Swarm [noun] means ‘a large group of flying insects’;
Directions:
Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blanks to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-7) The streets are lighted ________ electricity
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Directions:
Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blanks to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-8) After missing four days of school due to a _________ of flu, Babita struggled to make up for her missing work.
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Directions:
Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blanks to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-9) I have in my album photographs of some of my very close friends ________ I can never forget.
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Directions:
Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blanks to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-10) We warned her ________ the danger
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