Practice Section 5 question answer - general english mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
PASSAGE
Dhritrashtra, the elder brother of the Pandu, was blind by birth. When he grew young, he was married to Gandhari. She loved him so ____(1)____ that she ____(2)____ up her own eyes with a cloth. A hundred sons were bom to Dhritrashtra and Gandhari. They were called Kauravas. Duryodhana was the ____(3)____ son of Dhritrashtra, who was quite obstinate by nature. When Kunti ____(4)____ to Hastinapur with her five sons, Duryodhana did not ____(5)____ it. He wanted that the Pandavas should live in the forest with their mother, Kunti. In fact he wanted to rule ____(6)____ Hastinapur without any interference in his affairs, although outwardly he made a ____(7)____ of happiness. His mother Gandhari consoled Kunti but her son Duryodhana did not like this at all. Pandavas were so good and ____(8)____ that every one who saw them ____(9)____ them. The people of Hastinapur began to give greater ____(10)____ to the Pandavas than to the Kauravas.
Q-1) Identify the exact answer for the blank (6)?
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Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
The social ____(1)____ of the Web lifestyle and work style are enormous. A lot of people ____(2)____ that computers and the Internet will depersonalize experience, creating a world that is less warm. But these are unfounded as we know that some people were ____(3)____ afraid that the telephone would reduce face-to-face contact and will ____(4)____ society to fall apart. But the ____(5)____ actually came true. Just as phone and e-mail have increased contact between people living in different communities and between people on the go, the PC and the Internet give us ____(6)____ way to communicate. They do not take any away. In reality, the ability to use the Internet to redefine ____(7)____ in our communities is strengthening personal and cultural ____(8)____. The Web lifestyle is about broadening ____(9)____, not narrowing them. Community building is going to be one of the biggest growth areas on the Web. It dramatically increases the number of communities you can bond to because of its ability to ____(10)____ groups of like-minded people independent of geography or time zones.
Q-2) Choose the correct answer from the given options to fill the blank with number (4)?
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Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
The study of accountancy is ____(1)____ in demand in the view of ____(2)____ of greater complexity in our business organisation. Formerly a ____(3)____ of day-to-day income and expenditure was more than ____(4)____. A business organisation today has to ____(5)____ a clear account of the ____(6)____ it uses, the amounts that are owing to it, the amount that it owes to others, the profit or loss it has made and the ____(7)____ it employs. Without a scientific ____(8)____ of accounting no businessman can be fully ____(9)____ of his real ____(10)____ position and run his organisation.
Q-3) Fill the blank (8) with the appropriate word from the below given words?
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Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
The Government seems to be in right earnest to ensure more ____(1)____ in governance. The Prime Minister's announcement that his Government is ____(2)____ drafting legilsation to ____(3)____ the citizen's right to information is indeed welcome. Though the talk on the right to information is not new, we may ____(4)____ the bill to be brought early this time. The previous Government had set up a high-level committee to ____(5)____ a draft bill. But nothing has been heard about the matter since, ____(6)____ the committee did quite some work. The issue, however, has come to such a pass that a solution cannot be ____(7)____ further. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, a foreign judge once said, while ____(8)____ the unwarranted secrecy in an administrative system. When those in authority know that people have the right to ask questions and the government is under the ____(9)____ to provide them with answers, ____(10)____ of authority, or of public finances, for personal or party ends is less likely to happen.
Q-4) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (6)?
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PASSAGE
Dhritrashtra, the elder brother of the Pandu, was blind by birth. When he grew young, he was married to Gandhari. She loved him so ____(1)____ that she ____(2)____ up her own eyes with a cloth. A hundred sons were bom to Dhritrashtra and Gandhari. They were called Kauravas. Duryodhana was the ____(3)____ son of Dhritrashtra, who was quite obstinate by nature. When Kunti ____(4)____ to Hastinapur with her five sons, Duryodhana did not ____(5)____ it. He wanted that the Pandavas should live in the forest with their mother, Kunti. In fact he wanted to rule ____(6)____ Hastinapur without any interference in his affairs, although outwardly he made a ____(7)____ of happiness. His mother Gandhari consoled Kunti but her son Duryodhana did not like this at all. Pandavas were so good and ____(8)____ that every one who saw them ____(9)____ them. The people of Hastinapur began to give greater ____(10)____ to the Pandavas than to the Kauravas.
Q-5) Identify the exact answer for the blank (7)?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
The Government seems to be in right earnest to ensure more ____(1)____ in governance. The Prime Minister's announcement that his Government is ____(2)____ drafting legilsation to ____(3)____ the citizen's right to information is indeed welcome. Though the talk on the right to information is not new, we may ____(4)____ the bill to be brought early this time. The previous Government had set up a high-level committee to ____(5)____ a draft bill. But nothing has been heard about the matter since, ____(6)____ the committee did quite some work. The issue, however, has come to such a pass that a solution cannot be ____(7)____ further. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, a foreign judge once said, while ____(8)____ the unwarranted secrecy in an administrative system. When those in authority know that people have the right to ask questions and the government is under the ____(9)____ to provide them with answers, ____(10)____ of authority, or of public finances, for personal or party ends is less likely to happen.
Q-6) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (5)?
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(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
The Government seems to be in right earnest to ensure more ____(1)____ in governance. The Prime Minister's announcement that his Government is ____(2)____ drafting legilsation to ____(3)____ the citizen's right to information is indeed welcome. Though the talk on the right to information is not new, we may ____(4)____ the bill to be brought early this time. The previous Government had set up a high-level committee to ____(5)____ a draft bill. But nothing has been heard about the matter since, ____(6)____ the committee did quite some work. The issue, however, has come to such a pass that a solution cannot be ____(7)____ further. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, a foreign judge once said, while ____(8)____ the unwarranted secrecy in an administrative system. When those in authority know that people have the right to ask questions and the government is under the ____(9)____ to provide them with answers, ____(10)____ of authority, or of public finances, for personal or party ends is less likely to happen.
Q-7) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (7)?
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(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
The Government seems to be in right earnest to ensure more ____(1)____ in governance. The Prime Minister's announcement that his Government is ____(2)____ drafting legilsation to ____(3)____ the citizen's right to information is indeed welcome. Though the talk on the right to information is not new, we may ____(4)____ the bill to be brought early this time. The previous Government had set up a high-level committee to ____(5)____ a draft bill. But nothing has been heard about the matter since, ____(6)____ the committee did quite some work. The issue, however, has come to such a pass that a solution cannot be ____(7)____ further. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, a foreign judge once said, while ____(8)____ the unwarranted secrecy in an administrative system. When those in authority know that people have the right to ask questions and the government is under the ____(9)____ to provide them with answers, ____(10)____ of authority, or of public finances, for personal or party ends is less likely to happen.
Q-8) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (4)?
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(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
The Government seems to be in right earnest to ensure more ____(1)____ in governance. The Prime Minister's announcement that his Government is ____(2)____ drafting legilsation to ____(3)____ the citizen's right to information is indeed welcome. Though the talk on the right to information is not new, we may ____(4)____ the bill to be brought early this time. The previous Government had set up a high-level committee to ____(5)____ a draft bill. But nothing has been heard about the matter since, ____(6)____ the committee did quite some work. The issue, however, has come to such a pass that a solution cannot be ____(7)____ further. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, a foreign judge once said, while ____(8)____ the unwarranted secrecy in an administrative system. When those in authority know that people have the right to ask questions and the government is under the ____(9)____ to provide them with answers, ____(10)____ of authority, or of public finances, for personal or party ends is less likely to happen.
Q-9) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (10)?
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(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
The social ____(1)____ of the Web lifestyle and work style are enormous. A lot of people ____(2)____ that computers and the Internet will depersonalize experience, creating a world that is less warm. But these are unfounded as we know that some people were ____(3)____ afraid that the telephone would reduce face-to-face contact and will ____(4)____ society to fall apart. But the ____(5)____ actually came true. Just as phone and e-mail have increased contact between people living in different communities and between people on the go, the PC and the Internet give us ____(6)____ way to communicate. They do not take any away. In reality, the ability to use the Internet to redefine ____(7)____ in our communities is strengthening personal and cultural ____(8)____. The Web lifestyle is about broadening ____(9)____, not narrowing them. Community building is going to be one of the biggest growth areas on the Web. It dramatically increases the number of communities you can bond to because of its ability to ____(10)____ groups of like-minded people independent of geography or time zones.
Q-10) Choose the correct answer from the given options to fill the blank with number (1)?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
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