Practice Section 9 question answer - general english mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

PASSAGE

Children are loved by all human beings. But ____(1)____ this world of human ____(2)____ there ib no ____(3)____ nuisance than a boy ____(4)____ the age of fourteen. He is neither ornamental ____(5)____ useful. It is impossible to ____(6)____ affection on him as on a ____(7)____ boy and he is always getting ____(8)____ the way. If he talks with a childish lisp he'is called a baby, and if he answers in a grown up way he is called impertinent. Then he is ____(9)____ the unattractive, growing age. He grows out ____(10)____ his clothes, with indecent haste. His voice begins to break and loses its childish charm.

PASSAGE

Children are loved by all human beings. But ____(1)____ this world of human ____(2)____ there ib no ____(3)____ nuisance than a boy ____(4)____ the age of fourteen. He is neither ornamental ____(5)____ useful. It is impossible to ____(6)____ affection on him as on a ____(7)____ boy and he is always getting ____(8)____ the way. If he talks with a childish lisp he'is called a baby, and if he answers in a grown up way he is called impertinent. Then he is ____(9)____ the unattractive, growing age. He grows out ____(10)____ his clothes, with indecent haste. His voice begins to break and loses its childish charm.

PASSAGE

Children are loved by all human beings. But ____(1)____ this world of human ____(2)____ there ib no ____(3)____ nuisance than a boy ____(4)____ the age of fourteen. He is neither ornamental ____(5)____ useful. It is impossible to ____(6)____ affection on him as on a ____(7)____ boy and he is always getting ____(8)____ the way. If he talks with a childish lisp he'is called a baby, and if he answers in a grown up way he is called impertinent. Then he is ____(9)____ the unattractive, growing age. He grows out ____(10)____ his clothes, with indecent haste. His voice begins to break and loses its childish charm.

PASSAGE

Children are loved by all human beings. But ____(1)____ this world of human ____(2)____ there ib no ____(3)____ nuisance than a boy ____(4)____ the age of fourteen. He is neither ornamental ____(5)____ useful. It is impossible to ____(6)____ affection on him as on a ____(7)____ boy and he is always getting ____(8)____ the way. If he talks with a childish lisp he'is called a baby, and if he answers in a grown up way he is called impertinent. Then he is ____(9)____ the unattractive, growing age. He grows out ____(10)____ his clothes, with indecent haste. His voice begins to break and loses its childish charm.

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

Once Gurudev Tagore asked Gandhiji: "Gandhiji,are you ____(1)____ unromantic? When in the early ____(2)____ the morning sun rises does it not ____(3)____ your heart with joy to see its reddish glow? When the birds ____(4)____ does not your heart thrill with its ____(5)____ music? When the rose opens its petals and blooms in the garden, does its sight not bring ____(6)____ to your heart?" The Mahatma replied, "Gurudev, I am not so dumb or ____(7)____ as not to be moved by the beauty of the rose or the morning rays of the sun or the music of the birds. But what can I do? My one ____(8)____, my one anxiety, my one ambition is: When shall I see the red tint of the rose on the cheeks of ____(9)____ ____(10)____ millions of my people? When shall I hear the sweet and melodious song of the birds in place of their ____(11)____ sighs - when will such music ____(12)____ out of their soul? And when will that ____(13)____ come, when the light of the morning sun will ____(14)____ the heart of the common man in India? When will I see its lustre and ____(15)____ on his face?"

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

Once Gurudev Tagore asked Gandhiji: "Gandhiji,are you ____(1)____ unromantic? When in the early ____(2)____ the morning sun rises does it not ____(3)____ your heart with joy to see its reddish glow? When the birds ____(4)____ does not your heart thrill with its ____(5)____ music? When the rose opens its petals and blooms in the garden, does its sight not bring ____(6)____ to your heart?" The Mahatma replied, "Gurudev, I am not so dumb or ____(7)____ as not to be moved by the beauty of the rose or the morning rays of the sun or the music of the birds. But what can I do? My one ____(8)____, my one anxiety, my one ambition is: When shall I see the red tint of the rose on the cheeks of ____(9)____ ____(10)____ millions of my people? When shall I hear the sweet and melodious song of the birds in place of their ____(11)____ sighs - when will such music ____(12)____ out of their soul? And when will that ____(13)____ come, when the light of the morning sun will ____(14)____ the heart of the common man in India? When will I see its lustre and ____(15)____ on his face?"

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

Once Gurudev Tagore asked Gandhiji: "Gandhiji,are you ____(1)____ unromantic? When in the early ____(2)____ the morning sun rises does it not ____(3)____ your heart with joy to see its reddish glow? When the birds ____(4)____ does not your heart thrill with its ____(5)____ music? When the rose opens its petals and blooms in the garden, does its sight not bring ____(6)____ to your heart?" The Mahatma replied, "Gurudev, I am not so dumb or ____(7)____ as not to be moved by the beauty of the rose or the morning rays of the sun or the music of the birds. But what can I do? My one ____(8)____, my one anxiety, my one ambition is: When shall I see the red tint of the rose on the cheeks of ____(9)____ ____(10)____ millions of my people? When shall I hear the sweet and melodious song of the birds in place of their ____(11)____ sighs - when will such music ____(12)____ out of their soul? And when will that ____(13)____ come, when the light of the morning sun will ____(14)____ the heart of the common man in India? When will I see its lustre and ____(15)____ on his face?"

PASSAGE

Children are loved by all human beings. But ____(1)____ this world of human ____(2)____ there ib no ____(3)____ nuisance than a boy ____(4)____ the age of fourteen. He is neither ornamental ____(5)____ useful. It is impossible to ____(6)____ affection on him as on a ____(7)____ boy and he is always getting ____(8)____ the way. If he talks with a childish lisp he'is called a baby, and if he answers in a grown up way he is called impertinent. Then he is ____(9)____ the unattractive, growing age. He grows out ____(10)____ his clothes, with indecent haste. His voice begins to break and loses its childish charm.

PASSAGE

Children are loved by all human beings. But ____(1)____ this world of human ____(2)____ there ib no ____(3)____ nuisance than a boy ____(4)____ the age of fourteen. He is neither ornamental ____(5)____ useful. It is impossible to ____(6)____ affection on him as on a ____(7)____ boy and he is always getting ____(8)____ the way. If he talks with a childish lisp he'is called a baby, and if he answers in a grown up way he is called impertinent. Then he is ____(9)____ the unattractive, growing age. He grows out ____(10)____ his clothes, with indecent haste. His voice begins to break and loses its childish charm.

PASSAGE

Children are loved by all human beings. But ____(1)____ this world of human ____(2)____ there ib no ____(3)____ nuisance than a boy ____(4)____ the age of fourteen. He is neither ornamental ____(5)____ useful. It is impossible to ____(6)____ affection on him as on a ____(7)____ boy and he is always getting ____(8)____ the way. If he talks with a childish lisp he'is called a baby, and if he answers in a grown up way he is called impertinent. Then he is ____(9)____ the unattractive, growing age. He grows out ____(10)____ his clothes, with indecent haste. His voice begins to break and loses its childish charm.