English Questions

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Manja, or the glass-coated string used for flying kites, not only poses threat to humans, animals and birds but also to trees. A study by the country's oldest botanical garden has revealed that it poses a great threat to trees. But how can a snapped string struck in a tree kill the tree? Apparently, it does so by allying with the creepers in the garden.

A research paper by three scientists of the Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, located in West Bengal's Howrah district, illustrates in detail how the manja, in collusion with climbers, does the damage. "The abandoned, torn kite strings act as an excellent primary supporting platform for the tender climbers, giving easy passage to reach the top of the trees. Lateral branches from the top of the climber and other accessory branches from the ground reaches the top taking support of the first climber, completely covers the treetop, thus inhibiting the penetration of sunlight," says the research paper.

What would be the acronym for India's oldest botanical garden?

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any part

I am(a) glad(b) that you are here(c). No error.(d)

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The wide world is all

P - ­cannot for ever fence it out
Q­ - about you: you can fence
R­ - yourselves in, but you

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The party faithful, who

P - ­expectations, are now disillusioned
Q­ - had greeted his political arrival in 2004
R­ - with great enthusiasm, and

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

It secured support from

P-government, a significant development in itself
Q-other sections of the
R-Opposition, and defeated the

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any part

Coleridge as well as Wordsworth were(a) of the opinion that the opposite of poetry is(b) not prose but(c) science. No error.(d)

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

It is the right to

P­ - who see us at our most vulnerable
Q­ - the indiscretions of doctors
R­ - privacy that protects us from

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence

His condition has only deteriorated, his life (hangs with threads).