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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.

 

I read the story in one night.

A) The story had been read by me in one night. B) The story has been read by me in one night.
C) In one night the story has been read by me. D) The story was read by me in one night.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) The story was read by me in one night.

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

 

Thumb one's nose

A) an ill­-mannered person B) to show affection
C) to scold a naughty person D) to express scorn
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) to express scorn

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

 

to expel large quantities of (something) rapidly and forcibly

 

A) to irrupt B) to puke
C) to spew D) to spritz
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) to spew

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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

 

My mother likes to ___________ me by showing everyone my baby pictures.

 

A) stun B) annoy
C) shame D) embarrass
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) embarrass

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In the following question, a word has been written in four different ways out of which only one is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

A) Vaccuumm B) Vacuum
C) Vaecum D) Wacuum
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Vacuum

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In the following question, a word has been written in four different ways out of which only one is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

 

A) Misterous   B) Misterius  
C) Mysterous D) Mysterious
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Mysterious

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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

 


In short, to write a good letter you must approach the job in the lightest and most casual way. You must be personal, not abstract. You must not say, 'This is too small a thing to put down'. You must say, 'This is just the sort of small thing we talk about at home. If I tell them this they will see me, as it were they'll hear my voice, they'll know what I'm talking about'. That is the purpose of a letter. Carlyle had the trick to perfection. He is writing from Scotsbrig to his brother Alec in Canada and he begins talking about his mother. Good old Mother, he says, 'she is even now sitting at my back, trying at another table to write you a small word with her own hand; the first time she has tried such a thing for a year past. It is Saturday night, after dark; we are in the east room in a hard, dry evening with a bright fire to our two selves; Jenny and her Barns are 'scouring up things' in the other end of the house; and below stairs the winter operations of the farm go on, in a subdued tone; you can conceive the scene! How simple it is and yet how perfect. Can not you see Alec reading it in his far-off home and his eyes moistening at the picture of his old mother sitting and writing her last message to him on earth?

 

Subdued tone means _______.

 

A) not very loud B) unusually quiet and possibly unhappy
C) not very busy D) not very bright
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) not very loud

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

 

to teach a person to accept a set of beliefs uncritically

A) to drill B)  to instill
C) to indoctrinate D) to convince
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) to indoctrinate

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