English Questions

In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Truth is indeed a controversial aspect of ______. But almost always it can be justified as a moral principle on the basis of ______. When we talk about speaking the truth in order not to hide what, if hidden, will only prove damaging to others, we are emphasizing the ability to ‘feel’ for others. Again, often we purposely keep ourselves from communicating the truth as, once ______, it may hurt someone‘s feelings and sentiments. But keeping a person in the dark or denying him or her knowledge which he or she ought to have amounts to ______ another soul of its right to know that with which it has a ______.

Truth is indeed a controversial aspect of ______.

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

To make a long story short

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

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

Dress with medals, ribbons worn at official ceremony.

Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it.

Favouritism shown by a person in power to his relatives

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Lucid

A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.

Sneha said to Arjun, “Go away.”

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/Phrase.
To draw the longbow