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 thefour alternatives.

Enterprising skill is the ______________ of a teacher to see the perspective of the entire institution and the inter-relationships _____________ and between its parts. Itincludes the ability of a teacher to visualise the academic pursuit ___________ a holistic manner and consider a situation in totality. These skills involve _______________abstract and innovative ideas, constructing models and relationships, and anticipating the implications ________ actions.

These skills involve _______________ abstract and innovative ideas

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

I said to my wife, "These showpieces look nice."

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.

They have published the names of all the successful candidates.

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.

The committee _____________ criminal justice reforms recommended a threefold strategy to arrest the drift and to prevent total disaster. First, the law, substantive and procedural, requires a fresh _______________ look based on changes in society and economy _____________ priorities in governance. The guiding ____________ in the reform process should be decriminalisation wherever ______________ and diversion, reserving the criminal justice system mainly to deal with real “hard" crimes.

The committee _____________ criminal justice reforms

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

Be in the red

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.

Life is full of ______ types of experiences.Strange, in fact, are the ways of God.If a man is happy today, he may be ______ unhappy the very next day.Some ______ are pleasant and joyful while others are full of ______ and pain.If at one time a person finds himself on top of the world, at the ______ time he is depressed and downcast.

at the ______ time he is depressed and downcast.

The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

I would then look

A-do some hand-holding and when they were

B-around for my colleagues to

C-not in sight pray for divine intervention

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

Implanting standards, right values, the science of good and evil are an essential part of education. Many forces thwart this to work, but two of the most serious hindrances to it are examinations and specialization. The examination system is both an opiate and a poison. It is an opiate because it lulls Man into believing that all is well when most is ill. It is a poison because it paralyses or at least slows down the natural activities of the healthy mind. Man finds himself a creature of unknown capacities in an unknown world, wants to learn what the world is like, what he should be and do in it. To help him in answering these questions is the one and only purpose of education. However, tests of progress are useful and necessary. Examinations are harmless when the examinee is indifferent to their result, but as soon as they matter, they begin to distort his attitude to education and to conceal its purpose. For disinterestedness is the essence of all good education and liberal education is impossible without it.

The purpose of education is