General English Questions for Competitive Exam - (PART-1)

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General English Questions for Competitive Exam

General English Questions for Competitive Exam

Direction (Q. Nos. 51 and 52) Choose the world, which is most similar in meaning to the given words.

51. Dishevelled

(a) Tidy

(b) Clean

(d) Untidy

52. Venerate

(a) Despise

(b) Disobey

(d) Revere

Direction (Q. Nos. 53 and 54) Choose the world, which is most opposite in meaning to the given words.

53. Congenial

(a) Accord

(b) Snug

(d) Unpleasant

54. Abjure

(a) Renounce

(b) relinquish

(d) acquire

Direction (Q. Nos. 55- 57) In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

55. Highly skilled

(a) Consummate

(b) Inveterate

(d) Maladroit

56. Identification with the feeling of another

(a) Sympathy

(b) Empathy

(d) Compassion

57. Insatiable desire for wealth

(a) Selfish

(b) Avarice

(d) Generosity

Direction (Q. Nos. 55- 57) In these questions, four alternatives are given for the idiom/ phrase given in bold. Choose the alternative which best express the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.

58. Cut the mustard

(a) To get under expectations

(b) To score average

(d) to underperform

59. A chip off the old block

(a) Reminds them of one’s father

(b) To remind one’s sin

(d) Reminds of previous memories

60. To fish in troubled waters

(a) To indulge in evil conspiracies

(b) To make a profit out of disturbance

(d) To make the most of bad bargain

Direction (Q. Nos. 61- 62) in these questions, a part of sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part, which may improve the sentence. Choose the, correct alternative. In case to improvement is needed, mark ‘No improvement’ as your answer.

61. What you have been doing since the workshop last month?

(a) Have you done

(b) you have done

(d) No improvement

62. Corruption is the most serious problem in India.

(a) The more serious

(b) very serious

(d) No improvement

Direction (Q. Nos. 68- 67) in the following questions, a sentence has a blank space and four words given after the sentence. Select whichever word you consider most appropriate for the blank space.

63. Sid and harsh are ……..unable to complete the task.

64. The examination could guess ……….. the answer correctly.

65. Be ………………… and always look to the comfort of others.

66. As usual, a lot of people were ………. In the kings’ durbar.

67. In this question, four words are given out of which one is incorrectly spelt. Find the incorrectly spelt word.

(a) ommineous

(b) omineous

(d) ominous

Direction (Q. Nos. 68- 71) in the following questions, a sentence has been given in parts, out of which a part contains an error. The part with the error is your answer. In case there is no error, then your answer is ‘No error’.

68. He ought not/ have done such/a filthy thing.

(a) He ought not

(b) have done such

(d) No error

69. The reason for/ his failure is because/ he did not work hard.

(a) The reason for

(b) his failure is because

(d) no error

70. I have reached/ the office before/ the rain started.

(a) I have reached

(b) the office before

(d) No error

71. A large/ consignment of books/ are expected.

(a) A large

(b) consignment of books

(d) No error

Direction (Q. Nos. 72- 75) in the following Passage carefully and answer the question given below in the context of passage.

Every profession or trade, every art and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of which is partly to designate things or processes which have no names in ordinary English and partly to secure greater exactness in nomenclature. Such special dialects or jargons renecessary in technical discussion of any kind. being universally understood by the devotees of the particular science or art, they have the precision of a mathematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is much more economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very properly included in every large dictionary. Yet as whole, they are rather on the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders.

Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts and other numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary is very old. An average man now uses these in his own vocabulary. The special dialects of law, medicine divinity and philosophy have become familiar to cultivated persons.

72. Special words used in technical discussion.

(a) May become part of common speech

(b) Never last long

(d) Should be confined to scientific fields.

73. The writer of this article is

(a) a scientist

(b) a politician

(d) a businessman

74. This passage is primarily concerned with

(a) Various occupations and professions

(b) technical terminology

(d) a new language

75. It is true that

(a) Various occupations and professions often interchange words.

(b) there is always a non – technical word that may be substitute for the technical word.

(d) Everyone is interested in scientific findings.

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