English Quizzes For ESIC- UDC, Steno, MTS Prelims 2022: 8th February

Directions (1-15): In each of the following questions, four sentences are given out of which one may or may not be grammatically correct. Mark the sentence containing error as your answer. If all the sentences are correct, mark your answer as “All are correct”.

Q1.
(a) He first mentioned that phrase in a speech that he gave as the president of the Maharashtra Provincial Congress.
(b) The principle had now finished his round of the school and is now returning to his office.
(c) A fight followed and one of the men pulled and began firing.
(d) When I was child, my father would take me to visit almost all the historical places.
(e) All are correct

Q2.
(a) Your performance in most of the subjects is good but why has you secured poor marks in science?
(b) I did not take any leave for last couple of months.
(c) Shyam caught cold due to getting wet from head to foot in the rain.
(d) When Seema ran, she fell down and hurt her leg.
(e) All are correct

Q3.
(a) His father died when he was enjoying himself in Kashmir.
(b) Bad weather was disturbing many important flights for over a week.
(c) The child has grown very naughty so the school authorities shall write to his parents.
(d) Before you go to see him, he will have left the place.
(e) All are correct

Q4.
(a) We hope that dispute between India & Pakistan will have stopped by the end of the year.
(b) All these blooming flowers will have withered in two days’ time.
(c) He believed in what he repeatedly described as the need for cultural intimacy.
(d)Transgender and queer persons face stigma, harassment and police violence that is further legitimize through repressive draconian laws.
(e) All are correct

Q5.
(a) Of all the female characters in the Mahabharata, Gandhari has surprisingly been the most overlooked one despite her prominent presence throughout.
(b) Wordle is quick to play, easy to understand and provides a few moments of stimulating distraction.
(c) As the campaigns carried the soldiers across the seas, they saw the world, read the newspapers and learnt that the war was for ‘restoring democracy and freedom’.
(d) A range of factors have coalesced to create an impetus for the U.S. to adopt a more robust Indo-Pacific strategy.
(e) All are correct

Q6.
(a) The petition alleges that existing UPCA members have brought their family members and acquaintances into the organization.
(b) Manjit Singh said it is a harsh reality that India has neither quality and affordable education not employment opportunities.
(c) There were many students who are now at home without work and facing an acute financial crunch.
(d) In Canada, federal government regulations are different while the Provincial government has their own rules.
(e) All are correct

Q7.
(a) During investigation it came to light that many colleges had misappropriated funds while others declare bankruptcy and fled.
(b) To trample one’s own consciousness, shut one’s eyes to all transgressions and injustice in order to appease leads to disaster and destruction.
(c) When dominance is imposed abundantly, it casts dark shadows on the dominated.
(d) Even though Dhritarashtra is powerful and strong, you know how easily he becomes furious and bitter over small things.
(e) All are correct

Q8.
(a) This is the first time in recent years when a major English language publishing company will be closed down in India permanently.
(b) Westland is credited with publishing a number of highly-respected and award-winning literary fiction books.
(c) While conducting the study, coders were asked to look for verbal and other signs of aggression and anger, dominance, sexism and positive behaviour.
(d) The personal and political crisis has not nudged them towards resentment, but refined their clarity and made them more human.
(e) All are correct

Q9.
(a) In an early scene, Nadeem and his wife, Tabassum, are discussing the impact of Delhi’s air pollution on young lives.
(b) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said it does not have any information relating to the Pegasus spyware controversy.
(c) ASEAN sprung a surprise by barring Myanmar’s junta from key meetings over a failure to honor a peace plan agreed with the bloc.
(d) The Second World War changed geopolitics and also altered the way societies view the world and themselves.
(e) All are correct

Q10.
(a) The power of the major foundations to incorporate and domesticate powerful radical dissent should not be underestimated.
(b) Furedi shows how race was understood in Anglo-American polities from WWI onwards as the major problem of international politics.
(c) I certainly have not read any book-length study that provides such compelling detail.
(d) Through it’s Indo-Pacific tilt, the U.K. is finally carving out a direction and purpose to it’s post-Brexit foreign policy.
(e) All are correct

Q11.
(a) Maribel Morey’s book ‘White Philanthropy’ lays bare how a global network of Anglo-American elites shored up White power and supremacy in the 1940s.
(b) He was the man who was perhaps the most successful among all of our leaders of the Indian nationalist movement.
(c) If consumption continued for 30 years uncontrollably, then resources would be exhausted and people would not be able to lead a dignified life.
(d) The mutiny of the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) delivered a mortal blow to the entire structure of the British Raj.
(e) All are correct

Q12.
(a) A bench of Justices had dismissed a bail plea of a person, alleged to be the kingpin of cattle smuggling racket.
(b) An additional allocation has been made for the modernization of the paramilitary forces or the CAPFs.
(c) The hologram will remain until a statue of the leader of the Indian National Army (INA) is erected.
(d) Shailbala was sitting in her room writing an urgent letter till a servant informed her that two men had come to meet her.
(e) All are correct

Q13.
(a) The farmers’ agitation was suspended on the basis of a written commitment that the committee will include representatives from the protesting unions.
(b) The government inviting interest from private investors for buying a public sector firm is not enough if there is no corresponding interest in the market.
(c) The ecological footprint which we use and the gap between their regeneration is 187% making us an ecological debtor.
(d) A case of attempt to murder has been registered against the accused and they have been sent to judicial custody.
(e) All are correct

Q14.
(a) The current Passport Seva Project includes robust safeguards for data privacy, as well as adequate measures for data security.
(b) Oil and gas will continue to meet the ‘baseload’ energy demand of India in the ‘foreseeable future’.
(c) The Union Budget is growth-oriented and credit positive for many issuers, so budgetary provisions pose fiscal challenges.
(d) The country has adopted a domestic violence law that enables complaints against physical and sexual abuse.
(e) All are correct

Q15.
(a) Despite some potential challenges, there is a new momentum in the India-U.K. bilateral engagement those days.
(b) The judgment has the potential to settle a long, fractious and futile debate in our country: merit versus reservations.
(c) It is time the Union government took a categorical stand on the issue of treating marital rape as a criminal offence.
(d) New Delhi is hoping to conclude its first FTA (Free Trade Agreement) in over a decade with the United Arab Emirates this year.
(e) All are correct

Solutions

S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Has’ will be used instead of ‘had’ in the statement given in (b). The sentence is in present tense as indicated by ‘now’. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.

S2. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘Have’ should be used instead of ‘has’ in statement (a). Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.

S3. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Had been’ will be used instead of ‘was’ as the sentence is in present perfect tense as indicated by ‘for over a week’. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.

S4. Ans. (d)
Sol. ‘Legitimized’ will be used instead of ‘Legitimize’ as third form of verb is used with “is”. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.

S5. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘Been’ should be used instead of ‘being’. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.

S6. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Nor’ will be used instead of ‘not’. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.

S7. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘Declared’ will be used instead of ‘declare’. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.

S8. Ans (e)
Sol. The sentences are all correct. Hence, option (e) is the right answer choice.

S9. Ans. (e)
Sol. The sentences are all correct. Hence, option (e) is the right answer choice.

S10. Ans. (d)
Sol. ‘Its’ will be used instead of ‘It’s’. hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.

S11. Ans. (e)
Sol. All the sentences are correct. Hence, option (e) is the right answer choice.

S12. Ans. (d)
Sol. ‘when’ should be used instead of ‘till’. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.

S13. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘Would’ should be used instead of ‘will’ as the sentence is in past tense. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.

S14. Ans. (c)
Sol. ‘But’ should be used instead of ‘so’. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.

S15. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘These’ will be used instead of ‘those’. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.