ENGLISH PRACTICE SET 02

1. My uncle………..a huge fan following.

2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
Fictional stories about people who have extraordinary abilities have always attracted people’s attention. One of them is the story of Vera Petrova, who is able to perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. One day she comes into her father’s office and puts her hands on the door of a locked safe. Suddenly she asks her father why he keeps so many old newspapers locked away there. Vera’s curious talent is brought to the notice of a scientific research institute and she is given a series of tests by a special commission. During these tests she manages to read a newspaper through on opaque screen and then she describes the figures and colors of a picture hidden under a carpet. During all these tests Vera is blindfolded; and, indeed, except when blindfolded she lacks the ability to perceive things with her skin. It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers, this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.

As we understand from the reading, Vera Petrova…………

3. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
Fictional stories about people who have extraordinary abilities have always attracted people’s attention. One of them is the story of Vera Petrova, who is able to perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. One day she comes into her father’s office and puts her hands on the door of a locked safe. Suddenly she asks her father why he keeps so many old newspapers locked away there. Vera’s curious talent is brought to the notice of a scientific research institute and she is given a series of tests by a special commission. During these tests she manages to read a newspaper through on opaque screen and then she describes the figures and colors of a picture hidden under a carpet. During all these tests Vera is blindfolded; and, indeed, except when blindfolded she lacks the ability to perceive things with her skin. It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers, this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.

• It is pointed out in the reading that Vera Petrova loses the ability to perceive objects with her fingers…………
  (a)
  (b)
  (d)
  (e)

4. DIRECTION (1-3) : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
Fictional stories about people who have extraordinary abilities have always attracted people’s attention. One of them is the story of Vera Petrova, who is able to perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. One day she comes into her father’s office and puts her hands on the door of a locked safe. Suddenly she asks her father why he keeps so many old newspapers locked away there. Vera’s curious talent is brought to the notice of a scientific research institute and she is given a series of tests by a special commission. During these tests she manages to read a newspaper through on opaque screen and then she describes the figures and colors of a picture hidden under a carpet. During all these tests Vera is blindfolded; and, indeed, except when blindfolded she lacks the ability to perceive things with her skin. It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers, this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.

According to the ready……………..

5. Adjective form of ‘decorate’ is…………….

6. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the given words.
Efficiency

7. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the given words.
Astonishment

8. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word.
Be careful………..you will fall.

9. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word.
Kate has just………….her friend.

10. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word.
We……….two days ago.

11. Change the voice.
Light the lamp of knowledge in every heart.

12. Change the narration.
My brother said, “I will have finished my work by the time you leave from this place”.

13. In the following question, sentences have been jumbled and labeled as A, B, C, D. you are required to rearrange the jumbled setnences and mark your response accordingly by selecting the correct option.
At length the olive tree’s branches broke with the snow’s weight, at once despoiling it of its beauty and killing the tree.
B. A shower of snow fell upon them and, finding the olive full of foliage, it settled upon its, brancehs
C. Finding the fig tree without leaves, the snow fell through the brancehs to the ground and did not injure it at all.
D. The olive tree ridiculed the fig tree because, while she was green all the year round, the fig tree changed its leaves with the seasons.

14. Select the segment of the sentence that contains the grammatical error. If there is no error, mark ‘no error’ as your answer.
Prisoner, especially long term convict have to suffer most from emotional starvation

15. Select the segment of the sentence that contains the grammatical error. If there is no error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
Headmaster has instructed the teachers to follow the rules of the school.

16. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the given word and mark your response accordingly.
Versatile

17. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the given word and mark your response accordingly.
Casual

18. Choose the correct meaning of the idioms/proverbs given below.
Every inch

19. Give one word for the following.
A person who presents a radio/television programme

20. Choose the correct spelling.