English MCQs

S1: This year many States have been badly affected by the drought situation prevailing in the country. P: No better is the situation elsewhere, where floods have ravaged the standing crop. Q: Though some have been less affected, even these are facing an uphill task in managing the situation. R: Especially pitiable is the plight of the poor farmer who cannot afford a tubewell to irrigate his land. S: Here the predicament is more equitable, for everybody’s land is similarly submerged under ten feet of water. S6: Either way, it seems the lot of the Indian farmer to be at the mercy of the elements. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. RSPQ
B. QRPS
C. PSRQ
D. PRQS
✅ The correct answer is option B.

S1: There have been many myths about women in world literature. P: Odysseus found a way to save himself and his sailors from this evil fate. Q: The sirens were beautiful maidens whose songs enchanted sailors on the seas. R: Odysseus encounter with the sirens during his return home after the fall of Troy is typical of this. S: Their songs were so captivating that the sailors swam towards them and died miserable deaths. S6: He filled his rower’s ears with wax and had himself bound to the mast so that he could hear the sweet singing without diving overboard to his death. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. PQRS
B. PQSR
C. QSPR
D. RQSP
✅ The correct answer is option D.

S1: There is a touching story of Professor Hardy visiting Ramanujan as he lay desperately ill in hospital at Putney. P: “No Hardy, that is not a dull number in the very least. Q: Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress. R: It was 1729. S: The best he could do, as he got to the bedside was : “I say, Ramanujan, I thought the number of the taxi I came down in was a very dull number.” S6: It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes.” The Proper sequence should be:

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A. PRSQ
B. QSPR
C. QSRP
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option C.

S1: When a body grows into a young man, he finds himself in a new and strange world. P: The relationship remains but its nature changes. Q: The emotional ties that he had with them are now loosened. R: The old pattern of his life in which his parents were the nucleus around which his life revolved now undergoes a change. S: He finds in himself an emotional void which he must somehow fill. S6: At this stage of his life he is like a body without a soul, an eye without light or a flower without fragrance. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. PRQS
B. RQPS
C. RSQP
D. SRPQ
✅ The correct answer is option B.

S1: In the eighteenth century people expected most of their children to die before they were grown up. P: Improvement began at the beginning of the nineteenth century, chiefly owing to vaccination. Q: The general death rate in 1948(10.8) was the lowest ever recorded up to that date. R: In 1920 the infant mortality in England and Wales was 80 per thousand, in 1948 it was 34 per thousand. S: It has continued ever since and is still continuing. S6: There is no obvious limit to the improvement of health that can be brought about by medicine. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. PSRQ
B. QRPS
C. RQPS
D. SPQR
✅ The correct answer is option A.

S1: Growing up means not only getting larger, but also using our senses and our brains to become more aware of the things around us. P: Not only does he have a memory but he is able to think and reason. Q: In this, man differs from all other animals. R: Before we spray our roadside plants or turn sewage into our rivers, we should pause to think what the results of our actions are likely to be. S: That is to say, he is able to plan what he is going to do in the light of his experience before he does it. S6: In other words, we must develop and use our ability to reason, because the destruction or the preservation of the places in which we live depends on us. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. QPSR
B. QRSP
C. SPQR
D. SPRQ
✅ The correct answer is option A.

S1: The time has come for us to consider seriously the question of a Bharat brand of English. P: I am not suggesting here a mongrelisation of the language. Q: English must adopt the complexion of our life and assimilate its idiom. R: Now the time is ripe for it to come to the dusty street, market place and under the banyan tree. S: So far English has had a comparatively confined existence in our country, chiefly in the halls of learning, justice or administration. S6: Bharat English will respect the rule of law and maintain the dignity of grammar, but still have a swadeshi stamp about it. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. QPSR
B. RQSP
C. SRPQ
D. SRQP
✅ The correct answer is option C.

S1: Even the newsmen and spectators were not spared. P: A home guard in the gallery was hit on the face. Q: They went only inches over the heads of newsmen in the press gallery. R: Three bludgeons which are hurled missed their mark. S: This made the scribes run helter skelter. S6: He fell down,his bleeding eye bulging. The Proper sequence should be:

by
A. PSRQ
B. QRPS
C. RQSP
D. SRQP
✅ The correct answer is option D.