English Quizzes For ESIC- UDC, Steno, MTS Prelims 2022: 21st January – Miscellaneous

TOPIC: Miscellaneous

Directions
(1-5): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any
grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of
the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’,
the answer is e). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

Q1.The players (a)/
whom we have selected (b)/ for our team (c)/ are young and ambitious. (d)/ No
Error (e)

Q2.The guests (a)/ whom
we were talking about (b)/ have come are my (c)/ brother-in-law. (d)/No   Error (e)

Q3.There is none
(a)/who can help you (b)/ in this crucial moments (c)/ of your career. (d)/ No
Error (e)

Q4This is the same
(a)/dog which barked (b)/ at him but fortunately did not (c)/ bite him. (d)/ No
Error. (e)

Q5.Whomever (a)/comes
late will not be allowed (b)/to mark his presence (c)/ in the register. (d)/ No
Error. (e)

Directions (6-15): In
the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These
numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words suggested,
one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in
each case.

The (6) increase in the number of vehicles on Indian roads has
also led to an increase in road accidents. India (7)  for 10 per
cent of the global road crash  (8) . Statistics show that (9)
more than a million people die due to road accidents every year; if we do not
do (10) about it by 2020 this  (11)  will double.
Vehicular safety standards are a (12) area. Hence, the United
Nations has (13)  2011-20 as the “Decade of Action for Road Safety”
with the (14)  to reduce fatalities by 50 per cent. The UN has
 (15)  five pillars to achieve this target, i.e. Road Safety
Management, Safer Roads and Mobility, Safer Road Users, Post Crash Response and
Safer Vehicles.

Q6. 
(a) fantastic

(b) tremendous

(c) awesome

(d) excellent

(e) terrible

Q7.
(a) calculates

(b) registers

(c) targets

(d) wishes

(e) accounts

Q8.
(a) lethality

(b) numbers

(c) fatalities

(d) disaster

(e) mortality

Q9.
(a) globally

(b) always

(c) entirely

(d) finally

(e) lastly

Q10.
(a) anymore

(b) whatever

(c) all things

(d) anything

(e) everything

Q11.
(a) total

(b) sum

(c) character

(d) amount

(e) figure

Q12.
(a) complication

(b) dispute

(c) problem

(d) question

(e) difficulty

Q13.
(a) announced

(b) disclosed

(c) released

(d) circulated

(e) told

Q14.
(a) aspiration

(b) wish

(c) scheme

(d) aim

(e) course

Q15.
(a) classified

(b) identified

(c) established

(d) selected

(e) separated

 SOLUTIONS:

S1. Ans.(e)

Sol.  No correction is required.

S2. Ans.(b)

Sol.  Use ‘who’ in place of ‘whom’ as who is a
relative pronoun which always takes a verb but we don’t use verb after
‘whom’. 

S3. Ans.(b)

Sol.  Use ‘that’ in place of ‘who’ as after ‘none’
only ‘that’ can be used as a relative pronoun.

S4. Ans.(b)

Sol.  Use ‘that’ in place of ‘which’ for the same
reason as explained in the above solution.

S5. Ans.(a)

Sol.  Use ‘whoever’ in place of ‘whomever’ as
‘whomever’ is an objective case therefore the verb comes can’t be used. Verb is
used in nominative case and nominative case of whomever is whoever.

 S6. Ans.(b)

S7. Ans. (e)

S8. Ans. (c)

S9. Ans. (a)

S10. Ans. (d)

S11. Ans. (e)

S12. Ans. (c)

S13. Ans. (a)

S14. Ans. (d)

S15. Ans. (b)