Grammar Quiz (01 June 2024)

Question 1:

Direction :- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

A great water scarcity looms over India; by 2025 Indians will get just over half the water they get today. This grave problem has a simple solution. Catch the rain as it falls, and the water the crisis will disappear. However, about 80 per cent of India's rainfall buckets down during the three months of the monsoons. As yet, no government programmer has discovered how to store this water. 'Dying Wisdom', a seven-year countryside study by Delhi's Centre for Science and Environment, reveals that ruins of amazing ancient technologies survive in every corner of India. Drip-irrigation systems of bamboo pipes in Meghalaya; 'kunds', underground tanks in Rajasthan; 'pynes', water channels built by tribals in Bihar; and thousands of open-water bodies down south are all superb examples of rainwater harvesting systems. Even today, tanks called 'eris' in Tamil Nadu water one-third of the state's irrigated area. Unfortunately, governmental planners mostly refuse to acknowledge the potential of these low-cost systems, concentrating on costly dams and canals. Few cities have lost touch with their ecological traditions as fast-and with as damaging results-as Bangalore. Only 17 of its water bodies struggle to survive in a city where once 200 lakes, ponds and wetlands cooled the city and recharged its ground water. The threats continue unabated as the relentless march of urbanization shows no sign of stopping.

Which of the following is not a low cost technology in water usage?

  • dams and canals

  • drip-irrigation

  • underground tanks

  • water channels  

Question 2:

Direction :-Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. The mountain range was covered with snow.

B. Napoleon had to cross the Alps in winter.

C. Napoleon replied that the word 'impossible' did not exist for him.

D. So, someone told Napoleon that the task was impossible.

  • BDCA

  • ADBC

  • BADC

  • DBCA

Question 3:

Direction :-Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. I took a deep breath and inhaled the air.

B. It was a fine spring morning.

C. As soon as I entered the garden, lush green grass welcomed me.

D. The freshness in the air drew my feet towards a garden.

  • CDAB

  • CADB

  • BADC

  • ACBD

Question 4:

Direction :-Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

S-1 A salt seller used to carry the salt bag on his donkey to the market every day.

A. One day the donkey suddenly tumbled down the stream and the salt bag also fell into the water.

B. The donkey was happy.

C. On the way they had to cross a stream.

D. The salt dissolved in the water and hence the bag became very light to carry.

S-6 Then the donkey started to play the same trick every day.

  • BDCA

  • ACDB

  • CDAB

  • CADB

Question 5:

Direction :- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

A great water scarcity looms over India; by 2025 Indians will get just over half the water they get today. This grave problem has a simple solution. Catch the rain as it falls, and the water the crisis will disappear. However, about 80 per cent of India's rainfall buckets down during the three months of the monsoons. As yet, no government programmer has discovered how to store this water. 'Dying Wisdom', a seven-year countryside study by Delhi's Centre for Science and Environment, reveals that ruins of amazing ancient technologies survive in every corner of India. Drip-irrigation systems of bamboo pipes in Meghalaya; 'kunds', underground tanks in Rajasthan; 'pynes', water channels built by tribals in Bihar; and thousands of open-water bodies down south are all superb examples of rainwater harvesting systems. Even today, tanks called 'eris' in Tamil Nadu water one-third of the state's irrigated area. Unfortunately, governmental planners mostly refuse to acknowledge the potential of these low-cost systems, concentrating on costly dams and canals. Few cities have lost touch with their ecological traditions as fast-and with as damaging results-as Bangalore. Only 17 of its water bodies struggle to survive in a city where once 200 lakes, ponds and wetlands cooled the city and recharged its ground water. The threats continue unabated as the relentless march of urbanization shows no sign of stopping.

The people in ancient India had amazing technology to harvest water. This shows that

  • they did not know how to build dams.

  • water was scarce at that time

  • it used to rain heavily.

  • they understood the significance of water.

Question 6:

Direction :- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

A great water scarcity looms over India; by 2025 Indians will get just over half the water they get today. This grave problem has a simple solution. Catch the rain as it falls, and the water the crisis will disappear. However, about 80 per cent of India's rainfall buckets down during the three months of the monsoons. As yet, no government programmer has discovered how to store this water. 'Dying Wisdom', a seven-year countryside study by Delhi's Centre for Science and Environment, reveals that ruins of amazing ancient technologies survive in every corner of India. Drip-irrigation systems of bamboo pipes in Meghalaya; 'kunds', underground tanks in Rajasthan; 'pynes', water channels built by tribals in Bihar; and thousands of open-water bodies down south are all superb examples of rainwater harvesting systems. Even today, tanks called 'eris' in Tamil Nadu water one-third of the state's irrigated area. Unfortunately, governmental planners mostly refuse to acknowledge the potential of these low-cost systems, concentrating on costly dams and canals. Few cities have lost touch with their ecological traditions as fast-and with as damaging results-as Bangalore. Only 17 of its water bodies struggle to survive in a city where once 200 lakes, ponds and wetlands cooled the city and recharged its ground water. The threats continue unabated as the relentless march of urbanization shows no sign of stopping.

Which State uses bamboo pipes for the drip irrigation system?

  • Bihar

  • Meghalaya

  • Rajasthan

  • Tamil Nadu.

Question 7:

Direction :- In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. Dr Burjor P Banaji, pioneer of Lasik surgery in India has (1) _________ over a dozen surgical instruments. When (2) ____________ senior eye surgeon at Max Eye Care started Lasik, there were (3) ___________ surgeons doing it worldwide and no (4) ______________ instruments were available either. "As I want things (5) _____________, I designed a whole slew of instruments that made my surgery more efficient," says Banaji.

2.

  • those

  • the

  • they

  • these

Question 8:

Direction :- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

A great water scarcity looms over India; by 2025 Indians will get just over half the water they get today. This grave problem has a simple solution. Catch the rain as it falls, and the water the crisis will disappear. However, about 80 per cent of India's rainfall buckets down during the three months of the monsoons. As yet, no government programmer has discovered how to store this water. 'Dying Wisdom', a seven-year countryside study by Delhi's Centre for Science and Environment, reveals that ruins of amazing ancient technologies survive in every corner of India. Drip-irrigation systems of bamboo pipes in Meghalaya; 'kunds', underground tanks in Rajasthan; 'pynes', water channels built by tribals in Bihar; and thousands of open-water bodies down south are all superb examples of rainwater harvesting systems. Even today, tanks called 'eris' in Tamil Nadu water one-third of the state's irrigated area. Unfortunately, governmental planners mostly refuse to acknowledge the potential of these low-cost systems, concentrating on costly dams and canals. Few cities have lost touch with their ecological traditions as fast-and with as damaging results-as Bangalore. Only 17 of its water bodies struggle to survive in a city where once 200 lakes, ponds and wetlands cooled the city and recharged its ground water. The threats continue unabated as the relentless march of urbanization shows no sign of stopping.

The people in ancient India had amazing technology to harvest water. This shows that

  • it used to rain heavily.

  • they did not know how to build dams.

  • they understood the significance of water.

  • water was scarce at that time

Question 9:

Direction :-Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. I took a deep breath and inhaled the air.

B. It was a fine spring morning.

C. As soon as I entered the garden, lush green grass welcomed me.

D. The freshness in the air drew my feet towards a garden.

  • ACBD

  • CDAB

  • BADC

  • CADB

Question 10:

Direction :-Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. Much of this war had taken place along the Western Front.

B. Both sides had dug in deep and each lost many men over little ground.

C. This front was a line of trenches across which the two sides faced each other.

D. Andre Maginot had fought a war with the French against the Germans.

  • ACDB

  • DBCA

  • DACB

  • BCDA

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