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.
What, according to the passage, is the primary reason for the water shortage?
Question 2:
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.
'This grave problem' in the passage refers to
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.
S-1 Once a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn't know how she was going to tackle it.
A: Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen.
B: She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time.
C: He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. D: It seemed as if just as one problem was solved, another one followed.
S-6 When the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot.
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.
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.
Question 5:
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.
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.
The people in ancient India had amazing technology to harvest water. This shows that
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.
5.
Question 8:
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.
Question 9:
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.
3.
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.