English Quiz on Reading Comprehension for SSC CGL,IBPS CLERK,IBPS PO,SBI Exams
English Quiz on Reading Comprehension
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English Quiz on Reading Comprehension for SSC CGL,IBPS CLERK,IBPS PO,SBI Exams |
Directions (1-10): you have to brief
passages with 5 questions in each passage. Read the passage carefully and
choose the best answer to each questions out of the four alternatives.
Passage-I
Pidgins are languages that are not, acquired as
mother tongues and that are used for a restricted set of communicative
functions. They are formed from a mixture of languages and have a limited
vocabulary and a simplified grammar. Pidgins serve as a means of communication
between speakers of mutually unintelligible language and my become essential,
in multilingual areas. A creole develops
from a pidgin when the pidgin becomes the
mother tongue of the community. To cope with the consequent expansion of
communicative functions the consequent expansion of communicative functions the
vocabulary is increased and the grammar becomes more complex. Where a creole
and the standard variety of English coexist, as in the Caribbean, there is a
continuum form the most extreme form of creole to the form that is closest to
the most extreme form of creole to the form that is closest to the standard
language. Linguists mark off the relative positions on the creole continuum as
the ‘basilect’ (the furthest from the standard language), the ‘mesolect’, and
the ‘acrolet’. In such stuations, most creole speakers can very their speech
along the continuum and many are also competent in the standard English of
their country.
1. A
pidgin develops in a situation when
(A) Different and mutually unintelligible languages
exist side by side
(B) A creole becomes the mother tongue of a
linguistic community
(C) A language with restricted vocabulary
undergoes an expansion in grammar and vocabulary
(D) Two similar languages are mixed to create a
new language
Answer:
A
2.
According to the given passage a pidgin becomes a creole when
(A) It creases to be a means of communication
(B) It becomes the mother tongue for a new
generation of speakers
(C) Its vocabulary undergoes some kind of
change
(D) Two or more languages are mixed with an
existing pidgin
Answer:
B
3.
According to the passage, a creole continuum is
(A) A linguistic term for the mixture of more
than tow languages
(B) A scale which measures the linguistic competence of the speaker
(C) A scale in which the proximity of the creole
to the standard language is measured
(D) A record of the continuous history of a
creole
Answer:
C
4.
According to the passage ‘basilect’ means
(A) An impure form of a creole
(B) A form of creole which is furthest from the
standard language
(C) A form of creole which has an extended
vocabulary
(D) A form of creole which is very close to the
standard language
Answer:
B
5. Find
out a word in the passage which is opposite in meaning to the word-‘Simplified’
(A) Complex
(B) Expansion
(C) Restricted
(D) Consequent
Answer:
A
Passage-II
There were four of us – George, and William
Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in
my room, smoking
and talking about how bad we were – bad from a medical point of view I mean, of
course.
We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting
quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of
giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and
then George said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was
doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver
that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill
circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell
when his liver was out of order. I had them all.
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never
read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion
that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most
virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all
the sensations that I have ever felt.
6. The
four felt down and out because
(A) the room was too smoky
(B) they could never read a patent medicine
advertisement
(C) they thought they were ill
(D) they had experienced a most extraordinary
thing
Answer:
C
7.
Whenever the speaker read a liver pill circular
(A) he suffered from an extraordinary surge of
giddiness
(B) he felt sure that he had a liver disorder
(C) he felt the urge to smoke
(D) All of the above
Answer:
B
8. The
author of the above passage seems to be suffering from
(A) fits of morbid depression without real
cause
(B) an abnormal anxiety about his health
(C) melancholia
(D) an unnecessarily dark, gloomy and pessimistic attitude to life
Answer:
B
9.
Harris was troubled by
(A) a symptom of vertigo
(B) garrulity
(C) tribulation
(D) frailty
Answer:
A
10. The word which is closest in meaning to
virulent is
(A) fantastic
(B) vital
(C) viral
(D) hostile
Answer:
C
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