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Multiple choice english basic concepts in geometry conditional statements and converse euclid's postulates introduction to euclid's geometry

Complete the sentence with the most suitable option:
A: We have to cancel the match because it is raining.
B: If only it _______________.

  1. Won't be raining

  2. Isn't raining

  3. Didn't rain

  4. Weren't raining
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The speaker is wishing for the current weather to be different. For the verb 'to be' in present wishes, we use 'were' (or 'weren't' for negative) for all subjects.

Multiple choice english basic concepts in geometry conditional statements and converse euclid's postulates introduction to euclid's geometry

Complete the sentence with the most suitable option:
A: Robert is unhappy because he can't find his passport.
B: If only he __________________.

  1. Could have found it

  2. Had been able to find

  3. Could find it

  4. Had found it
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The speaker is wishing for a present ability. We use the simple past 'could' to express a desire for a present ability.

Multiple choice english basic concepts in geometry conditional statements and converse euclid's postulates introduction to euclid's geometry

Complete the sentence with the most suitable option:
A: Mary is sorry that she bought such an expensive dress.
B: If only she ________________ such an expensive dress.

  1. Didn't but

  2. Wouldn't have bought

  3. Hadn't bought

  4. Could have bought
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The purchase happened in the past. To express regret about a past action, we use the past perfect tense.

Multiple choice english basic concepts in geometry conditional statements and converse euclid's postulates introduction to euclid's geometry

Identify the conditional phrase in the following sentence from the options given below:
If the police had arrived a bit early, the thief would have easily been caught.

  1. Future Result

  2. Imaginative Counterfactual

  3. Factual Conditions

  4. Imaginative Hypothetical
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Since the situation posited is imaginative and expresses a speculative condition, Option B is correct. The rest of the options do not present an unlikely condition, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice english basic concepts in geometry conditional statements and converse euclid's postulates introduction to euclid's geometry

Identify the conditional phrase in the following sentence from the options given below:
If you give the details by today evening, the payment would be credited tomorrow.

  1. Imaginative Counterfactual

  2. Factual Timeless

  3. Future Result

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Since the situation posited and its consequences are to happen in future, Option C is correct. The rest of the options do not present a futurist condition, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice inferences from the text reading comprehension english

Socrates believed that virtue is the outcome of knowledge and that evil is fundamentally ignorance. This is an early instance of the belief that the intellectual or rational is dominant in man and morally superior.

Socrates' point of view as described in the passage implies which of the following conclusions about evil people?

  1. They often dominate those who are morally superior

  2. They are unable to achieve complete self knowledge

  3. They are ignorant

  4. They are inherently virtuous but incapable of showing it
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Option C is the correct answer because according to the first sentence, evil is fundamentally ignorance.

Option A is incorrect because according to the statement the intellectual or rational is more dominant. 
Option B is incorrect because Socrates says that they are ignorant and hence have no knowledge. 
Option D is incorrect because Socrates doesn’t make a statement like this in the given passage.

Multiple choice inferences from the text reading comprehension english

Read the passage and answer the question given below.


There stood at the edge of the road an oak. Probably ten times the age of the birches that formed the bulk of the forest. It was ten times as thick and twice as tall as they are. It was an enormous tree, double a man's span with ancient scars where branches had long ago been lopped off and bark stripped away. With huge limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, with gnarled hands and fingers, it stood, an aged monster angry and scornful, among the smiling birch trees. This oak alone refused to yield to the season's spell, spurning both spring and sunshine.

"Spring, and love, and happiness", this oak seemed to say, "Are you not weary of the same stupid, meaningless late? Always the same old delusion. There is no spring, no happiness! Look at those strangled lifeless fir trees, everlastingly the same and look at me too sticking out broken excoriated fingers, from my back and my sides, where they grew, just as they grew; here I stand, and have no faith in your hopes and illusions".


The oak's attitude to life is ________.

  1. sceptical and disdainful

  2. cheerful but superior

  3. pessimistic and despondent

  4. bombastic and angry
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer for this would be option C, pessimistic and despondent. The speaker of the passage, the oak, has lived long enough to know that nothing lasts and has grown dispirited and cynical of the hope that the younglings have. Option A, sceptical and disdainful, is wrong because there isn't any indication of doubt or worthlessness in the oak. It knows its place in the world and the reality of it; the oak doesn't have any illusions about its existence and is sure of its beliefs. Options B and D are incoherent with the tone of the text, and thus, are incorrect. 

Multiple choice inferences from the text reading comprehension english

Read the passage and answer the question given below. 


This country now needs a new equilibrium, a new spirit of national reconciliation that can be brought about only by moving forward to the new frontiers of true equality, fuller opportunity and greater compassion for the weaker sections of its people. Our goal is total freedom for the people that can fully reflect their urges and aspirations for a better life. We cannot remain content by merely reliving our past even under the condition of complete freedom, without a matching concept of the present and the future. We can survive only by seizing every constructive opportunity that can offer a creative alternative to the legacies of the past. It is only through such a lofty endeavour that the country can discover itself with a new sense of adventure and faith in ourselves.

We cannot remain satisfied with the past. We should think of ____. 

  1. the present and the future as well

  2. matching the present with the past

  3. the past only

  4. none of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Option A is the correct answer. The passage speaks of building a better country, a better world, which can be done with the consideration of the future, without forgetting or foregoing the present conditions. Options B,C and D wrong because their statements are not supported by the text. Moreover, The author has emphasized the necessity of thinking about the preset and the future simultaneously, and not being confined in the past. 

Multiple choice inferences from the text reading comprehension english

Read the passage and answer the question given below.


It must be realized to make compulsory education a success, it is absolutely necessary to make it entirely free. India is a poor country and we cannot expect our people to pay directly for the education of their children. Even in rich countries like England and U.S.A. mas education is not only free but there are many additional facilities like mid-day meal for children, free medical service, and scholarship on a generous scale. Since education is a fundamental civil and human right and basic to the health of the body politics, funds must be found for the purpose whatever the cost of the scheme. If we consider educational and cultural activities to be important, funds will be forthcoming. What we have to do is to rearrange our priority. With this in view, we have to adopt a many-sided programme of national planning and economic and industrial reconstruction. If not there will always be arguments and statistics to prove that it is impossible to introduce free, compulsory and universal education in India.

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

  1. Free compulsory education is necessary for India.

  2. Universal education is free in U.S.A.

  3. Education is civic right.

  4. Education is necessary for a poor country.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

While the passage mentions the other three choices, it never once mentions option D and neither is option D conveyed by the tone of the passage nor is it implied in any other manner. So, we can conclude that option D is the required answer.

Multiple choice inferences from the text reading comprehension english

Read the passage and answer the question given below.


It must be realized to make compulsory education a success, it is absolutely necessary to make it entirely free. India is a poor country and we cannot expect our people to pay directly for the education of their children. Even in rich countries like England and U.S.A. mas education is not only free but there are many additional facilities like mid-day meal for children, free medical service, and scholarship on a generous scale. Since education is a fundamental civic and human right and basic to the health of the body politics, funds must be found for the purpose whatever the cost of the scheme. If we consider educational and cultural activities to be important, funds will be forthcoming. What we have to do is to rearrange our priority. With this in view, we have to adopt a many-sided programme of national planning and economic and industrial reconstruction. If not there will always be arguments and statistics to prove that it is impossible to introduce free, compulsory and universal education in India.

Why should we adopt a many sided programme of national planning and economic reconstruction?

  1. For making education popular

  2. For mass education

  3. For providing mid-day meals

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The passage states that since education is a fundamental and civic human right, funds must be found to implement a scheme that would make it popular so that free education could be made a success. This is where a many sided programme of national planning and economic reconstruction comes in- it is the kind of scheme that needs to be implemented. So, we can conclude that the scheme is need to make education popular. Option A is the correct answer.