GENERAL ENGLISH #35
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Directions:
In the following questions, you have two passages with 5 questions in each
passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each
question out of the four alternatives.
Passage-I
Pidgins are languages that are not, acquired as mother
tongue 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 languages and may become essential, in multilingual
areas. A Creole develops from a pidgin when a pidgin becomes the mother tongue
of the community. To cope with 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
Carribbean, there is a continuum from 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 situations, most
Creole speakers can vary 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 ceases to be 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 two
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 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 all 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 he 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 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 of life
Answer:
(d)
9. Harris
was troubled by ……………
(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) fatal
Answer:
(d)
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