GENERAL ENGLISH #46
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Directions
(1-10): In the following questions, you have two brief passages with 5
questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the
best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage-I
In May 1966, the World Health Organisation was authorised
to initiate a global campaign to eradicate small pox. The goal was to eradicate
the disease in one decade. Because similar projects for malaria and yellow
fever had failed, few believed that smallpox could actually be eradicated, but
eleven years after the initial organisation of the campaign, no cases were
reported in the field. The strategy was not only to provide mass vaccinations,
but also to isoate patients with active small-pox in order to contain the
spread of the disease and to break the chain of human transmission. Rewards for
reporting small-pox assisted in motivating the public to aid health workers.
One by one, each small-pox victim was sought out, removed from contact with
others and treated. At the same time, the entire, village where the victim had
lived was vaccinated. Today small-pox is no longer a threat to humanity.
Routine vaccinations have been stopped worldwide.
1.
Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
(a) The World Health Organisation
(b) The Eradication of Small-Pox
(c) Small-Pox Vaccinations
(d) Infectious Diseases
Answer:
(b)
2. What
was the goal of the campaign against small pox?
(a) To decrease the spread of small-pox worldwide
(b) To eliminate smallpox worldwide in ten years
(c) To provide mass vaccinations against small-pox
worldwide
(d) To initiate worldwide projects for small-pox, malaria
and yellow fever at the same time
Answer:
(b)
3. According
to the paragraph what was the strategy used to eliminate the spread of
small-pox?
(a) Vaccination of the entire village
(b) Treatment of individual victims
(c) Isolation of victims and mass vaccinations
(d) Extensive reporting of out breaks
Answer:
(c)
4. Which
statement doesn't refer to small-pox?
(a) Previous projects had failed
(b) People are no longer vaccinated for it
(c) The World Health Organisation mounted a worldwide
campaign to eradicate the disease
(d) It was a serious threat
Answer:
(a)
5. It
can be inferred that ……………
(a) no new cases of small-pox have been reported this
year
(b) malaria and yellow fever have been eliminated
(c) small-pox victims no longer die when they contract
the disease
(d) small-pox is not transmitted from one person to
another
Answer:
(c)
Passage-II
Every profession or, trade, every art and every science
has its technical vocabulary, the function of which is partly to designate
things or processes which have no names in ordinary English and partly to
secure greater exactness in nomenclature. Such special dialects or jargons are
necessary in technical discussion of any kind. Being universally understood by
the devotees of the particular science or art, they have the precision of a
mathematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is much more economical
to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are
very properly included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are
rather on the outskirts of the English language than actually within its
borders. Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of
their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts and other vocations like
farming and fishing that have occupied great numbers of men from remote times,
the technical vocabulary is very old. An average man now uses these in his own
vocabulary. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity and philosophy have
become familiar to cultivated persons.
6. Special
words used in technical discussion ……………
(a) may become part of common speech
(b) never last long
(c) should resemble mathematical formula
(d) should be confined to scientific fields
Answer:
(c)
7. The
writer of this article is ...............
(a) a scientist
(b) a politician
(c) a linguist
(d) a businessman
Answer:
(c)
8. This
passage is primarily concerned with ……………
(a) various occupations and professions
(b) technical terminology
(c) scientific undertakings
(d) a new language
Answer:
(b)
9. It
is true that ……………
(a) various professions and occupations often interchange
words
(b) there is always a non-technical word that may be
substituted for the technical word
(c) the average man often uses in his own vocabulary what
was once technical language not meant for him
(d) everyone is interested in scientific findings
Answer:
(c)
10. In
recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of technical terms
in the nomenclature of which of the following?
(a) Farming
(b) Fishing
(c) Sports
(d) Government
Answer:
(d)
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