All Free English MCQs with Answers

6691. Read the passage and answer the questions given at the end of the passage:Recent advances in science and technology have made it possible for geneticists to find out abnormalities in the unborn fetus and take remedial action to rectify some defects which would otherwise prove to be fatal to the child. Though genetic engineering is still at its infancy, scientists can now predict with greater accuracy a genetic disorder. It is not yet an exact science since they are not in a position to predict when exactly a genetic disorder will set in. While they have not yet been able to change the genetic order of the gene in germs, they are optimistic and are holding out that in the near future they might be successful in achieving this feat. However, genetic misinformation can sometimes be damaging for it may adversely affect people psychologically. Genetic information may lead to a tendency to brand some people as inferiors. Genetic information can therefore be abused and its application in deciding the sex of the fetus and its subsequent abortion is now hotly debated on ethical lines. But on this issue geneticists cannot be squarely blamed though this charge has often been leveled at them. It is mainly a societal problem. At present genetic engineering is a costly process of detecting disorders but scientists hope to reduce the costs when technology becomes more advanced. This is why much progress in this area is seen in scientifically advanced and rich countries like the U.S.A, UK and Japan. It remains to be seen if in the future this science will lead to the development of a race of supermen or will be able to obliterate disease from this world.According to the passage the question of abortion is:

6692. Read the passage and answer the question given at the end of the passage:Recent advances in science and technology have made it possible for geneticists to find out abnormalities in the unborn fetus and take remedial action to rectify some defects which would otherwise prove to be fatal to the child. Though genetic engineering is still at its infancy, scientists can now predict with greater accuracy a genetic disorder. It is not yet an exact science since they are not in a position to predict when exactly a genetic disorder will set in. While they have not yet been able to change the genetic order of the gene in germs, they are optimistic and are holding out that in the near future they might be successful in achieving this feat. However, genetic misinformation can sometimes be damaging for it may adversely affect people psychologically. Genetic information may lead to a tendency to brand some people as inferiors. Genetic information can therefore be abused and its application in deciding the sex of the fetus and its subsequent abortion is now hotly debated on ethical lines. But on this issue geneticists cannot be squarely blamed though this charge has often been levelled at them. It is mainly a societal problem. At present genetic engineering is a costly process of detecting disorders but scientists hope to reduce the costs when technology becomes more advanced. This is why much progress in this area is seen in scientifically advanced and rich countries like the U.S.A, UK, and Japan. It remains to be seen if in the future this science will lead to the development of a race of supermen or will be able to obliterate disease from this world.Which of the following is true regarding the reasons for progress in genetic engineering?

6693. Read the passage and answer the questions given at the end of the passage:Recent advances in science and technology have made it possible for geneticists to find out abnormalities in the unborn fetus and take remedial action to rectify some defects which would otherwise prove to be fatal to the child. Though genetic engineering is still at its infancy, scientists can now predict with greater accuracy a genetic disorder. It is not yet an exact science since they are not in a position to predict when exactly a genetic disorder will set in. While they have not yet been able to change the genetic order of the gene in germs, they are optimistic and are holding out that in the near future they might be successful in achieving this feat. However, genetic misinformation can sometimes be damaging for it may adversely affect people psychologically. Genetic information may lead to a tendency to brand some people as inferiors. Genetic information can therefore be abused and its application in deciding the sex of the fetus and its subsequent abortion is now hotly debated on ethical lines. But on this issue geneticists cannot be squarely blamed though this charge has often been levelled at them. It is mainly a societal problem. At present genetic engineering is a costly process of detecting disorders but scientists hope to reduce the costs when technology becomes more advanced. This is why much progress in this area is seen in scientifically advanced and rich countries like the U.S.A, UK and Japan. It remains to be seen if in the future this science will lead to the development of a race of supermen or will be able to obliterate disease from this world.Which of the following is the same in meaning as the word "obliterate" as used in Passage?

6694. Read the passage and answer the questions given at the end of the passage:Recent advances in science and technology have made it possible for geneticists to find out abnormalities in the unborn fetus and take remedial action to rectify some defects which would otherwise prove to be fatal to the child. Though genetic engineering is still at its infancy, scientists can now predict with greater accuracy a genetic disorder. It is not yet an exact science since they are not in a position to predict when exactly a genetic disorder will set in. While they have not yet been able to change the genetic order of the gene in germs, they are optimistic and are holding out that in the near future they might be successful in achieving this feat. However, genetic misinformation can sometimes be damaging for it may adversely affect people psychologically. Genetic information may lead to a tendency to brand some people as inferiors. Genetic information can therefore be abused and its application in deciding the sex of the fetus and its subsequent abortion is now hotly debated on ethical lines. But on this issue geneticists cannot be squarely blamed though this charge has often been levelled at them. It is mainly a societal problem. At present genetic engineering is a costly process of detecting disorders but scientists hope to reduce the costs when technology becomes more advanced. This is why much progress in this area is seen in scientifically advanced and rich countries like the U.S.A, UK and Japan. It remains to be seen if in the future this science will lead to the development of a race of supermen or will be able to obliterate disease from this world. Which of the following is the opposite in meaning to the word "charge" as used in the passage?

6695. Read the Passage and Answer the Question: Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pettymetaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have.Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another.People say. "Why don't you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we? We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections whether from diffidence or some other instinct. What selection best describes the word "diffidence" as used in the passage?

6696. Read the passage and answer the following question:That freedom means freedom only from foreign domination, is an outworn idea. It is not merely governments that should be free but the people themselves who should be free; and no freedom has any real value for the common man or woman unless it means freedom from want, freedom from disease, freedom from ignorance. This is the main task that confronts us if we are to take our rightful place in the modern world. We cannot hold the clock back, and there it is we who must go forward at a double pace bending all our resources and all our energies to this great purpose.An ''outworn'' idea is?

6697. Read the passage and answer the following question:That freedom means freedom only from foreign domination, is an outworn idea. It is not merely governments that should be free but the people themselves who should be free; and no freedom has any real value for the common man or woman unless it means freedom from want, freedom from disease, freedom from ignorance. This is the main task that confronts us if we are to take our rightful place in the modern world. We cannot hold the clock back, and there it is we who must go forward at a double pace bending all our resources and all our energies to this great purpose.The great purpose mentioned by the writer at the end of the passage refers to:

6698. Read the passage and answer the following question:Anglo-Saxon is now, of course, a dead language, but a good deal of its vocabulary has survived, in one form or another to the present day. Most of the very common words in modern English are Anglo-Saxon in origin; nouns like father, mother, food, drink, bed, hunger; most of the prepositions and conjunctions; and nearly all the strong verbs. When it was mixed with Norman French, there were three main results: the grammar was simplified, the pronunciation and spellings became much more complicated and the vocabulary was enormously extended. French is a Latin language, so the major part of our vocabulary is now Latin in origin.A "dead language" is:

6699. Read the passage and answer the following question:Anglio - Saxon is now, of course, a dead language, but a good deal of its vocabulary has survived, in one form or another to the present day. Most of the very common words in modern English are Anglo - Saxon in origin; nouns like father, mother, food, drink, bed, hunger; most of the prepositions and conjunctions; and nearly all the strong verbs. When it was mixed with Norman French, there were three main results: the grammar was simplified, the pronunciation and spellings became much more complicated and the vocabulary was enormously extended. French is a Latin language, so the major part of our vocabulary is now Latin in origin.The vocabulary was "enormously extended" means vocabulary has:

6700. But man is not destined to vanish. He can be killed, but he cannot be destroyed because his soul is deathless, and his spirit is irrepressible. Therefore, though the situation seems park in the context of the confrontation between the superpowers, the silver lining is provided by an amazing phenomenon that the very nations which have spent incalculable resources and energy for the production of deadly weapons and desperately trying to find out how they might never be used. They threaten each other, intimidate each other and go to the brink, but before the total hour arrives, they withdraw from the brink. Irrepressible' in the second line means: