English Usage(Exams > Cat > Verbal ) Questions and answers for exam Preparation

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ENGLISH USAGE MCQs

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Question 41. The Internet is a medium where users have nearly _____ choices and _____ constraints about where to go and what to do. (CAT 2003)

Unbalanced, Nonexistent
Embarrassing, No
Unlimited, Minimal
Choking, Shocking

Discuss Question

Answer: Option C. -> Unlimited, Minimal
:
C
Option: (c)
Option (c) clearly stands out as the right answer choice because it fits the context best.

Question 42. (A) When virtuoso teams begin their work, individuals are in and group consensus is out.
(B) As project progresses, however, the individual starts harness themselves to the product of the group.
(C) Sooner or later, the members break through their own egocentrism and become a plurality with single-minded focus on the goal.
(D) In short, they morph into a powerful team with a shared identity.
(2005)

A and C
A and D
B and D
A, C and D

Discuss Question

Answer: Option B. -> A and D
:
B
Option: (b)
Statement (B) is wrong because the word 'harness' cannot be used with individuals. Moreover, "individual starts"to is the correct usage. Statement (C) is wrong because the word 'own' cannot be used with 'egocentrism'. Statements (A) and (D) are correct.

Question 43. In each question, the word at the top of the table is used in four different ways, labeled A to E. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
COST

As far as my cost is concerned, I will have to treat this situation as ‘do or die’.
A failure in an examination may cost a student a valuable year.
He is a very fastidious principal, as I have known to my cost.
A wrong decision of an umpire may cost either team dearly.
Selling price minus Cost Price determines Profit

Discuss Question

Answer: Option A. -> As far as my cost is concerned, I will have to treat this situation as ‘do or die’.
:
A
As far as my case is concerned - - - - not cost is concerned.option A

Question 44. In each question, the word at the top of the table is used in four different ways, labeled A to E. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
CREDIT

How can I credit for the team’s performance?
After several years, we defeated Australians, in their country, can you credit it?
It is your sheer tenacity that ultimately does you credit.
Credit Card defaulting is almost a trend now
While issuing any loan to this man, be careful; his credit is not good anywhere.

Discuss Question

Answer: Option A. -> How can I credit for the team’s performance?
:
A
When ‘you take credit for something’ you accept the praise. So the sentence should read ‘How can I take credit - - - -‘.option A

Question 45. In each question, the word at the top of the table is used in four different ways, labeled A to E. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
COUGH

To get admission to a reputed institution is one facet, to cough up the fee is another.
The guard whistled and the engine was about to cough, when we boarded the train.
The candidate gave a little cough to attract the manager’s attention.
In this video for "Cough Up the Bucks," Neil Young wonders about how the economy could have tanked so hard from the back of a limo.
When the patient was about to cough on to the bed, the nurse brought a pan.

Discuss Question

Answer: Option E. -> When the patient was about to cough on to the bed, the nurse brought a pan.
:
E
Cough, in relation to an engine, is to make a sudden harsh sound. There is no expression as ‘cough on to’. When you ‘cough up’ or ‘cough something up’ you are forced to give something,especially money, unwillingly.option E

Question 46. Contemplating whether to exist with an insatiable romantic temperament, he was the author and largely the subject of a number of memorable novels.

Contemplating whether to exist
Combining realistic details
Miscegenating a brilliant mind
Aware that he had been born

Discuss Question

Answer: Option B. -> Combining realistic details
:
B
Option: (b)
A good novel can be a good combination of realistic details with romantic temperament.

Question 47. (a) Almost all school teachers insist that (b) a student’s mother (c) is responsible for the student’s conduct (d) as well as his dress.

Discuss Question

Answer: Option C. -> C
:
C
Option: (c)
‘The student’s conduct’ should be replaced by ‘his conduct’.

Question 48. (a) The Mumbai police have found (b) the body of a man (c) who they believe to be (d) the prime suspect in a murder case.

Discuss Question

Answer: Option C. -> C
:
C
Option: (c)
In this part, ‘who’ is used for police which is an incorrect usage, in place of it shall be ‘whom they believe to be ……’.

Question 49. In a penetrating study, CBS-TV focuses on these people without hope, whose bodies are cared for by welfare aid, but whose spirit is often neglected by a disinterested society.

whose bodies are cared for by welfare aid
who do not have enough to eat
whose hopelessness may be alleviated
who may be physically satiated

Discuss Question

Answer: Option A. -> whose bodies are cared for by welfare aid
:
A
Option: (a)
No other choice discusses involvement of welfare aid by which people are taken care of.

Question 50. (a) In the forthcoming elections (b) every man and woman (c) must vote for the candidate (d) of their choice.

Discuss Question

Answer: Option D. -> D
:
D
Option: (d)
Part discuss about man/woman, so in (d) it should be his/her [singular pronoun] in place of ‘their’.