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English Questions: Spotting Error set 147

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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation in AffairsCloud.com. Here we are creating question sample in Spotting Errors, which is BASED ON IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams.

  1. It cover a range of different situations, / against which medical science has made big / breakthroughs in terms of understanding, / lowering mortality and targeting therapies.
    1) It cover a range of different situations,
    2) against which medical science has made big
    3) breakthroughs in terms of understanding,
    4) lowering mortality and targeting therapies.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation: Replace ‘cover’ with ‘covers’

  2. It’s the way people once spoke of the / plague and pestilence, or of tuberculosis / as consumption – what we don’t fully understand / is fertile ground of fear and fantasy.
    1) It’s the way people once spoke of the
    2) plague and pestilence, or of tuberculosis
    3) as consumption – what we don’t fully understand
    4) is fertile ground of fear and fantasy.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: Replace ‘of’ with ‘for’
    for – intended to be given to and having the purpose of.

  3. Only karmic justice could make sense of why / cancer strikes one tobacco-chewing / person and not another, he said, / finally backing of and apologising.
    1) Only karmic justice could make sense of why
    2) cancer strikes one tobacco-chewing
    3) person and not another, he said,
    4) finally backing of and apologising.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: Correct phrase will be – backing off
    backing off – draw back from action or confrontation.

  4. It covers a range of different situations, / against which medical science has made big / breakthroughs in terms of understanding, / lowering mortality and targeting therapies.
    1) It covers a range of different situations,
    2) against which medical science has made big
    3) breakthroughs in terms of understanding,
    4) lowering mortality and targeting therapies.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation: No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  5. When politicians compare racism or corruption or / certain religions to cancer, they’re certailny / suggesting some violent treatment – wrench it out, / irradiate it, destroy everything in the vicinity.
    1) When politicians compare racism or corruption or
    2) certain religions to cancer, they’re certainly
    3) suggesting some violent treatment – wrench it out,
    4) irradiate it, destroy everything in the vicinity.
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: Replace ‘certainly’ with ‘usually’
    Certainly – used to emphasize the speaker’s belief that what is said is true.
    Usually – under normal conditions; generally.

  6. Recently, we’ve viewed it as a disease / of consumer capitalism run amok, worry / about non-stick pans and artificial sweeteners / and hair dye and microwaves and cellphones.
    1) Recently, we’ve viewed it as a disease
    2) of consumer capitalism run amok, worry
    3) about non-stick pans and artificial sweeteners
    4) and hair dye and microwaves and cellphones.
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: Replace ‘worry‘ with ‘worrying‘

  7. We still doesn’t know enough about / how our genetics and surroundings / interact, the reasons driving a renegade / cell, what determines metastasis.
    1) We still doesn’t know enough about
    2) how our genetics and surroundings
    3) interact, the reasons driving a renegade
    4) cell, what determines metastasis.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation: Replace ‘doesn’t’ with ‘don’t’
    I,we,you—do.
    He,she,it,name—does.

  8. People often complain with the military / metaphors for cancer; when it is a battle / to be bravely fought, when tumours / are invaders, when chemotherapy is warfare.
    1) People often complain with the military
    2) metaphors for cancer; when it is a battle
    3) to be bravely fought, when tumours
    4) are invaders, when chemotherapy is warfare.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation: Replace ‘with’ with ‘about’
    about – on the subject of; concerning.

  9. The unique identification number bolstered / by an individual’s biometric data is now / being used for everything from school / admissions to obtaining death certificates.
    1) The unique identification number bolstered
    2) by an individual’s biometric data is now
    3) being used for everything from school
    4) admissions to obtaining death certificates.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation: No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  10. Current data collection practices in the country / hardly inspire confidence, with personal information / regularly being shared among different / parties without the knowledge of customers.
    1) Current data collection practices in the country
    2) hardly inspire confidence, with personal information
    3) regularly being shared among different
    4) parties without the knowledge of customers.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation: No error
    Given sentence is correct.