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English Questions: Spotting Error Set – 45

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  1. a)/ Expectedly, tobacco companies are b)/ resisting a new regulation that c)/ the mandatory pictorial warnings in d)/ cigarette packages be made larger.e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – C. 3
    Explanation : it should be on cigarette package.

  2. a)/ The high imposition of Central and State b)/ duties and taxes have prevented retail c)/ fuel prices from moving in lock-step d)/ with the international trend in oil.e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – B. 2
    Explanation : Replace “have” with “has”.
    Has will be correct form of verb according to the subject the high imposition.

  3. a)/ Having lost the argument on the health effects b)/ for cigarette consumption, as well as passive smoking, d)/ cigarette-makers are pleading that d)/ tobacco-growers will be adversely affected.e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – B. 2
    Explanation : “of” will be appropriate instead of “for” with cigarette consumption, so replace “for” with “of”

  4. a)/ This has helped shore up the government b)/ finances as it bets on public investment to c)/ spur the economy, even if this fiscal elbow d)/ room has been created at the consumer’s cost.e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – A. 1
    Explanation : it should be government’s.

  5. a)/ Australia has become something of b)/ a shining example for the rest of c)/ the world to follow in clamping d)/ down on suggestive branding.e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – E. 5
    Explanation : No error

  6. a)/ While the desire to use the opportunity to address the b)/ fiscal deficit by shoring up revenue is tempting for any c)/ government, resorting to the use of any kind of indirect d)/ levers to impact fuel prices amount to a back door APM.e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – D. 4
    Explanation : it should be food prices amounts not amount.

  7. a)/ The government’s paternalistic argument b)/ that it is refusing to pass on the direct benefit c)/ of softer global oil prices as a service d)/ to consumers don’t not bear scrutiny.e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – D. 4
    Explanation : Replace “don’t” with “doesn’t”.

  8. a)/ The smoking habit is often picked up by suggestive b)/ nudges — through advertising, peer pressure, and c)/ cultural signals that associate smoking with d)/ hipness, attitude, stress-busting, and so on.e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – E. 5
    Explanation : No error

  9. a)/ While price volatility is a key concern when b)/ international crude prices are climbed, the NDA c)/ government has reaped a revenue windfall d)/ from the dramatic drop in the price of oil.e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – B. 2
    Explanation : Replace “climbed” with “climbing”
    Is/am/are – V+ing

  10. a)/ The legal challenge to the new rule is likely b)/ to be finally settled in the weeks ahead, but until then, c)/ as per the Supreme Court’s directives, d)/ the larger warnings must be printed.e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – B. 2
    Explanation : it should be till then, so replace “until” with “till”





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