List of top English Questions asked in Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering Entrance Examination

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
“People very often complain that poverty is a great evil and that it is not possible to be happy unless one has a lot of money. Actually, this is not necessarily true. Even a poor man, living in a small hut with none of the comforts and luxuries of life, may be quite contented with his lot and achieve a measure of happiness. On the other hand, a very rich man, living in a palace and enjoying everything that money can buy, may still be miserable, if, for example, he does not enjoy good health or his only son has taken to evil ways. Apart from this, he may have a lot of business worries which keep him on tenterhooks most of the time. There is a limit to what money can buy and there are many things which are necessary for a man’s happiness and which money cannot procure. Real happiness is a matter of the right attitude and the capacity of being contented with whatever you have is the most important ingredient of this attitude.”
The writer says if someone maintains that two and two are five, you feel pity because you
The second sentence in the passage
"Your own contrary conviction" refers to
Conviction means
If someone else's opinion makes us angry, it means that

Read the following passage and the question below. Choose the correct answer. 
Gandhi never contented himself with large political or economic solutions. He saw the cultural and social backwardness in the Champaran villages and wanted to do something about it immediately. He appealed to teachers. 
Which of the following statements is true about the passage?

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows. 
"His instrument struck against something hard, dangerously near the kidney.... 'It is not quite at the kidney, my friend,' Sadao murmured.... 'My friend,' he always called his patients and so he did now, forgetting that this was his enemy." 
To whom does Sadao attend to in the lines above?

Choose the correct meaning of the idiom 'a bolt out of the blue' from the given options:
Choose the correct pronunciation for the word 'sorbet' from the following options:
What is the correct syllable division of the word 'indomitable'?