1. Fill in the blank with the suitable option:

Nothing but a few cottages, trees and wells _____ to be seen in the village.

(A) are

(B) were

(C) was

(D) has

 

2. Find the nearest meaning of the word

PARSON

(A) an honest man

(B) a clergyman

(C) a man of his word

(D) an idle man

 

3. A place of safety and comfort _____.

(A) homeland

(B) harridan

(C) harbour

(D) hamlet

 

4. To ‘master strong’ means

(A) to handle something easily

(B) to stand strongly

(C) to gather in a huge number

(D) a strong and strict teacher

 

5. Select the correct spelling:

(A) Buerocrate

(B) Bureaucrat

(C) Bureaucrate

(D) Buraeucrat

 

6. Fill in with a suitable preposition:

The king tyrannised _____ the people.

(A) by

(B) for

(C) upon

(D) no preposition

 

7. The antonym of the word dear is

(A) not relative

(B) junior friend

(C) cheap

(D) expensive

 

8. A speech full of too many words is called:

(A) A verbose speech

(B) A taciturn speech

(C) A maiden speech

(D) A poetic speech

 

9. The word android means

(A) human with robotic appearance

(B) robot with a human appearance

(C) human with technical view

(D) robot with technical view

 

10. Which is the correct sentence?

(A) I have studied her at close hand.

(B) Both Antara as well as Nitu participated.  

(C) She lives at four miles distance.

(D) Quote this by heart.

 

11. Convert the given sentence into simple

The man will not go unless he is compelled.

(A) The man will go by compelling only.

(B) Compel the man to go.

(C) The man will go only if compelled.

(D) The man will go only under compulsion.

 

12. Change the voice:

Someone knocked at the door.

(A) The door was knocked.

(B) The door was knocked by someone.

(C) At the door was knocked by someone.

(D) The door was knocked at.

 

13. Change the narration:

She said to me, “I shall go, but you will stay.”

(A) She told me that she should go, but I would stay.

(B) She told me that she would go, but I should stay.

(C) She told me that she would go but I would stay.

(D) She told me that she should go, but I would stay.

 

14. Choose the right option

I caught her _____ hand.

(A) by

(B) by the

(C) with the

(D) with

 

15. Select the correct sentence

(A) He comes often to my house.

(B) Often does he comes to my house.

(C) He often comes to my house.

(D) He comes to my house often.

 

16. Fill in the blank with the suitable option:

He bought a big _____ table from Amazon.

(A) black battered round iron

(B) round black battered iron

(C) battered round iron black

(D) iron battered black round

 

17. He is smarter than she, _____?

(A) isn’t she

(B) is she

(C) isn’t he

(D) is he

 

18. The idiomatic expression, brown study, means

(A) to study hard

(B) to have reverie

(C) to inspect

(D) to supervise

 

19. Match the pair:

• (1) Set out            (i) beginning
• (2) Outset             (ii) catch up
• (3) Take over       (iii) start
• (4) Overtake        (iv) accept

(A) 1-i, 2-ii, 3-iii, 4-iv

(B) 1-ii, 2-iv, 3-i, 4-iii

(C) 1-iv, 2-iii, 3-ii, 4-i

(D) 1-iii, 2-i, 3-iv, 4-ii

 

20. The word manhunt means

(A) search for a man

(B) kill a man

(C) sell a man

(D) buy a man

 

21. Select the antonym for the bold:

Mr. Ghosh is a maverick.

(A) Common and general person

(B) Unorthodox person

(C) Independent-minded person

(D) Conformist person

 

22. Fill in the blank with the suitable option:

She has an account _____ the bank.

(A) with

(B) on

(C) in

(D) into

 

23. Put by means

(A) Lay aside

(B) Put away

(C) Cast aside

(D) All of the above

 

24. As dry as a _____.

(A) glass

(B) sand

(C) bone

(D) stone

 

25. If I found her address, I _____ her an invitation.

(A) would sent

(B) would have sent

(C) would send

(D) sent

Answers

 

1.       C	2.       B	3.       C	4.       C	5.       B
6.       C	7.       C	8.       A	9.       B	10.   C
11.   D	12.   D	13.   B	14.   B	15.   C
16.   B	17.   C	18.   B	19.   D	20.   A
21.   D	22.   A	23.   D	24.   C	25.   C