1. Columbus ______ America more than five hundred years ago.
(a) invented
(b) found
(c) noticed
(d) discovered
Ans: d
2. I ______ that you are looking for a new job.
(a) am understanding
(b) understand
(c) am knowing
(d) am noticing
Ans: b
3. I ______ seven letters since breakfast.
(a) wrote
(b) am writing
(c) have written
(d) have been writing
Ans: c
4. When I saw him he ______ asleep in a chair.
(a) was sitting
(b) sat
(c) had been sitting
(d) had sat
Ans: a
5. You ______ him when you see him.
(a) know
(b) will know
(c) knew
(d) have known
Ans: b
Direction (6-10): Choose the correct passive form
6. It is doubtful if she will accept your proposal.
(a) It is doubtful if your proposal would be accepted by her.
(b) It is doubtful if your proposal will be accepted by her.
(c) It was doubtful if your proposal would be accepted by her.
(d) Your proposal is doubtful to be accepted by her.
Ans: b
7. Has anybody ever taught you net-banking?
(a) Has you ever been taught net-banking?
(b) Had you ever been taught net-banking?
(c) Have you ever been taught net-banking?
(d) Were you ever been taught net-banking?
Ans: c
8. The police are sure to ask you about him.
(a) The police are sure to be asked you about him.
(b) You are to be asked about him by the police
(c) He is sure to be asked about by the police
(d) You are sure to be asked about him by the police
Ans: d
9. Poverty drove him to desperation.
(a) He was driven to desperation by poverty
(b) Poverty was driven to him by desperation.
(c) He had been driven to poverty by desperation.
(d) It was poverty that drove him to desperation
Ans: a
10. The guests themselves carried the chairs into the garden
(a) The chairs have been -carried into the garden by the guests.
(b) The chairs had been carried into the garden by the guests.
(c) The chairs were carried into the garden by the guests themselves.
(d) The chairs themselves were carried into the garden by the guests.
Ans: c
Direction (11-15): Choose the correct one-word for each of the following.
11. A system of government in which one person has total power
(a) aristocracy
(b) autocracy
(c) oligarchy
(d) autonomy
Ans: b
12. A colleague or a fellow member of an organization
(a) accomplice
(b) co-worker
(c) coward
(d) comrade
Ans: d
13. A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
(a) expatriate
(b) emigrant
(c) immigrant
(d) compatriot
Ans: c
14. Hand over a person accused or convicted of a crime in a foreign state
(a) extradite
(b) extract
(c) expatiate
(d) exterminate
Ans: a
15. The scientific study of old age and old people
(a) geriatrics
(b) gerontology
(c) sociology
(d) anthropology
Ans: b
Direction (16 & 17): Complete proverbs.
16. Only the wearer knows ______.
(a) when the cat is away
(b) while the sun shines
(c) where the shoe pinches
(d) that wears the crown
Ans: c
17. It's no use crying ______.
(a) make a heavy purse
(b) that handsome does
(c) without a thorn
(d) over spilt milk
Ans: d
Direction (18-20): Select the correct idiom which means the following.
18. A major problem or controversial issue which is obvious but ignored because discussing it would be awkward or uncomfortable.
(a) a snake in the grass
(b) a white elephant
(c) the elephant in the room
(d) the dog in the manger
Ans: c
19. To continue to hope for something although it is very unlikely to happen
(a) hope for the best
(b) hope against hope
(c) on the horns of a dilemma
(d) hold your horses
Ans: b
20. A situation in which people are prepared to harm other people in order to succeed
(a) take the law into your own hand
(b) lay down the law
(c) be a law unto yourself
(d) the law of the jungle
Ans: d
Direction (21-25): Select the correct preposition to fill in the gap in each.
21. She attributes her success ______ hard work
(a) to
(b) for
(c) on
(d) by
Ans: a
22. In Ethiopia, many people are dying ______ hunger.
(a) of
(b) from
(c) by
(d) on
Ans: b
23. Good management is vital ______ the success of any enterprise.
(a) for
(b) at
(c) to
(d) about
Ans: c
24. The train to Kolkata departed ______ the second platform.
(a) off
(b) by
(c) on
(d) from
Ans: d
25. My granddaughter reminds me ______ my mother.
(a) for
(b) of
(c) about
(d) on
Ans: b
Directions (26-30): Select a, an, the, one or some, whichever is appropriate to fill in the gap in each.
26. Sabu is ______ colleague of mine.
(a) one
(b) a
(c) an
(d) the
Ans: b
27. He weighs ______ hundred and two kilos!
(a) the
(b) a
(c) an
(d) one
Ans: d
28. Inclusion of India as a member of the committee was ______ UN decision.
(a) some
(b) one
(c) a
(d) an
Ans: c
29. ______ SOS message was sent by the sinking ship.
(a) a
(b) an
(c) the
(d) some
Ans: b
30. HG Wells was ______ of the pioneers of science fiction.
(a) some
(b) one
(c) the
(d) an
Ans: b
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