Idioms/ phrases:
1. The pros and cons
A. Foul and fowl
B. Saint and evil
C. Former and latter
D. Advantages and disadvantages ✅
2. To wrangle over an ass's shadow
A. To quarrel over trifles ✅
B. To waste time on petty things
C. To do something funny
D. To act in a foolish way
3. Hobson's choice
A. To have no choice at all ✅
B. Feeling of strength
C. To have an excellent choice
D. Feeling of insecurity
4. To go over the top
A. To do justice to a thing
B. To get angry
C. To be unacceptable ✅
D. To be proud
5. Castles in the air
A. Perfect plans
B. Idle projects
C. Fanciful schemes ✅
D. Romantic designs
6. In spite of the immense pressure exerted by the militants, the Government has decided not to (give in.)
A. confirm
B. oblige
C. accede ✅
D. yearn
E. none of thee
7. My car (broke down) on the way to the railway station.
A. fell into a ditch
B. moved fast
C. became out of order ✅
D. met with an accident
E. none of these
8. Their business is now (on its last legs.)
A. About to take off
B. About to produce results
C. About to fructify
D. About to perish ✅
E. none of these
9. He has built a big business empire by his (sharp practices.)
A. sharp intelligence
B. dishonest dealings ✅
C. extreme hard work
D. keen business skills
E. none of these
10. He (went back on) his promise to vote for me.
A. supported
B. reinforced
C. withdrew ✅
D. forgot
E. none of these
11. To make mincemeat
A. have the same opinion
B. to defeat thoroughly ✅
C. copy the appearance of somebody
D. take care of something
12. To smell a rat
A. to suspect a trick or deceit ✅
B. to misunderstand
C. to see hidden treasure
D. to smell bad odour
13. To come round
A. to recover consciousness ✅
B. to fail
C. to get angry
D. to reach a roundabout
14. To rise like a phoenix
A. to rise with attitude
B. to become successful again ✅
C. to resemble a phoenix
D. to get up early
15. To set the Thames on fire
A. to try to do the impossible
B. to do exciting things ✅
C. to wreak evil on something
D. to destroy with fire
Give one word:
16. One who promotes the idea of absence of government of any kind.
A. Anarchist ✅
B. Agnostic
C. Belligerent
D. Iconoclast
E. None of these
17. A careful preservation and protection of wildlife is the need of the hour.
A. Embarkment
B. Management
C. Promotion
D. Conservation ✅
E. Enhancement
18. Attribute human qualities to something
A. Signify
B. Masquerade
C. Characterise
D. Personify ✅
E. None of these
19. He does (unpaid work) for the Red Cross.
A. honorific
B. honourable
C. honest
D. honorary ✅
E. None of these
20. The bus has to go back and forth every six hours.
A. travel
B. shuttle ✅
C. run
D. cross
E. commute
21. An ability to know something without using the ordinary senses
A. Serendipity
B. Investigation
C. Sixth sense ✅
D. Detection
22. The art of effective or persuasive speaking
A. Lecture
B. Course
C. Rhetoric ✅
D. Expression
23. A person who has a balance of extrovert and introvert features in their personality
A. Expovert
B. Covert
C. Ambivert ✅
D. Pervert
24. Give back youthful vigour and appearance
A. Render
B. Rejuvenate ✅
C. Repercussion
D. Reminder
25. Opposed to great or sudden change
A. Evolutionary
B. Statistic
C. Conservative ✅
D. Revolutionary
26. To send an unwanted person out of the country
A. Excavate
B. Exclude
C. Deport ✅
D. Ostracise
27. A remote and undeveloped area
A. Isthmus
B. Swamps
C. Hinterland ✅
D. Archipelago
28. A place of good climate for invalids
A. Sanatorium ✅
B. Asylum
C. Cemetery
D. Hospitals
29. Aesthete
A. rich enough to buy things for pleasure
B. someone who lives a very simple life
C. weak in moral character
D. someone who loves and understands beauty ✅
30. Mendacious
A. interested only in money
B. a person belonging to a religion who lives by asking the public for food
C. seeming to be good but not important at all
D. not telling the truth ✅
Spot the error
31. We discussed about the problem so thoroughly on the eve of the examination that I found it very easy to work it out.
A: We discussed about the problem so thoroughly ✅
B: on the eve of the examination
C: that I found it very easy to work it out.
D: No error.
32. An Indian ship laden with merchandise got drowned in the Pacific Ocean.
A: An Indian ship
B: laden with merchandise
C: got drowned in the Pacific Ocean. ✅
D: No error.
33. If I had known this yesterday I will have helped him.
A: If I had known
B: this yesterday
C: I will have helped him. ✅
D: No error.
34. I have got my M.Sc. degree in 1988.
A: I have got ✅
B: my M.Sc. degree
C: in 1988
D: No error.
35. If you lend him a book he will lend it to someone else and never you will get it back.
A: If you lend him a book
B: he will lend it to someone else
C: and never you will get it back. ✅
D: No error.
36. Do the roses in your garden smell more sweetly than those in ours?
A: Do the roses in your garden smell
B: more sweetly ✅
C: than those in ours?
D: No error.
37. The students were awaiting for the arrival of the chief guest.
A: The students were
B: awaiting for ✅
C: the arrival of the chief guest.
D: No error.
38. Sixty miles are a good distance.
A: Sixty miles
B: are ✅
C: a good distance.
D: No error.
39. They have been very close friends until they quarrelled.
A: They have been ✅
B: very close friends
C: until they quarrelled.
D: No error.
40. It is the duty of every citizen to do his utmost to defend the hardly-won freedom of the country.
A: It is the duty of every citizen to do his utmost
B: to defend the hardly-won ✅
C: freedom of the country.
D: No error.
41. You must remember me to post this letter.
A: You must
B: remember me ✅
C: to post this letter.
D: No error.
42. I shall certainly write you when I reach New Delhi.
A: I shall certainly
B: write you ✅
C: when I reach New Delhi.
D: No error.
43. On the busy Ring Road we witnessed a collusion between a truck and an auto.
A: On the busy Ring Road
B: we witnessed a collusion ✅
C: between a truck and an auto.
D: No error.
44. Mr.Praful Patel is not attending his office for the last one month
A: Mr.Praful Patel
B: is not attending his office ✅
C: for the last one month.
D: No error.
45. If I were him, I would be killed.
A: If I were
B: him, I ✅
C: would be killed.
D: No error.
Find the near synonyms:
46. Dictation
A: Command ✅
B: Help
C: Defence
D: Safety
47. Assay
A: Serve
B: Explore
C: Attempt ✅
D: Write
48. FORAY
A: Maraud ✅
B: Contest
C: Ranger
D: Intuition
49. RECKLESS
A: Courageous
B: Rash ✅
C: Bold
D: Daring
50. REPERCUSSION
A: Results ✅
B: Conclusions
C: Difficulties
D: Applications
51. IMPROVEMENT
A: Degeneration
B: Betterment ✅
C: Prompt
D: Preference
52. INEBRIATE
A: Dreamy
B: Stupefied
C: Unsteady
D: Intoxicated ✅
53. Unfruitful
A: Barren ✅
B: Arid
C: Promote
D: Drain
54. IMBIBE
A: Priceless
B: Absorb ✅
C: Worthless
D: Cheap
55. HEARTWARMING
A: Taking
B: Moving ✅
C: Shut
D: Turning
56. DRIVE AWAY
A: Spin
B: Weaken
C: Widen
D: Push ✅
57. ABROGATE
A: Elope
B: Gate-crash
C: Abolish ✅
D: Destroy
58. PROVOKED
A: Indicated
B: Indicted
C: Improved
D: Instigated ✅
59. PERILOUS
A: Hazardous ✅
B: Rigorous
C: Resilient
D: Requisite
60. HURDLE
A: Throw
B: Opposition
C: Impediment ✅
D: Impostor
Choose the correct option:
61. The thief ______ yesterday and was poisoned.
(A) is caught
(B) is being caught
(C) was caught ✅
(D) has been caught
62. Honesty _______ the best policy even today.
(A) is considered ✅
(B) had been considered
(C) was considered
(D) was being considered
63. The merit holder students _______ by the board last month.
(A) is awarded
(B) was awarded
(C) are awarded
(D) were awarded ✅
64. Many books _______ by the city library every year.
(A) is bought
(B) are bought ✅
(C) was bought
(D) have bought
65. A set of this new furniture _______ to our office by Mewar Furniture last year.
(A) is supplied
(B) was supplied ✅
(C) were supplied
(D) are supplied
66. The daily newspaper “The Rajasthan Ujala” ________ in our town even now.
(A) was published
(B) will be published
(C) were published
(D) is published ✅
67. The Ramayana ________ by Tulsidas.
(A) are written
(B) was written ✅
(C) will be written
(D) was being written
68. The sale of tickets for the show _________ from next week.
(A) starts ✅
(B) are started
(C) will be start
(D) start
69. Every year a grand fair _________ in Pushkar in the month of Kartik.
(A) are held
(B) is held ✅
(C) will be hold
(D) is holded
70. A number of horses, camels and other cattle ________ to sell in this fair.
(A) is brought
(B) will be bringed
(C) are brought ✅
(D) was brought
71. Children have the long vacation in summer so they _______ for sight-seeing by their parents.
(A) had been carried
(B) have been carry
(C) were carried
(D) are carried ✅
72. We know that poems _______ these days by you.
(A) are being composed ✅
(B) is being composed
(C) have been composed
(D) were being composed
73. I am from the rural area yet English _________ by me.
(A) has learnt
(B) have been learnt
(C) has been learnt ✅
(D) had been learnt
74. He wasn’t present but the classes __________
(A) was held
(B) were held ✅
(C) is held
(D) are held
75. The examination was near so the extra classes _________ by the subject teachers those days.
(A) are being taken
(B) was being taken
(C) is being taken
(D) were being taken ✅
👉 Identify the figure of speech:
76. Nishant thought that the sweets, Kaju katli and Soan papdi, were calling him.
A. Oxymoron
B. Metaphor
C. Hyperbole
D. Personification ✅
E. Onomatopoeia
77. The sausages tasted awfully good.
A. Oxymoron ✅
B. Metaphor
C. Hyperbole
D. Personification
E. Onomatopoeia
👉 Identify the gender of the given nouns:
78. Cousin
A. Masculine
B. Feminine
C. Neuter
D. Common ✅
79. Tree
A. Masculine
B. Feminine
C. Neuter ✅
D. Common
👉 Identify the noun:
80. Table
A. Common ✅
B. Proper
C. Abstract
D. Material
81. Mango
A. Common ✅
B. Proper
C. Abstract
D. Material
👉 Fill in:
82. Rohan was killed in the conflict. He ......... it.
A. Ought to avoided
B. Should avoid
C. Could have avoided ✅
D. Must avoided
83. She was .......... girl.
A. The much wisest
B. Much the wisest ✅
C. The wise
D. Very wiser
84. ........... , he was taken to hospital.
A. Having wounded
B. Having been wounded ✅
C. Wounding
D. Being wound
85. I have postponed ........... to Manali.
A. To go
B. Went
C. Going ✅
D. To going
86. I wish I ............ your help.
A. Don't need
B. Didn't need ✅
C. Will not need
D. Wasn't needing
87. He was seen taking medicine .......... he was fit.
A. But
B. Though ✅
C. Because
D. Despite
88. She was ......... humble that people enjoyed talking to her.
A. Too
B. Very
C. Much
D. So ✅
89. Think ........ a name for my child.
A. For
B. About
C. Of ✅
D. On
90. He was ............
A. In the habit to smoking.
B. Addicted of smoking
C. Use to smoking
D. Habituated to smoking ✅
Improve the bracketed part:
91. I don't have a pen (To writing).
A. For write
B. To write with ✅
C. To write
D. No improvement
92. What kind of (a girl) she is!
A. Girls
B. Girl ✅
C. A girls
D. No improvement
93. He is in doubt (that) it will rain.
A. Until
B. Whether ✅
C. Unless
D. No improvement
94. She can't help (tease) him.
A. Teased
B. Teasing ✅
C. Teases
D. No improvement
95. I am happy that I have (few) food for these orphans.
A. Little
B. A few
C. A little ✅
D. No improvement
Narration:
96. He said to me, "Where were you last week?"
A. He asked me where I had been the previous week. ✅
B. He asked me where I was the previous week.
C. He had asked me where I had been the previous week.
D. He asked me where he had been the previous week.
97. She said to him, "Who was troubling you?"
A. She asked him who was troubling him.
B. She asked him who had been troubling him. ✅
C. She asked him who had being troubling him.
D. She asked him who had troubling him.
98. He said, "Alas! He is no more now".
A. He exclaimed with sorrow that he was no more than.
B. He had exclaimed with sorrow that he was no more then.
C. He exclaimed sorrowfully that he was no more then. ✅
D. He exclaimed sorrowfully that he had been no more then.
99. She said to me, "Call him up for help, won't you?"
A. She advised me to call him up for help. ✅
B. She ordered me not to call him up for help.
C. She advised me whether I will call him up for help.
D. She advised me to call him up to help.
100. He said to me, "We are here for your well being".
A. He told me that they were here for my well being.
B. He told me that he was there for my well being.
C. He told me that they were there for my well being. ✅
D. He told me that they were there for his well being.