General English #17 Multiple Choice Questions

GENERAL ENGLISH #17

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

Directions (1-20): In these questions, you have 2 (two) passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blank out of the four alternatives.

Passage-I

Childhood is a time when there are ….(1)…. responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child ….(2)…. good parents, he is fed, looked ….(3)…. and loved, whatever he may do, it is improbable that he will ever again in his life ….(4)…. given so much without laving to do anything ….(5)…. return. In addition, life is always ….(6)…. new things to the child. A child finds ….(7)…. in playing in the rain or in the snow. His first visit ….(8)…. the seaside is a marvellous adventure. But a child has his pains; he is not so free to do as he wishes, he is continually being ….(9)…. not to do things or is being ….(10)…. His life is therefore not perfectly happy.

1. (a) many

(b) little

(c) few

(d) more

Answer: (c)

2. (a) had

(b) have

(c) has

(d) will have

Answer: (c)

3. (a) up

(b) at

(c) after

(d) around

Answer: (c)

4. (a) is

(b) has

(c) are

(d) be

Answer: (d)

5. (a) for

(b) in

(c) as

(d) of

Answer: (b)

6. (a) donating

(b) displaying

(c) granting

(d) presenting

Answer: (d)

7. (a) pain

(b) progress

(c) pressure

(d) pleasure

Answer: (d)

8. (a) on

(b) to

(c) in

(d) for

Answer: (b)

9. (a) ordered

(b) told

(c) forbidden

(d) restricted

Answer: (b)

10. (a) beaten

(b) penalised

(c) disturbed

(d) punished

Answer: (d)

Passage-II

Without water ….(11)…. animal can survive. In desert regions the greatest ….(12)…. to life is drying up. But many creatures are able to make use ….(13)…. little water exists in arid areas. One of nature’s masterpieces ….(14)…. creatures equipped to ….(15)…. with desert life is the hardy camel. Stories range the desert lands far and wide about ….(16)…. endurance feats by camels. It is said that camels can ….(17)…. a distance of about 800 miles in eight days through ….(18)…. travel without intake of a single drop of water. The popular ….(19)…. that camels store water in the humps is ….(20)…. in a way; water is indeed stored there but in the form of fat.

11. (a) every

(b) no

(c) any

(d) desert

Answer: (b)

12. (a) warning

(b) worry

(c) requirement

(d) threat

Answer: (d)

13. (a) what

(b) the

(c) very

(d) that

Answer: (b)

14. (a) for

(b) about

(c) among

(d) with

Answer: (c)

15. (a) live

(b) resist

(c) bear

(d) cope

Answer: (d)

16. (a) remarkable

(b) little

(c) tolerable

(d) popular

Answer: (a)

17. (a) measure

(b) cover

(c) reduce

(d) reach

Answer: (b)

18. (a) rapid

(b) continuous

(c) regular

(d) slow

Answer: (b)

19. (a) belief

(b) trust

(c) conception

(d) notion

Answer: (a)

20. (a) baseless

(b) wrong

(c) misleading

(d) correct

Answer: (d)