General English #31 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) : Assam Jobs Guide

GENERAL ENGLISH #31

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

Directions (1-10): Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

As my train was not due to leave for another hour, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some magazines to read on the journey, I made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase I had left there three days before. There were only a few people waiting, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for the case. The receipt did not seem to where I had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and the railway tickets, money, scraps of paper, photographs tumbled out of it; but no matter how hard I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.

I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me suspiciously as if to say he had heard this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case. I told him that it was an old, brown looking object no different from the many suitcases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me form and told me to make a list of the contents of the case. If they were correct, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down.

After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment, it occurred to me that if someone had picked the receipt up, he could easily have claimed the case already. Fortunately this had not happened, for after a time, I found the case lying on its side high up in the corner. After examining the articles inside, the assistant gave me the case. I took out my wallet to pay him. I pulled out a ten shilling note and out slipped my ‘lost’ receipt with it! I could not help blushing. The assistant nodded his head knowingly, as if t say that he had often seen this happen too!

1. The writer had plenty of time to spare because:

(a) he had arrived three days before

(b) he had arrived an hour earlier

(c) he had to collect his luggage

(d) he needed to buy magazines

Answer: (b)

2. The writer needed the receipt:

(a) to claim his suitcase

(b) to pay at the luggage office

(c) to prove that he had paid at the luggage office

(d) to prove that he had bought the suitcase

Answer: (a)

3. The writer felt foolish because:

(a) he could not find his receipt

(b) he hadn’t really lost his receipt at all

(c) he had to fill in a form

(d) the assistant eyed him suspiciously

Answer: (b)

4. There weren’t ............... people waiting at the luggage office.

(a) very much

(b) a great deal of

(c) lots of

(d) very many

Answer: (d)

5. ‘wrote them down’ means?

(a) copied them

(b) signed them

(c) made a note of them

(d) pointed at them

Answer: (c)

6. The writer found the receipt:

(a) on the high shelf near the cases

(b) among the contents of his suitcase

(c) nestled with the money in his wallet

(d) trapped between the photographs in his wallet

Answer: (c)

7. The writer took out his wallet the first time to:

(a) to buy some magazines

(b) look for the receipt

(c) fill out the form given by the assistant

(d) pay the assistant

Answer: (b)

8. The assistant asked the writer to make a list of the contents to:

(a) ascertain his ownership of the case

(b) test his memory

(c) charge him extra money

(d) embarrass the writer

Answer: (a)

9. ‘I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant’ means:

(a) the writer found the situation tragic

(b) he explained the situation to the assistant who was very sorrowful

(c) with great distress the writer explained his unfortunate situation to the assistant

(d) the assistant found the situation tragic

Answer: (c)

10. In this passage ‘situation’ means:

(a) place

(b) event

(c) condition

(d) position

Answer: (d)