General English #44 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) : Assam Jobs Guide

GENERAL ENGLISH #44

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

Directions (1-5): In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

1. to foam at one’s mouth

(a) to brush properly

(b) to get very angry

(c) to salivate on seeing food

(d) None of the above

Answer: (b)

2. to feel like a fish out of water

(a) disgusted

(b) uncomfortable

(c) disappointed

(d) homeless

Answer: (b)

3. at the eleventh hour

(a) too late

(b) too early

(c) immediately

(d) at the least moment

Answer: (d)

4. to burn one’s fingers

(a) to get hurt physically

(b) to suffer financial losses

(c) to find work

(d) to suffer nervous breakdown

Answer: (b)

5. to add fuel to fire

(a) to investigate

(b) to insulate

(c) to initiate

(d) to incite

Answer: (d)

Directions (6-10): In the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four.

6. Google is one of the most popular search engines, it is …………… by the internet users.

(a) utilized

(b) effected

(c) examined

(d) flabbergasted

Answer: (a)

7. Raj was tired of Puja’s …………… approach, so he asked her to make her final decision by that evening.

(a) silly-willy

(b) dilly-dally

(c) wasting

(d) dilly-nally

Answer: (b)

8. Ria is …………… at speaking languages. It is difficult to …………… one puppy for animal shelter.

(a) adept, adapt

(b) adapt, adapt

(c) adept, adopt

(d) adapt, adopt

Answer: (c)

9. School days are considered to be the best years of your life. When my …………… year in school began, I began to think of those past enjoyable days and of my future also.

(a) penultimate

(b) absolute

(c) integral

(d) termination

Answer: (d)

10. Being ……………, the judge gave a favourable verdict.

(a) sagacious

(b) pugnacious

(c) malicious

(d) tenacious

Answer: (a)

Directions (11-15): In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If there is no error, your answer is (d) i.e., No error

11. I whistled thrice (a)/ with full might and raise my arms (b)/towards the sky. (c) / No error (d)

Answer: (b)

Explanation: Replace ‘raise’ with ‘raised’

12. Science and religion (a)/are both necessary for man and for their (b)/ outer and inner self respectively. (c)/ No error(d)

Answer: (b)

Explanation: Use both for man and their in place of both necessary

13. At certain seasons (a), some areas on Mars (b)/ is subject to strong winds.(c)/No error(d)

Answer: (c)

Explanation: Replace ‘is’ with ‘are’

14. As an artist (a)/ Raju is an good (b)/, if not better than, Ramesh. (c)/ No error (d)

Answer: (b)

Explanation: Instead of an, so good or very good should be used

15. The scientists (a)/ could not hardly (b)/ complete all the experiments, (c)/ No error (d)

Answer: (b)

Explanation: Could not and hardly means the same thing. To correct the sentence remove either 'could not' or 'hardly'.

Directions (16-20): In the following questions four words are given in each question, out of which only one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word as your answer.

16. (a) garulous

(b) garrulous

(c) garullous

(d) garrullous

Answer: (b)

17. (a) marquee

(b) markue

(c) marnuei

(d) marquie

Answer: (a)

18. (a) puissant

(b) puiscant

(c) puiscent

(d) puissent

Answer: (a)

19. (a) disconncerting

(b) disconserting

(c) discuncerting

(d) disconcerting

Answer: (d)

20. (a) exilarate

(b) exsilerate

(c) exsilarate

(d) exhilarate

Answer: (d)