MCQs 1: The given sentence is in direct/ indirect speech. Change the narration of the sentence. Select the correct option from the sentence below.

The young man promised her that he would be there the next day.

MCQs 2: In the following question, four pairs of words follow the first pair. Select the pair whose relation most closely matches the first pair.

Serpentine: River

MCQs 3: In the following question, four pairs of words follow the first pair. Select the pair whose relation most closely matches the first pair.

Deferential: Sycophantic

MCQs 4: Pick the word/phrase most nearly opposite in meaning.

Retrench

MCQs 5: Pick the word/phrase most nearly opposite in meaning.

Sapient

MCQs 6: Pick the word/phrase most nearly opposite in meaning.

Peremptory

MCQs 7: In the following question , a part of the sentence has been underlined. Replace the underlined part with the most appropriate choice from the four options provided below. In case no improvement is required, choose the option marked ‘no improvement needed’.

What is the time on your watch?

MCQs 8: In a following question, a part of the sentence has been underlined. Replace the underlined part with the most appropriate choice from the four options provided below. In case no improvement is required, choose the option marked ‘no improvement needed’.

Your answer is different than mine.

MCQs 9: Four alternatives are given for the idioms/ phrases underlined in the sentence. Choose the one that best expresses the meaning of the idiom

The demolition of the Babri Masjid had been a political hot potato for years.

MCQs 10: Choose the correct alternative which can be substituted for the below given word/ sentence.

A physician who diagnoses and interprets the changes caused by disease in tissues and body fluids

MCQs 11: Choose the correct alternative which can be substituted for the below given word/ sentence.

A person who cannot help but steal whatever he can find.

MCQs 12: Pick the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given words.

Impertinent

MCQs 13: Pick the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given words.

Prurient

MCQs 14: The Question below consist of four sentences marked A, B, C and D. Arrange the sentences in a proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph.

A) My grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman.
B) People said that she had once been young and pretty and even had a husband.
C) She had been old and wrinkled for twenty years that I had known her.
D) But that was hard to believe.

MCQs 15: The Question below consist of four sentences marked A, B, C and D. Arrange the sentences in a proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph.

A) Quinten was immediately admitted as an apprentice into his studio.
B) In fifteenth century a master blacksmith called Quinten Metsys fell in love with a painter’s daughter.
C) So Quinten sneaked into the painter’s studio and painted a fly on his latest panel.
D) The father would not accept a son-in-law in such a profession.

MCQs 16: In the question below, there is a sentence with jumbled up parts. Rearrange these parts, which are labelled A, B, C and D to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence.

A classical Chinese painting….

A) as would a
B) is not meant to
C) Western figurative painting
D) represent an actual view

MCQs 17: In the question below, there is a sentence with jumbled up parts. Rearrange these parts, which are labelled A, B, C and D to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence.

One cannot recall any movement……

A) which has gripped the imagination of the entire human race
B) in world history
C) which started nearly twenty-five years ago
D) so completely and so rapidly as the Green Movement

MCQs 18: In the question below, there is a sentence with jumbled up parts. Rearrange these parts, which are labelled A, B, C and D to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence.

A swathe of the white stuff

A) stretching for maybe fifteen metres
B) lay across the track in front of us
C) and the dirt track reappeared
D) before it petered out

MCQs 19: Some parts of the sentences in the passages below are left blank. Fill them with the best alternative.

We ….. reached the top of the pass. It was lined by a large ……. of rocks …… with white silk scarves and ragged prayer flags. We all took a turn round the rocks in the clockwise direction, as was the …... and Tsetan checked the tyres on his vehicle.

1 (a) immediately
(b) hesitantly
(c) finally
(d) currently

2. (a) cairn
(b) monument
(c) assembly
(d) shaft

3. (a) garnished
(b) festered
(c) festooned
(d)enriched

4. (a) habit
(b) fashion
(c) etiquette
(d) tradition

MCQs 20: Fill in the blanks with the correctly spelled alternative.

We ……..many words in our day to day usage.