General English - Questions & Answers - 10

136. It is natural ___man to make mistakes.

(a) that (b) about

(c) in (d) for

Answer: (d)

137. All that glitters is not ____

(a) silver (b) gold

(c) copper (d) alloy

Answer: (b)

138. Identify the conjunction in the given sentence: I ran fast but missed the train.

(a) but (b) ran

(c) fast (d) the

Answer: (a)

139. Killing of one’s own wife is known as:

(a) Homicide (b) Infanticide

(c) Genocide (d) Uxoricide

Answer: (d)

140. The meaning of ‘Duel’:

(a) Combat (b) Double

(c) Purpose (d) Dutiful

Answer: (a)

141. Choose the word which is a feminine gender:

(a) Actor (b) Hero

(c) Niece (d) Milkman

Answer: (c)

142. Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the key word ‘NADIR’:

(a) Difficult obstacle (b) Lowest point

(c) Anniversary (d) Largest number

Answer: (b)

143. Which is opposite in meaning to ‘Fidelity’?

(a)Disloyalty (b) Diligent

(c) Sincerity (d) Freud

Answer: (a)

144. ‘Red-letter day’ means:

(a)Holiday (b) A special day

(c) A day on which accident happened (d) Independence day

Answer: (b)

145. In which part of the sentence is the mistake?

(a) Everyone/ (b)of my friends/

(c)own/ (d) a car.

Answer: (c)

146. Give one word for ‘non professional or unpaid’:

(a) Stoic (b) Amateur

(c) Alma mater (d)  Taciturn

Answer: (b)

147. Select the correctly spelt word:

(a)Eroneous (b) Erronius

(c) Erroneous (d) Erraneous

Answer: (c)

148. When I first met him, he _____ in a hotel.

(a)had been working (b) has been working

(c) was working (d) worked

Answer: (c)

149. ‘To end in fiasco’ means:

(a) Complete success

(b) Complete failure

(c) Complete blunder

 (d) Highly profitable

Answer: (b)

150. ‘I bought a book’ is the active form of:

(a) A book was bought by me

(b) I was bought by a book

(c) A book has been bought

(d) A book was bought by me

Answer: (d)
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