General English - Questions & Answers - 52

851. Any medicine which produces insensitivity:

(a) Anaesthetics (b) Antibiotics

(c) Anaemic (d) Antiseptic

Answer: (a)

852. The higher you climb a Himalayan peak, ____ you feel.

(a) the most cold (b) the colder

(c) colder (d) more cold

Answer: (b)

853. The reward is a ____ of her service to mankind.

(a) memento (b) memorial

(c) witness (d) recognition

Answer: (d)

854. Which is the correct spelling?

(a) Euthanasia (b) Euthanacia

(c) Yuthanasia (d)  Euthanatia

Answer: (a)

855.  I understand ____  you want to learn English.

(a) but (b) because

(c) that (d) yet

Answer: (c)

856. I shall inform you as soon as he ____ (arrive) here (Use the correct form of verb given in bracket):

(a) will arrive (b) is arriving

(c) will be arrived (d) arrives

Answer: (d)

857. The synonym of ‘EVOLVE’:

(a) Involve (b) Develop

(c) Envisage (d) Except

Answer: (b)

858. I asked the porter where  _____.

(a) was the ticket counter

(b) the ticket counter were

(c) the ticket counter was

(d) in the ticket counter

Answer: (c)

859. I haven’t ____ friends here.

(a) many (b) some

(c) a few (d)  few

Answer: (a)

860. He asked whether such a thing was possible.  The direct form of the sentence is:

(a) He asked “is such a thing possible?”

(b) He asked “was such a thing possible?”

(c) He said “will such a thing be possible?”

(d) He said “whether such thing was possible?”

Answer: (a)

861. With a view to ____ properly, a detailed list is appended to.  Fill up the blank with the correct form of ‘verify’ from the following:

(a) verify (b) verifying

(c) verified (d) being verified

Answer: (b)

862.The meaning of ‘Ratify’:

(a) Fix the price of (b) Reject

(c) Approve (d) Turn into a rat

Answer: (c)

863.Invaluable means:

(a) Not valuable (b) Very valuable

(c) Negatively valuable (d) Valuable at present

Answer: (b)

864. He is married ____.

(a) with my sister (b) my sister

(c) to my sister (d) None of these

Answer: (c)

865. He has great reputation ___ honesty.

(a) for (b) in

(c) about (d) of

Answer: (a)

866. One who believes that everything is predestined:

(a) Optimist (b) Fatalist

(c) Palmist (d) Pedant

Answer: (b)

867. He was detained from the class ____ attendance.

(a) due to (b) for want of

(c) owing to (d)  on account of

Answer: (b)

868. A span of ten years.

(a) score (b) annual

(c) century (d)  decade

Answer: (d)

869.  He came in looking as if he (see) a ghost (Use the correct form of verb given in bracket)

(a) saw (b) seen

(c) had seen (d) has seen

Answer: (c)

870. If I were a bird I ____ fly.

(a) would (b) will

(c) should (d) could

Answer: (a)

871. Find the misspelt word:

(a) Believe (b) Grieve

(c) Relieve (d) Decieve

Answer: (d)

872. Before we reached the theatre the tickets ____.

(a) were sold out (b)  had been sold out

(c) has been sold out (d)  will be sold out

Answer: (b)

873. Richard bought ___ ice pile from the shop.

(a) a (b) an

(c) the (d) and

Answer: (b)

874. The word opposite in meaning to ‘DECEIT’:

(a) Simplicity (b) Gentility

(c) Sincerity (d) Honesty

Answer: (d)

875. Russia has a lot to offer India in her efforts to leap ____ the 21  century.

(a) over (b) to

(c) into (d) overst

Answer: (c)
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