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11 Veto
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(a) Sought
(b) Seeked
(a) took
(b) have taken
(c) Seek
(d) Seeky
(c) has taken
(d) had taken
English
Selected Questions
1. I ______ lunch when the post man
came
(a) have (b) had
(c) was having (d) has been
2. Let us have a cup of tea ______ ?
(a) haven’t we (b) have we
(c) shall we (d) will we
3. What is a person called when he is
recovering from an illness ?
(a) Ignoramus (b) Convalescent
(c) Epidemic (d) Arrogant
4. ‘A man whose wife is dead’ is called.
(a) Widow (b) Bachelor
(c) Widower (d) Celibate
5. I saw a ______ of sheep grazing in
the feild.
(a) flock (b) herd
(c) group (d) pack
6. Find the correctly spelt word
(a) occurrence (b) occurance
(c) occurrance (d) occurence
Relative Pronoun -Whose - Tips
• blank \v tijw object HmSv
IqSnb Hcp hmIytam AIÀ½
I{Inbtbm (intransitive
verb) AS§nb hmIytam
hm blank  whose D]
tbmKn¡Ww
eg: I met the boy whose father
works in US
• ‘____’ \v tijw Hcp passive
voice hmepw whose BWv
D]tbmKnt¡ ≠Xv.
eg: Jaya whose brother was
arrested
came to see me.
7. The phrase ‘Take in’ mean
(a) to deceive (b) go forward
(c) to give back (d) indure
8. The idom ‘To hit the nail on the head’
means
(a) To apologize (b) kill somebody
(c) Apply unfair tactics
(d) Say exactly the right thing
cRvP³cmPv shªmdaqSv
9. He goes ______school at 9.00 am
every day
(a) with (b) to (c) for (d) by
10. The collective noun for ‘mountain’
(a) block (b) chain
(c) cluster (d) constellation
11. Mango is sweeter than apple -
change into positive degree
(a) Mango is as sweet as apple
(b) Mango is not so sweet as apple
(c) Apple is as sweet as Mango
(d) Apple is not so sweet as Mango
12. His sister is lost ______ all sense
of shame
(a) to (b) from (c) of (d) off
13. The feminine gender of ‘Lad’ ?
(a) Lord (b) Lady
(c) Lass (d) Ewe
14. The adverb of ‘brave’ is
(a) Bravery (b) Brave
(c) Bravo (d) Bravely
15. The idiom ‘To eat the humble pie’
means:
(a) To apologize in a humble manner
(b) To eat beyond one’s capacity
(c) Eat nothing
(d) Eat delicious food
16. The commission enquired ______
the causes of the hooch tragedy
(a) into (b) by (c) for (d) in
17. ‘In the doldrums’ means
(a) in an excited mood
(b) feeling confused
(c) unexpectedly
(d) feeling depressed
18. “How can I help you”? She asked
him.
Change into Reported Speech.
(a) She asked him that how could
she help him
(b) She asked him how could she
help him
(c) She asked him how she could
help him
(d) None of these
19. The past tense of Seek is
20. I read novels ______ I have nothing
else to do
(a) Where (b) Then
(c) Now
(d) When
1. Little______ the answer
(a) do he know (b) did he know
(c) he knew (d) he knows
2. He is too tired ____ walk
(a) to
(b) not to
(c) he can’t (d) that he will not
3. ‘Genial’ means
(a) Cordial (b) not detailed
(c) clever
(d) a person of exceptional skill and
ability
4. If he had applied for the post, _____
(a) he get it (b) he will get it
(c) he will have got it
(d) he would have got it.
5. Report : “I am going out”, he said
(a) He said I am going out
(b) He said that I was going out
(c) He said he is going out
(d) He said that he was going out
6. Seeing is ______ ?
(a) believe (b) believing
(c) to believe (d) believed
Relative Pronoun -
Which / that - Tips
• Xncn¡p \maw a\pjys\
kqNn¸n¡m¯ ]£w who/
whom/whose \v ]Icambn
which / that D]tbmKn¡pp.
Fm A¯cw \mas¯
Hcp tIma D]tbmKn¨v
thÀXncn¨n«ps ≠¦n ‘that’
D]tbmKn¡cpXv. ]Icw which
BWv D]tbmKnt¡≠ Xv.
eg: This is the book which/that
gives much information.
Harry Potter, which is the best
selling book, is a series of fantasy
novels.
7. Barking dogs seldom bite, _____ ?
(a) do they (b) don’t they
(c) won’t they (d) doesn’t they
8. Which part of the sentence is wrong
(a) The few money/(b) he inherited/
(c) has already/ (d) been wasted
9. I ______my Master’s Degree last
year
10. NATO is a/an ______
(a) acronym (b) psuedonym
(c) synonym (d) homonym
11. There is a ______ case against the
Minister
(a) modus operandi
(b) prima facie
(c) adhoc (d) a priori
12. Hue means
(a) Festival (b) Colour
(c) mist (d) song
13. When I called______ Ravi, I found
him with his wife in the garden
(a) on (b) at (c) up (d) off
14. I advised him ______
(a) not resign the job
(b) to not resign his job
(c) not to resign his job
(d) to don’t resign his job
15. Find out the word wrongly spelt?
(a) canon (b) cannon
(c) congenita (d) cantageous
16. Raju is hater of learning and
knowledge: choose the apt
substitute for the underlined words
(a) Misologist (b) Bibliophile
(c) Misanthrope (d) Misogynist
17. ‘To put up with’ means______
(a) to close (b) to prolong
(c) to tolerate (d) to forget
18. Hardly ______ see the picture
(a) I can (b) I could
(c) can I (d) Can’t I
19. The doorbell ______for the last ten
minutes.
(a) Was ringing (b) is ringing
(c) has been ringing
(d) had been ringing
20. Hari’s house is bigger than ______
(a) my (b) their (c) our (d) yours
Answer Key
1. D¯cw: (c) was having
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asÁmcp {]hr¯n XpSÀp
sIm≠ ncpp FXnÂ
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Ipdn¡m³ past continuous
Dw ]qÀ¯nbm¡nbXns\
Ipdn¡m³ simple past Dw
D]tbmKn¡pp. ChnsS