SET NUMBER-B
1. I can’t live on _______ 500 dollars a month.
(A) a
(B) an
(C) the
(D) no article
2. His rude behaviour will make him lick the dust one day .
(A) fall down
(B) get killed
(C) to be buried
(D) get humiliated
3. A remedy for all diseases.
(A) Narcotics
(B) Antiseptic
(C) Panacea
(D) Lyric
4. We____forget to take the chicken out of the freezer.
(A) must
(B) have to meet
(C) has to
(D) mustn’t
5. God helps those who _______ themselsves.
(A) helps
(B) has helped
(C) helped
(D) help
6. In my bedroom, there’s a bed ______ a wardrobe.
(A) but
(B) so
(C) and
(D) also
7. The mountain peak was _______ away than she had expected.
(A) farther
(B) father
(C) either
(D) other
8. How ______ did your computer cost?
(A) many
(B) any
(C) some
(D) much
9. You _______ read his latest book.
(A) ought
(B) were
(C) used
(D) should
10. Someone is waiting _____ the library.
(A) outside
(B) through
(C) out of
(D) of
11. Hello ! It ______nice to meet you.
(A) am
(B) are
(C) was
(D) is
12. Raj and Ritik became partners. They started their own shoe business
(A) Raj and Ritik became partners, they started their own show business
(B) Raj and Ritik became partners when they started their own shoe business
(C) Raj and Ritik became partners, so they started their own shoe business
(D) Raj and Ritik became partners and started their own shoe business
13. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) You should not smoke
(B) You not smoke
(C) You smoke not
(D) You not must smoke
14. My Uncle ______ a source of inspiration for me.
(A) was being
(B) will be
(C) is being
(D) has been
15. The case was put _____ the judge.
(A) at
(B) from
(C) before
(D) of
16. My brother and _____ went to the park.
(A) I
(B) us
(C) we
(D) him
17. ______ that dress specially made for you ?
(A) Has you
(B) Could you
(C) Should you
(D) Did you have
18. He said that he might buy a pen.
(A) He said, ” I may buy a pen.”
(B) He will say, “I must buy a pen”.
(C) He says, “I am going to buy a pen.”
(D) He asked, “Must I buy a pen ?
19. Give the chocolate to the crying baby. (CHOOSE ADJECTIVE)
(A) Chocolate
(B) Baby
(C) Crying
(D) Give
20. How can he cheat me ?
(A) He cannot cheat me like this
(B) Cheat me he cannot
(C) Cannot cheat mem he
(D) He will cheat me not
21. Ishita will _____ her new dress today.
(A) put out
(B) put on
(C) put up
(D) put off
22. This is made in ______ United Kingdom
(A) a
(B) an
(C) the
(D) no article
23. She smiled _____ my mistakes
(A) at
(B) on
(C) upon
(D) over
24. The wind _____ heavily yesterday.
(A) blow
(B) had blow
(C) blown
(D) was blowing
25. A person who has characteristics like a woman is called
(A) Eunuch
(B) Effeminate
(C) Feminist
(D) Frail
26. Would you _____ my dog for me this weekend ?
(A) look
(B) look after
(C) look up
(D) look into
27. To hit the nail right on the head means _____
(A) To do the right thing
(B) To destroy one’s reputation
(C) To announce one’s views
(D) To teach someone a lesson
28. Choose the correct spelling :
(A) Tadious
(B) Tidieous
(C) Tedious
(D) Tedeous
29. Ramesh ____ in the middle of his speech.
(A) break down
(B) broke down
(C) broken down
(D) breaking down
30. He saw a snake _____ he awoke.
(A) when
(B) than
(C) then
(D) but
31. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) I she participate in the competition ?
(B) Do she participate in the competition ?
(C) Did she participate in the competition ?
(D) She participated in the competition ?
32. Choose the correct antonym ‘Prohibit’ :
(A) Allow
(B) Prevent
(C) Outlaw
(D) Achieve
33. My niece dropped _____bottle on the ground
(A) his
(B) her
(C) it
(D) their
34. ________ your father got a nice car?
(A) Have
(B) Has
(C) Am
(D) Were
35. Choose the odd one out :
(A) Blind
(B) Deaf
(C) Dumb
(D) Idiot
36. When something is hilarious, it is ______
(A) scary
(B) sad
(C) funny
(D) grave
37. They are pretty. They are intelligent.
(A) They are pretty and intelligent
(B) Both pretty and intelligent they are
(C) Are they pretty but intelligent ?
(D) Intelligent they are as well as pretty
38. Do you still ______ to the club ?
(A) belongs
(B) are belong
(C) belong
(D) belonging
39. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) We have to reach on time for the play
(B) We have to reach at time for play
(C) We have to reach at time for the play
(D) We have to reach at time to play
40. Who _______ on the phone ?
(A) is
(B) were
(C) am
(D) are
41. What type of sentence is this ?
How sweet it smells !
(A) Declarative
(B) Interrogative
(C) Exclamatory
(D) Imperative
42. She interrupted me _____ through my speech.
(A) meanwhile
(B) sometimes
(C) midway
(D) otherwise
43. I wonder if they will change _____ plans ?
(A) there
(B) their
(C) theirs
(D) them
44. Choose the correct synonym of ‘Hurdle’.
(A) Throw
(B) Opposition
(C) Obstacle
(D) Suspicion
45. Choose the correct antonym of ‘Enter’:
(A) Arrive
(B) Exit
(C) Access
(D) Insert
46. I _____ the Taj Mahal last month
(A) visit
(B) will visit
(C) visiting
(D) visited
47. The council _____ made its decision.
(A) have
(B) have had
(C) has
(D) having
48. This side is parallel _______ that.
(A) to
(B) of
(C) with
(D) from
49. Choose the correctly spelt word :
(A) Scripter
(B) Scripture
(C) Skripture
(D) Scriptur
50. John read English ________
(A) off and on
(B) up and above
(C) give and take
(D) near and near
51. This is _____ best car in our showroom.
(A) a
(B) an
(C) the
(D) no article
52. We won’t be late, _________ ?
(A) won’t we
(B) will we
(C) are we
(D) can we
53. The woman is standing ______ the door .
(A) in
(B) on
(C) at
(D) through
54. You can ______ him even now.
(A) cheque
(B) check
(C) cheqk
(D) cheqke
55. All the boys laughed at him.
(A) Laughed at was he by the boys
(B) All the boys laughing at him
(C) He was laughed at by all the boys
(D) The boys all laughing at him
56. The teacher said to Ramesh, ” Do it at once.”
(A) The teacher asking Ramesh to do it at once.
(B) The teacher ordered Ramesh to do it at once.
(C) Ordering Ramesh to do it at once was the teacher
(D) Ramesh was requested to do it at once by the teacher
57. The antonym of ‘Hostile’ is
(A) Costly
(B) Partly
(C) Friendly
(D) Disobey
58. We shall get wet if it _______
(A) raining
(B) will raining
(C) rains
(D) rain
59. He is very ________ in calculations.
(A) quick
(B) calm
(C) tolerable
(D) frank
60. They ______ rung back yet.
(A) have
(B) has
(C) haven’t
(D) hasn’t
61. Nanukaka ______before he spoke
(A) ate some biscuits
(B) drank tea
(C) inhaled some snuff
(D) drank coffee
62. One hundred years later, the Negro is still____in corners of American society.
(A) complaining
(B) enjoying
(C) languishing
(D) clamouring
63. All technological changes cause____
(A) mental problems
(B) social problems
(C)physical problems
(D) health problems
64. John Donne thinks that______ is certain
(A) death
(B) life
(C) work
(D) walking
65. Chaucer and Langland are writers of the______ period.
(A) Old English
(B) Middle English
(C) Modern English
(D) Post- modern English
66. Who wrote ‘Mac-Flecknoe’?
(A) John Dryden
(B) John
(C) George Herbert
(D) Alexander Pope
67. Standard British English speech came to be known as
(A) Second language
(B) New English
(C) American English
(D) Received Pronunciation
68. English development into a single, standard _________
(A) Queen’s English
(B) King’s English
(C) Prince’s English
(D) Royal English
69. ” And what I assume you shall assume” is taken from _______
(A) Song of Myself
(B) An Epitaph
(C) The Soldier
(D) Fire Hymn
70. Human life is no better than _________
(A) life
(B) death
(C) journey
(D) sleep
71. ‘King Lear’ is a ________
(A) comedy
(B) tragedy
(C) tragi-comedy
(D) mysterious play
72. In the last few decades of ______, the English language has seen rapid changes
(A) 17th
(B) 18th
(C) 19th
(D) 20th
73. Benjy’s parents planned for a ceremony when he was _________
(A) thirty
(B) twenty- one
(C) twenty-five
(D) fifteen
74. According to Pearl S Buck, what lesson has India to teach the world ?
(A) The lesson of violence
(B) The lesson of peace
(C) The lesson of honesty
(D) The lesson of non-violence
75. Mr. Stepan Choobookov is a ______
(A) lawyer
(B) landowner
(C) writer
(D) poet
76. Even more important than the domestication of animals was
(A) Invention of agriculture
(B) Illiteracy
(C) Superstitions
(D) Fear and cowardice
77. Who wrote ” The Canterbury Tales’?
(A) Langland
(B) Chaucer
(C) Yeats
(D) Beowulf
78. _________ has the largest number of native speakers.
(A) English
(B) Chinese
(C) Urdu
(D) Tamil
79. _________ is a ‘window to the world’.
(A) Hindi
(B) Urdu
(C) Chinese
(D) English
80. Modern English begins from __________
(A) AD 1300
(B) AD 1400
(C) AD 1500
(D) AD 1600
81. The taming of ________ animals made life much pleasant.
(A) wild
(B) weak
(C) robust
(D) domestic
82. One day Seibei found a peculiar gourd at a shop which costed him ______
(A) five cents
(B) ten cents
(C) two cents
(D) nine cents
83. When a baby born, it is an occasion of joy for _______
(A) the mother
(B) the father
(C) strangers
(D) the whole family
84. No widely circulated newspaper dare support a public due to vested interest of _______
(A) the government
(B) editor
(C) reporter
(D) advertisers
85. What is that modern civilization ? It is the worship of, _______
(A) material
(B) ethical
(C) brotherhood
(D) equality
86. Earlier he (Dr. Zakir Hussain) had served as ______
(A) the Governor of Bihar
(B) the Governor of Punjab
(C) the Governor of West Bengal
(D) the Governor of Assam
87. _________ was coming to the narrator’s family
(A) Sohanlal
(B) Ratiram
(C) Minister
(D) Nanukaka
88. ______advocated non- violent struggle.
(A) Martin Luther King Jr.
(B) Shiga Naoya
(C) Kamala Das
(D) Pearl S Buck
89. Who is the speaker in the poem ‘Song of Myself”?
(A) A boy
(B) A girl
(C) The poet himself
(D) An old man
90. For Auden, poetry was a _________
(A) light game
(B) interesting game
(C) serious game
(D) troublesome game
91. Keats was ______ poet
(A) a Romantic
(B) a Victorian
(C) a Modern
(D) an Augustan
92. Walter De La Mare belonged to the ______ century
(A) 19th
(B) 20th
(C) 18th
(D) 17th
93. Kamal Das has earned a respectable place in both English and ______literature
(A) Tamil
(B) Malayalam
(C) Kannada
(D) Telugu
94. The ________ forgets its dead.
(A) man
(B) animal
(C) fire
(D) wind
95. The Soldier’s is a _________ poem
(A) nature
(B) war
(C) love
(D) happy
96. Macavity is called ________
(A) The Hidden Paw
(B) The Mysterious Paw
(C) The Exposed Paw
(D) The Naughty Paw
97. The term ‘concealed’ in “The Soldier” stands for
(A) hidden
(B) disappeared
(C) absent
(D) mysterious
98. According to T.S. Eliot, Macavity is the____of crime.
(A) Hitler
(B) Napoleon
(C) Alexander
(D) Osama
99. Who composed the poem ‘Fire-Hymn’?
(A) K.N. Daruwala
(B) Kamala Das
(C) J. Mahapatra
(D) N Ezekiel
100. In ______according to the poem ‘Snake’ black snakes are considered innocent.
(A) England
(B) Sicily
(C) France
(D) Italy
