2. Which of the following expressions is never used to greet a person?
Correct : B. Good Night
3. Read the telephonic conversation given below and fill in the blank by choosing the appropriate answer.
Railway inquiry: Good afternoon. Railway inquiry.
Caller: ______ you tell me when the Sachkhand Express to Amritsar leaves, please.
Correct : C. Could
4. Read the telephonic conversation given below and answer the given question.
Fire Service: Hello. Fire station.
Caller: I’m Anju Shukla. A fire has broken out at the Tara Singh Market, Vazirabad. Please send the fire engines soon.
Fire Service: They’re already on their way, ma’am. They should be there any time now.
Caller: Thank you.
“They’re” in the above dialogue is the contracted form of
Correct : C. They are
5. “Hi, Rani! What’s up?” This expression is an instance of
Correct : B. Informal expression
6. “She’s not feeling well today.” Here She’s means
Correct : A. She is
7. Read the following dialogue and answer the given question.
Rohit: Akash, meet Irfan. He’s the captain of our football team.
Akash: Hello, Irfan. Glad to meet you. I’m Akash Patil, captain of the basketball team.
Irfan: Nice to meet you too.
In this conversation:
Correct : D. Rohit introduces Irfan to Akash and Akash introduces himself to Irfan
8. On cutting her hair Della looked like ______
Correct : C. A truant schoolboy
9. The family name of James and Della is ______
Correct : B. Young
10. In ‘The Bet’, the lawyer agrees to stay in solitary confinement for how long?
Correct : C. 15 years
11. The astrologer sat under the _______ tree.
Correct : D. Tamarind
12. People were attracted to the astrologer as…
Correct : B. Bees are attracted to dahlia stalks
13. The fee of the astrologer was ______
Correct : B. Three pies per question
14. “Rub it on your forehead and go home. Never travel southward again, and you will live to
be a hundred.” This is said by ______
Correct : D. Astrologer to Guru Nayak
15. According to Socrates, the first lesson at school is…
Correct : C. Both the above
16. Which of the following authors wrote under the pen-name of O. Henry?
Correct : A. William Sydney Porter
17. The photographer asks the author to drop his ____ a little more.
Correct : D. Ears
18. How old was the author when he visited the photographer?
Correct : C. Forty years
19. After all, the doctor is a stranger to the strong and healthy; his work is with
Correct : C. The sick and the weak
20. Which of the following is the synonym of ‘impertinent’?
Correct : C. Impolite
21. Which of the following is the antonym of ‘filthy’?
Correct : D. Clean
22. Match the words in List A with their synonyms in List B and select the proper answer from the options given below:
List A List B
i) Mould a) slim
ii) Punctually b) deny
iii) Slender c) promptly
iv) Deprive d) shape
Correct : B. i-d, ii-c, iii-a, iv-b
23. Fill in the blank by using the appropriate article: Just then ___ mother was heard scolding her child and using language which made Socrates jump with horror.
Correct : C. A
24. He had a working analysis of mankind’s troubles: marriage, money and _____ tangles of human ties.
Correct : A. The
25. Fill in the blank by using the appropriate preposition: Come back on Saturday, and I’ll let you see a proof _____ it.
Correct : D. Of
26. Fill in the blank by using the appropriate preposition: She was ransacking the stores _____ Jim’s present.
Correct : D. For
27. Which of the following modals is used to give advice?
Correct : D. Should
28. I can swim for six hours at a stretch. Here ‘can’ means
Correct : C. Ability
29. Choose the correct one word substitute for ‘to move on hands and knees’
Correct : B. Crawl
30. Choose the correct one word substitute for ‘Study of the position of planets and their influence on human affairs and the natural world’