The lockdown
Weekly test, 19th June
Total= 50 marks
Time= 30 min.
Cut off= 40 marks
Pool= 150
Cap= 75
1. (A) Hoseire (B) ✅Hosier (C) Hosair (D) Hasier
2. (A) Punctileous (B) ✅Punctilious (C) Punktilious (D) Punctileus
3. (A) ✅Clientele (B) Clientale (C) Cleintele (D) Clientelle
4. (A) Cemetary (B) Semetary (C) ✅Cemetery (D) Cemetry
5. (A) ✅Desiccation (B) Desication (C) Dessiccasion (D) Dessication
6. (A) ✅Inconvenienced (B) Inconvenianced (C) Inconveneinced(D) Inconveniensed
7.Narration:
He said, "I'll teach Mathematics online tomorrow."
a) ✅He said he would teach Mathematics online the next day.
b) He said he should teach Mathematics online the next day.
c) He has said he would teach Mathematics online the next day.
d) He said that he should teach Mathematics online next day.
8.Narration:
The doctor said to the patient, ‘Quit smoking.’
a) The doctor orders the patient to quit smoking.
b) ✅The doctor advised the patient to quit smoking.
c) The doctor advised the patient for quitting smoking.
d) The doctor adviced to the patient to quit smoking.
9.Narration:
I said to the child, ‘Do not look down into the well.’
a) ✅I warned the child not to look down into the well.
b) I said to the child to not look down into the well.
c) I warn the child not to look down the well.
d) I told the child to not look at the well.
10.Narration:
I said to him, ‘Love and obey your parents.’
a) ✅I advised him to love and obey his parents.
b) I ordered him to love and obey his parents.
c) I advised him to love and obey our parents.
d) I told to him to love and obey his parents.
11.Narration:
Ram said to me, ‘Please, lend me your book’.
a) Ram requested to me to lend him my book.
b) ✅Ram requested me to lend him my book.
c) Ram requested me to lend his my book.
d) Ram had requested me to lend him my book.
12.Voice:
Two children were shot dead by a psychopath during the California music festival.
1. ✅A psychopath shot dead two children during the California music festival.
2. Two children was shot dead by a psychopath during the California music festival.
3. A psychopath was shot dead during the California music festival.
4. A psychopath shot deads two children during the California music festival.
13.Voice:
Somebody feeds the stray dog daily.
1. The stray dog was fed daily.
2. ✅The stray dog is fed daily.
3. The stray dog is being fed daily.
4. The stray dog fed daily by somebody.
14.Voice:
Popular monuments will be kept open till 9 p.m.
1. They had kept popular monuments open till 9 p.m.
2. They are keeping popular monuments open till 9 p.m.
3. ✅They will keep popular monuments open till 9 p.m.
4. They will be keeping popular monuments open till 9 p.m.
15.Voice:
By how many people were you helped in your time of difficulty?
1. How many people help you in your time of difficulty?
2. How many people were helped you in your time of difficulty?
3. How much people helped you in your time of difficulty?
4. ✅How many people helped you in your time of difficulty?
16.Voice:
The glass felt smooth.
1.The glass was smooth when it is felt.
2.Smooth was glass felt.
3.✅The glass was smooth when it was felt.
4.Felt smooth the glass.
17.Rearrangement:
A His death was a cause of great speculation.
B Edgar Allan Poe was a famous American author.
C Within a few days of being found, he died mysteriously on Oct 7, 1849.
D He had gone missing on October 3, 1849 and was found a few days later.
1. CDBA
2. ✅BADC
3. BCDA
4. DBCA
18.Rearrangement:
A This record of migration is one of the greatest natural events on earth.
B Each Autumn, millions of Monarch butterflies leave their breeding grounds in US and Canada.
C The migration of the Monarch butterfly is an amazing phenomenon.
D They travel over 3000 miles to reach their winter habitat in Mexico.
1. ADBC
2. ✅CBDA
3. DCBA
4. ABDC
19.Improve the bracketed part:
After the heavy rains last week, the water in the late [raised another two feet.].
(A) ✅Rose another two feet
(B) Rose other two feet
(C) Rised another two feet
(D) No improvement
20.Improve the bracketed part:
Mohan stopped [to work] an hour ago.
(A) To working
(B) To have worked
(C) ✅Working
(D) No improvement
21.Improve the bracketed part:
Rohan died [of a wound and not from cancer.]
(A) ✅From a wound and not of cancer
(B) Of a wound and not of cancer
(C) From a wound and not from cancer
(D) No improvement
Expl.
Die from injuries☑
Die from drinking☑
Die from wounds☑
Die from smoking☑
Die from overeating☑
Die from overwork☑
Die from overdrinking☑
Die from inattention☑
Die from heat☑
Die from explosion☑
Die of illness☑
Die of cholera☑
Die of pneumonia ☑
Die of hunger☑
Die of thirst☑
Die of cold☑
Die of malnutrition ☑
Die of grief ☑
22.Improve the bracketed part:
My brother-in-law has a house [for letting.]
(A) For letting out
(B) To rent our
(C) ✅To let
(D) No improvement
Expl.
To let= to allow your house or land to be lived in or used by someone else in exchange for a regular payment:
23.Improve the bracketed part:
She couldn't help [crying].
(A) cried
(B) cry
(C) cries
(D) ✅No improvement
One word substitutions/ idioms/ phrases:
24.Pay lip-service to
(A) A colourful day
(B) A rainy day
(C) ✅To support in words only
(D) A sunny day
One word substitutions/ idioms/ phrases:
25.The doctrine that human souls pass from one body to another at the time of death-
(A) Metamorphosis
(B) Transition
(C) ✅Transmigration
(D) Extrapolation
One word substitutions/ idioms/ phrases:
26.A place for invalids and convalescents-
(A) Royal
(B) Palace
(C) ✅Sanatorium
(D) Reserve
One word substitutions/ idioms/ phrases:
27.To show the white feather
(A) ✅To behave timidly
(B) To perform a good deed
(C) To try to be beautiful
(D) To show courage before the enemy
One word substitutions/ idioms/ phrases:
28.A square peg in a round hole
(A) A faithful friend
(B) ✅A person unsuited to the position he occupies
(C) A loyal servant
(D) A small hole
One word substitutions/ idioms/ phrases:
29.To turn the corner
(A) Change one’s stand
(B) Change one’s opinion
(C) ✅Pass through a crisis safely
(D) Hesitate
One word substitutions/ idioms/ phrases:
30.To see eye to eye
(A) To be incomplete
(B) To be unhappy
(C) To be annoyed
(D) ✅To agree completely
31. Select the synonym for “Pilfer”
(a) ✅Embezzle
(b) Strangle
(c) Follow
(d) Defame
Expl.
Pilfer: steal (things of little value).
Embezzle: steal or misappropriate
32. Select the synonym for “Fugacious”
(a) Harangue
(b) ✅Ephemeral
(c) Shave
(d) Peerless
Expl.
Fugacious: tending to disappear; fleeting.
Ephemeral: lasting for a very short time.
33. Select the synonym for “Prune”
(a) Lend
(b) ✅Reduce
(c) Expand
(d) Prolong
Expl.
Prune: to reduce (something) by removing parts that are not necessary or wanted.
34. Select the synonym for “Jeremiad”
(a) Friction
(b) Revel
(c) ✅Wail
(d) Acme
Expl.
Jeremiad: a prolonged lamentation or complaint.
Wail: a prolonged high-pitched cry of pain, grief, or anger.
35.Select the synonym for “Haggard”
(a) ✅Emaciate
(b) Insane
(c) Rejected
(d) Ridicule
Expl.
Haggard: looking exhausted and unwell
Emaciate: abnormally thin or weak.
36.Select the antonym:
CRIPPLED
(a) disable
(b) lame
(c) lacerate
(d) ✅boost
Expl.
CRIPPLED ->to cause severe or permanent injury to
37.Select the antonym:
EMBRACED
(a) enclasp
(b) strain
(c) ✅reject
(d) domesticate
Expl.
EMBRACED ->to accept (something or someone) readily or gladly
38.Select the antonym:
DISSENSION
(a) disaccord
(b) ✅cooperation
(c) disunity
(d) conflict
Expl.
DISSENSION ->a lack of agreement or harmony
39.Select the antonym:
SOPHISTICATE
(a) metropolitan
(b) cosmopolitan
(c) ✅naive
(d) slicker
Expl.
SOPHISTICATE -> talk or reason in an impressively complex and educated manner.
40.Select the antonym:
RIGOROUSLY
(a) ✅lax
(b) scrupulously
(c) meticulously
(d) strictly
Expl.
RIGOROUSLY -> severely exact or accurate
41.Fill in:
If she ........... sincere, she would have a great deal of money.
a.✅were
b.is
c.had
d.was
Expl.
Refer to SECOND CONDITIONAL SENTENCES
42.Fill in:
Would that I ............ a house.
a.have
b.✅had
c.will have
d.would had
Expl.
Would that= I wish
43.Fill in:
Should it rain, I ............. at home.
a.would stay
b.✅will stay
c.would have stayed
d.stay
Expl.
Refer to FIRST CONDITIONAL SENTENCES
44.Fill in:
New Year’s resolutions typically include the ............... of alcohol.
(a) respite
(b) acknowledgement
(c) bereavement
(d) ✅repudiation
Expl.
Repudiate: Refuse to accept.
45.Fill in:
You must not speak until my father ..........
a.✅has spoken
b.speaks
c.speak
d.spoke
Spot the error:
46.More girls 1/ than one 2/ is sitting in the room. ✅3/ No error 4/
Expl.
More than one girl is sitting in the room. [correct]
More girls than one are sitting in the room. [correct]
Spot the error:
47.The economics 1/ of Sohan 2/ are bad. 3/ No error ✅4/
Expl.
Econimcs is my favourite subject. [correct]
But
His economics are bad. [correct]
The economics of Sohan are bad. [correct]
Spot the error:
48.Poultry is preferable 1/ to red meat 2/ in some countries. 3/ No error ✅4/
Expl.
If
Poultry= birds, such as chickens, that are bred for their eggs and meat/ the meat from birds such as chickens
Poultry+ plural verb [correct]
If
Poultry= meat
Poultry+ singular verb [correct]
Spot the error:
49.One of the 1/ player who ✅2/ are excellent 3/ is Rohan. 4/ No error 5/
Expl.
...player.. [incorrect]
...players.. [correct]
Spot the error:
50.The third and 1/ the fifth students ✅2/ are interested in the contest. 3/ No error 4/
Expl.
The +ordinal+ and+ the+ ordinal+ sl. noun+ pl. verb [correct]
The +ordinal+ and + ordinal+ pl. noun+ pl. verb [correct]
The third and the fifth student are interested in the contest. [correct]
The third and fifth students are interested in the contest. [correct]
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