Weekly test, 5th June

The lockdown

Total= 50 marks

Time= 30 min.

Cut off= 37 marks

Give one word:

1##Chief of a group of workmen.

1) Chieftain 2) Engineer 3) Foreman 4) Middleman

2##Bitter quarrel between two families existing for a long period.

1) Siege 2) Feud 3) Battle 4) War

3##Animals without a backbone.

1) Marsupials 2) Mammals 3) Vertebrate 4) Invertebrates

4##A person's peculiar habit

1) Trait 2) Idiosyncrasy 3) Idiolect 4) Talent

5##One who will do any job for anyone for money

1) Mercenary 2) Recruit 3) Hoodlum 4) Merchant

6##To make evasive or misleading statement

(a) Prevaricate(b) Peroration(c) Sophist(d) Ineffable

7##A very delicate flow or mistake which is not expected from the person making it

(a) Sanguine (b) Sacrament (c) Solecism (d) Sententious

8##The action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest

(a) Emissary(b) Usury(c) Venal(d) Macabre

9##Sea with a group of many islands

(a) Archipelago (b) Scullery(c) Ablution(d) Etiology

10##To declare invalid an official agreement, decision, or result.

(a) To annul (b) To negate (c) To efface (d) To undo

Voice

11##SHE WAS SEEN RUNNING.

a.THEY SEE HER RUNNING.

b.THEY SAW HER RUNNING.

c.THEY SAW HER RUN.

d.THEY SAW HER RAN.

Voice:

12##WHOM DID HE TELL MY STORY?

a.WHO WAS TOLD MY STORY?

b.WHOM WAS TOLD MY STORY?

c.BY WHO WAS TOLD MY STORY?

d.WHO TOLD MY STORY?

Voice:

13##SHE SPEAKS IN ENGLISH.

a.ENGLISH WAS SPOKEN BY HER.

b.ENGLISH IS SPOKEN BY HER.

c.ENGLISH IS SPOKEN IN HER.

d.ENGLISH IS BEING IN SPOKEN BY HER.

Voice:

14##SHE LET ME GO.

a.I WAS LET GO.

b.I WAS LET TO GO.

c.I AM LET GO.

d.I AM LET TO GO.

Voice:

15##SHE WAS UNLIKEY TO FINISH THE WORK.

a.THE WORK WAS BEING UNLIKELY FINISH BY HER.

b.THE WORK WAS UNLIKELY TO BE FINISHED.

c.THE WORK WAS LIKELY TO BE FINISHED.

d.THEY WORK WAS BEING LIKELY FINISH.

Voice:

16##HE HASN'T DONE ANYTHING.

a.ANYTHING HASN'T BEEN DONE.

b.NOTHING HAVE BEEN DONE.

c.NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE.

d.ANYTHING HASN'T BEEN DONE.

Narration:

17##I said to him, “Let us go out for a walk.”

(a) I suggested to him to go out for a walk.

(b) I proposed to him that let’s go out for a walk.

(d) I suggested to him that we should go out for a walk.

Narration:

18##He said, “I saw him here”.

(a) He said that he saw him there.

(b) He said that he has seen him there.

(d) He said he had seen him there.

Narration:

19##He said to me, “Don’t go out”.

(a) He forbade me to not to go out.

(b) He forbade me to go out.

(d) He forbade me to not go out.

Narration:

20##Rahul said, “I will do it now or never”.

(a) Rahul said that he will do it now or never.

(b) Rahul said that he will now or never do it.

(d) Rahul said that he would now or never do it.

Narration:

21##He said to her, “What a cold day!”

(a) He told to her that it was a cold day.

(b) He has exclaimed that it was a cold day.

(d) He exclaimed that it was a very cold day.

Narration:

22##He wrote in his report, “The rainfall has been scanty till now.”

(a) He reported that the rainfall has been scanty till now.

(b) He reported that the rainfall had been scanty till now.

(d) He reported that the rainfall had been scanty till then.

Fill in:

23##I hope you know that, once you have signed the contract, you will not be able to _______ .

a) back in b) back out c) back up d) back at

24##On the trip, we needed a guide to …………… the foreign language for us.

(a) describe (b) illustrate (c) mimic (d) interpret

25##Neither of your responses ———— satisfactory.

(a) are (b) is (c) am (d) None of these

26##Tell ————— is waiting to come in.

(a) whatever (b) whoever (c) whomever (d) None of these

Synonym [the nearest one]

27##EMANCIPATE 1) LIFT 2) RISE 3) RAISE 4) LIBERATE

28##FORSWEAR 1) SWEAR 2) OATH 3) ABUSE 4) FORSAKE

Antonym [the nearest one]

29##TREACHERY 1) BETRAYAL 2) MULING 3) LOYALTY 4) REBELLION

30##INCLEMENT 1) RADICAL 2) MILD 3) HARSH 4) TYRANNICAL

Idioms/ phrases:

31##Wet behind the ears

1) Skillful 2) Young and rich with experience 3) Young and without much experience 4) Hearing impaired

32##Under a cloud

1) Sheltered from the sun 2) Under suspicion 3) Out in the open 4) Get wet

33##Get the sack

1) Look for a sack 2) Find a sack 3) Get a call back 4) Be dismissed

34##What kind of noun is ‘Darkness’?