The lockdown
Quiz no.772
Total questions= 25
Total marks= 50
Negative mark= -.50
Cut off= 70 %
Time= 15 min
Choose the word similar in meaning:
1.Astonishment
1. Wonder -Answer
2. Composure
3. Fright
4. Expectation
Choose the word similar in meaning:
2. Pinnacle
(a) Summit -Answer
(b) Pit
(c) Capusle
(d) Heart
Choose the word similar in meaning:
3. Garble
(a) Communicate
(b) Explain
(c) Distort -Answer
(d) Hide
Choose the word opposite in meaning:
4. Seamy
(a) Unpleasant
(b) Sincere
(c) Honest
(d) Pure -Answer
Choose the word opposite in meaning:
5. Cease
(a) Confront
(b) Confiscate
(c) Abandon
(d) Initiate -Answer
Choose the word opposite in meaning:
6. Denounce
(a) Grant
(b) Praise -Answer
(c) Signify
(d) Confirm
7. Voice:
She is going to win the contest.
a. The contest has been won by her.
b. The contest is going to be won by her. -Answer
c. The contest is being won by her.
d. The contest is being won by her.
8. Narration:
He said to me, ''Conratulations, you have attained good marks.''
a. He congratulated me for attaining good marks.
b. He congratulated me on attaining good marks. -Answer
c. He congratulated me that I attained good marks.
d. He congratulated me, saying that I attain good marks.
One word substitution:
9.A state governed by old people
1. Autocracy
2. Bureaucracy
3. Democracy
4. Gerontocracy -Answer
One word substitution:
10.Obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat
1. Asphyxia
2. Anorexia -Answer
3. Pyrexia
4. Dyslexia
One word substitution:
11.A fast moving stream of water
1. Torrent -Answer
2. Quake
3. Volcano
4. Fissure
Select the most appropriate meaning of bracketed idiom in the given sentence.
12.His comments [cast a slur upon] the integrity of his manager.
1. redeemed
2. praised
3. improved
4. damaged -Answer
Select the most appropriate meaning of bracketed idiom in the given sentence.
13.If the audit report shows anomalies, the finance manager will be [brought to book.]
1. given a promotion
2. rewarded suitably
3. supported fully
4. held accountable -Answer
Select the most appropriate meaning of bracketed idiom in the given sentence.
14.If we [lay our heads together], we will surely find a solution.
1. rest for a while
2. work in consultation -Answer
3. work in isolation
4. take a break
Improve the bracketed part:
15.He turned a deaf ear [in the advice] of his parents.
1. No improvement
2. to the advice -Answer
3. at the advice
4. on the advice
Improve the bracketed part:
16.I bet you can’t beat me [by chess.]
1. No improvement
2. in the chess
3. on chess
4. at chess -Answer
Improve the bracketed part:
17.The child put a ladder [on the wall] and climbed up.
1. against the wall -Answer
2. No improvement
3. over a wall
4. above the wall
18.Rearrangement:
A. One winter evening, the tiger was very hungry as he could find nothing to hunt.
B. On the mountain lived a ferocious tiger whose roar would make every villager tremble.
C. So, he decided to creep down into the village to get something to eat.
D. There was a small, quiet village at the base of a mountain.
1. DACB
2. BCDA
3. ACBD
4. DBAC -Answer
19.Rearrangement:
A. People were driving away wild pigs from the fields by shooting at them.
B. We were passing through the sugarcane fields near Mysore.
C. We thought that the shooting was over when a sloth bear came running towards us.
D. Some got shot and others escaped.
1. CDAB
2. BADC -Answer
3. DABC
4. ACDB
Spot the error:
20.The man played the flute and led all the mouse out of the town.
1. all the mouse -Answer
2. the flute and led
3. out of the town
4. The man played
Spot the error:
21.Laws and rules are make to safeguard our rights and protect us.
1. safeguarding our rights
2. Laws and rules
3. are make to -Answer
4. and protect us
Spot the error:
22.She has been a member of this club since it’s formation.
1. a member of
2. She has been
3. since it’s formation -Answer
4. this club
Spot the error:
23.The small cafe at the end of the road is her.
1. The small cafe
2. at the end
3. of the road
4. is her -Answer
Fill in:
24.He is an honest man and his conduct is ______ suspicion.
1. over
2. below
3. above -Answer
4. against
Fill in:
25.The police will regard it as an accident ______ any evidence to the contrary is found.
1. still
2. whenever
3. otherwise
4. unless -Answer
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