Answers, Quiz no.783

 The lockdown

Quiz no.783

Total questions= 25

Total marks= 25

Negative mark= -.25

Cut off= 70%

Time= 10 min

Pool= 30 points

Cap= 10 points

Improve the bracketed part:

1. Finding fault with others is the business of those who [do not have nothing else] to do. 

(A) No improvement 

(B) do not have else nothing

(C) have nothing else =Answer

(D) do have nothing else

Improve the bracketed part:

2. [What did happen] there is not something that agitates me. 

(A) What does happen 

(B) What happened =Answer

(C) No improvement 

(D) What should have happened

Improve the bracketed part:

3. They have [not only troubled us with] their erratic behaviours but also with unnecessary disturbances. 

(A) not only troubled us by 

(B) No improvement 

(C) troubled us not only with =Answer

(D) troubled not only to us with

Improve the bracketed part:

4. It was [them who had left before I arrived]. 

(A) No improvement

(B) they who had left before I had arrived 

(C) they who had left before I arrived =Answer

(D) them who had leave before my arrival

Choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word:

5. Wayward= (A) Wounded (B) Sufficient (C) Obstinate (D) Consent =Answer= c

6. Disconsolate= (A) Enchantment (B) Miserable (C) Cheerful (D) Proclivity =Answer= b 

7. Exult= (A) Proof (B) Enquiry (C) Invent (D) Delight =Answer= d

Choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word:

8. Dauntless= (A) Unfamiliar (B) Hypocrite (C) Coward (D) Unfriendly =Answer= c

9. Concluding= (A) Boredom (B) Sticky (C) Starting (D) Activity =Answer= c

One word substitution:

10.One who is recovering from illness- 1Concluding 2Convalescent 3Conjecture 4Convulsement  =Answer= 2

11.To go down in value- 1Delineate 2Desperate 3Dandy 4Depreciate =Answer= 4

12.A stanza having two lines in verse- 1Couplet 2Sonnet 3Poetry 4Versus =Answer= 1

Idioms/ phrases:

13.Weigh anchor- 1Judgment 2Prepare to sail again 3Show power 4Do something difficult =Answer= 2

14.In the dumps-1Lying in garbage 2In trouble 3In low spirits 4Speechless =Answer= 3

15.Beat neck and crop- 1Usually 2Rarely 3Completely 4Properly =Answer= 3

16.Give a piece of mind- 1 Open a secret 2Scold 3Praise 4A bit of fun =Answer= 2

17.Through thick and thin- 1By hook or by crook 2Under any circumstances 3All set 4Every time =Answer= 2

18. Voice:

What did you do yesterday?

a. What was done the previous day by you?

b. What had been done yesterday by you?

c. What was done yesterday by you? =Answer

d. What had done yesterday by you?

19. Narration:

She said to me, ''Bring me some food.''

a. She asked me to bring me some food.

b. She asked to me to bring her some food.

c. She requested me to brought her some food.

d. She asked me to bring her some food. =Answer

Find the correctly spelt word: 

20. (A) labyrinth (B) labirynth (C) labirynth (D) laberynth =Answer= a

21. (A) symetry (B) symmetry (C) symmetery (B) symatry =Answer= b

Fill in the blanks:

22. The girl was full of _______  for the new building.

(A) admired (B) admiring (C) admirably (D) admiration =Answer= d

23. The leader _______ publicly for his actions.

(A) apologise (B) apologised (C) apologetic (D) apologising =Answer= b

24. The girl is _______ her action on moral grounds.

(A) justiced (B) justify (C) justified (D) justifying =Answer= d

25. She has firm _______ in herself. 

(A) belief (B) believed (C) believing (D) believes =Answer= a