Answers, Quiz no.795

The lockdown

Quiz no.795

Total questions= 25

Total marks= 25

Time= 15 min.

Negative mark= -.25

Fill in:

##1.My sister unlike my brothers __________ to have a career in engineering.   

1) ✅wants 2) want 3) is wishing 4) are aspiring

##2.My father did not approve ______ the plan of travelling to Uttarakhand because of bad weather there.  

1) ✅of 2) one 3) to 4) with  

##3. If I don't drink tea in the morning, I ............................. sleepy.

1) feels 2) ✅will feel 3) would feel 4) would have felt

##4. If she arrived, we ......................... her with open arms.

1) will receive 2) ✅would receive 3) would have received 4) receive

5. Narration:

Sheela said to me,"I can come tonight."

1) Sheela told me that she could come that night.✅

2) Sheela told me that she can come that night.

3) Sheela told to me that she could come that night.

4) Sheela told me that she could come tonight.

6. Narration:

The teacher said to Rohan, ''Congratulations! You have won the first prize.

1)The teacher told Rohan that he had won the first prize.

2)The teacher congratulated Rohan for winning the first prize.

3)The teacher told Rohan that he won the first prize.

4)The teacher congratulated Rohan on winning the first prize.✅

Find the synonyms:

7. Phonetic 1) Mute 2) Reticent 3) Silent 4) ✅Spoken

8. Astound 1) ✅To Bewilder 2) To Tranquil 3) To Placid 4) To Serene

9. Ravine 1) Lucid 2) Patent 3) ✅Abyss 4) Palpable

10. Realm 1) Veracity 2) Abjure 3) Lead 4) ✅Region

Find the antonyms:

11. Disdain 1) Antipathy 2) ✅Admiration 3) Derision 4) Scorn

12. Canonical 1) Approved 2) Official 3) Sanctioned 4) ✅Unorthodox

13. Rebuff 1) Rebuke 2) Snub 3) Nix 4) ✅Extol

14. Recede 1) Ebb 2) Fade 3) ✅Extend 4) Wane

15. Rearrangement:

Three times this was

X-only be compared to the deepest notes of thunder

Y-shook with the noise, that can 

Z-repeated, and each time the earth

1) ZXY 2) YZX 3) ✅ZYX 4) YXZ

Improved the bracketed part

16. She was uneasy because she (never be) on a plane before.

1) ✅had never been 2) never been 3) is never been 4) no improvement

17. No one knows how he escaped (dash) to pieces.

1) being dash 2) ✅being dashed 3) dashed 4) no improvement

Select the correctly spelt word.

18. 1) Threashing 2) Thrasheing 3) Threasheing 4) ✅Thrashing

19. 1) Conssensus 2) Consenssus 3) ✅Consensus 4) Conssenssus

20. 1) castegated 2) ✅castigated 3) castigutted 4) casttigated

Idioms/ phrases:

21. A passenger in a car who keeps giving the driver advice that he or she has not asked for- 

1✅backseat driver 2frontseat driver 3window driver 4backseat passenger

22. A dishonest or ill-behaved person.- 

1a cracked egg 2a large egg 3a brown egg 4✅a bad egg

23. Formidably armed- 

1armed to the guns 2✅armed to the teeth 3armed to the feet 4armed from head to feet

24. At the first glimpse or impression- 

1at first brush 2✅at first blush 3at first flush 4at first crush

25. Very silly or foolish- 

1✅as daft as a brush 2as daft as a tooth-brush 3as daft as a crush 4as daft as a flush