CM- 21

1. Spot the error: (Previous paper, Year ****)

Need you to buy so many books?

1. so many books?

2. Need you

3. to buy

4. No error

2. Fill in: (Previous paper, Year ****)

They postponed ______ on vacation due to adverse weather conditions.

1. to be gone

2. going

3. for going

4. to go

3. Find the synonym: (Previous paper, Year ****)

FATIGUE

1. liveliness

2. weariness

3. earnestness

4. freshness

4. Find the antonym: (Previous paper, Year ****)

PERTURB

1. Fluster

2. Soothe

3. Confound

4. Commend

5. Rearrangement: (Previous paper, Year ****)

We should learn our lesson

P: from this history and stay away

Q: of our neighbours

R: from interfering in the messy domestic politics

(a) PRQ

(b) PQR

(c) QPR

(d) RPQ

6. Voice: (Previous paper, Year ****)

Call in the next candidate.

a.Let the next candidate be call.

b.Call the next candidate.

c.Let the next candidate called.

d.Let the next candidate be called in.

7. Narration: 

David said, “I passed the exam two years ago”.

a.David said that he had passed the exam two years ago.

b.David said that he passed the exam two years before.

c.David said that he had passed the exam two years before.

d.David had said that he had passed the exam two years before.

8. Give one word: (Previous paper, Year ****)

A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing his feelings or

complaining

1. stoic

2. agnostic

3. ascetic

4. pedant

9. Identify the meaning of the bracketed idiom: (Previous paper, Year ****)

In spite of the high sounding words, his speech (fell flat) on the audience.

1. impressed a lot

2. appealed to the sentiments of the audience

3. could not be heard clearly

4. failed to make an impact

10. Find the incorrectly spelt word: 

a) acquiesce

b) acquittal

c) acquatic

d) acquire