T20- 2

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

Opening the door of the cage means free for the bird.    

1. means free

2. for the bird

3. of the cage

4. Opening the door

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

The old woman walked carefully with her heavy load ______ she should fall.    

1. lest

2. although

3. unless

4. until

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

DEFECT    

1. fact

2. flaw

3. care

4. sound

4. Find the antonym:

 (Previous paper, Year ****)

RETRIEVE    

1. damage

2. assist

3. protect

4. restore

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

A. I knew it had not been a good idea to invite Vandana home.

B. And, I wasn’t particularly keen to reveal my whole life to her.

C. As soon as she entered my room, she zoomed in on the collage on the wall.

D. The collage was actually my life in pictures.    

1. ACBD

2. ADBC

3. ABDC

4. ACDB

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

Where have those important documents been hidden by you?    

1. Where do you hide those important documents?

2. Where did you hide those important documents?

3. Where have you hidden those important documents?

4. Where have you hiding those important documents?

7. Narration: (Previous paper, Year ****)

Shilpi requested her father to let her join the school trip to Ooty the following week.   

1. Shilpi said to her father, “Please let me join the school trip to Ooty next week.”

2. Shilpi said to her father, “Will you let me join the school trip to Ooty the following week?”

3. Shilpi said to her father, “Please let me to join the school trip to Ooty the following week.”

4. Shilpi said to her father, “I want to join the school trip to Ooty next week.”

8. Choose the correct meaning of the bracketed idiom: (Previous paper, Year ****)

If you are not careful, your business will (go to the dogs.)

1. be successful

2. be taken over

3. be profitable

4. be ruined

9. Improve the bracketed part: (Previous paper, Year ****)

This plan is (going to benefit certainly) all of us.    

1. No substitution

2. certainly going to benefit

3. going certainly benefit to

4. going benefit certainly to

10. Find the correctly spelt word: 

1. diarrhia 

2. omellete 

3. shampain

4. vacuum

11. What is the plural form of "Half".

a.halfs / b.haves / c.half / d.halves

12. What is the feminine gender of "tiger".

a.tigeress / b.tigeres / c.tigris / d.tigress

13. Choose the correct preposition:

.......... want of money, the house was sold.

a.in / b.with / c.from / d.for

14. Choose the correct case:

If I were ............ I could answer it correctly.

a.him / b.he / c.himself / d.his

15. Choose the option expressing the meaning of the phrasal verb "Fall in with":

a.to fight / b.to fail / c.to lose money / d.to agree

16. Identify the bracketed part:

I want to go (home). 

a.noun / b.adverb / c.pronoun / d.adjective

17. Identify the figure of speech:

Mr Sharma thought that the sweets were calling him.

a.metaphor / b.oxymoron / c.hyperbole / d.personification 

18. Identify the gender:

PILOT

a.feminine / b.neuter/ c.common / d.masculine

19. Identify the sentence:

May you have a lot of money.

a.Exclamatory S/ b.Imperative S/ c.Optative S/ d.Assertive S

20. What kind of noun is "leadership"?

a.abstract / b.material / c.proper / d.common