Q.1 |
Upper-class English life in the last quarter of the seventeenth century had been characterized by artificiality in dress, manners, and conversation - an elaborate surface of formality and grace covering a certain amount of vice and a great deal of plain silliness. Generally, upper-class English people of this period probably lived ____________ |
a) | very simple lives. |
b) | very wicked lives. |
c) | very virtuous lives. |
d) | very conventional lives. |
Q.2 |
What did the dolphins do with the weakest of their community? |
a) | eat them |
b) | protect them |
c) | console them |
d) | communicate with them |
Q.3 |
Choose the correct spelling: |
a) | comitee |
b) | commitee |
c) | committee |
d) | comettee |
Q.4 |
Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the verb: The elephant _____ that he was walking over the mice. |
a) | know |
b) | will know |
c) | knewed |
d) | knew |
Q.5 |
What is the meaning of the highlighted phrase: I met him after a long time, but he gave me "the cold shoulder"? |
a) | abused me |
b) | scolded me |
c) | insulted me |
d) | ignored me |
Q.6 |
Fill in the blank with the appropriate pronoun: Henry's house is just next to _____. |
a) | I |
b) | myself |
c) | mine |
d) | my |
Q.7 |
Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the verb: When the crow dropped some pebbles into the pot, the water level in it _____. |
a) | rise |
b) | rised |
c) | rose |
d) | risen |
Q.8 |
Upper-class English life in the last quarter of the seventeenth century had been characterized by artificiality in dress, manners, and conversation - an elaborate surface of formality and grace covering a certain amount of vice and a great deal of plain silliness. The period referred to in the paragraph was criticized for- |
a) | a lack of naturalness. |
b) | not enough formality. |
c) | a lack of grace. |
d) | poor manners. |
Q.9 |
Fill in the appropriate preposition: He abdicated the throne _________ his eldest son. |
a) |
in favour the |
b) | favour of |
c) | in favour of |
d) | and the |
Q.10 |
Fill in the blank with the best choice that completes the sentence: The geocentric idea was abandoned in the seventeenth century, partly as a result of the writings of Copernicus _________ observations made by other astronomers. |
a) | and also were |
b) | not only because of |
c) | also because were |
d) | and also because of |
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Q.1 : c | Q.2 : b | Q.3 : c | Q.4 : d | Q.5 : d | Q.6 : c | Q.7 : c | Q.8 : a | Q.9 : c | Q.10 : d