Q.1 |
Choose the correct spelling: (HINT): a person who is very talkative |
a) | garrulous |
b) | garrolous |
c) | garrelous |
d) | garroulous |
Q.2 |
Fill in the blank with the appropriate adverb: I _____ received a call from my creditor. |
a) | soon |
b) | just |
c) | also |
d) | soon enough |
Q.3 |
Fill in the blank with the best choice that completes the sentence: ________, Leonardo da Vinci created the famous painting of the Mona Lisa. |
a) | Was the sixteenth-century artist |
b) | Who was a sixteenth-century artist |
c) | A sixteenth-century artist |
d) | When was a sixteenth-century artist |
Q.4 |
Fill in the blank with the appropriate conjunction: I arrived on time; _________, the others were late. |
a) | but |
b) | as |
c) | and |
d) | however |
Q.5 |
What is the antonym of "elaborate"? |
a) | intricate |
b) | simple |
c) | complicated |
d) | baffling |
Q.6 |
Fill in the blank with the appropriate adverb: He drove _____ without saying anything. |
a) | afar |
b) | away |
c) | too |
d) | fast |
Q.7 |
Fill in the blank with the appropriate preposition: We managed to do it ______ the fact that you were not there. |
a) | in spite of |
b) | though |
c) | with |
d) | and |
Q.8 |
Choose the correct spelling: (HINT): a very friendly environment |
a) | congenial |
b) | congineal |
c) | cungenial |
d) | cangenial |
Q.9 |
Fill in the appropriate verb: I _______ you tomorrow. |
a) | will meet |
b) | meet |
c) | should meet |
d) | met |
Q.10 |
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. |
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