Mock Test of 20 Important English Questions LDC Main / Degree Level Prelims

1. Thirty three percent of the seats are set apart for woman.(The meaning of the underlined words).

A) taken

B) paid

C) settled

D) reserved

2. Which word is wrongly spelt?

A) insistance

B) resistance

C) existence

D) reverence

3. _____ of those people have you met before?

A) How often

B) How much

C) How many

D) How long

4. He insists ___ leaving immediately.

A) at

B) with

C) in

D) on

5. Choose the word opposite to the noun ‘Balance’:

A) Unbalance

B) non-balance

C) Imbalance

D) Misbalance

6. I didn’t watch the news on television. But I heard it ___ the radio.

A) on

B) in

C) by with

D) with

7. One who eats too much:

A) Greedy

B) Glutton

C) Gourmet

D) Turncoat

8. Let Indrani and ____ try their luck.

A) his

B) he

C) himself

D) him

9. Camels are peculiarly adapted ___ life in desert.

A) for

B) by

C) to

D) in

10. The synonym of ‘SUCCULENT’:

A) Anxious

B) Juicy

C) Wicked

D) Concise

11. The meaning of ‘Hiatus’:

A) Nothingness

B) Absence

C) Gap

D) Emptiness

12. It is ......... honourable act from ....... European gentleman.

A) a, an

B) an, an

C) a, a

D) an, a

13. Every paisa should be accounted ____.

A) by

B) for

C) on

D) against

14. The word ‘Hilarious’ means:

A) Very angry

B) Very hungry

C) Very funny

D) Very jealousy

15. It _____ (stop) raining for a while, but now it is raining again. (Use the correct form of verb).

A) stopped

B) stops

C) is stopping

D) was stopping

16. We must ____ to the authority.

A) subdue

B) submit

C) surrender

D) bend

17. Security arrangements have been tightened up in all _____ areas.

A) sensible

B) sensational

C) sensual

D) sensitive

18. Sulphur dioxide is composed _____ sulphur and oxygen.

A) of

B) from

C) to

D) with

19. We shall not go for the movie if it ____ raining. 

A) has

B) is

C) had been

D) was

20. My friend ______ for me when I arrived.

A) has been waiting

B) has waited

C) was waiting

D) waited

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