Explore topic-wise MCQs in Competitive English.

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3351.

Q: A government by officials.

A. Oligarchy
B. Aristocracy
C. Plutocracy
D. Bureaucracy
Answer» E.
3352.

Q: A good sportsman cannot afford to have a fit of the blues before the game.

A. stimulants
B. entertainment
C. steroids or drugs
D. depression
Answer» E.
3353.

Q: A girl must be gracious (A) / if she wishes (B)/ to be a ballerina.(C)/No error(D).

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Answer» B. B
3354.

Q: In the questions, the sentence is split into four parts and named A, B, C and D. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence and find out which of the four combinations is correct. A get some peace(A)/ he left home(B)/ his parents could (C)/ in order that(D)

A. DCAB
B. ADCB
C. BDCA
D. CBDA
Answer» D. CBDA
3355.

Q: A gentle song sung to put a child to sleep.

A. Lullaby
B. Lyre
C. Lyric
D. Laurel
Answer» B. Lyre
3356.

Q: (1)........( A ) futility ( B ) consistency ( C ) hostility ( D ) intimacy

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Answer» D. D
3357.

Q: Select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase. A funeral poem

A. Elegy
B. Pandemonium
C. Parody
D. Sonnet
Answer» B. Pandemonium
3358.

Q: A fourteen- line poem

A. sonnet
B. ballad
C. lyric
D. ode
Answer» B. ballad
3359.

Q: ( A ) fraud ( B ) barbarous ( C ) guilty ( D ) civilized

A. A - C
B. A - B
C. B - D
D. A - D
E. C - D
Answer» D. A - D
3360.

Q: A formal resignation and renunciation of powers

A. Regalia
B. Axiom
C. Abdication
D. Fauna
Answer» D. Fauna
3361.

Q: A fortnight after he was convicted for the rape and murder of his classmate, the Delhi High Court sentenced him to death on Monday.

A. A fortnight after he was convicted for the rape and murder of his classmate he was sentenced to death by Delhi High Court on Monday
B. A fortnight after he has been convicted for the rape and murder of his classmate he was sentenced to death by the Delhi High Court on Monday
C. A fortnight after he had been convicted for the rape and murder of his classmate he had been sentenced to death by the Delhi High Court on Monday
D. A fortnight after he was convicted for the rape and murder of his classmate he has been sentenced to death by the Delhi High Court on Monday
Answer» B. A fortnight after he has been convicted for the rape and murder of his classmate he was sentenced to death by the Delhi High Court on Monday
3362.

Q: A foreigner who settles in a country-

A. Immigrant
B. Emigrant
C. Alien
D. Visitor
Answer» B. Emigrant
3363.

Q:  A foolish person-

A. Smasher
B. Waif
C. Simpleton
D. Invalid
Answer» D. Invalid
3364.

Q: In the following passage some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternative given. Mark your answer in the Answer sheet.Mass communication is the delivery of _____ (1) _____, ideas and entertainment to thousands or million of _____. (2) _____ simultaneously, it is a force with incalculable _____ (3) _____ on today's world. The _____ (4) _____ of mass  communication rest _____ (5) _____ the skills of the communicator to _____ (6) _____ the recipient's thinking _____ (7) _____ stir emotions , to _____ (8) _____ him or her to _____ (9) _____ Mass communication is the one - to - one impact of one human intelligence upon _____ (10) _____, carried on thousand fold simultaneously among individuals who have no direct personal contact. Fill in the blank at (7)?

A. for
B. to
C. with
D. from
Answer» C. with
3365.

Q: (A) fearful (B) beautiful ( C ) hostile ( D ) amicable

A. B - D
B. C - D
C. A - B
D. B - C
E. A - D
Answer» C. A - B
3366.

Q: Direction: Use the verbs given in brackets either in Active or Passive according to sense of the given sentence.A fair……every year in our village on the occasion of Holi. (hold)

A. was hold
B. was held
C. is held
D. is hold
Answer» D. is hold
3367.

Q: A fair……every year in our village on the occasion of Holi. (hold)

A. was hold
B. was held
C. is held
D. is hold
Answer» D. is hold
3368.

Q: (A) explicit (B) cautious (C) introvert (D) clear

A. A - B
B. B - D
C. A - C
D. A - D
E. C - D
Answer» E. C - D
3369.

Q: In the following passage some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternative given. Mark your answer in the Answer sheet.Mass communication is the delivery of _____ (1) _____, ideas and entertainment to thousands or million of _____. (2) _____ simultaneously, it is a force with incalculable _____ (3) _____ on today's world. The _____ (4) _____ of mass  communication rest _____ (5) _____ the skills of the communicator to _____ (6) _____ the recipient's thinking _____ (7) _____ stir emotions , to _____ (8) _____ him or her to _____ (9) _____ Mass communication is the one - to - one impact of one human intelligence upon _____ (10) _____, carried on thousand fold simultaneously among individuals who have no direct personal contact. Fill in the blank at (8)?

A. encourage
B. persuade
C. discourage
D. endanger
Answer» B. persuade
3370.

Q: In the following passage some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternative given. Mark your answer in the Answer sheet.Mass communication is the delivery of _____ (1) _____, ideas and entertainment to thousands or million of _____. (2) _____ simultaneously, it is a force with incalculable _____ (3) _____ on today's world. The _____ (4) _____ of mass  communication rest _____ (5) _____ the skills of the communicator to _____ (6) _____ the recipient's thinking _____ (7) _____ stir emotions , to _____ (8) _____ him or her to _____ (9) _____ Mass communication is the one - to - one impact of one human intelligence upon _____ (10) _____, carried on thousand fold simultaneously among individuals who have no direct personal contact. Fill in the blank at (4) ?

A. dynamism
B. force
C. success
D. power
Answer» D. power
3371.

Q: A displayed sheet giving news or information is called

A. an office order
B. a note sheet
C. a notice
D. a report
Answer» D. a report
3372.

Q: In the following passage some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternative given. Mark your answer in the Answer sheet.Mass communication is the delivery of _____ (1) _____, ideas and entertainment to thousands or million of _____. (2) _____ simultaneously, it is a force with incalculable _____ (3) _____ on today's world. The _____ (4) _____ of mass  communication rest _____ (5) _____ the skills of the communicator to _____ (6) _____ the recipient's thinking _____ (7) _____ stir emotions , to _____ (8) _____ him or her to _____ (9) _____ Mass communication is the one - to - one impact of one human intelligence upon _____ (10) _____, carried on thousand fold simultaneously among individuals who have no direct personal contact. Fill in the blank at (9)?

A. direction
B. function
C. action
D. mission
Answer» D. mission
3373.

Q: A difficult or unpleasant situation is known as:

A. Liberty
B. Facility
C. Mystery
D. Adversity
Answer» E.
3374.

Q: A decision which cannot be taken back

A. irrevocable
B. infallible
C. irrational
D. indelible
Answer» B. infallible
3375.

Q: a damp squib

A. a skirt in a laundry
B. rainy weather
C. a disappointing result
D. none of the above
Answer» D. none of the above
3376.

Q: Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.A. Creating a relaxing bedroom environment is very important too, and this can be done using a calming, subtle fragrance.B. It is possible to retrain your brain to have a sound sleep.C. This is possible if you make sure your room is undisturbed, quiet and dark.D. Start by regulating the times you go to bed and get up.

A. BCAD
B. BDCA
C. DACB
D. ADBC
Answer» C. DACB
3377.

Q: (A) corruption employees (B) facing criminal or (C) government cases are under a (D)scanner of the Modi (E) administration.

A. (D) – (E)
B. (B) – (E)
C. (A) - (B) and (C) and (D)
D. (A) – (C)
E. No interchange required
Answer» F.
3378.

Q: Direction: Four words are given, out of which only one word is spelt correctly. Choose the correctly spelt word.

A. Connossieur
B. Connosseiur
C. Conniosseur
D. Connoisseur
Answer» E.
3379.

Q: In each of the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate words (s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate your choice for the correct answer.Google is one of the most popular search engines, it is . . . . . . . . . by the internet users.

A. utilized
B. effected
C. examined
D. flabbergasted
Answer» B. effected
3380.

Q: A committee, chaired by Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan, has ______ wildlife clearance to the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highspeed train corridor that ______upon a flamingo sanctuary and the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, home to leopards, in Mumbai. Column I                                              Column IIA. Alienated                                       D. EncroachesB. Estranged                                       E. RepelledC. Accorded                                        F. Admonish

A. A-F
B. B-D and A-E
C. C-F
D. C-D
E. B-E
Answer» E. B-E
3381.

Q: A collection of poems.

A. Oncology
B. Pedology
C. Pathology
D. Anthology
Answer» E.
3382.

Q: Directions (85): In questions given below, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people

A. Psephologist
B. Sculptor
C. Zoology
D. Archives
Answer» E.
3383.

Q: A child secretly changed for another in infancy

A. Nipper
B. Tiddler
C. Changeling
D. Tyke
Answer» D. Tyke
3384.

Q: (A) Chennai was worst effected by the floods.(B) Chennai was the worst affected by the floods. (C) Chennai was worst affective by the floods. (D) Chennai was the worst effective by the floods.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Answer» C. C
3385.

Q: (A) caused by his non-stop consumption of chivalric romance. (B)/ a country gentleman whose limited estate has been eaten away by (C)/ proudly wears the basin that he has claimed from a bewildered barber as Mambrino’s helmet (D)/ The book tells the story of Alonso Quijano, (E)/ the costs to both his purse and mental stability

A. BDEA
B. DBAE
C. DBEC
D. None of these
E. No correction required
Answer» E. No correction required
3386.

Q: Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options pick the one that gives their correct order.A. But after a while they all began to blur in our memories.B. When we arrived in Bangkok, we took a tour of the city's famous Buddhist temples.C. However there was one temple, the Temple of Golden Buddha, which left an indelible impression in our hearts and minds.D. We visited numerous temples that day.

A. BACD
B. DCBA
C. ADBC
D. BDAC
Answer» E.
3387.

Q: A building where dead bodies are kept

A. Aviary
B. Hospital
C. Zoo
D. Mortuary
Answer» E.
3388.

Q: A big crowd chased him and later the police arrested him.

A. He was chased by a big crowd and later arrested by the police.
B. He was chased by a big crowd and later arrested by the police.
C. He was chased by a big crowd and later the police arrested him.
D. He was chased by a big crowd and was later arrested by the police.
Answer» E.
3389.

Q: (D).

A. carried
B. expected
C. banked
D. traded
Answer» B. expected
3390.

Q: Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given option pick the one that gives their correct order.A. At this speed the rocket soon attained the height of 190 miles above the earth.B. At 9 am the great rocket lifted in the air with a mighty roar.C. It rose smoothly at first, then quickened to a speed of 17,500 miles an hour.D. Gagarin now pulled himself towards the window to look down.

A. BCAD
B. BADC
C. ADBC
D. CBAD
Answer» B. BADC
3391.

Q: In the following passage some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternative given. Mark your answer in the Answer sheet.Mass communication is the delivery of _____ (1) _____, ideas and entertainment to thousands or million of _____. (2) _____ simultaneously, it is a force with incalculable _____ (3) _____ on today's world. The _____ (4) _____ of mass  communication rest _____ (5) _____ the skills of the communicator to _____ (6) _____ the recipient's thinking _____ (7) _____ stir emotions , to _____ (8) _____ him or her to _____ (9) _____ Mass communication is the one - to - one impact of one human intelligence upon _____ (10) _____, carried on thousand fold simultaneously among individuals who have no direct personal contact. Fill in the blank at (10)?

A. another
B. people
C. man
D. women
Answer» B. people
3392.

Q: (A) And students aged 6 to 17 spend at least three hours a day (B)/ For children as young as 10 years old (C)/ According to a recent survey commissioned by HP and conducted by Wakefield Research, (D)/ On devices with Internet access (E)/ computers become a significant part of homework assignments

A. CBED
B. CBAD
C. BCAE
D. None of these
E. No correction required
Answer» E. No correction required
3393.

Q: (A) and burning with resentment against his "oppressors," (B)/ Beginning with the assumption that the negro (C)/ they attempted to bridge the gap of centuries in a generation. (D) whites who held themselves apart were enemies to the blacks (E)/ was equal or superior to the white in natural endowment

A. BDEC
B. CDEA
C. BEAC
D. None of these
E. No correction required
Answer» D. None of these
3394.

Q: Given below are four jumbled sentences.Select the option that gives their correct order.A. An environmental group performed a necropsy on the animal and found about 40 kilograms of plastic, including grocery bags and rice sacks.B. A 4.7-metre long whale died on Saturday in Philippines where it was stranded a day earlier.C. "It's very disgusting and heartbreaking," he said. "We've done necropsies on 61 dolphins and whales in the last 10 years and this is one of the biggest amounts of plastic we've seen."D. "The animal died from starvation and was unable to eat because of the trash filling its stomach," said Darrell Blatchley, Director of D' Bone Collector Museum Inc..

A. BACD
B. ABCD
C. DABC
D. BADC
Answer» E.
3395.

Q: (A) And although there is great interest among intellectual historians today in (B)/ No major study has focused on the visual documents integral to this epistemic shift (C)/ Even though the philosophical visualizations of Meurisse, Chéron, and Gaultier had (D)/ challenges to Aristotelian orthodoxies during the “scientific revolution”, (E)/ An international reputation in the early modern period, they have since been largely forgotten,

A. DAEB
B. CAED
C. CBEA
D. None of these
E. No correction required
Answer» F.
3396.

Q: Four words are given, out of which only one word is spelt correctly. Choose the correctly spelt word.

A. Adjournment
B. Adjourmant
C. Ajournment
D. Ajornment
Answer» B. Adjourmant
3397.

Q: In the following passage some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternative given. Mark your answer in the Answer sheet.Mass communication is the delivery of _____ (1) _____, ideas and entertainment to thousands or million of _____. (2) _____ simultaneously, it is a force with incalculable _____ (3) _____ on today's world. The _____ (4) _____ of mass  communication rest _____ (5) _____ the skills of the communicator to _____ (6) _____ the recipient's thinking _____ (7) _____ stir emotions , to _____ (8) _____ him or her to _____ (9) _____ Mass communication is the one - to - one impact of one human intelligence upon _____ (10) _____, carried on thousand fold simultaneously among individuals who have no direct personal contact. Fill in the blank at (5)?

A. against
B. under
C. to
D. upon
Answer» E.
3398.

Q: (A).

A. Developed
B. Developing
C. Advanced
D. Advancing
Answer» C. Advanced
3399.

Q: (A) A number of students is absent today. (B) A number of students are being absent today. (C) A number of students are absent today. (D) A number of students been absent today.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Answer» D. D
3400.

Q: A 2011 study in Maharashtra showed that moving leopards from one region to another to reduce attacks on___________only increased attacks on humans, To translocate a tiger in response to man-eating behaviour is___________.

A. chaser, moisturizes
B. ward, rigid
C. custodian, defense
D. livestock ,absurd
E. None of these
Answer» E. None of these