Free English Quiz For Railways Exam NTPC & Group D
This English Quiz contains 10 questions on Sentence Improvement, and 5 questions on Idioms and Phrases and both the topics are very important for competitive exams like SSC, Banking and insurance exams.
Directions (1-10): Sentence Improvement. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is (d).
Q1. Unless the Pakistani government does not demolish the terrorists’ training camp, there can be no peace in the region.
(a) Do not demolish
(b) Demolishes
(c) Will not demolish
(d) No improvement
Q2. In international and national affairs, it is tolerance and not love that is of supreme importance.
(a) Material
(b) Prospective
(c) Perspective
(d) No improvement
Q3. He has seen many ups and downs in life but he has never been as much dejected as he is today.
(a) That much dejected
(b) So much in dejection
(c) So dejected
(d) No improvement
Q4. Socrates had many disciples and the most great of them was Plato.
(a) The greater
(b) The greatest
(c) Greatest
(d) No improvement
Q5. Neither the judge nor I am ready to announce who is the winner.
(a) Am ready to announce who the winner is
(b) Are ready to announce who the winner is
(c) is ready to announce who is the winner
(d) No improvement
Q6. The crowd was anomalous but orderly.
(a) Clamorous
(b) Indiscipline
(c) Uncontrollable
(d) No improvement
Q7. No sooner had I entered the house when the lights went out.
(a) Than
(b) Then
(c) And
(d) No improvement
Q8. The lawyer often anticipated arguments.
(a) Solved
(b) Lost
(c) Started
(d) No improvement
Q9. After adequate deliberations, the council can see scarcely any valid reason for its reviewing the request.
(a) Cannot see scarcely and valid reason for its
(b) Can see scarcely any valid reason for its
(c) Can scarcely see any valid reason for its
(d) No improvement
Q10. The Vice Principal decided to resign when he was passed over for promotion to Principal.
(a) Passed by
(b) Passed off
(c) Passed out
(d) No improvement
Directions (11-15): Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase BOLD in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase and mark it in the Answer sheet.
Q11. Mr. Narayan is eighty-eight, but he is as fit as a fiddle.
(a) As sham as a fiddle
(b) Good at fitting up fiddles
(c) Extremely healthy
(d) Of the fiddling type
Q12. Old head on young shoulders
(a) To be intelligent when old
(b) To be old and yet look young
(c) To be wise beyond his years
(d) To be less smart
Q13. In a nutshell
(a) Angrily
(b) Causally
(c) Writing
(d) Brief
Q14. She cut a sorry figure in her first performance on the stage.
(a) To perform badly and failed
(b) Cut a cake
(c) Did not attend the function
(d) Performed a brilliant role
Q15. To give so much importance to this dispute is to make a mountain of a molehill.
(a) To take advantage
(b) To give great importance to trifles
(c) To see a thing with prejudiced mind
(d) To get into trouble
SOLUTIONS:-
Sol 1. (b)
Sol 2. (d)
Sol 3. (c)
Sol 4. (b)
Sol 5. (a)
Sol 6. (a)
Sol 7. (a)
Sol 8. (c)
Sol 9. (c)
Sol 10. (d)
Sol 11. (c)
Sol 12. (c)
Sol 13. (d)
Sol 14. (a)
Sol 15. (b)
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