English Practise Questions
1.If the singer's critics had not judged her hit song to be more the result of good fortune than of talent, her second album might have been met with widespread ___________rather than with just guarded anticipation.
(a)Ambivalence (b)Ridicule (c) Anger (d) Enthusiasm (e) Eloquence.
2.Through concern about the environment impact of the proposed nuclear waste dump was initially thought to be purely__________________matter,a poll showed that opposition to the plant was ____________,with overwhelming majorities objecting to the plan in cities hundreds of miles away.
(a) Parochial......Widespread (b) Inclusive...replete (c)Expansion...confined (d)Similar...Fundamental.
3.A piece of Legislation is considered ____________ when it is supported by some members of both parties.
(a) Indifferent (b) Biased (c) bipartisan (d) Prudent (e) Lackadaisical.
4.Art historians and the public alike find the Mona Lisa to be ___________ painting; the woman's smile ,at once playful and poignant,seems to defy understanding
(a) An erratic (b) an illusion (c) an enigmatic (d) a distinguished (e) a vulgar.
5.French government officials declined to __________ the military records of officers who served in Vietnam,a move supported by a public that believed that such files,far from being ______________ administrative documents,were critical elements of the country's political history.
(a) Suppose...national (b) expunge...trivial (c) assimilate...banal (d) ignore...foreign (e) idealize...prosaic
6.The teacher told the students to ___________ the book,as the exam would require knowledge of the most minute details.
(a) peruse (b) conceal (c) discover (d) enlarge (e) demolish
7.Olivia toiled the labored for weeks,but all her _________came to nothing when the assignment was cancelled at the last minute.
(a) gibberings (b) travails (c) misappropriations (d) idolatries (e) alliterations
8.The little island hut seemed utterly derelict; like-wise,the village surrounding the hut also appeared to be __________,
(a) peaceful (b) thriving (c) uninhabited (d) tropical (e) dangerous.
9.The researcher hoped that the controversy could be settled on the basis of ________facts and not on anecdotes.
(a)comprehensive....humorous (b) objective...biased (c) lucid...Modest (d) idealized.....whimsical
(e) reprehensible....heinous.
10.According to the legend, Romulus and Remus, the founder of Rome , were ___________ children ,raised in the wild by a wolf.
(a) dogged (b) idle (c) jaded (d) feral (e) prodigal.
11.Always looking for new species of insects,the entomologist was as ________________to explore the Amazon as her armchair-scientist peers were to __________it.
(a) eager.....inure (b) enthusiastic....entreat (c) egregious.....circumvent (d)insolent....pervade
(e) fervent....eschew.
12. The prejudice of the reporter's article helped to ___________and suppress many facts crucial to the criminal investigation.
(a) distend (b) buttress (c) engender (d) obfuscate (e) transcribe .
13.Although investors hope that petroleum costs will ________as economic and political order is restored to oil-producing regions, in the light of recent military actions, prices will likely remain________________.
(a) increase....minuscule (b) escalate ....meager (c) normalize....volatile (d) flag...nascent (e) spike....ossified
14.The environmental organization disagreed with David's unsound proposal to use the local river as a dumping site for the chemical plant he managed; it claimed that his proposal would case _________of the local drinking water.
(a) a dispersal (b) a purification (c) a contamination (d) an enforcement (e) a polarization .
15. To show them how to recognize when a thunderstorm was _____________ and would soon strike, Mrs Hauser taught her sixth-grade science students to spot cumulonimbus clouds, or thunder heads.
(a) volube (b) imminent (c) saturating (d) mercurial (e) perilous.
16. The class thought the new student was _____: her haughty and dismissive attitude made many of her classmates angry.
(a) opulent (b) conceded (c) arrogant (d) ominous (e) agile .
17. When Helena won the worst dressed award at the halloween party , she was utterly ____, because she hadn't even worn a costume.
(a) attired (b) incompetent (c) obscured (d) mortified (e) rambunctious
18.Reacting to Ace Chemical Company's several decade of _______ dumping industrial waste into Onondaga lake, the government has ordered a clean up of the lake : however ,company executives counter that the __________ costs of a thorough clean up will bankrupt them.
(a) imprecise.....fiscal (b) molecular .......excessive (c) volatile.......pecuniary (d) unconscionable.......remunerative (e) indiscriminate.....exorbitant.
19.Despite mounting evidence that the researcher's findings were faked,the researcher himself staunchly ______such claims.
(a) verified (b) repudiated (c) disseminated (d) embellished (e) insinuated.
Answers to the above Questions:-
1.d
2.a
3.c
4.c
5.b
6.a
7.b
8.c
9.b
10.d
11.e
12.d
13.c
14.c
15.b
16.c
17.d
18.e
19.b
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