English Quiz

Directions (Q.1 – Q.5): Fill in the blanks which are given in sentences by choosing the most appropriate options.

Question.1. Ms Koops found stone and wooden cleavers, as well as stone ________ used to fracture the large fruits.
1) anvils
2) brooches
3) meshes
4) holsters
5) avid

Question.2. She’s assuming I’ll never go buy new, unsatisfactory clothes on my own.

In this sentence, assuming means:
1) giving up
2) working it out
3) clamming up
4) taking for granted
5) None of these.

Question.3. “We are all less inhibited when we are not there, when we are not elected,” says Republican Pete Domenici, who retired last year after a 36-year career as a New Mexico senator that included several important bipartisan accomplishments.

In this sentence, inhibited means:
1) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
2) represent visually by plotting quantities
3) prepare or cook by mixing ingredients
4) control and refrain from showing
5) None of these

Question.4. And yet the men, in private life, are ________ and respectable; not cruel, but mild and merciful.
1) unconscious
2) virtuous
3) magnified
4) fortified
5) feeble

Question.5. He also pointed out that inducing labor in the 37th or 38th week increases the chances that a woman will end up needing a C-section — since the cervix may not be ready to fully ________ at that point in pregnancy.
1) pry
2) dilate
3) dub
4) emulate
5) entice

Directions (Q. 6-10) Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) to make a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions which follow.

A) At least two “piles” of rock the size of continents are crashing together as they shift at the bottom of Earth’s mantle, 2,900 km beneath the Pacific Ocean, researchers say.
B) This “super volcano”, seismologists believe, is due to erupt in 200 million years’ time.
C) “What we may be detecting is the start of one of these large eruptive events that — if it ever happens — could cause very massive destruction on Earth,” said the seismologist Michael Thorne.
D) Life on Earth could be facing threat from a catastrophic “super volcano”.
E) However, disaster is not imminent. “This is the type of mechanism that may generate massive plume eruptions,” he sums up.
F) He is the study’s principal author and an assistant professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah.

Question.6. Which of the following should be the LAST of the rearrangement?
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
5) E

Question.7. Which of the following should the THIRD of the rearrangement?
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
5) E

Question.8. Which of the following should the FOURTH of the rearrangement?
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
5) E

Question.9. Which of the following should the FIRST of the rearrangement?
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
5) E

Question.10. Which of the following should the SECOND of the rearrangement?
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
5) E

Solutions ▼

Answer.1. 1; An anvil is a heavy block of iron or steel that blacksmiths use to shape metal. It’s durable enough to withstand red hot metals and repeated hammer blows, but you don’t want your foot to be under if it falls off the table.

Answer: 2; Assume isn’t only used to mean “accept as truth without checking”; it also means “take on the form of.” It might be safer if you don’t assume that the vampire standing in front of you isn’t merely a person assuming that form.

Answer.3. 4; When you inhibit something, you block it or hold it back. If you put plants in a dark room, you inhibit their growth. A teacher who mocks their students for giving wrong answers inhibits their willingness to speak up in class.

Answer.4.  Virtuous is “good” with a halo. If you call someone virtuous, you are saying that person is living according to high moral standards. Someone virtuous is who you want leading your Girl Scout troop.

Answer.5. 2; To dilate something is to make it wider. When the light fades, the pupil of your eye will dilate, meaning it looks bigger.

Answers for Question.6 – 10: The correct sequence is DBACFE. DB is a mandatory pair. ‘This ‘super volcano” refers to the ‘super volcano’ mentioned in D. A gives a general opinion of researchers and precedes C which gives the view of a specific researcher, Michael Thorne. CF is a mandatory pair since F gives the details of the researcher mentioned in C. E ends the passage by quoting what Michael Thorne said. ‘However’ is the key word here.