General English for University Asst Exam
General English is an important part of University Asst examination. Study meanings, spellings, grammar, usage , pro-nouns, Correct usage of Articles – Prepositions – Direct and Indirect Speech – Active and passive Voice – Correction in Sentences – Grammar – Agreement of Subject and Verb – Confusing Adjectives and Adverbs – Comparison of Adjectives – Vocabulary – Gender – Singular and Plural – Synonyms – Antonyms – One word Substitute – Problem Concerning Words – Idioms and their Meanings- etc and its right usage to be familiar with English language to get maximum marks. Try MOCK EXAM in this platform to evaluate your test writing capacity.
1.Choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the word ‘ANCESTORS’:
(a) Extinct tribes
(b) Relatives
(c) Forefathers
(d) Old people
Answer : c
2.Choose the correct form:
(a) Aligattor
(b) Alligattor
(c) Alligator
(d) Aligator
Answer : c
3.Which of the collective nouns is not correct
(a) Loaf of bread
(b) File of papers
(c) Fleet of ships
(d) Bunch of pig
Answer : d
4.‘Bolt from the blue’ means:
(a) Colourful dress
(b) Sudden shock or surprise
(c) A gift
(d) To win a bet
Answer : b
5.A person blamed for a problem:
(a) Quack
(b) Moron
(c) Scapegoat
(d) Spinster
Answer : c
6.As the ____of four children, he suddenly became the family cook.
(a) eldest
(b) older
(c) elder
(d) oldest
Answer : a
7.In recent times, the number of smokers ____ declining.
(a)is
(b) are
(c) have
(d) has
Answer : a
8.Which is correctly spelt?
(a) Exstacy
(b)Ecstacy
(c) Ecstasy
(d) Ecstazy
Answer : c
9.‘Nefarious’ means:
(a) Glorious
(b) Wicked
(c) Aristocratic
(d) Dramatic
Answer : b
- The soldier died ___ several wounds.
(a)of
(b) from
(c) into
(d) through
Answer b
- ‘En route’ means:
(a)Totally
(b) As a whole
(c) On the way to
(d) In a body
Answer : c
- Farming is vocation. ‘Vocation’ means:
(a) Hobby
(b) Ambition
(c) Passion
(d) Occupation
Answer : d
- Dried food, hay, etc for horses and farm animals is referred to as:
(a) Fodder
(b) Salad
(c) Folder
(d) Stable
Answer : a
- Sign ___ this paper.
(a) in
(b) on
(c) at
(d) No preposition needed
Answer : d
- The idiom ‘lose heart’ means:
(a) break one’s heart
(b) lose hope
(c) fall in love
(d) weep
Answer : b
- Admitting a person to the citizenship of a state to which he does not belong:
(a) Alienation
(b) Deprivation
(c) Naturalisation
(d) Termination
Answer : c
- The baby loves ____ toys.
(a) his
b) her
(c) one’s
(d) its
Answer : d
- You are placed under suspension untill ____ orders.
(a) farther
(b) future
(c) further
(d) next
Answer : c
19. Hari’s house is bigger than ____
(a) my
(b) their
(c) our
(d) yours
Answer : d
- Pick the correctly spelt word:
(a)Cannebalism
(b) Cannebelism
(c) Cannebillism
(d) Cannibalism
Answer : d
21.The police tried ___ to catch the thief.
(a) hardly
(b) hard
(c) harder
(d) hardest
Answer : b
- I am sorry, I ___ you.
(a) disagree to
(b) am disagree
(c) disagree
(d) disagree with
Answer : d
- Which of these words wrongly spetlt?
(a) Nineteenth
(b) Ninetieth
(c) Ninety
(d) Nineth
Answer : d
24.The sound made by doves:
(a) Coo
(b) Quack
(c) Cluck
(d) Grunt
Answer : a
25.I understand ____ you want to learn English.
(a) but
(b) that
(c) because
(d) however
Answer : b
- One of my brothers is _____ minister.
(a) have
(b) are
(c) is
(d) has
Answer : c
27.I wish I _____ for the job.
(a) had applied
(b) applied
(c) have applied
(d) apply
Answer : a
28.Which is opposite in meaning to ‘Fidelity’?
(a) Disloyalty
(b) Diligent
(c) Sincerity
(d) Freud
Answer : a
29.‘Red-letter day’ means:
(a) Holiday
(b) A special day
(c) A day on which accident happened
(d) Independence day
Answer : b
30.In which part of the sentence is the is take?
(a) Everyone/
(b)of my friends/
(c)own/
(d) a car.
Answer : c
31.Give one word for ‘non professional or unpaid’:
(a) Stoic
(b) Amateur
(c) Alma mater
(d) Taciturn
Answer : b
32.Select the correctly spelt word:
(a) Eroneous
(b) Erronius
(c) Erroneous
(d) Erraneous
Answer : c
33.When I first met him, he _____ in a hotel.
(a) had been working
(b) has been working
(c) was working
(d) worked
Answer : c
34.‘To end in fiasco’ means:
(a) Complete success
(b) Complete failure
(c) Complete blunder
(d) Highly profitable
Answer : b
- ‘I bought a book’ is the active form of:
(a) A book was bought by me
(b) I was bought by a book
(c) A book has been bought
(d) A book was bought by me
Answer : d
- The idiom ‘steal the show’ means:
(a) to conceal something
(b) to go unnoticed
(c) to become successful
(d) to get the attention
Answer : d
- My friend turned a deaf ear to my tale of loss and refused to help me ( Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase underlined)
(a) Paid no heed
(b) Went faraway
(c) Listened carefully
(d) Turned his ear away
Answer : a
- Dr. Sharma concluded his speech _____ stressing Buddha’s teachings on importance of charity.
(a) by
(b) with
(c) at
(d) in
Answer : a
- ____the traffic was bad, I arrived on time.
(a) Though
(b) Because
(c) As soon as
(d) Neither
Answer : a
40.He has given up his VICIOUS habits (Select the antonym of the word given in CAPITAL letters)
(a) Godly
(b) Virtuous
(c) Sublime
(d) Friendly
Answer : b
- She ___ tomorrow to attend the wedding (Modal verb):
(a) will come
(b) comes
(c) seems to come
(d) just comes
Answer : a
- It is a ____ to meet you.
(a) pleasure
(b) pleasing
(c) please
(d) pleasurable
Answer : a
43.The meaning of ‘foe’ is:
(a) Friend
(b) Enemy
(c) Partner
(d) Neighbour
Answer : b
44.I am ____ of success this time.
(a) confidant
(b) confident
(c) confiding
(d) contriving
Answer : b
45.Agriculture has ____ most prominent place in Indian economy.
(a) a
(b) an
(c) the
(d) no article
Answer : c
46.An ____ designs the plans of buildings.
(a) artist
(b) artisan
(c) archaeologist
(d) architect
Answer : d
- I ____all the books to the library last week.
(a) have returned
(b) had returned
(c) returned
(d) was returning
Answer : (c)
- ‘Perseverance’ means:
(a) Steady effort
(b) Ability of vision
(c) Tendency to be flexible
(d) None of the above
Answer : (a)
- Web is to Spider as ____ is to Tiger.
(a) Forest
(b) Lair
(c) Zoo
(d) Hive
Answer : (b)
- Suma spends _____ weekends at a holiday resort:
(a) alternatively
(b) alternately
(c) alternative
(d) alternate
Answer : (d)
- Prof: Ramachandran Nair KP
