MCQ on Basic English Knowledge

General Studies

34- Blow one’s own trumpet (Select the correct meaning)

(A) To praise others

(B) To be very angry

(C) To praise one’s own self

(D) To dance and sing

 

35- To put a spoke in one’s wheel (Select the correct meaning)

(A) To cause an accident

(B) To repair a machine

(C) To try without success

(D) To thwart in the execution of a plan

 

36- Choose the correct spelling

(A) Amatuer

(B) Amature

(C) Amateur

(D) Ameteur

 

37- Choose the correct spelling

(A) Benefited

(B) Benefetted

(C) Benifitted

(D) Benifited

 

38- Choose the correct spelling

(A) Committe

(B) Commitee

(C) Committee

(D) Committey

 

39- Choose the correct spelling

(A) Imperative

(B) Imperetive

(C) Imperateve

(D) Immperateve

 

40- Choose the correct spelling

(A) Semestar

(B) Semister

(C) Semistar

(D) Semester

 

41- I need your _______ on which car to buy.

(A) advises

(B) advice

(C) advise

(D) advese

 

42- Which of the following is the antonym of the word ‘impediment’?

(A) promoters

(B) hindrances

(C) obstacles

(D) obstructions

 

43- Which of the following is the synonym of the word ‘Cease’?

(A) Create

(B) Begin

(C) Stop

(D) Dull

 

44- Select the correct one-word substitution for “a life history written by somebody else”.

(A) Biography

(B) Autobiography

(C) Anthropology

(D) Ornithology

 

45- The rabbit remained _______ so that the predator would not notice it.

(A) stationary

(B) stationery

(C) statutory

(D) stipulative

 

ANSWERS:

34-(C), 35-(D), 36-(C), 37-(A), 38-(C), 39-(A), 40-(D), 41-(B), 42-(A), 43-(C), 44-(A), 45-(A)