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English - 2 (DMRC Exam)

Description: English - 2
Number of Questions: 15
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Tags: English - 2 Antonyms Idiomatic and Phraseal Use Spellings Sentence/Paragraph Completion (Gap Fills) Synonyms/Meanings
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Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.

A snake in the grass

  1. Secret or hidden enemy

  2. Unforeseen happening

  3. Unrecognisable danger

  4. Unreliable person


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Someone whose bad intentions are not known and can strike at any time.

Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.

To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

  1. Born in luxury

  2. Born prematurely

  3. Born with defects

  4. Born untimely


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

To be born in a wealthy family

Directions: Select the most appropriate meaning for the given Latin expression.

Mea culpa

  1. Through God’s grace

  2. Through my thought

  3. Through my fault

  4. Through thy feet


Correct Option: C

Directions: Select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the underlined idiom/phrase.

He visits his native place once in a blue moon.

  1. Seldom

  2. Always

  3. Very often

  4. Never


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'Once in a blue moon' refers to something happening very rarely. Seldom too means something that happens rarely or not too often. No other option fits...never is too extreme.

Directions: Select the word/phrase that is antonymous to the word given in bold letters.

ASCETICISM

  1. Condemnation

  2. Craving

  3. Indulgence

  4. Assessment

  5. sympathy


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

‘Ascetic’ is a person who has given up all comforts and luxuries in the pursuit of God. Indulgence (in worldly comforts) is the opposite of asceticism.

Directions: Select the word/phrase that is antonymous to the word given in bold letters.

ALPHABETICAL

  1. Numerical

  2. Seriatim

  3. Haphazard

  4. Iota

  5. pictorial


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Alphabetical is in the order of letters. This is akin to seriatim. The opposite is things not in order or haphazard. Note that alphabet literally is alpha beta, the first two letters of Greek alphabet. It is as good as saying abc.

Directions: Select the option that spells the word correctly.

  1. Recuiment

  2. Recruitment

  3. Recurment

  4. Recriument


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the correct meaning of the given word.

Rococo

  1. Supposed

  2. Calm

  3. Ornate

  4. Dress


Correct Option: C

Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blanks.

The judge ____ him prevailed ______ the father and he sentenced his son ____ death.

  1. upon, onto, for

  2. on, at, in

  3. at, in, into

  4. in, upon, to


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

'Judge in him' means 'the impartial fabric in him'. 'Prevail upon' means 'to subsume'. One is put 'to' a sentence.

Directions: Select the option that spells the word correctly.

  1. Relisaion

  2. Ralisation

  3. Realsion

  4. Realisation


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the correct meaning of the given word.

Rife

  1. Abuse

  2. Opposite

  3. Current

  4. Bump


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.

I drew the blind so that I ______ what was taking place in the street.

  1. could have seen

  2. would not see

  3. see

  4. would be


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

"Would not" is the correct answer.

Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blanks.

The light ___________ out while we ___________ drinks in the hotel.

  1. went, were having

  2. had gone, had been having

  3. has gone, have

  4. was gone, had


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is a compound sentence in the past tense. Here, the principal clause demands 'past indefinite', while the subsidiary clause demands 'past continuous'. Hence, option 1 is correct.

Directions: Select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the underlined idiom/phrase.

At last he made a clean breast of his involvement in the affair.

  1. He denied his involvement.

  2. He confessed his involvement.

  3. He challenged the authorities to prove his involvement.

  4. He promised to cooperate if he is given a fair treatment.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

To make a clean breast of something means to tell or confess the complete truth.

Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.

He went away before I _______ him the whole story.

  1. can tell

  2. could tell

  3. would have told

  4. can told


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Simple past is being used, so blank will be filled with the same tense.

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