Saved Bookmarks
| 1. |
Choose the most appropriate synonym for the underlined word.1. The ordinary man seldom forgets things. (a) frequently (b) rarely (c) never (d) often2. A very methodical man remembers to take medicine. (a) chaotic (d) organized (c) disarrayed (d) inefficient3. I am always reluctant to trust a visitor to post my letters. (a) willing (b) unwilling (c) like (d) hatred4. It is because of their antinathv to pills. (a) love (b) affinity (c) like (d) aversion5. Chemists makes their fortunes out of medicines people forget to take.(a) riches/wealth (b) poverty (c) paucity (d) luck6. A long chain of circumstances leads to a number of embarrassing questions. (a) comfortable (b) interesting. (c) anxious (d) awkward7. I am no delinquent in such matters. (a) activist (b) wrongdoer (c) volunteer(d) strategist8. I dare not carry an umbrella because I forget it often. (a) believe (b) refuse (c) accept (d) fear9. He did not even have the grimmest jawed umbrella. (a) pleasant (b) charming (c) beautiful (d) unpleasnt10. An absent – minded angler is good at inventing magnificent lies. (a) dull (b) drab (c) cluster (d) spectacular11. One has no time to remember the mediocre. (a) great (b) exceptional (c) ordinary (d) excellent12. He has a memory like sieve. (a) glass (b) filter (c) fitter (d) sleeve13. He is an audacious perverter of the truth. (a) daring / bold (b) timid (c) frightened (d) alarmed14. We regard a person who does not possess a good memory as eccentric. (a) usual(b) conventional (c) controversial (d) strange / queer15. Being indignant at her husband’s behaviour, she decided to teach him a lesson. (a) cool (b) calm (c) anxious (d) angry16. She anticipated her husband’s white face with quivering lips confessing the theft of the child. (a) solid (b) daring (c) trembling(d) cold.17. Her husband’s cheerful entry and enquiry about lunch and forgetting the baby was her vexation. (a) joy (b) bliss (c) ecstasy (d) annoyance / irritation18. Most of us are bom with prosaically efficient memories. (a) elated (b) cheerfully (c) normally (d) dull19. They are abstracted from the world outside them. (a) actual (b) distracted (c) stupid (d) concrete20. Men with fallible memories try to make out a case for their superiority. (a) infallible (b) valuable (c) error-prone (d) mailcious |
|
Answer» 1. (b) rarely 2. (d) organized 3. (b) unwilling 4. (d) aversion 5. (a) riches/wealth 6. (d) awkward 7. (b) wrongdoer 8. (d) fear 9. (d) unpleasnt 10. (d) spectacular 11. (c) ordinary 12. (d) sleeve 13. (a) daring / bold 14. (d) strange / queer 15. (d) angry 16. (c) trembling 17. (d) annoyance / irritation 18. (d) dull 19. (b) distracted 20. (c) error-prone |
|