English Question Bank
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Q2. The school director's resignation came like a bolt from the ……… . Nobody had expected it.

1. green
2. red
3. black
4. blue

Q3. Mr. Johnson was very particular about the arrangement of his classroom, so the thing he hated most was when his students caused a ruckus with their wild (horseplay).

1. Mr. Johnson hated when his students pretended to be animals.
2. Mr. Johnson hated when his students played sports.
3. Mr. Johnson hated when his students wrestled around with each other
4. Mr. Johnson hated when his students made animal noises.

Q4. I’ve been afraid of dogs ever since a large Canine ______ me when I was a child.

1. went for
2. went after
3. went to
4. went over

Q5. If I had listened to the weather forecast ______.

1. I would stay at home
2. I’d know it was windy
3. I wouldn’t have watered the flowers
4. we were going to play football

Q6. A new discovery of a dinosaur fossil in Antarctica has confirmed the idea that dinosaurs lived not only in the Northern Hemisphere but in the Southern Hemisphere as well. Up until this discovery, scientists had found dinosaur remains on every continent except Antarctica. This new discovery now confirms the idea that dinosaurs were distributed worldwide. If the dinosaur fossil is shown to be related to other dinosaurs of the same period in South America, it will also support the idea that South America and Antarctica were once linked together. --------- It is only recently that _____.

1. important scientific studies about the Southern Hemisphere have been carried out.
2. scientists have been seriously interested in fossils.
3. a dinosaur fossil has been discovered in Antarctica.
4. some new facts about the Northern Hemisphere have come to light.
5. Antarctica has been discovered.

Q7. My Uncle Jed lives in a little old cabin in the back of beyond, right near

1. a subway station
2. a baseball stadium
3. a mountain range

Q8. I was ....... off with some rotten apples at the corner shop.

1. palmed
2. handed
3. armed
4. fingered

Q9. Magda was ……… after she heard that she had won a televison in a competition.

1. over the hill
2. on cloud nine
3. on the hop
4. over the peg

Q10. This must be a special type of writing paper, for it gives ______ a very pleasant smell.

1. on
2. off
3. up