English Question Bank
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Q2. The jacket fits like a ...... but the sleeve has a hole in it.

1. door
2. window
3. glove

Q3. Neither of these roads ______ to the airport.

1. go
2. goes
3. don’t go
4. doesn’t go

Q4. Science has made great ________ during the past 30 years.

1. increases
2. motions
3. advances
4. advantages
5. opportunities

Q5. It cost me ______ than I thought it would.

1. fewer
2. much
3. more
4. a lot

Q6. He ______ out of the window for a moment and then went on working.

1. glanced
2. viewed
3. glimpsed
4. regarded

Q7. Find the synonym of the following word. ***** Duty

1. obligation
2. shade
3. period
4. native

Q8. She would have failed the practical exam by a long way, but the school decided to ……… the rules so that she passed.

1. bend
2. twist
3. skip
4. dodge

Q9. On the day of my first piano recital, I became more and more nervous. To help me calm down, my piano teacher told me to place several cabbages in the room where I practiced. I was so eager to get over my nerves that I was willing to try anything. For the next few hours, I played to an audience of cabbages. When the time of the recital finally arrived, I was still terribly nervous. My hands felt like ice. When I finally walked across the stage, I looked out into the dark audience. I could not see anyone! All those people out there could just as easily have been cabbages. As I sat down to play, my hands relaxed. Before I knew it, I had played all my pieces without a mistake. For the first time, the cabbage heads applauded. --------- On the day of the recital the music teacher _____.

1. advised the writer to put cabbages in the room where he practiced and play for them.
2. warned the writer not to look at the audience.
3. had no patience with the writer because he was nervous too.
4. felt nearly as nervous about the recital as the writer did.
5. couldn’t think of a way of helping the writer to stay calm.

Q10. “Oh dear! It looks as if it is going to rain again.” Mother was afraid that _______.

1. it was raining again
2. it was going to rain
3. it is going to rain again
4. it looked like rain again