English Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. I’ll ______ in my car on the way to work.

1. take you out
2. bring you up
3. let you off
4. pick you up

Q3. Find the synonym of the following words written in capitals. ***** The whole excursion took APPROXIMATELY ten hours

1. exactly
2. about
3. precisely
4. apparently
5. respectively

Q4. Since the day he ______ ill he ______ a lot of reading.

1. was / had done
2. is / has done
3. was / has done
4. is / has been done

Q5. Find the synonym of the following words written in capitals. ***** Doctor Manson CURED a lot of miners that’s why he won great popularity and respect with them.

1. treated
2. recovered
3. gave
4. took
5. rescued

Q6. The kids in the hospital had a ray of sunshine in their lives when

1. some famous footballers visited them
2. they were taken to sit outside in the sun
3. the nurses checked their blood pressure

Q7. 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.

Q8. I was so snowed under today that I had to

1. wear extra warm clothes
2. see a doctor
3. cancel a meeting

Q9. He made a swift ______ from his illness.

1. repair
2. survival
3. relief
4. recovery

Q10. “Please give me a pain killer.” the patient said. The patient begged the nurse _______ a pain killer.

1. to give her
2. she would give her
3. she would give me
4. to give me