English Questions

In this section, each of the following sentences has a blank space and four words are given below it. select the word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

We should give everyone training in citizenship but we have ____________ this aspect till now.

In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

To bite the dust

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.
To give up a throne voluntarily

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

People may see, and hear, and feel all their lives without ____________ learning the nature of things they see. But reason is the mind's eye, and enables us to see why things are, and when and how events may be made to happen ___________ not to happen. The logician endeavours to ____________ exactly what this reason is which makes the power of men. We all, as I have said, must reason well or ill, but logic is the science of reasoning and enables us to distinguish ______________ the good reasoning which leads to truth, and the bad reasoning which every day betrays people into error _________ misfortune.

logician endeavours to ____________ exactly what this reason 

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

Preferring or attracted to sunlight

In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

The airline was unable to give us a reason for the ______________ departure delay.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/Phrase.

Take the bull by the horns