English Questions

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

She could not cope (by) the heavy workload.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

We need not
P-order to nurture true cosmopolitanism
Q-burden of loving each other in
R-place on ourselves the unbearable

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The pool was dry as the water (had been drained off) the day before.

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, sand and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of a world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth wide in amazement; the tube would fall off!

When would there be a risk of the tube falling off?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The white American underclass is in thrall

P-and used heroin needles
Q-to a vicious, selfish culture
R-whose main products are misery

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind, and prevent it (to perceiving) the truth.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

She did not like to have coffee(nor I did).

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

We are late because my wife took two hours to (put up) her make-up.