English Questions

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The pilgrim (lain) in the shade of the tree.

Improve the given sentence if necessary.

I am living in Bombay for the last ten years.

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

My coat's pretty warm, even though it cost £9.99 and came from the flea market. It had a label in it, CHRISTIN BIOR, but I cut it out as soon as I got home. You can't work where I work and have CHRISTIN BIOR in your coat. You could have a genuine vintage Christian Dior label. Or something Japanese. Or maybe no label because you make your clothes yourself out of retro fabrics that you source at Alfies Antiques. But not CHRISTIN BIOR.

As I get near Catford Bridge, I start to feel a knot of tension. I really don't want to be late today. My boss has started throwing all sorts of hissy fits about people "swanning in at all times," so I left an extra twenty minutes early, in case it was a bad day. I can already see: It's a god-awful day. They've been having a lot of problems on our line recently and keep cancelling trains with no warning. Trouble is, in London rush hour, you can't just cancel trains. What are all the people who were planning to get on that train supposed to do? Evaporate?

Which of the following situations creates a 'bad day' for the author?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Perhaps the wolf (was waiting) to spring upon him.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Everyday we (have usually) dinner at 8 o'clock.

In the following question, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

Mitigate

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order:

Thus,

P-a developing economy also needs
Q-to have some notion of external balance
R-at the very least,

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

While two judges in the majority said the practice was arbitrary and, therefore, unconstitutional, the third judge called it (legally).