English MCQ for Competitive Exams

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
The workers had eaten all the pastries before the day broke.

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
He didn't eat a single morsel of food at his daughter's wedding.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the underlined word.
It was due to treacherous leaders that he decided to leave the party.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Tedious

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Deride

Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.
Man-made fibre, is fibre whose chemical composition, structure, and properties are significantly modified during the manufacturing process. Man-made fibres (1)______ spun
and woven into a large (2)______ of consumer and industrial products, (3)______ garments such as shirts, scarves, and hosiery; home furnishings (4)______ as upholstery, carpets, and drapes; and (5)______ parts such as tire cord, flame-proof linings, and drive belts.

Select t he most appropriate option to fill in blank 5.

Select the correct homonym from the given options to fill in the blank.
Which ________ does the minister take to reach the Assembly?

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct logical sequence.
A. When faced with uncertainty, humans look out for the action of others and become a victim of ineffective rational thinking during compelling, confusing situations.
B. According to him, in an emergency, we tend to forget that everybody else observing the event is also likely to be looking out for social evidence.
C. Robert B. Cialdini explains this reaction with a psychological phenomenon called 'pluralistic ignorance'.
D. Since we all prefer to appear poised and unflustered among others, we are likely to search for answers placidly, with brief, camouflaged glances at those around us.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The movie was released__________ expected.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
When the victim narrated his version of the incident, the jury was _________ .

Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and
select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Girls have been the 1.________ of many crimes in India for years. The most fearful crime was female foeticide, in which girls were killed in the 2.________ of the mother after sex determination through ultrasound. ‘Save the Girl Child’ 3.________ has been launched by the government to end gender-selective abortions of female foetuses as well as other crimes
4.________ the girl child.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

Select the most appropriate idiom that best explains the given sentence.
Rajat irritated the street dog so much that it was about to bite him.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Trivial 

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
If you have / faith in God, / everything turn out / to be all right. 

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Contentment 

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Under the weather 

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Damp

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom.
We dodged a bullet when we didn't fall for the agents' words.

A person who attends to the diseases of the eye is an:

Murder of a king:

Belief that god is in everything and that everything is god:

Linked together

Someone not fit to be chosen

Submission to all that happens as inevitable.