English MCQ for Competitive Exams

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. “Buy sweet apples, or none at all”, he instructed his servant.
B. A rich man sent his servant to an orchard to buy some apples.
C. The servant asked, “How am I to know that all of them are sweet if I taste just one?”
D. The owner of the orchard said to the servant, “All my apples are sweet. Try one."

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
The man bought a parrot that could speak five languages.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The jungle was nearly ______, so the progress was slow.

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.
“Would you liked / to have / some fries / along with your coffee, / sir?” / asked the waiter.

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
Someone stole his traveller's cheques when he was travelling in Europe.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

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 2.

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them contains an error. Select the part that contains the error f rom the given options.
The Dussehra celebrations / in Mysore / this year / are grandest than / in any other part / of the state.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The interviewer asked Gautam, “Can you tell me what your ______ in life are?”

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.
The Maasais live in (1)______ very beautiful part of Africa. They live on the wide plains in southern and northern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The area (2)______ of miles of rolling
grass land, on which you can find thorny bushes and rocky hills. The people move from one place to another according to the seasons, looking for grasses and other plants (3)______ which their cattle can graze. They have no permanent home. When they want to settle in a place for some time, they build a kind of camp called a ‘Manyatta’, where a few families live
for a (4)______ weeks or months. Then they move on again, taking their few belongings with
them, and burning the old ‘Manyatta’ to the ground.

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

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A) Healthy, strong trees act as carbon sinks, offsetting carbon and reducing the effects of climate change.
B) Trees help to clean the air we breathe. Through their leaves and bark, they absorb harmful pollutants and release clean oxygen for us to breathe.
C) Increasing levels of carbon dioxide caused by deforestation and fossil fuel combustion trap heat in the atmosphere.
D) In urban environments, trees absorb pollutant gases like nitrogen oxides, ozone, and carbon monoxide, and sweep up particles like dust and smoke.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. On the afternoon of that eventful day, I stood on the porch, dumb, expectant and guessed vaguely from my mother's signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house that something unusual was about to happen, so I went to the door and waited on the steps.
B. I did not know what the future held of marvel or surprise for me and anger and bitterness had preyed upon me continually for weeks and a deep languor had succeeded this passionate struggle.
C. The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me and I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects and it was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.
D. The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle that covered the porch, and fell on my upturned face and my fingers lingered almost unconsciously on the familiar leaves and blossoms which had just come forth to greet the sweet southern spring

Select the correct collocation from the options and complete the sentence.
Rahul is _____ Coding.

Select the most appropriate phrasal verb to fill in the blank.
The teacher asked the students to _______ their essays before the deadline.

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
The rescue team could have completed the task if there had been uninterrupted power supply.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Hard nut to crack 

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Dreadful 

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.
I hate to get off on the wrong foot.

A person who can not be corrected:

Incapable of making errors:

A series of lectures or lessons:

Prohibited by law or treaty from being imported on exported:

An instrument for measuring the force of the wind:

With no particular order or plan.