Kerala PSC LD Clerk Exam General English Page-05

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Kerala PSC LDC Exam

General English

Practice Test

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1. My uncle and my guardian ............. me to go abroad for further studies.

 (A) want
 (B) wants
 (C) has wanted
 (D) are wanting




2. The weather is clearing it is time to................

 (A) sailing
 (B) set sail
 (C) start sail
 (D) begin sail



3. He chose sometimes from Shakespeare's Sonnets as the ..............for his essay.

 (A) epigram
 (B) epilogue
 (C) epigraph
 (D) epitaph



4. The word 'make out' means

 (A) read
 (B) build
 (C) understand
 (D) recognise



5. When I came in, the cat..............in my chair.

 (A) sleeping
 (B) is sleeping
 (C) slept
 (D) was sleeping



6. Picasso is a painter .......... paintings are well known.

 (A) which
 (B) whose
 (C) that
 (D) of which




7. Find the wrongly spelt word:

 (A) termagent
 (B) turbulent
 (C) brewling
 (D) shrewish



8. Tom said, 'I want to visit my friends this weekend'. Choose the correct form.

 (A) Tom said he wants to visit his friends that weekend
 (B) Tom said that he wanted to visit his friends that weekend
 (C) Tom said he wanted to visit his friends this weekend
 (D) None of these



9. He is.............FBI agent.

 (A) a
 (B) an
 (C) the
 (D) none



10.Which is the correct spelling of the adjective 'pleasant' when it becomes an adverb?

 (A) pleasantly
 (B) pleasanter
 (C) pleasantlier
 (D) more pleasant