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We are presenting you a English Quiz, which will be helpful in your study. In competitive exams like SSC-CGL, LDC, FCI etc few questions are asked from this topic in English section. So please solve the quiz and post your answers in the comment section. Soon we will published the correct answers. 

Directions (1-5): As part of the
sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at
(a), (b) and (c) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct
alternative. In case no improvement is required, your answer is (d).

1. The
brown shirt wants washing.

(a) has to wash

(b) is in need of wash

(c) requires a wash

(d) No improvement

2. You
are asked to copy this letter word by
word.

(a) word for word

(b) word with word

(c) word to word

(d) No improvement

3. The
weak man is a slave to his sensuous
pleasures.

(a) sensory

(b) sensual

(c) secondary

(d) No improvement

4. Obviously
he isn’t cut up to be a good
teacher.

(a) cut out

(b) cut in

(c) cut for

(d) No improvement

5. Power
got with money is the most craved for today.

(a) sought after

(b) wished for

(c) welcomed for

(d) No improvement

Directions (6-10) Out of the
four alternatives chose the one which can be substituted for the given
words/sentence.

6. Science
of the races of mankind.

(a) Genealogy

(b) Epistemology

(c) Ethnology

(d) Sociology

7. Detaining
and confining someone.

(a) Interruption

(b) Interrogation

(c) Interment

(d) Internment

8. An
underhand device resorted to in order to justify misconduct.

(a) Subterfuge

(b) Manoeuvre

(c) Stratagem

(d) Complicity

9. One
who criticize popular beliefs which he thinks is mistake or unwise.

(a) Philistine

(b) Iconoclast

(c) Imposter

(d) Cannibal

10. Impossible
to describe.

(a) Miraculous

(b) Ineffable

(c) Stupendous

(d) Appalling.

Answers:

Qs 1 (c)   Qs 2 (a) 
Qs 3 (d)  Qs 4 (a)   Qs 5 (a)

Qs 6 (c) 
Qs 7 (d)  Qs 8 (b)  Qs 9 (b)  
Qs 10 (b)