I prefer chocolates ............ nuts
(A) than
(B) to
(C) less than
(D) more than

Tom asked the stranger 'Where did you go'? The sentence can be
reported as Tom asked the stranger
(A) Where he has gone
(B) Where he had gone
(C) Where he went
(D) Where do you go

A synonym of pleasant
(A) cheerful
(B) beautiful
(C) rival
(D) colour ful

Success and ..... are two side of a coin a
(A) Grace
(B) Willingness
(C) Failure
(D) Fragrance

One who hates mankind is
(A) Optimist
(B) Pessimist
(C) Misanthropist
(D) Rationalist

A letter of
(A) cats
(B) bats
(C) cows
(D) puppies

Choose the antonym of the italicised word from the sentence: After months of drought the farmers began to despair that they would lose everything.
(A) Inspire
(B) Desperate
(C) Hope
(D) Hurry

Choose a suitable interpretation for the idiom ‘to blaze a trail’:
(A) To set fire
(B) To blow one’s trumpet
(C) To be annoying
(D) To initiate work

Jessie waited with .......... breath for news of her success
(A) Bated
(B) Baton
(C) Baited
(D) Battled

Find the appropriate reported speech for the following: “Keep quiet
said the mother to the child, The mother asked the child.............
(A) For keeping quiet
(B) To keep quiet
(C) Should keep quiet
(D) That it should have kept quiet

The universe......continuously ever since the beginning of time and
the galaxies......... away from one another at great speed
(A) Has expanded, moved
(B) Expanded, has been moving
(C) Had been expanding , had moved
(D) Has been expanding, have been moving