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

Give a one word substitute for: A person who does not believe in God
(A) Altruist
(B) Atheist
(C) Theist
(D) Amateur

It is obvious from the leader’s mumbling that he does not have a flair...........public speaking.
(A) In
(B) To
(C) For
(D) By

Correct the statement Each of the boys were given a pen
(A) Each of the boys are given a pen
(B) Each of the boys was given a pen
(C) ach of the boys give a pen
(D) Each of the boys were given pens

Choose the word which is spelt correctly?
(A) Accommodation
(B) Accomodation
(C) Accommadation
(D) Accommodation

Change the voice: Did the blast terify the children
(A) Was the blast terrified by the children ?
(B) Was the children terified by the blast?
(C) Were the children terrifying by the blast?
(D) Were the children terrified by the blast?

Let us go for a walk,
(A) do we?
(B) shall we?
(C) don’t we?
(D) didn’t we?