WBCS 2020 English Priliminary
WBCS 2020 English Priliminary
1. Use the right preposition.
He deals _______ cosmetic goods.
(A) of (B) with. (C) in. (D) on
2. Which complex form is coffect for the
following sentence?--
'Everyone is happy during Christmas
celebration.'
(A)Wnen Christmas celebrations occur
everyone is happy.
(B) During Christmas celebration
everyone is happy.
(C) Everyone during Christmas
celebration is happy.
(D) Happy is everyone when Christmas
celebration occurred.
3. Select the correct option :
I need a ________ note.
(A) five hundred rupees
(B) five-hundred rupee
(C) five hundreds rupees
(D) five hundreds rupee
4. It is nine o'clock in Darjeeling in the
morning and ________.
(A) there is snow
(B) it is snowing
(C) it snows
(D) it snowed
5. The idiomatic expression 'pull yourself in
together'
(A) drag oneself
(B) help one
(C) get angry
(D) calm down by oneself
6. Use the correct expression :
I ____the patient will die.
(A) hope
(B) think
(C) see
(D) am afraid
7. We ____ our dinner last night.
Fill in the blank with the right verb form.
(A) have teken
(B) took
(C) had taken
(D) take
8. Never ____ upon the marginalized. Fill in
with the right phrasal verb.
(A) look over
(B) look down
(C) look through
(D) look into
9. The word 'Genocide' means
(A) Racial killing
(B) Murder
(C) Suicide
(D) Slaughter
10. What is the time ___ your watch ?
(A) by (B) in (c) with (D) on
11. Select the correct option:
I was sure I ___ meet him.
(A) would
(B) will
(C) shall
(D) should
12. 'lmpassioned' means
(A) Ardent
(B) Dispassionate
(C) Passionless
(D) Unemotional
13. Find the appropriate synonym for the word
'Claimactic'
(A) Culminating
(B) Climatic
(C) Temperate
(D) Atmosphere
14. Choose the correct indirect statement.
He said, "grass is green."
(A) He told that grass is green.
(B) He told that grass was green.
(C) He told that grass had been green.
(D) He told that grass will always be
green.
15. Correct passive form of the following
sentence 'Orange tastes sour' is :
(A) Orange is tasted sour.
(B) Orange is sour after tasting.
(C) Orange is sour when tasted.
(D) Orange is tasted as sour.
16. Babies ___ when they are hungry.
(A) cries
(B) cried
(C) are crying
(D) cry
17. The word 'Analogous' means
(A) analytical
(B) artificial
(C) comparable
(D) aural
18. Tick the cor:rect oprion:
___ are still tortured in remote villages.
(A) Daughter-in-iaws
(B) Daughters-in-iaws
(C) Daughters-in-law
(D) Daughter-in-law
19. Add a suitable prefix to 'Embark'.
(A) Disembark
(B) Unembark
(C) Imembark
(D) Inembark
20. Fill in the blank with right option.
He cannot cope ___ this pressure.
(A) up (B) with (C) ln (D) for
21. Convert the given sentence into an
interrogative sentence and see below for the correct option tion :
"Honesty is the best policy"
(A) Is honesty the best policy?
(B) Is not honesty the best policy?
(C) Is honesty not the best policy?
(D) Why is honesty the best policy?
22. The correct antonym of 'Lecherous' is
(A) Passionate
(B) Darty
(C) Nasty
(D) Chaste
23. Use the appropriate preposition in
sentence:
We sat ___ the shade of the tree.
(A) under
(B) below
(C) in
(D) tuough
24. He will reach home ___at evening.
(A) lately
(B) late
(C) later
(D) latest
25. He solved the ___ problem.
(A) hardly
(B) hard
(C) hardlier
(D) hardliest
Answer Key
1C, 2A, 3B, 4B, 5D
6D, 7B, 8B, 9A, 10A
11A, 12A, 13A, 14A,15C
16D, 17C, 18C, 19A, 20B
21B, 22D, 23C, 24B, 25B
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