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500 AFCAT English Questions
In the following questions, groups of four words are given. In each group, one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.
(a) collaborate
(b) comemorate
(c) colate
(d) choclate
(a) circuiteous
(b) clairvoyant
(c) chivelery
(d) cavelcade
(a) severety
(b) sovereignity
(c) superiorty
(d) serenity
(a) cummulative
(b) comemmorative
(c) accummulative
(d) accommodative
(a) benidiction
(b) besmerch
(c) beneficient
(d) benevolence
(a) parapharnelia
(b) parsimonious
(c) peccadilo
(d) peadiatrics
Reading Comprehension
Every profession of trade, every art and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of which is partly to designate things or processes which have no names in ordinary English and partly to secure greater exactness in nomenclature. Such special dialects or jargons are necessary in technical discussion of any kind. Being universally understood by the devotees of the particular science or art, they have the precision of a mathematical formula.
Besides, they save time, for it is much more economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very properly included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather on the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders.
Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts and other vocations like farming and fishing that have occupied great numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary is very old. An average man now uses these in his own vocabularly. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity and philosophy have become familiar to cultivated persons.
- Special words used in technical discussion
(a) may become part of common speech
(b) never last long
(c) should resemble mathematical formula
(d) should be confined to scientific fields
- The writer of this article is
(a) a scientist
(b) a politician
(c) a linguist
(d) a businessman
- This passage is primarily concerned with
(a) various occupations and professions
(b) technical terminology
(c) scientific undertakings
(d) a new language
- It is true that
(a) various professions and occupations often interchange words
(b) there is always a non-technical word that may be substituted for the technical word
(c) the average man often uses in his own vocabulary what was once technical language not meant for him
(d) everyone is interested in scientific findings
- In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of technical terms in the nomenclature of
(a) Farming
(b) Fishing
(c) Sports
(d) Government
Fill in the blanks
- The hotel was not too expensive,_______
(a) was it ?
(b) wasn’t it ?
(c) is it ?
(d) isn’t it ?
- Like humans, zoo animals must have a dentist _____ their teeth.
(a) fill
(b) filled
(c) filling
(d) to be filled
- It was very kind of you to do the washing-up, but you______ it.
(a) didn’t have to do
(b) hadn’t to do
(c) mightn’t have done
(d) mustn’t have done
- He went _____ sea alone.
(a) in
(b) to
(c) into
(d) on
- The _____ of our civilization from an agricultural society to today’s complex industrial world was accompanied by war.
(a) adjustment
(b) migration
(c) route
(d) metamorphosis
- The court ________ cognizance of the criminal’s words.
(a) took
(b) made
(c) gave
(d) allowed
- ________ wins this civil war there will be little rejoicing at the victory.
(a) Whichever
(b) Whoever
(c) Whatever
(d) Wherever
- As he got older his belief in these principles did not________.
(a) wither
(b) shake
(c) waver
(d) dither
- Everyone in this world is accountable to God ________ his actions.
(a) about
(b) for
(c) to
(d) over
- Your father used to be the principal of this college______?
(a) did he ?
(b) does he ?
(c) didn’t he ?
(d) doesn’t he ?
Idioms/Phrases
- A bolt from the blue
(a) a delayed event
(b) an inexplicable event
(c) an unexpected event
(d) an unpleasant event
- Cold comfort
(a) absurdity
(b) deception
(c) slight satisfaction
(d) foolish proposal
- To be all at sea.
(a) a family voyage
(b) lost and confused
(c) in the middle of the ocean
(d) a string of islands
- To take to one’s heels
(a) to walk slowly
(b) to run away
(c) to march forward
(d) to hop and jump
- To bite the dust
(a) eat voraciously
(b) have nothing to eat
(c) eat roots
(d) None of the above
- A damp squib
(a) rainy weather
(b) a disappointing result
(c) a skirt in a laundry
(d) None of the above
- In cold blood
(a) angrily
(b) deliberately
(c) excitedly
(d) slowly
- To take someone for a ride
(a) to give a ride to someone
(b) to deceive someone
(c) to be indifferent
(d) to disclose a secret
- To move heaven and earth
(a) to cause an earthquake
(b) to try everything possible
(c) to pray to all Gods
(d) to tavel in a rocket
- To smell a rat
(a) to smell foul
(b) to see a rat
(c) to chase a rat
(d) to be suspicious
