ENGLISH COMPOSITION QUESTION AND SOLUTION(QUIZ) - WBCS PRELIMS 2015
In West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS) Preliminary Examination 2015, total 25 questions was asked from English Composition.
1. Select the correct meaning of the idiom underlined below:
The singer was not in voice
Correct Answer: [B] To sing well
2. Fill in the blank with the correct word:
_______ his illness, he attended the function.
Correct Answer: [D] Despite
3. Fill in the blank with the correct word:
The stream was ______by the waterfall.
Correct Answer: [A] Fed
4. Fill in the blank with the correct word:
A _______Star was seen in the sky.
Correct Answer: [B] Shooting
5. ‘Puts one in mind‘ means
Correct Answer: [C] Reminds
6. ‘Book‘ may be used with
Correct Answer: [C] Ticket
7. Choose the correct meaning of the word from the alternatives given below:
GENRE
Correct Answer: [B] A specific category
8. Put in a correct Participle in the blank space: Mary _______, we were freed from anxiety.
Correct Answer: [A] Having arrived
9.Choose the word opposite in meaning to the word underlined below:
The crowd felt stupefied by the lecture.
Correct Answer: [A] Engulfed
10. Choose the word opposite in meaning to the word underlined below:
The silence of the children was sinister.
Correct Answer: [B] Cacophony
11. ‘Hand and glove‘ means
Correct Answer: [D] Intimate terms
12. Use suitable auxiliary verb to fill in the blank space:
Mother says you _______to go to the market at once.
Correct Answer: [A] Have
13. Fill in the space with an Infinitive:
_______fault is easy
Correct Answer: [D] to find
14. There was a _____on the midnight train. (Insert correct phrasal verb)
Correct Answer: [A] Hold up
15. Insert correct adverb phrase in the blank space:
Do this in a short time, in a _______ manner.
Correct Answer: [B] Swift
16. Insert proper preposition in the sentence:
He hinted ______some loss treasure.
Correct Answer: [A] of
17. Fill in the blank with the correct word:
You had better _______ permission.
Correct Answer: [B] Ask
18. Fill in with relative pronoun the blank space below:
Who _______ saw her did not pity her ?
Correct Answer: [C] That
19. Fill in with relative pronoun the blank space below:
The sun, _____ rays give life to the earth, was regarded by the ancients as a god.
Correct Answer: [B] Whose
20. Select the correct meaning of the idiom underlined below:
No one dare call in question his honesty.
Correct Answer: [D] Challenge
21. ‘Approval‘ may be expressed by the following Interjection:
Correct Answer: [C] Bravo !
22. A person on the verge of death of an illness is :
Correct Answer: [B] Terminally ill
23. An endocrinologist deals with:
Correct Answer: [B] Glands
24. A stoic person can:
Correct Answer: [B] Endure
25. Insert proper preposition in the sentence:
Here is the watch ______you asked ________.
Correct Answer: [A] which, for