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English MCQs
English Comprehension
Quiz # 1, MCQs
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1)
"The judge released him on his own _________."
- A) recognizance
- B) reconnaissance
- C) connoisseur
- D) Cognition
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2)
The jury ___________ the mayor of all wrongdoing.
- A) exonerate
- B) expatriated
- C) augmented
- D) subjugated
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3)
They can watch _____ the detective series _____ the foreign movie
- A) neither…and
- B) either ...or
- C) both…or
- D) either…then
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4)
Which one of these means 'a vehicle for carrying a coffin’?
- A) Hernia
- B) Hearse
- C) Heron
- D) Hearsay
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5)
What is true of the following example?
"Many people probably think that politeness is simply a social lubricant."
- A) It contains a noun clause.
- B) It contains an adverbial clause.
- C) It contains an adjectival clause
- D) It contains a prepositional phrase.
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6)
He wanted to join the navy _____ his parents did not allow him to.
- A) if
- B) but
- C) neither
- D) either
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7)
The people screamed _____ ran in different directions when the lorry crashed into the roadside stall.
- A) and
- B) neither
- C) if
- D) but
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8)
Identify the correct sentence with properly placed commas.
- A) Two students obviously pranksters replaced the chalk, in the classrooms, with sticks of white chocolate.
- B) Two students, obviously pranksters, replaced the chalk in the classrooms with sticks of white chocolate.
- C) Two students obviously pranksters, replaced the chalk in the classrooms, with sticks of white chocolate.
- D) Two students obviously pranksters replaced the chalk in the classrooms with sticks of white chocolate.
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9)
__________ in his grand operas, Rinsky-Korsakov six times dealt with fantastic and but twice with real or historical subjects.
- A) Observing that when
- B) It will be observed that
- C) When will it be observed
- D) Which of that will observe
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10)
Which one is true of the following example?
"Guinevere and Lancelot, who can be considered archetypal betrayers."
- A) It is a comma splice.
- B) It is a sentence fragment.
- C) It contains an adverbial clause.
- D) It contains a noun clause.