Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Identify the kind of sentence: I have no friend to talk to.
A)
Simple sentence
B)
Complex sentence
C)
Compound sentence
D)
Compound-complex sentence
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
A lot is to quantity as allot is to ____________.
A)
assign
B)
quash
C)
retract
D)
abrogate
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Improve the underlined part: I prefer to ride than to walk.
A)
ride to walk
B)
riding than walking
C)
riding to walking
D)
no improvement
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Ballad is to ____________ as ballet is to dance.
A)
thesis
B)
poem
C)
cavort
D)
theme
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Some people can ____________ speak ____________ write accurately.
A)
either … or
B)
neither … nor
C)
whether … or
D)
neither … or
The negative correlative pair is “neither ... nor.”
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Substitute the sentence without changing its meaning: Tell the truth
A)
Tell what is true
B)
Tell only true
C)
Truth stands
D)
Truth is important to tell
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Identify the kind of sentence: You must work hard or you will not succeed.
A)
Simple sentence
B)
Complex sentence
C)
Compound sentence
D)
Compound-complex sentence
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Identify the kind of sentence: He agreed that he would teach her.
A)
Simple sentence
B)
Complex sentence
C)
Compound sentence
D)
Compound-complex sentence
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Substitute the sentence without changing its meaning: He saw the danger and paused.
A)
He paused and saw the danger
B)
When he saw the danger he paused
C)
The danger he saw makes him paused
D)
He paused to see the danger
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Change the voice: They use a computer to do that job nowadays.
A)
A computer is used to do that job nowadays
B)
A computer was used to do that job nowadays
C)
Nowadays a computer has been used to do that job
D)
Nowadays a computer is being used to do that job
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Combine the sentences: You are strong. I am equally strong.
A)
I am as strong as you are
B)
I am strong like you
C)
I am equally strong to you
D)
I am strong as you are
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Do you like ____________?
A)
drive
B)
driving
C)
to driving
D)
go drive
After “like,” the gerund “driving” is the standard choice.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Change the voice: She will open the door.
A)
The door will have been opened by her
B)
The door will have been open by her
C)
The door will be open by her
D)
The door will be opened by her
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Substitute the sentence without changing its meaning: They know me.
A)
I am being known to them
B)
I was known to them
C)
I am known to them
D)
I have known to them
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Improve the underlined part: She could not cope up with the heavy rush.
A)
cope up to
B)
cope by
C)
cope with
D)
no improvement
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Change the speech: He said to her, “What a beautiful day!”
A)
He told her that it was a beautiful day
B)
He exclaimed that it was a beautiful day
C)
He happily said that it was a beautiful day
D)
He suggested that it was a beautiful day
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
If you gave your neighbour a hand with her groceries, you ____________.
A)
helped her
B)
bothered her
C)
avoided her
D)
shook her hands
'Give someone a hand' means to help them, so the answer is 'helped her'.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Change the voice: He wrote that play.
A)
That play had been written by him
B)
That play was written by him
C)
That play is written by him
D)
That play has been written by him
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Change the speech: “Take off your cap,” the father said to the son.
A)
The father asked his son to take off his cap
B)
The father ordered the son to take off his cap
C)
The father proposed the son take off his cap
D)
The father inquired the son to take off his cap
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Choose the answer which best expresses the meaning of the underlined part: A scientist generally carries out his investigation empirically.
A)
theoretically
B)
intuitively
C)
conjecturally
D)
verifiably
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Did you notice that the son walks ____________ his father?
A)
like
B)
as
C)
at
D)
in
“Walks like his father” means he walks in a manner similar to his father.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Substitute the sentence without changing its meaning: This is our camping place.
A)
Our camping is in this place
B)
Place of our camping is here
C)
This is the place where we camp
D)
This is the place of our camping
Selected the option that matches the required grammar, meaning, or usage.
Geologist Junior • 2020 • General English Paper-II
Who speaks French in your family? – I ____________.
A)
am
B)
do
C)
have
D)
may
The auxiliary “do” is used to echo the verb “speaks”: “I do.”
