English MCQs

S1: Frozen foods are so popular today that many people wonder how they ever lived without them. P: Near the North Pole, where the ground stays frozen all the year around, there is no problem of preserving foods. Q: Actually, people who live in cool climates have had frozen foods for a long time. R: Ice helped them when they could get it, but they couldn’t get it very often. S: But people who live in warm climates have not always been able to keep food fresh. S6: Now refrigerators and deep freezers preserve many foods that could not be kept any other way. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. PQRS
B. QPRS
C. QPSR
D. SRQP
✅ The correct answer is option C.

S1: It was early 1943 and the war in the East was going disastrously. P: How this unlikely bunch of middle aged civilians accomplished their missions makes fascinating reading. Q: To stop the sinkings a spy ring had to be broken, a German ship assaulted, and a secret radio transmitter silenced. R: U-boats were torpedoing Allied ships in the Indian ocean faster than they could be replaced. S: And the only people who could do the job were a handful of British businessmen in Calcutta-all men not called out for active service. S6: Boarding party, James Leasor’s latest best-seller is a record of this tale of heroics tinged with irony and humour. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. PRSQ
B. QSRP
C. RQSP
D. SQPR
✅ The correct answer is option C.

S1: A small pool in the rocks outside my cottage in the Mussoorie hills provides me endless delight. P: I stood very still, anxious that it should drink its fill. Q: And once I saw a barking deer, head lowered at the edge of the pool. R: Water beetles paddle the surface, while tiny fish lurk in the shallows. S: Sometimes a spotted fork tail bird comes to drink, hopping delicately from rock to rock. S6: It did and then, looking up, saw me and leapt across the ravine to disappear into the forest. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. PRSQ
B. PSQR
C. RSQP
D. SQPR
✅ The correct answer is option C.

S1: Moncure Conway devoted his life to two great objects : freedom of thought, and freedom of the individual. P: They threaten both kinds of freedom. Q: But something also has been lost. R: There are now dangers, somewhat different in form from those of the past ages. S: In regard to both these objects, something has been gained since his time. S6: Unless a vigorous and vigilant public opinion can be aroused in defence of them, there will be much less of both a hundred years hence than there is now. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. PQRS
B. QSPR
C. RSPQ
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option D.

S1: A man handed a pair of trousers to the departmental store-clerk and said,”I’d like these altered, please”. P: He said that free alteration is not possible without a receipt. Q: The man said,”Okay, I’d like to return the trousers”. The clerk took them back and returned his money. R: The man pushed the money and said,”Now I want to buy them”. The clerk put the trousers in a bag, issued receipt and handed him both. S: The clerk asked for the sales receipt but after searching his pockets the man replied that he had lost it. S6: Triumphantly he put the trousers and the receipt on the counter and said,’I’d like to have these altered, please.” The Proper sequence should be:

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A. PSQR
B. PSRQ
C. QRPS
D. SPQR
✅ The correct answer is option D.

S1: There is nothing strange in the fact that so many foreign students should wish to learn English. P: If any valuable book is written in another language, an English translation of it sure to be speedily published. Q: Anyone who masters the English tongue acquires a key. R: Most books found to be generally useful are written in English. S: The English speaking people want no monopoly of knowledge. S6: This key will open to him whatever is valuable in the literature of the world. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. SQRP
B. SRPQ
C. RSPQ
D. RPSQ
✅ The correct answer is option D.

S1: Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad on 14 Nov., 1889. P: Nehru met Mahatma Gandhi in February, 1920. Q: In 1905 he was sent to London to study at a school called Harrow. R: He became the first Prime Minister of Independent India on 15 August, 1947. S: He married Kamla Kaul in 1915. S6: He died on 27 May, 1964. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. QRPS
B. QSPR
C. RPQS
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option B.

S1: The domestic cat is a contradiction in itself. P: But the adult pet dog also sees its human family as the dominant members of the pack. Q: Nursed in kittenhood it develops extraordinary intimacy with mankind. R: The dog, like the pet cat, sees its owners as pseudo-parents. S: At the same time, however, the cat continues to retain its independence. S6: Hence it has won such a reputation for obedience and loyalty. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. QSPR
B. QSRP
C. SQPR
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option B.

S1: A certain young man was entrusted to the care of a teacher. P: This dullard will come to grief if I send him away without a single lesson, thought the teacher. Q: He was so dull of mind that he could not, even in three months, time, learn as much as a single lesson. R: The young man came to ask the teacher’s permission to go home. S: It’s my business to provide agood education to my pupils, to get on in life. S6: The teacher asked him to wait. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. PSRQ
B. QPSR
C. RQPS
D. SRQP
✅ The correct answer is option B.

S1: In other words, grammar grows and changes, and there is no such thing as correct use of English for the past, the present and the future. P: “The door is broke.” Q: Yet this would have been correct in Shakespeare’s time. R: Today, only an uneducated person would say,”My arm is broke.” S: For example, in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, there is the line. S6: All the words that man has invented are divided into eight classes, which are called parts of speech. The Proper sequence should be:

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A. PSQR
B. QPSR
C. RSPQ
D. SPRQ
✅ The correct answer is option D.