IES,UPSC English Practice Test Paper

IES,UPSC English Practice Test Paper

English Model Test Paper                            

ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION

1. To examine one owes thoughts and feelings.

(a) Meditation

(b) Retrospection

(c) Reflection

(d) Introspection

ANSWER: (d)

2. Woman who offers the use of her body for sexual intercourse to anyone who will pay

for this.

(a) Voluptuary

(b) Cuckold

(c) Prostitute

(d) Concubine

ANSWER: (c)

3. Custom of having many wives

(a) Monogamy

(b) Bigamy

(c) Polygamy

(d)Matrimony

ANSWER: (c)

4. Bringing about gentle and painless death from incurable disease

(a) Suicide

(b) Euphoria

(c) Gallows

(d) Euthanasia

ANSWER: (d)

5. A small enclosure for cattle, sheep, poultry etc.

(a) Cellar

(b) Sty

(c) Pen

   (d) Lair

ANSWER: (c)

6. One who forcibly seizes control of a bus or an aircraft

(a) Pirate

(b) Swindler

(c) Hijacker

(d) Pilferer

ANSWER: (c)

  7. Strong and settled dislike between two persons

(a) Apathy

(b) Hatred

(c) Antipathy

(d) Animosity

ANSWER: (c)

8. An entertainer who performs difficult physical actions.

(a) Clown

(b) Gymnast

(c) Magician

(d) Acrobat

ANSWER: (d)

9. A song embodying religious and sacred emotions

    (a) Lyric

 (b) Ode

 (c) Hymn

 (d) Ballad

ANSWER: (c)

10. Government by a single person

(a) Monarchy

(b) Autocracy

(c) Plutocracy

(d) Aristocracy

ANSWER: (b)

11. A workman who fits and repairs pipes

(a) Mechanic

(b) Blacksmith

(c) Plumber

(d) Technocrat

ANSWER: (c)

12. Mania for balking

(a) Logo mania

(b) Pyromania

(c)Bibliomania

(d) Kleptomania

ANSWER: (a)

13. An extremely deep crack or opening in the ground

(a) Chasm

(b) Aperture

(c) Ditch

(d) Pit

ANSWER: (a)

14. The foolish belief that one is God

(a) Blasphemy

(b) Theocracy

(c) Paranoia

(d) Theo mania

ANSWER: (d)

15.  A process involving too, much- official formality

(a) Nepotism

(b) Diplomacy

(c) Red-tapism

(d) Bureaucracy

ANSWER: (c)

16. The short remaining end of a cigarette

(a) Stump

(b) Stub

(c) Rag

(d) Scrap

ANSWER: (b)

17. A post without remuneration

(a) Voluntary

(b) Sinecure

(c) Honorary

(d) Involuntary

ANSWER: (c)

18. Lottery in which an article is assigned by lot to one of those buying tickets

(a) Auction

(b) Raffle

(c) Audit

(d) Transit

ANSWER: (b)

19. Voluntarily giving up throne by king in favour of his son

(a) Abdication

(b) Resurrection

(c) Accession

(d) Renunciation

ANSWER: (a)

20. Gift left by will

(a) Alimony

(b) Parsimony

(c) Legacy

(d) Property

ANSWER: (c)

21. One who always runs away from danger

(a) Escapist

(b) Timid

(c) Coward

(d) Shirker

ANSWER: (b)

22. One who despises persons of lower social position?

(a) Prim

(b) Snob

(c) Prig

(d) Aristocrat

ANSWER: (b)

23. One who is determined to exact full vengeance for wrongs done to him?

(a) Vindicator

(b) Usurer

(c) Vindictive

(d) Virulent

ANSWER: (c)

24. Commencement of words with the same letter

(a) Rhyme

(b) Alliteration

(c) Pun

(d) Oxymoron

ANSWER: (b)

25. Part of a church in which bells hang

(a) Minaret

(b) Chapel

(c) Belfry

(d) Spire

 ANSWER: (c)