English Sentence Completion 2

Fill in the blanks choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

Q-1 When Mrs. Sharma -----------out of the bedroom with her husband, she ---------- the children already at the breakfast table.
(a) came , found
(b) come, find
(d) came, found
(d) come, find

 

Ans. (a) came, found

Q-2 Rohit --------------one end of a nylon rope around his waist, and the other to his ship.
(a) tie
(b) was tied
(c) tied
(d) has tied

Ans.  (c) tied

Q-3 This project---------employment to thousand of people.
(a) provide
(b) provides
(c) has provided
(d) has been providing

Ans.(b) provides

Q-4 The greatest tribute that we can ---------to his memory is to -------------the lead given by him.
(a) pay, followed
(b) pay, follow
(c) paying, follow
(d) None of these

Ans. (b) pay, follow

Q-5 He ----------- Delhi University in 1978.
(a) graduated
(b) graduated
(c) was graduated
(d) have graduated

Ans. (a) graduate

Q-6 However, before ----------he gave so much to his country that he can never be forgotten.
(a) retire
(b) retired
(c) has retired
(d) retiring

Ans.  (d) retiring

Q-7 She------neither frocks, nor jewels..
(a) has
(b) had
(c) have
(d) was

Ans. (b) had
 

Q-8 ‘---------You lend me this? Only this?’
(a) can
(b) could
(c) will
(d) None of these

Ans. (a) Can

Q-9 She ---------as he dictated.
(a) write
(b) written
(c) wrote
(d) None of these

Ans. (c) wrote

Q-10 Henry possessed eighteen thousand francs which his father----------him.
(a) leave
(b) left
(c) has been leaving
(d) had left

Ans. (d) had left

Q-11 ‘I am -------’, said he.
(a) goes
(b) going
(c) was going
(d) None

Ans. (b) going

Q-12 Patience---------its limits.
(a) has
(b) was
(c) had
(d) is

Ans. (a) has

Q-13 -----------money grow on trees?
(a) Is
(b) Does
(c) Did
(d) Do

Ans. (b) Does

Q-14 When all the Punches---------their seats, the aged aunt rose..
(a) took
(b) take
(c) had taken
(d) taken

Ans. (c) had taken

Q-15 Rohit, who did not wish -------------into the dispute, now demurred.
(a) drag
(b) dragged
(c) of drag
(d) to be dragged
 

Ans. (d) to be dragged

Q-16 By 1964 Hennery’s antiseptic method of surgery ------------- largely replaced by what -----------the aseptic method.
(a) has been , is called
(b) had been, are called
(c) had been, was called
(d) has been, was called

Ans. (c) had been, was called

Q-17 --------------- on the culture plate, the mould began to grow.
(a) Having settled
(b) Is settle
(c) Was settled
(d) None of these

Ans. (a) Having settled

Q-18 There was no solution and the problem -----------tremendous.
(a) have
(b) had
(c) was
(d) is

Ans. (c) was

Q-19 In his laboratory at Sr. Johan’s he ---------------out a series of experiments on the common germ called staphylococcus.
(a) carry
(b) carried
(c) has carry
(d) had carried

Ans.  (b) carried

Q-20 “ I --------------to one of these teams, I would never have found Penicillin”.
(a) belong
(b) was belonging
(c) belonged
(d) None of these

Ans . (c) belonged

Q-21 Her Parents and relations, however did not like this ---------------of unpractical dreams on the part of their son.
(a) Weave
(b) weaving
(c) has weaved
(d) will weave 

Ans. (b) wearing

Q-22 My field must-----------.
(a) parch
(b) will parch
(c) is parched
(d) parched

Ans. (d) be parched

Q-23 Here, Romesh ----------the friendship of Mahesh.
(a) contracted
(b) contract
(c) will contract
(d) are contracting

Ans. (a) contracted

Q-24 They, therefore ----------- him married at the age of twenty.
(a) get
(b) is getting
(c) got
(d) none of these

Ans. (c) got

Q-25 He laid emphasis on ---------one’s own duty.
(a) do
(b) doing
(c) done
(d) was doing

Ans.  (b) doing