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ENG101 - English Comprehension

Question No: 1 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Choose antonym for the underlined word.
The new governor will free the innocent prisoner.
► costly
► imprison
► liberate
► release

Question No: 2 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The second syllable in result has the same vowel sound as:
► pull, wool, full
► dull, skull, null
► cool, tool, drool
► none of the above

Question No: 3 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Fill in the blank with the most suitable phrasal verb.
The computer has brought ....... more changes in my life than any other
invention.
► down
► about
► up
► off

Question No: 4 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Fill in the blank with the most suitable phrasal verb.
She brought..... the deal even though nobody thought she was capable of
doing it.
► off
► in
► out
► down

Question No: 5 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Fill in the blank with the most suitable phrasal verb.
Someone who is always unhappy might bring you.......
► up
► down
► off
► in

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Question No: 6 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

What is the definition of effect?
► The result of what happened in a given situation.
► What happened in a given situation?
► The reason something happened in a given situation.
► The order of events in a given situation.
Question No: 7 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Read the cause in the given situation and choose the effect.
I awoke in the morning and ate breakfast. Then I pulled out my toothbrush
and smeared ADA-approved toothpaste all over the bristles.
► I took a shower.
► I combed my hair.
► I left for the bus stop.
► I brushed my teeth.

Question No: 8 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Fill in the blank with appropriate connector.
Readily soluble in sulfuric and nitric acid, mercury is __________ birth defects
can easily result from its ingestion by pregnant women.
► so poisonous that
► such poisonous that
► too poisonous that
► very poisonous that

Question No: 9 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Choose the best available substitute word for the following
root/prefix:

Post-
► against
► before
► after
► around

Question No: 10 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Choose the best available substitute word for the following
root/prefix:
Bio-
► know
► life
► death
► free

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Question No: 11 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

What is the antonym of 'credible'?
► tired
► thoughtless
► Poor
► Unbelievable

Question No: 12 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Complete the sentence by choosing the best option. /pair of
connectives.
“Why is the baby crying?” “_____ she is hungry _____ her nappy needs
changing.”

► Either…or
► Neither…nor
► Either…nor
► Neither…and

Question No: 13 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Complete the sentence by choosing the best option.
We are planning to go to _____ Spain _____ France during the holidays.
► either…nor
► either…or
► neither…and
► both…nor

Question No: 14 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentence.
Just a moment! I've got the answer on the ____ of my tongue.
► back
► tap
► top
► tip

Question No: 15 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Sounds produced with a complete or partial stoppage of breath are
called:
► consonants
► short vowels
► vowels
► diphthong vowels

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Question No: 16 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Choose the best meaning or synonym for the highlighted word.

Your plan looks good. I hope it will really work. It’s time to implement it and
see if it’s as brilliant as you claim.
► take apart
► change
► instrument
► carry out

Question No: 17 ( Marks: 2 )

Add the correct prefix to the following words.
1. honest
2. resistible
3. friendly
4.divided

Question No: 18 ( Marks: 2 )

Read the statements and identify them as Fact/Opinion.

1. L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wizard of Oz".

2. I will finish before the rest of the class.
3. The Bulls are better than the cows.
4. Nine plus one equals ten.

Question No: 19 ( Marks: 3 )

How a language learner can take maximum help from a dictionary?

Question No: 20 ( Marks: 5 )

Identify the following statements, F for fact, O for opinion, or B for a

blend of both.
1. Thomas Edison’s second patented invention, a stock market ticker, sold for
$40,000 in 1869. _____
2. In 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeated his Republican opponent,
Wendell Wilkie. _____
3. The record “Rocket 88,” recorded by Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston on
Sun Records is widely considered to be the very first rock recording. _____
4. It’s a sign of the times that salsa now outsells ketchup. _____
5. The Fugitive Slave law of 1850 required the return of all runaway slaves; it
did not matter if they had reached states that had abolished slavery. _____

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Question No: 21 ( Marks: 10 )

Write a précis of the given passage in your own words. The précis
should be one third of the passage.

Scientists think they have discovered the remains of our earliest meat-eating,
human ancestors. Where and what did these scientists discover? The site of
the discovery was in Ethiopia, a country in eastern Africa. An Ethiopian
student found pieces of a skull while he was working on a project with 40
scientists. Scientists from 13 countries met there to study fossils of possibly
the first meat-eating African ancestor of humans.
One scientist from U.C. Berkley, Tim White, says the creature could eat both
meat and bone marrow. Previously creatures did not use tools to cut their
meat so their diet was more limited. According to White, the addition of meat
to the diet did not turn the creatures into lions, but rather it enabled them to
kill larger animals for food.The addition of meat and fat to the creature's diet
had many positive effects. Meat and fat helped the thinking powers of the
brain and broadened the diet. The improved diet helped creatures survive
better and longer and begin development toward modern humans.

Another UC Berkley scientist, Desmond Clark has an interesting theory. He

claims the creatures wanted the fat and protein found in the bone marrow. In
order to get to the marrow, the bones had to be smashed.

Tool marks have been found on a bone near the skull. The marks were on the
mandible, or jaw bone, and happened when meat was cut from the bone.
This is the earliest evidence scholars have found that man used tools to eat.
Tim White believes that sharp stones were used to cut into the skin and tissue
for eating. Hammer stones were the tools used to break bones to extract
marrow and fat.

How old are these prehistoric fossils? Geologists used lasers to heat volcanic
crystals from the site to determine age. Paul Renne with the UC Berkeley
Geochronology says that they can be fairly close in giving the age of the
fossils. A precise estimate is 2.496 million years, plus or minus 8,000 years.
Whatever the outcome, the skull pieces will remain in Ethiopia. The pieces
have a name, Garhi, which means "pleasant surprise" in the Ethiopian
language. Garhi is important to this nation where he is considered a national
treasure.

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