CDS JOURNEY | ENGLISH TEST

सर नीचे और बस अपनी मेहनत

Idioms & Phrases C. To remember a total

D. To accept an invitation
1. Keep a straight face
6. Grasping at straws
A. Become very confused
B. Get on extremely well with someone A. Trying to find the best way to
C. Not laugh or change your expression compete with others when nothing
even though you want to laugh
you choose is likely to work
D. Make more of an effort
B. Trying to find some way to
succeed when you see others are
2. Crack someone up
also doing the same
C. Trying to find some way to
A. To criticise someone
succeed when nothing you choose is
B. To force someone to commit a
likely to work
mistake
D. Trying to find manipulative ways
C. To make someone angry
to succeed
D. To make someone laugh

7. Burn one's bridges

3. What a small world!

A. Working very hard

A. The world is great.
B. Impossible to return to an earlier
B. What a beautiful place!
state
C. The world is a village.
C. Having an overnight success
D. What a coincidence!
D. Attack on one's enemy

4. A plum job
8. Boil the ocean

A. An easy and pleasant job

A. Something very big
B. A rare job
B. Something which gets hot
C. A difficult job
gradually
D. A job involving extensive
C. Try to do something impossible
travelling
D. To make someone very angry

5. Keep count of
9. Get your act together

A. To remind of a deadline
A. To ruin one's plans
B. To act more politely
B. To organise yourself so that you
can do something properly
C. To get the conversation going
D. To understand something
complicated
10. Part and parcel
A. Passing blame to someone else
B. Agreement with someone
C. A payment system for parcels
D. Basic or essential element
11. Steer clear of
A. Loose temper and react furiously
to someone
B. Avoid someone or something
because it is dangerous for you
C. Show someone how to do a job or
activity
D. Be kind and empathetic to
someone
12. Step up to the plate
A. Think about a crisis
B. Plan for better performance
C. Implement a plan
D. Take control of a situation
13. To burn the midnight oil
A. To waste time
B. To stay up late working or
studying
C. To overthink
D. To be relaxed and calm
14. Fit as a fiddle
A. To be extremely excited and
energetic
B. To be in good health
C. Something is perfect
D. A good and useful invention
15. To let the cat out of the bag
A. To hide the truth
B. To be in a hurry
C. To be careful
D. To reveal a secret
16. Pull yourself together
A. Feel agitated
B. Encourage the rich
C. Calm down after an upsetting
incident
D. Discourage the orphans
17. Bite the bullet
A. Decide to do what is good
B. To bite something very hard
C. Decide to do the inevitable which
you were avoiding
D. Decide to take the easier way out
18. The new routine will suit you to
a T.
A. nicely
B. a little bit
C. exactly
D. very poorly
19. He got a burst of energy and
started digging again.
 C. Reprisal
A. took bull by the horns D. Rule
B. a fancy of someone
C. second wind 25. Transmit
D. heart on the sleeve
A. Receive
20. Bend over backwards B. Convey
C. Triumphant
A. Working hard to try to impress D. Squander
B. Working slowly and lazily
C. Going backward 26. Rahul is always thrifty.
D. Using wrongful means
A. reckless
SYNONYMS B. economical
C. naive
21. Guile D. extravagant

A. Deceit 27. His salubrious words calmed the

B. Avarice students.
C. Ignoble
D. Ostentatious A. provoking
B. pleasant
22. Obstruct C. ridiculous
D. thanking
A. Amass
B. Impede 28. He felt desolated after he lost his
C. Sagacious business.
D. Defer
A. deserted
23. Recuperate B Joyful
C. strong
A. Vacillate D. annoyed
B. Convalesce
C. Adjourn 29. Don't condone such acts which
D. Industrious lead to unrest in the country.

24. Regime A. regard

B. punish
A. Territory C. aware of
B. Inquisitive D. overlook
30. A good work place shall not A. mockery
encourage ineptitude even in a B. conducive
hidden manner. C. encouraging
D. contemptuous
A. incompetence
B. courage 35. Any classroom should provide
C. gossip An engaging environment for
D. radical thinking learners.

31. Learning Of foreign language A. carefree

should not impede one's mother B. appealing
tongue leaming. C. thinking
D. dreaming
A. facilitate
B. acts for ANTONYMS
C. hinder
D. accept 36. Conceit

32. Extradition of the leader of the A. Reveal

group was debated for hours in the B. Modesty
meeting. C. Hidden
D. Deceit
A. acceptance
B. sentence 37. Verdant
C. extension
D. deportation A. Fecund
B. Rebellion
33. It was felt that the decision to C. Inert
remove the group from the exercise D. Barren
would be detrimental to the
organization. 38. Cogent

A. beneficial A. Implausible
B. harsh B. Compelling
C. disadvantageous C. Pertinent
D. demanding D. Unexpected

34. His derisive behaviour has led to

the situation we face now.
39. Flout 44. It's the only treatment suitable
for cancer
A. Stalwart
B. Gaunt A. insufficient
C. Haggard B. impertinent
D. obey C. befitting
D. congenial
40. Fitful
45. Some Of the criticisms which
A. Foible they had to put up were very unfair.
B. Incessant
C. Spasmodic A. scold
D. Punishing B. scorn
C. appreciation
41. It is undesirable to invest a part D. censure
of your earnings for future use.
46. I would beg of all friends not to
A. Meek rush to Birla house nor try to
B. Culpable dissuade me or be anxious about
C. Worldly me.
D. Advisable
A. certain
42. The actor was ridiculed for her B. composed
nonchalant attitude towards her C. careless
work. D. heedless

A. Unconcerned 47. It could not have been expected

B. Boisterous that, with such a bent of mind of the
C. Considerate people, there should have been
D. Inadvertent much activity for the cultivation of
the physical sciences in this part of
43. It was a mystery as to where the the world.
young girl had acquired such a naive
belief. A. dull
B. dormant
A. credulous C. indolence
B. childlike D. idle
C. wise
D. Innocent
48. Indian culture has been, from
time immemorial, of a peculiar cast
and mould

A. common
B. customary
C. natural
D. familiar

49. The princess charming was the

centre of attraction today.

A. enchanting
B. hypnotic
C. repulsive
D. fascinating

50. Macbeth is a/an abominable

figure.

A. abhorrent
B. repugnant
C. reputable
D. attractive