General English Model Questions
1. Choose the correct pair to fill correct articles in the blanks.
_____ road to success is not _____bed of roses. Gandhi became ______ leader par excellence; that made Churchill ______ greatest and most successful wartime leader.
a. The the the a
b. A a a the
c. the a a the
d. The some a the
2. If I _____ the Principal of my school, I would abolish examination.
a. am
b. was
c. were
d. will be
3. ‘Kari, the elephant’ was written by __________.
a. R.K. Narayan
b. Dhan Gopal Mukherjee
c. Thakazhi Sivasankaran Pillai
d. Dr. Neeroja Raghavan
4. ______ was educated at free Stratford Grammar school.
a. Oliver Goldsmith
b. Mahatma Gandhi
c. Shakespeare
d. Rabindranath Tagore
5. Here _____ Laika into space.
a. Will go
b. Go
c. Went
d. Goes
6. Helen keller speaks about the word ______ in “The Mystery of the Language”.
a. Book
b. Water
c. Tree
d. Pollution
7. A Sonnet is written in a single stanza consisting of ____ lines.
a. 12
b. 14
c. 16
d. 18
8. Ceasar’s wife ______ forbids him to go to senator’s house.
a. Calphurnia
b. Octavia
c. Cleopatra
d. Helena
9. Yaanai Malai appears to have a _______ shape from Madurai.
a. Rectangular
b. Spherical
c. Cylindrical
d. Pyramidal
10. The ______ asked Hugie to earn Ten thousands of his own to Marry Laura.
a. Retired colonel
b. Retired painter
c. Baron Hausberg
d. Alan Trevor