English Quiz based on sentence improvement and idioms

Directions (1-5): In the following questions, a party of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (a), (b) and (c) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is ‘(d)’.

1.More than 60 percent of India’s population live under the poverty line.
(a) live below the poverty line
(b) stay below the poverty line
(c) stay under the poverty line
(d) live beside the poverty line

2.Since we are living in Bangalore for five years, we are reluctant to move to another city.

(a) Since we were living.

(b) Being that we have been living

(c) Being that we living

(d) Since we have been living

3.Being too costly for him, he could not buy the coat.

(a) It being too costly for him

(b) He being too costly

(c) Being it too costly

(d) No improvement

4.No sooner has she agreed to marry him than she started having terrible doubts.

(a) She no sooner had agreed

(b) No sooner had she agreed

(c) No sooner did she agreed

(d) No improvement

5.I didn’t need to water the flower. Just after I finished it started raining.

(a) I didn’t water the plants

(b) I needn’t water the plants

(c) I needn’t have watered the flowers.

(d) No improvement

Directions (6-10): In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase that is your answer.

6.Take to one's heels

(a) to measure upto one’s stan¬dard

(b) to shake in one’s shoes

(c) to run away

(d) to run slowly

7.Off and on

(a) repeatedly

(b) always

(c) occasionally

(d) never

8.To take with a grain of salt

(a) to make more palatable

(b) to take a small quantity of

(c) to make something meaningful

(d) to accept with misgiving

9.To talk through one’s hat 

(a) to talk carefully

(b) to talk softly

(c) to talk nonsense

(d) to talk secretively

10.Ins and outs

(a) entrances and exits

(b) details and complexities

(c) passages and pathways

(d) rules and regulations

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