Thursday, April 22, 2021

PST and JEST Preparation

    

 English

Read the following paragraph and choose the appropriate answers (Q1 to Q3):

Indigo snakes are diurnal snakes, active during the day. They spend most of their time actively foraging for prey. They will consume almost everything they can overpower and swallow, including mammals, birds, lizards, frogs, eggs, turtles and even other snakes. They are not typically aggressive snakes, but may bite or release a foul smelling if harassed. Indigo snakes will often shake their tails as a warning – even though they do not possess a rattle.

 

  1.  In this passage the word ‘foraging’ means

(A) Searching                      (B) Bearing                            (C) Running                (D) Crashing

 

     2.      Indigo snakes do not have:

 (A) rattle                             (B) teeth                                 (C) tail                         (D) poison

 

            3.      Which one is not true about indigo snakes?

(A) They can swallow mammals.                  (B) They can bite.                 

(C) They produce a foul smell.                    (D) They shake their tails when they are happy.

 

Choose the correct answer:

4.      How wonderful the weather is ___              Which punctuation mark is missing?

(A) full stop                (B) question mark                   (C) exclamation mark          (D) comma

 

            5.      We live in a flat so we don’t have any garden. The underlined word is

        (a) an adjective                   (b) a preposition          (c) a conjunction       (d) a pronoun

 

            6.      No Arab is __________________a  non-Arab.

(a) superior than                  (b) inferior than           (c) superior from        (d) superior to

 

7.      We like goodness of her brother.  The underlined words are:

(A) noun … adjective                                                (B) adjective ,,, pronoun        

(C) noun ... pronoun                                        (D) adjectives

 

8.      The female of ‘horse’ is called:

(A) ram                                    (B) roe                                     (C) mare                    (D) she-horse

 

9.      Which one is correct cardinal number?

(A) twelve                   (B) twelveth                           (C) twelfeth                            (D) twelfth

 

10.  She had her meal yesterday. This tense is:

(A) Simple present                                  (B) Simple Past                       

(C) Present Perfect                                  (D) Past Perfect

 

Choose the word most similar in meaning to the capitalized one:

            11.  DIVERSITY

(A)  Compatibility                (B) Variety                  (C) Scarcity                 (D) Laziness

 

12.  REWARD

(A) revenge                             (B) prize                     (C) trouble                  (D) fine

 

13.  EXAUSTED

(A) active                                (B) tired                       (C) talented                (D) purchase

 

Choose the word or phrase most that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the capitalized one:

14.  TAKE OFF

(A) land                                  (B) bring                       (C) take down                        (D) stop

 

        15.  EMIT

(A)  Produce                         (B) Flesh                                 (C) Enlarge                  (D) Absorb

 

Put the most appropriate preposition:

16.  Pakistan is proud ________ Malala Yousif Zai for her bravery.

(A) of                                     (B) on                          (C) at                          (D) for

 

            17.  People have been living here _______________ two centuries.

            (A) since                                  (B) from                      (C) for                        (D) ago

 

            18.  The dogs were fighting __________ a bone.

          (A) On                                              (B) For                                    (C) Against                            (D) Over

 

            19.  He is not guilty __________ murder of the boy.

(a) For                                 (b) of                           (c) With                       (d) at

 

            20.  His head was full _________ of questions.

(a) For                                 (b) of                           (c) With                       (d) by

 

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