English Questions

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, sand and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of a world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth wide in amazement; the tube would fall off!

When would there be a risk of the tube falling off?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Einstein was one (of the wisest men) that ever lived.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Some modern anthropologists hold that

P : but also human behaviour

Q : biological evolution has shaped

R : not only human morphology

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

But the most important thing is,

P-I'll always be
Q-even if we're apart
R-with you

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Tenzing Norgay created history

P-to conquer Mount Everest
Q-became the first men
R-on May 29, 1953, when he and Sir Edmund Hillary

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

I went to sleep last night, (almost as soon as) my head hit the pillow.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Any bad habit must be nipped (on) the bud.

Improve the given sentence if necessary.

The teacher as well as his wife were invited.