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!

The writer is describing her experience of which activity?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

She did not like to have coffee(nor I did).

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence

Vikram (insist that) he was innocent.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Everyday we (have usually) dinner at 8 o'clock.

In the following question, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

Mitigate

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Many people look down upon

P : they feel that

Q : abstract art because

R : abstractionists compose irrationally

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The pilgrim (lain) in the shade of the tree.

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any part

Pay attention(a) to what(b) I am saying(c). No error.(d)