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?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The white American underclass is in thrall

P-and used heroin needles
Q-to a vicious, selfish culture
R-whose main products are misery

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

We are late because my wife took two hours to (put up) her make-up.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

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

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

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

Complete the following sentence with the most appropriate option.

An office always has a /an ___.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Perhaps the wolf (was waiting) to spring upon him.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The government should

P : provide health insurance

Q : to buy their own

R : for those unable