English Questions

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

He is an atheist (yet) he goes to the church every Sunday.

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

My coat's pretty warm, even though it cost £9.99 and came from the flea market. It had a label in it, CHRISTIN BIOR, but I cut it out as soon as I got home. You can't work where I work and have CHRISTIN BIOR in your coat. You could have a genuine vintage Christian Dior label. Or something Japanese. Or maybe no label because you make your clothes yourself out of retro fabrics that you source at Alfies Antiques. But not CHRISTIN BIOR.

As I get near Catford Bridge, I start to feel a knot of tension. I really don't want to be late today. My boss has started throwing all sorts of hissy fits about people "swanning in at all times," so I left an extra twenty minutes early, in case it was a bad day. I can already see: It's a god-awful day. They've been having a lot of problems on our line recently and keep cancelling trains with no warning. Trouble is, in London rush hour, you can't just cancel trains. What are all the people who were planning to get on that train supposed to do? Evaporate?

Which of the following situations creates a 'bad day' for the author?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

India has already made

P-­substantial concessions
Q­-to enable a consensus
R­-for the Paris pact

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

It secured support from

P-government, a significant development in itself
Q-other sections of the
R-Opposition, and defeated the

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

There is a compelling case for privatising the airline and freeing (locked at) funds for education and health.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Please pass me that (scissors).

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Over population of humans is

P : the biggest factor behind so

Q : many social, sustainable and environmental

R : issues all over the world

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Senior officials
P - ­to negotiate a solution
Q - ­readiness
R­ - have signalled China's