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.

"I am the only man in the world who (can) paint a picture so true to life," he said.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

It was hard to believe that she (were) dead for three months.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

(Take off) your shoes before you enter the temple.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence

His condition has only deteriorated, his life (hangs with threads).

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

My patients (were waited) for me since morning.

Complete the following sentence with the most appropriate option.

An office always has a /an ___.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

If you come across new words, you should look (them up) in the dictionary.