Multiple Choice QuestionsRead the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly or with tropical luxuriance, ad the rain admits. It is recorded in the report of the Death Valley expedition that after a year of abundant rains, on the Colorado desert was found a specimen of Amaranthus ten feet high. A year later the same species in the same place matured in the drought at four inches. Seldom does the desert herb attain the full stature of the type. Extreme aridity and extreme altitude have the same dwarfing effect, so that we find in the high Sierras and in Death Valley related species in miniature that reach a comely growth in mean temperatures, Very fertile are the desert plants in expedients to prevent evaporation, turning their foliage edge-wise toward the sun, growing silky hairs, exuding thick gum, It rools up dunes about the stocky stems, encompassing and protective, and above the dunes, which may be, ad with the mesquite, three times as high as a man, the blossoming twigs flourish and bear fruit.
What stops the desert floras from performing their duty well?
The desert animals
The rain
The desert sand
The people who pluck them
Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly or with tropical luxuriance, ad the rain admits. It is recorded in the report of the Death Valley expedition that after a year of abundant rains, on the Colorado desert was found a specimen of Amaranthus ten feet high. A year later the same species in the same place matured in the drought at four inches. Seldom does the desert herb attain the full stature of the type. Extreme aridity and extreme altitude have the same dwarfing effect, so that we find in the high Sierras and in Death Valley related species in miniature that reach a comely growth in mean temperatures, Very fertile are the desert plants in expedients to prevent evaporation, turning their foliage edge-wise toward the sun, growing silky hairs, exuding thick gum, It rools up dunes about the stocky stems, encompassing and protective, and above the dunes, which may be, ad with the mesquite, three times as high as a man, the blossoming twigs flourish and bear fruit.
The mesquite is a ..................
a sand dune
a desert flora
a type of desert animal
a tribe of people
Four alternatives are given for the idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
A close-fisted man does not know the significance of human life.
A rich man
A poor man
An ill-mannered man
A miser
Four alternatives are given for the idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
He's as daft as a brush. Don't believe a word of what he says.
unreliable
a liar
very funny
really silly
Four alternatives are given for the idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
I and my friend always go Dutch when we eat out.
go together
drive together
divide the costs
pay for each other's meal
C.
divide the costs
Four alternatives are given for the idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
I hope you will back me at the meeting.
support
criticise
speak after I do
follow
Four alternatives are given for the idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
I shall always remember my alma mater with gratitude.
teacher who inspired me
mother's loving care
kindergarten days
institution where I got education
A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed choose 'No improvement'.
The notorious criminal went to the police to go to prison.
submitted to the police
surrendered himself before the police
gave himself up for the police
No improvement
A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed choose 'No improvement'.
He is somehow tall for his age.
rather
much
many
No improvement
A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed choose 'No improvement'.
We do not believe in a dual policy of the company.
in these dual
on these dual
in this dual
No improvement
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